{"id":1705,"date":"1968-12-12T13:19:39","date_gmt":"1968-12-12T13:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2018-10-15T13:24:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T13:24:12","slug":"in-sophian-article-black-students-alliance-defines-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/1968\/12\/12\/in-sophian-article-black-students-alliance-defines-role\/","title":{"rendered":"In Sophian article, Black Students\u2019 Alliance defines role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December 12, 1968<\/p>\n<p>In Sophian article, Black Students\u2019 Alliance defines role<\/p>\n<p><i>Wanda Jordan \u201970, president of the newly-chartered Black Students\u2019 Alliance (BSA), explained the organization\u2019s history, mission, and activities in an article in the Sophian. Comprised of the 41 black students on campus, all of whom were automatically considered members, Smith\u2019s BSA had actually been formed two years prior, but it was not until Fall 1968 that they received a formal charter. Article II of the charter stated that \u201cThe purpose of the BSA is to provide a cultural and social organization which will establish for its members a sense of unity and identity within the smaller community of Smith College while at the same time emphasize their common interest in, and relationship to, the larger black community of the nation.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b><i>BSA Interprets Role On Campus <\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1968.12.12-Black-Assistant-Dean-Outlines-New-Position-1_-BSA-Interprets-Role-On-Campus-1.jpg\"><b><i>1<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i>, <\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1968.12.12-BSA-Interprets-Role-On-Campus-3.jpg\"><b><i>3<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Last updated on October 15, 2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 12, 1968 In Sophian article, Black Students\u2019 Alliance defines role Wanda Jordan \u201970, president [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2028,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[56,54],"class_list":["post-1705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1960s","tag-56","tag-black-students-alliance","entry","grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1706,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions\/1706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}