Kake Walk at UVM pictured in Vermont Life magazine, 1949

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Title

Kake Walk at UVM pictured in Vermont Life magazine, 1949

Creator

Jennings, James

Description

In an article about the future of the University of Vermont, the editors of Vermont Life included a photograph of Kake Walk, an event in which students performed in blackface, calling it a "unique annual tradition." The article did not suggest that changing this was one of the university's "plans for the future." (The event was not cancelled until 1969.) The same issue of Vermont Life contained an adulatory article about bringing Black children to Vermont for an inter-cultural experience without any sense of irony. See UVM's history of Kake Walk.

Publisher

Vermont Life, vol. 3, no. 3 (Spring 1949): 54-57.

Date

1947

Source

"The University of Vermont: A State University Reassesses Its Past and Lays Plans for the Future."

Identifier

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Format

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Rights Statement

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Citation

Jennings, James, “Kake Walk at UVM pictured in Vermont Life magazine, 1949,” Digital Vermont: A Project of the Vermont Historical Society, accessed March 28, 2024, https://www.digitalvermont.org/items/show/1936.