2014 SOLIDARITY MARCH
Oregon State University Solidarity March 2014. Facebook event banner image.
Meleani Bates (with megaphone) co-leads OSU students, faculty, and staff in the Solidarity
March, March 12, 2014. Photo by Amanda Cowan, Corvallis Gazette-Times.
Demonstrators join hands as they take part in the Solidarity March. Photo by Amanda Cowan,
Corvallis Gazette-Times.
Chants for the Oregon Students United Solidarity March, Oregon State University March 12, 2014.
All images can be found in OSU Special Collections and Archives Research Center. Memorabilia
Collection. Box 152, Folder “Student Protests, Folder 2.”
Sources Cited
(1) Read more about the 1969 and 1996 marches on pages 16-17 and 30-31, as well as the seven
CRCs on pages 18-25, 28-29, 32-35.
(2) “OSU Marches Against Racism” by Rhonda Krause, KEZI, March 13, 2014; and “Students
respond to racism on campus” by Sean Bassinger, OSU’s The Daily Barometer, March 9, 2014; and
“‘Racial charged’ note found on OSU campus; police investigating” by Jon Killen, The Oregonian,
March 7, 2014.
(3) “OSU Community Response to Recent Acts of Racism” email message by members of the OSU
Administration. March 6, 2014.
(4) Oregon State University Solidarity March Facebook page; and “Oregon Students United (OSU)
– Forward Widely” email message by Meleani Bates of the Lonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center,
March 7, 2014.
(5) “Students respond to racism on campus” by Sean Bassinger, OSU’s The Daily Barometer,
March 9, 2014.
(6) “OSU students march for unity” by Anthony Rimel of the Corvallis Gazette-Times, Albany
Democrat-Herald, March 12, 2014.
(7) “Dialogues around racism for staff, students” LIFE@OSU, March 11, 2014.
All sources are from the OSU Special Collections and Archives Research Center. Memorabilia
Collection. Box 152, Folder 2 “Student Protests.”