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Missouri S&T events highlight Black History Month

Posted by on February 15, 2024

Black History Month is typically celebrated in February, but Missouri S&T’s activities this year started in January and will continue into March.

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Missouri S&T events highlight Black History Month

Posted by on January 26, 2023

Missouri S&T will host a variety of events this February in observation of Black History Month. Campus events will take place throughout the month, including several that are open to the community.  

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‘Black Girls Do STEM’ founder Cynthia Chapple to speak at S&T

Posted by on January 26, 2023

Cynthia Chapple, founder of Black Girls Do STEM, will give a presentation at at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, in Leach Theatre of Castleman Hall.

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Missouri S&T events highlight Black History Month

Posted by on January 31, 2022

The community is invited to celebrate Black History Month this February with Missouri S&T. Campus events will take place throughout the month, focusing on the theme of “Black Health and Wellness.”

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Missouri S&T’s Black history: challenges overcome

Posted by on February 2, 2021

As Dr. Larry Gragg notes in Forged in Gold: Missouri S&T’s First 150 Years, Missouri S&T was segregated until 1950, and “the campus culture well into the 20th century reflected the broader American culture of bigotry and intolerance.”

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A pioneer of integration

Posted by on January 29, 2021

There have to be pioneers to start an integration movement. For Missouri S&T, those pioneers were George Horne and Elmer Bell Jr. Although neither earned degrees from S&T, Horne and Bell were the university’s first two Black students.

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Black History Month events move online at S&T

Posted by on January 22, 2021

The community is invited to celebrate Black History Month this February with Missouri S&T. Campus events will take place throughout the month, focusing on the theme of “The Black Family: Representation, Identity and Diversity.” The following events will be a part of the celebration:

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Dinner to Jazz event set for Feb. 27

Posted by on February 24, 2020

Join the Association for Black Students for an evening of food, music, dancing and fun at the annual ABS Dinner to Jazz event. It will be held 7-9 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 27, at Hasselmann Alumni House. Tickets are $10 at the presale in the Havener Center through Wednesday, Feb. 26, and $20 at the door […]

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Missouri S&T events highlight Black History Month

Posted by on January 30, 2019

February is national Black History Month, and the community is invited to celebrate with Missouri S&T. The following events will be a part of the celebration:

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A conversation on race

Posted by on February 28, 2018

As the annual celebration of Black History Month at Missouri S&T comes to an end, we begin a series of articles exploring issues brought to light by the university’s campus climate survey. In “A conversation on race,” the first of this series, Missouri S&T students of color discuss racial issues.

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