AmericaJR’s Jason Rzucidlo was LIVE at the University of Michigan for their Bicentennial celebration. In this gallery, look for photos of “The Student Experience: Flappers, Mappers, and the Fight for Equality on Campus” exhibit at the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library. Join flappers as they stroll through 1926 Ann Arbor with a beautiful pictorial map and experience the busy student life of the 1920s, celebrate two University of Michigan alumna who have greatly influenced the field of cartography, and explore the rise of diversity and the fight for equality on campus through protest posters from the Joseph A. Labadie Collection of the U-M Library’s Special Collections.
“The Student Experience” exhibit
The exhibit talks about equality on campus
Overview of the exhibit
The circus was first organized by the sophomore class
The sophomore prom began as the sophomore “hop”
“The Michigan Mandate” 1990
“A 50 Year History of Social Diversity”
Black Life on campus
Women at Michigan
“Women at Michigan” book
Ann Arbor Diversity
The Black Action Movement (BAM) strike in 1970
“Jewish Ann Arbor” book
“182 More Arrests Made”
“This is Ann Arbor”
“Salute to Black Women”
LGBT posters
“Deputies Arrest 52 at Sit-In; 10 Students Protest on Diag”
National Day of Action, 2000
KODAK Digital Still Camera
University of Michigan map
The Freshmen Pageant and Picnic took place in April
On Lantern Night, Senior women passed lanterns to Juniors