This photograph, captured outside of Leverone Field House during Alabama Governor George Wallace’s visit to Dartmouth on November 5, 1963, depicts Dartmouth students (including Richard Joseph '65) and Upper Valley community members protesting the segregationist's policies and views on race. Signs reading “liberation and integration” and “free men all” are raised in response to the politician’s recent inaugural address, in which Wallace stated, “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.” Additional signs reference FEPC, or the Fair Employment Practices Committee, which was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941 to help prevent discrimination against African-Americans in defense and government jobs. — Dartmouth community members protest the speech of segregationist George Wallace on campus, 1963

A photograph of Croasdale and her friends at Woods Hole in the summer 1934. They appear to be preparing to go sailing or camping. — Hannah T. Croasdale, Dartmouth's first tenured female faculty member, pictured at Woods Hole, MA.

David Eckels photographed on Memorial Track Field for the Dec. 1985 issue of the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. — David T. Eckels, Class of 1944, dedicated campus accessibility advocate, exercises on Memorial Track Field.

The fourth panel painted The Temple Murals series, “The Assassination,” greets viewers as they step into the central lounge inside the Shabazz Center at Dartmouth. The panel depicts the turmoil and shock amid Malcolm X’s assassination, beginning a few seconds before he was shot at a rally (only three weeks after visiting Dartmouth). On the right side of the doorway two bodyguards gaze across the rally crowd toward the murderer, who is guided by the only distinctly white figure in the painting. — The fourth panel of the Temple Mural series, located in Cutter-Shabazz Hall, depicting the assassination of Malcolm X.

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A photograph of the Botany class at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory in 1934. Croasdale is pictured second in from the left in the bottom row. The back of the photograph lists her classmates.

Professor Hannah T. Croasdale

Featured Materials

Special Collections is full of primary sources that haven't yet made it into a Historical Accountability research project. Here are some examples to pique your interest!

Samuel Ashpo (Mohegan) confesses to forsaking the rules of Christian marriage by taking another wife after discovering that his first wife has been unfaithful. In the confession, he specifically apologizes for being "married in the old Indian mode."

Petition of a committee of students including Leonard Worcester, Henry Shedd, Charles Dexter Cleveland and Nathaniel Folsom to the Dartmouth College Faculty in which they ask that Edward Mitchell, a Black applicant to the College, not be refused admission to Dartmouth College because of his color.

Petition of a committee of students to the Dartmouth College Faculty in which they ask that Edward Mitchell, a Black applicant to the College, not be refused admission to Dartmouth College because of his color.

An undated letter with an unknown recipient in which the writer, who is assumed to be Louis Benezet, shares his memories of Asakawa Kan’ichi on campus.