![]() ![]() A “choral memoir,” Seven Sisters and a Brother is a decidedly informative documentation of the efforts of eight students (seven young women and one young man) in the late 1960s to have Black students get the opportunity, resources, and support needed to acquire a balanced education at the elite Swarthmore College.Ī small, private, picturesque, coed liberal arts institution in the suburbs of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, Swarthmore College was founded in 1864 by prominent Quakers. Rose, Bridget Van Gronigen Warren, and Aundrea White Kelly have helped ensure that their story secures a solid place in the ongoing narrative. Domingo, Joyce Frisby Baynes, Marilyn Holifield, Myra E. With Seven Sisters and a Brother: Friendship, Resistance, and Untold Truths Behind Black Student Activism in the 1960s authors Marilyn Allman Maye, Harold S. Yet, too often some such occurrences, though no less noteworthy, never make it into the annals of history they exist instead as footnotes at best. History has recorded many instances of struggles for varied rights by a people haunted by the legacies of slavery. ![]()
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