Minority Coalition collection

This collection contains four documents pertaining to the demands and subsequent hunger strike facilitated by the Minority Coalition of Haverford College. The first document, dated April 21, 1977, was written by Mark Gould, a professor of sociology at Haverford. Gould expresses his support for the Minority Coalition’s proposal, outlining the sacrifices necessary to promote a diverse college environment and explaining why diversity is a positive force on the student body and College as a whole. The second document is a list of demands, drafted by the Minority Coalition, which includes: a moratorium on hiring until practices which promote diversity can be implemented, the methods of creating such practices and a “final goal” outlined as minority representation in the College as equal to the total U.S. population. The third and fourth documents are responses from the Minority Coalition after Haverford College faculty failed to respond to their demands. They outline the moral implications of such silence and propose a hunger strike in Roberts Hall.