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Kelly Therese

in 1968, students at the Tuskegee Institute barricaded the doors of Dorothy Hall during an annual meeting of the Board of Trustees, demanding a number of reforms, typed up in a document called: “General Philosophy: A Black University Concept.”

Governor Lurleen Wallace sent around 300 National Guardsmen to Tuskegee Institute. Thankfully, bloodshed was avoided.

Listen to the story at unsunghistorypodcast.com/tuske.