1969 Black Student Strike Fund
Valued at $12,000, this scholarship will reward a first-year incoming student who is currently involved in issues of racial justice and racial inequalities with an interest in majoring in African American Studies.
This scholarship is intended to cover tuition for four years.
13 Demands
Black students at UW–Madison called for a campus-wide student strike in the spring of 1969. The strike was a culmination of three years of meetings, negotiations, protests, and frustrations with the administration for their negligible response to the need to engage in anti-racist developments on campus.
Students held rallies to educate the community about racial inequities, boycotted classes, marched to the state Capitol, took over lecture halls, and blocked building entrances. They gave a list of 13 demands, the first of which was the creation an autonomous Black studies department that was controlled and organized by Black students and faculty. This was a non-negotiable term.
