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Spring 1969

Needed: More Blacks in Higher Education

Byron DeHaan; Warren Bacon; Jack Gable; Donald Bourgeois; David D. Henry
May 9, 1969
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A special forum: a panel of business, government and education leaders, with University of Illinois President David D. Henry presiding: Byron DeHaan of Caterpillar, Warren Bacon of Inland Steel, Jack Gable of Illinois Bell, and Donald Bourgeois. About 15 members of Students for a Democratic Society disrupted it over the dismissal of Paul Chandler, a former Black Students Association leader, and Henry walked out. Spring 1969 Faculty Forum series "Law, Order and Justice in Times of Turmoil," Friday noon at the University YMCA.

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