Since its founding in 1968, the USF Black Student Union (BSU) has had an undeniably profound and lasting impact on the University of San Francisco, from building a Black Studies Program from the ground up, pushing for an increase in Black faculty, and recruiting Black students from local high schools to the university, to creating … Continue reading USF Black Student Union Digital Collection to Debut
Reflecting Gleeson Library’s commitment to upholding social justice and dismantling white supremacy, two new library collections focusing on Black lives are currently in development. One is the Black Lives Matter collection, a project being led by Gleeson Library Special Collections & University Archives (SCUA). The second is the BSU at USF digital collection, initiated by Gleeson Library Digital Collections and in collaboration with SCUA. Continue reading Black Lives Focus of Two New Library Collections
This past fall, University of San Francisco celebrated the Black Student Union’s 50th anniversary! At Gleeson Library, we have a multitude of resources highlighting events/ documents that took place during the early years of BSU. Our online scholarship repository provides digitized archival materials that provide access to these unique events. We are able to look … Continue reading Black Student Union’s 50th Anniversary
If newspapers publish the “first rough draft of history,” it is fascinating indeed to view those rough drafts from the perspective of USF students. Gleeson Library is in the process of digitizing back issues of USF’s student newspaper, the “Foghorn,” and the first major batch is available now. The parallels between some articles from nearly 50 … Continue reading The Foghorn: A Student History of USF
