The Vermont Cynic

After the Kake Walk: A history of UVM’s racial climate from Lattie Coor’s presidency to the present

March 2, 2016

Student activism was common at UVM throughout the 1960s and ‘70s, resulting in the creation of some of the first African-American, Chicano/a and women’s studies departments in the U.S., English professor Nancy Welch said. “At UVM, these actions — and the establishment of courses in women’s...

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