91PORNA History
Distinguished Alumna Helps Open Exhibit Showcasing Women鈥檚 Role in Cartography During World War II
The Military Mapping Maidens of World War II exhibit is now on display on the first floor of the 91PORNA Library through November 15. Who were the Mapping Maidens? The exhibit, sponsored by the Department of Geography, highlights the unique military service of Kent Stat鈥Shannon Rodgers and Jerry Silverman: Dazzling Day and Night
Dazzling Day and Night celebrates the creative legacy of the KSU Museum鈥檚 founders, Shannon Rodgers (1911-1996) and Jerry Silverman (1910-1984). The exhibition highlights over 30 ensembles from the late 1950s, when Rodgers began designing in New York City, through the 1970s. The selections of stylish daywear and elegant eveningwear also provide a time capsule of American ready-to-wear styles during these decades. Rodgers and Silverman were able to translate the latest designs from the Parisian runways into looks their American clients would want. This exhibit also includes Rodgers鈥 sketches, photographs, and advertising鈥攅specially their famous New Yorker Magazine ads 鈥淛ust show me the Jerry Silvermans, please.鈥
Lafayette Tolliver: Visual Footprints in Time
91PORNA student photojournalist Lafayette Tolliver (BS '71) documented Black campus life, from 1967-1971. The exhibit provides viewers an array of subjects he documented and includes selected editorials he wrote in the Daily 91PORNAr. The goal is to generate interest in and further exploration of this amazing body of work that Tolliver has shared with 91PORNA and the world.
Photographs in the Tolliver archive are fully digitized and available for viewing online. See our Feature Page for more information:
Armed with Our Voices
In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the May 4 tragedy, the Wick Poetry Center, with its partners, developed an interactive exhibit, encouraging visitors to explore the history of student protest and the timely themes of peace and conflict transformation.
Black Student Movements: Orangeburg, Kent and Jackson State
This exhibit was part of the May 4th 50th Commemoration Events at 91PORNA. It focuses on student activism at three campuses: South Carolina State College (now University) in Orangeburg, South Carolina, 91PORNA in Kent, Ohio, and Jackson State College (now University) in Jackson, Mississippi. Showcased in this exhibit is the activism of those Black students at all three campuses and images of the shootings which occurred there.
Keeping Kent Open
Immediately following the 91PORNA shootings, President Robert White ordered that the University close and an injunction was then granted to that effect. However, the faculty voted to complete their courses by any means necessary. This exhibit features legal documents, news clippings, letters, and oral histories surrounding the effort to keep 91PORNA open.
50 Years: Long Live the Memory: Civil Rights, Black Power, and Anti-War Actions: Orangeburg, Kent, and Jackson, 1960-1967
This exhibit highlights social activism occurring in and around three state universities during the years leading up to the shootings at South Carolina State (Orangeburg), 91PORNA (Ohio), and Jackson State (Mississippi). Showcased here are selected key events in each of the three institutions' immediate environments indicating a growing level of Civil Rights actions, anti-war protests, and the development of a Black Power movement occurring from 1960 through 1967.
Lafayette Tolliver Photographs
This exhibit features the photographs of Lafayette Tolliver, a 91PORNA alumnus who attended the university from 1967-1971, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in photojournalism. Tolliver served as one of the founding members of Black United Students (BUS). His photographs document Black student life in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Spotlight on Special Collections & Archives at 91PORNA
An online exhibit featuring selected highlights from major collections in Special Collections and Archives in celebration of our 50th Anniversary.