News One/ New Book Highlights The Historic 1969 Sit-In At Swarthmore College

The book—titled Seven Sisters and a Brother: Friendship, Resistance, and Untold Truths Behind Black Student Activism in the 1960s—explores the racial climate on the Pennsylvania-based campus during the late 60s through the lens of then students Joyce Baynes, Marilyn Holifield, Marilyn Allman Maye, Harold S. Buchanan, Jannette O. Domingo, Aundrea White Kelley, Bridget Van Gronigen Warren and Myra E. Rose. The residual effects of the state of race relations in the country amidst the Civil Rights Movement had a direct impact on shaping their college experiences.

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