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

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 and U.S. ethnic studies — were delayed by 20 years, perhaps because the racist tradition of Kake Walk had to be dealt with first,” Welch said.