Black Purdue documentary film

Drawing upon numerous sources, including books on Purdue, newspaper archives, yearbooks and nearly 25 hours of personal interviews with black alumni, this documentary begins at a time when black students were denied campus food and housing, were barred from campus social life, and banned from college sports. It records the subsequent decades of struggle, the on-campus protests in the 1960s and the steady progress over the years that accorded black students equal rights.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Purdue
• African-American
• civil
• rights
• diversity
• black
• alumni

[PWBobillo]

Very well done; informative and inspiring. Hail Purdue!

[kmthomps1]

Thank you for that rich history!  I'm proud to be a Boilermaker!

[globalfirm]

@MrBAllen59 That's why we need to make a global state - Trust me.

[calculatorguysstudio]

How much was the budget and did make any money??? Does anyone know?

[battleaxe4god]

@MrBAllen59 u r a fool still after all these years?!

[axlbernard]

none of that is on wikipedia

[MrBAllen59]

As an African American this shows how inferior we think we are, instead of building our own we simply want to go into their system and become like them. Propaganda like this is why people like Obama who do more harm than good, thats we Africans/Negroes/Blacks in America will always be 2nd class citizens.

[djsweetthing]

Watching this makes me want to go back to study.

[Applebaum]

i hate white supremacy, funny thing is they think its all gone

[burnsnigel007]

I voted for Tarrus! I didn't graduate but so proud and thankful for the time I spent there...Boiler Up!!!

[EllesiaBlaque]

When this documentary was only 18 minutes in, the part about the peaceful "brick laying" at Purdue's administration building, I began to cry. Why? Because I earned my M.A. and Ph.D. in the Midwest and would not have been able to do so without the bravery, dignity, and Black Nationalist loyalty of people like those in this documentary. I thank them with the deepest fibers of my soul, for without their struggles and triumphs, I could not be who I am today. Thanks!

[aj237000]

how long did this take to post?