[timeline_excerpt]Students occupied the offices of the Political Science Department, demanding greater control over the hiring of faculty. Check out this documentary on the occupation![/timeline_excerpt]
Category: Alternative histories
[timeline_excerpt]The Minimum Cost Housing Group (MCHG) of McGill’s School of Architecture is a research unit concerned with the human settlement problems of the poor. Its research has primarily focused on poor countries, but it has also conducted research projects in wealthier countries. Research has been carried out on construction materials, small building components, low-cost sanitation […]
[timeline_excerpt]The second international Congress for Black Writers was held at McGill, and brought together intellectuals of African descent to examine, discuss, and debate concerns related to culture and identity. The event was attended by thinkers and activists from Canada, the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean – including C.L.R James, Stokely Carmichael, Miriam Makeba, Rocky […]
[timeline_excerpt]Brown v Board of Education was the landmark Supreme Court case for school desegregation in the United States. McGill professor Otto Klineberg’s research into the intelligence scores of Black students was crucial to the case’s victory. Klineberg found that students in cash-poor Southern Black schools averaged lower scores than Southern whites and Northern Blacks and […]
[timeline_excerpt]William Christopher Macdonald (1831-1917) was a major donor to McGill University and its chancellor from 1914 to 1917. By the end of his life, Macdonald’s gifts and bequests to McGill exceeded $13 million, the equivalent of nearly $300 million today. MacDonald’ wealth allowed him to make countless contributions to McGill. On a number of occasions, […]