Macalester’s stated values of multiculturalism and internationalism have often elided the college’s specific relationship with and responsibility to domestic Black students. These materials relate to Black students, faculty and staff, and organizations on campus, as well as the college community’s engagement with broader movements for Black liberation.

Here you’ll find student projects, archival materials, web content, and more across a variety of formats. Each item has on its page standard metadata that includes information about the item as well as a plain-text description. For descriptions and potential warnings about content, please read the brief summary under each item title on this page.

A Celebration of Us: Domestic Diversity at Macalester 2000
Expanded Educational Opportunities (EEO) Black Component
Post About “Black Man’s Burden”
Post About “Inter-College Student Exchange Program”
Post About “Letter to Community Council from Student Action for Human Rights”
Post About “BLAC memo on community service program”
Post About “Inter-College Faculty Exchange Program”
Post About “The Race Problem” by W. B. Brewster, Class of 1892
Post About “OUR HOUSE; How to Survive At Macalester, Compliments of The Black House (student made resource guide for first years and transfers)”
Post About “Fair Housing Survey by the SAHR”
Post About “Macalester Students Picket Jim Crow Policies, 1961”
Post About “Resolution in Support of Freedom Riders”
Post About “Catharine Lealtad, Class of 1915, Macalester’s First Black Graduate”
Post About “Dear Brothers and Sisters BLAC Publication”
Post About “Black House Newspaper Article”