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Newsom Pardons `Bill’ Burwell, 1960s CSUN Activist

City News ServiceMarch 31, 2024

Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a posthumous pardon for William “Bill” Burwell, an influential student activist on the Cal State Northridge campus in the 1960s and a founding member of the Black Student Union and the Department of Afro-American (now Africana) Studies, CSUN officials said Saturday, March 30.

University of Memphis Sit-In Commemoration Looks Back and Forward

Harlan McCarthy, Special to The New Tri-State DefenderApril 26, 2019

On April 23, 1969, 75 BSA members at the University of Memphis staged a sit-in at then-President Cecil Humphreys’ office because he refused to provide $1,750 to bring U.S. Rep. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., the first Black person to be elected from New York to Congress, to speak to the association.