This article details the rise of a new president at Medgar Evers, who is described as the first president of the college “whose academic qualification and experience there could be no question.” He promises to set up a Division of African and Caribbean Studies and the Humanities. He promises to raise the prestige of the predominantly Black college.

This story from the Amsterdam News features more visual elements than many other pieces from this decade. They add to an overall optimistic tone.

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