Black Student Union (BSU)

Title: Black Student Union (BSU)
Description: Student activists demanded the creation of Black Student Unions (BSU) at high schools and colleges throughout the Inland Empire in the late 1960s. Students successfully won BSU and MeCHa chapters in the schools after protests at Cajon High School in 1969 as school desegregation efforts escalated tensions among youth.

With the help of Dell Roberts and Pete Anderson, Poly High School was able to establish a Black Student Union in 1968. Under these organizations, the students were able to bring forth a list of demands to the administration. One of which was a black history class taught by Woody-Rocker Hughes.

Lorna Carry worked with the BSU at UCR, mostly writing letters and signing petitions to increase support for Black studies.
Date: 1960
Creator: The Bridges That Carried Us Over Project
Format: Information Sheet
Rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Rights Holder: The Bridges That Carried Us Over Project