in 1931, william stuart nelson became the first black president, assuring university after students, alumni, faculty and staff advocated for african-american. so a lot of these early presidents of these institutions were, white men and getting a lot of the benefactors are white men, as so students in the 1920s as saw really advocated for black leadership. right. and they also, as spring race repression. right. they experience suspensions. right. threats of expulsions. so this was happening in the 1920s and 1930s, but they were successful at getting the black president. from 1937 to 1938. bennett college in norman and his students picketed the carolina theater for their anti-blackness. so we've talked a little about kind of anti-black movies for the birth of a nation, those kind of things. and so they were anti-black depictions in these films and the students kind of thought to organize against this, right? also, there was discrimination in seating in certain theaters, blacks, legs, people had sit in certain spaces right. that were not equal in terms of quality. right. and so in 1937,

in 1931, william stuart nelson became the first black president, assuring university after students, alumni, faculty and staff advocated for african-american. so a lot of these early presidents of these institutions were, white men and getting a lot of the benefactors are white men, as so students in the 1920s as saw really advocated for black leadership. right. and they also, as spring race repression. right. they experience suspensions. right. threats of expulsions. so this was happening in the 1920s and 1930s, but they were successful at getting the black president. from 1937 to 1938. bennett college in norman and his students picketed the carolina theater for their anti-blackness. so we've talked a little about kind of anti-black movies for the birth of a nation, those kind of things. and so they were anti-black depictions in these films and the students kind of thought to organize against this, right? also, there was discrimination in seating in certain theaters, blacks, legs, people had sit in certain spaces right. that were not equal in terms of quality. right. and so in 1937,