1. Student protestors picket in front of a U-M building Black & white, circa 1970.

    Thirteen days in 1970: The BAM strike

    In February 1970, U-M students operating as the Black Action Movement called a strike on classes. They interrupted lectures, banged garbage-can lids in classroom buildings, and hassled fellow students attending class. Their demand to President Robben Fleming: Increase Black enrollment from 3.4 percent to 10 percent.

  2. Stephen Ward, associate professor of Afroamerican and African studies, and a student examine archived materials from the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. The materials have been newly digitized and made available online for U-M students, faculty and staff. (Image: Lon Horwedel)

    Bentley digitizes records for Afroamerican and African studies

    Archive includes audio, video, and other historic assets documenting black activism and academia.

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