Collections : [University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library]

The Administrative series includes office correspondence, financial files, meeting minutes, and planning proposals, giving information on the daily operations of the Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs. The Administrative series includes records of Minority Student Services (MSS). Within these files are notes from the MSS retreat, MSS training council, and the multi-cultural training program. These programs helped the staff learn more about other cultures and how to plan better programs that serve the needs of students who identified with those cultures. This series also includes materials related to MESA's student organization grant program, files from the computer of Program Manager, associate director and interim director Linh Nguyen, and materials related to the Growing Allies retreat.

Items in the Arts, Culture, and Entertainment series (1979-2009 and undated) concern those Sue Marx films that addressed the vibrant arts scene of metropolitan Detroit and southeastern Michigan, the area's Jewish community, stories of historical interest, and other cultural events in Michigan. Among other films, included in this series is the Oscar-winning documentary "Young at Heart," as well as productions profiling various local artists, discussing early automotive races, and exploring the Magic Capital of the World in Colon, Michigan. The Arts, Culture, and Entertainment series contains approximately 25 folders of manuscript materials, about 260 video recordings in various formats (magnetic tapes, film reels, VHS videotapes, U-matic videotapes, Betacam-SP videotapes, Mini-DV videotapes, and other formats), as well as digital file formats. The series contains 7 audiocassettes.

The oral history interviews conducted by John Behee between 1968 and 1974 cover a period from 1922 (William DeHart Hubbard) to 1972 (Godfrey Murray). They follow a fairly consistent pattern of questions and topics:

1. motivation and circumstances that brought the athlete to Michigan
2. high school experience and honors
3. athletic experience / accomplishments at U-M
4. relations with coaches and fellow players
5. any particular experience of discrimination or prejudice, in particular with regard to lodging and travel
6. any notable positive experience with coaches, teammates or others
7. election of Blacks as team captains
8. campus social life, including fraternities and interracial dating
9. housing discrimination in Ann Arbor
10. educational and work experience
11. response to the Black Action Movement BAM and the larger civil rights movement.

The interviews range from ca. 40-minutes to ca. 80 minutes in length. They are listed chronologically by date of the athletes U-M career. The sound level on some recordings is fairly low and you many need to raise the volume on your speaker.