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Beyond blackface: How college yearbooks captured protest and change

  • Written by John R. Thelin, University Research Professor, University of Kentucky
College yearbook editors in the 1960s juxtaposed pictures of traditional campus activities, such as Greek Life, alongside images of protests and marches.The Kentuckian, 1968

Ever since a photograph surfaced of someone in blackface – and another dressed in a Ku Klux Klan robe – on the medical college yearbook page of Virginia Gov. Ralph...

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