A Virginia lawyer, Lewis J. Powell, writes a confidential memo to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, exhorting big business to purge leftists from university teaching positions.
A second attempt by the University of California’s Board of Regents to fire Angela Davis from her UCLA teaching job fails.
Black Student Union leads protests at San Francisco State University that produce the College of Ethnic Studies.
Harvard’s Swiss-born biologist, Louis Agassiz, commissions intimate photographs of South Carolina slaves to prove Blacks’ inferiority
