We are studying the tensions within the University of Puget Sound Campus because we want to better understand the (re)actions of Black students on campus to the “Now, Mr. Lincoln?” campaign (henceforth NML) (and other social programming alike) in order to help site visitors understand how minority students perceived their place within the Tacoma and campus community.

Tensions about where students / POC can belong on campus (through the analysis of archives documents) suggest there is a demand for more representative course-work on campus and support from University community members to achieve these demands (similar to “Now, Mr. Lincoln?” Community Campaign). Our section considers how educational movements on campus serve as a critique of the paternalistic approach to “Now, Mr. Lincoln?” i.e., that the campaign fails to affect the structural issues that keep Black individuals in perpetual social oppression.