BLACK HISTORY MOMENT: 1989 WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY STUDY-IN

In April of 1989, students at Detroit’s Wayne State University led an 11 day protest known as the Study-In. These students occupied the Student Center Building, which was the Helen Newberry Joy Student Services Building at the time. They refused to leave until the university met their demands to stop dismantling the Center for Black Studies and transform it into an accredited Liberal Arts department.