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</p><p>Students, alumni, faculty and staff gathered together outside Sierra and Richfield Halls on Friday, Nov. 4 for a special plaque dedication honoring CSUN’s Africana Studies Department and its first faculty members. The event was the culmination of the 53rd annual Africana Studies Week.</p>
<p>CSUN’s ethnic studies programs, including Chicana/o Studies and Africana Studies, as well as the Education Opportunity Program (EOP) were among the first of their kind in the nation. They were created as a result of student protests on campus during the 1960’s. Those protests were the subject of the documentary “Storm at Valley State.”</p>
<p>Following the plaque dedication, participants then marched to the Black House for a showing of the documentary. Marchers carried signs that had been copied from the originals that were carried during the protests that occurred in late 1968 and 1969.</p>
<p>The plaque will be formally installed during Black History Month in February, 2023.</p>
Students, alumni, faculty and staff gathered together outside Sierra and Richfield Halls on Friday, Nov. 4 for a special plaque...
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