Enraged that campus leaders would discourage protesting another killing of a Black man, hundreds of students poured onto the campus’ Founders Green that October night. Bylander didn’t realize it at the time, but the message turned out to be the last straw. 28 not to participate in protests in Philadelphia. 26, Wallace was shot by police outside his West Philadelphia home.įearing for student safety, Bylander and Raymond, the dean and president, urged students in a message Oct.
Students continued to press for changes outlined in their June 17 letter administrators agreed to negotiate. The college erected tents for outdoor classrooms and added trailers for isolation and quarantine space - signs of the pandemic’s still-raging danger. More than 1,000 students, including Shittu, returned to campus in early September. » READ MORE: How Haverford, Swarthmore, and other small college campuses hope to fend off the coronavirus He felt like he was “on a job interview all the time,” he would later recall. People touched his hair, misspelled his name, sang the N-word as part of a rap song when he was the only Black person in the room, and asked him why other Black people couldn’t be more like him and share his Nigerian culture.
While Shittu had to contend with people in his hometown displaying Confederate flags and using racial slurs, he found racism more subtle at Haverford. “Primarily white, outwardly liberal institutions like Haverford have such a long history of talking the talk without living up to it,” he wrote. On July 15, The Inquirer published an op-ed column by Shittu in which he argued that colleges such as Haverford “pretend” not to be racist. The movement spoke to Camille Samuels, 22, a senior health studies major from Silver Spring, Md., who had “a sense of feeling out of place a lot of the time” at Haverford. “Haverford needs to begin recognizing the role of whiteness, wealth and athletic status in contributing to the oppression of Black students,” said one.Ī June 17 letter signed by more than 2,500 students, alumni, faculty, and groups at Haverford and Bryn Mawr cited a lack of support for Black students in classrooms, “racially charged injustices” that went unaddressed, mistreatment of Black staff, and lack of funding and staff for programs that support Black students.
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» READ MORE: Haverford students on strike after college officials' comments on Walter Wallace Jr.'s deathįor Haverford, an institution rich in liberal and Quaker ideals, the strike posed unprecedented challenges: How to balance concerns of Black students hurting badly amid a national reckoning over race with its obligation to provide an education for which many families pay more than $75,000 annually? How to deal with charges of bullying among young adults, while not silencing anger and protest? How to reconcile a campus divided not over the desire to end racism but over the strike itself, and how it was handled by school leaders?
Over two weeks, much of the formal education on the campus was brought to a standstill. in Philadelphia and in response to what students of color said was decades of neglect and poor treatment of nonwhite students at Haverford, strike organizers asked professors to cancel classes and students to refrain from attending, working campus jobs, or participating in activities until their demands were met. Days after the police shooting death of Walter Wallace Jr.
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