Looking Closer: Locating Black Women in CC’s Yearbooks from the 1990s

This website aims to shed light on the experiences of Black women who attended Colorado College in the 1990s. Photos were extracted from the yearbooks of that time period with the hopes of learning more about the lives of Black women at CC in the 90s. Although there were not many photos to be found, there was still value in the act of searching. The lack of photos was the result of archival “silences” (further discussed in Silence and Sound), which often impact Black women.

CC Reacts to the Block Plan

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The 1970-71 academic year brought lots of new changes to CC, dorms went co-ed and a new academic plan was ushered in, what we now know as the block plan took full effect. The block plan was largely the brainchild of Glenn Brooks and Fred Sondermanm, both Political Science professors at CC, in response to President Lloyd Worner’s wishes for the college to examine its future in higher education and especially the upcoming centennial 1974.

Assault – William F. Slocum

Project Summary

This archive focuses on Colorado College’s former president, William F. Slocum. Slocum served as the president during the years 1888-1917, and during this time he essentially built the school’s foundation as a leading liberal arts college, and until recently has been considered a valued leader. However, Slocum was also serially harassing women during his time as president. Through this project, I look at how women described Slocum’s assaults to help contextualize sexual assault in the early 20th century.

Mirasol

Project Summary:

My project revolves around a series of monthly newsletters published by Chicano students at Colorado College in the year 1980 tilted, Mirasol. Through this newsletter, I aim to find out the sense of place Chicano students at CC felt during this time as well as the issues that mattered to them.

Historical Analysis: Colorado College and Colorado Springs

Project Summary

Colorado College and Colorado Springs were founded as a unit. William Palmer conceived of the town and dreamed of a school that would dictate the culture of the area. However, in 2019 it seems that the two communities exist in different spheres. How and when did this happen? While this question is too big for one person to answer in one block this project attempts to examine the ways in which the college has presented itself in dealings with the city as a means to understand when this relationship may have changed. It looks at the ways in which the school has advertised itself to the local government, businesses, and people in order to develop a relationship with the town. Additionally, this project relates these actions to modern methodologies for creating a harmonious relationship between a college and the town in which it exists.

Sense of Place for Blackness at CC

Project Summary:

The sources included in this project cover events that happened between 1969 and 2019 that are examples of the black experience at Colorado College. They are mostly clustered around the early 70s because that is around when some of the events (mostly student activism) on the Colorado College campus were documented. Although not exhaustive, they are sufficient for making a case for blackness from the frameworks of Black Theory and Collective Identity.

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