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December 30, 2010
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Archives features exhibit on black families

Mary Murphey
February 21, 2002
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aThe Saint Louis University Archives is currently offering the SLU and St. Louis area communities an opportunity to broaden and diversify their knowledge of local history. The SLU Archives is featuring "Black Elites: Successful People of Color in St. Louis," which highlights the history of two remarkable bl...

JFK Film Discovered In University Archives

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October 27, 1999
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(U-WIRE) FORT WORTH, Tex.-On Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy spoke to a crowd of supporters at a breakfast at the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth. As he joked with the crowd, laughter and joy spread throughout the ballroom. But hours later, sadness and grief spread across the nation as Kennedy wa...

Confronting SLU’s History With Slavery

Conor Dorn, Associate News Editor
October 4, 2019
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In 2016, SLU joined the Jesuits USA Central and Southern Province (UCS) in launching an initiative to confront a joint history of involvement in the enslavement of African Americans that dates back to the founding of the university.  The initiative, called the Slavery, History, Memory and Reconcil...

‘Jesuits and the Arts’ Symposium this April at SLU

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December 1, 2016
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On April 18, 2017, the Saint Louis University libraries, the College of Arts and Sciences and the Jesuit Archives: Central United States is hosting the third annual Jesuit Student Research Symposium. The theme is “Jesuits and the Arts.” Dr. Silvana Siddali of the department of history, Tim Achee...

Editor-in-Chief-elect set to take the helm

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April 28, 2016
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For Kyle Smith, his rise to the helm of Saint Louis University’s student newspaper was not something he expected would happen when he was recruited to be a part of the paper’s editorial staff during his sophomore year. “I’ve had quite a few lucky, unexpected breaks during my time with the...

Dolores Byrnes recruited to write SLU’s bicentennial history

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April 21, 2016
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Since she began at SLU in October 2015, Dolores Byrnes has been thinking in centuries. When I met her in the University Archives on April 18, she announced that she had just entered the 20th century. Before her were books containing students’ math problems and a visitor’s sign-in book featured in...

Journalistic justice: ‘Spotlight’ sends powerful message

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December 3, 2015
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From its opening scene, “Spotlight” pulls no punches. It is quick to establish the Catholic Church as “the Establishment” which bows to no one, at least not when the defense and protection of its priests are concerned. Viewers enter the time and place, Boston in the midst of its sexual abuse s...

Selma March: 50 years later, remembering the role of student activism for civil rights

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February 27, 2015
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Top: SLU students boarded buses on West Pine that would take them to Montgomery, Al., to march with civil rights activists. Bottom: The street itself no longer exists, but students pass by Pius throughout the day. 50 years ago, West Pine bisected campus as we know it today. This thoroughfare served as the point of departure for more than 100 SLU students and faculty who boarded ...

Res. Life offers spring-break tour of civil rights sites

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January 29, 2015
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Pilgrims in a historic land Approximately 50 years after civil rights advocates marched from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, SLU students will make a pilgrimage to landmark locations of the civil rights movement and discover the continuing legacy it has on today’s social justice issues. The Department of Hou...

Let Us Introduce You: Claire Gilbert

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September 19, 2014
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History professor discusses academics, world travels For history professor Claire Gilbert, traveling around the world is a common venture. From India to Argentina, Gilbert’s passion for history has taken her to five continents and now brings her to Saint Louis University. Having recently graduated from UCLA with a Ph.D, Gilbert is s...

Steve Debellis, 59: U.News, SLU alum

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September 4, 2014
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The University News universe lost one of its stars this summer: Steve DeBellis. Steve occupied several slots on this paper’s staff: inimitable cartoonist, trivia enthusiast, vintage-car buff, imaginative illustrator, feature writer, Groucho Marx impersonator (humongous rubber cigar and all), St...