After some discussion, the six students walked out of the meeting because they felt as if their voices weren’t being heard and nothing would be accomplished.
In December of 1969, Slater and five other representatives of the BSU met with President Charles Millican to address their concerns over the lack of black faculty and black history curriculum on campus. Under the leadership of Dan Slater, the Black Student Union began to demand change on campus. 1, 2, 3įrom the Central Florida Future, Vol. The Thanksgiving Food Drive would become an annual event where the BSU collects and delivers food to the Salvation Army to be distributed to less fortunate families within the Orlando area. Within the first year of existence, the BSU started their first community service project. The only requirement to join was that you needed to be a FTU student and that all officers must obtain a minimum 2.0 GPA. In an interview with the Central Florida Future Slater stated that the BSU would provide “an organization that black students can identify with to the fullest” The union wanted to stress black pride and unity, help to improve communication with administration, and begin to celebrate the lives of well-known black Americans. Dan Slater and Roland Williams were elected as the first President and first Vice President of the BSU in 1969. Sixteen out of the twenty-five black students at FTU collectively formed a union that would fill the absence of black leadership on the campus for many years to come. Student leadership positions, clubs, fraternity and sorority life were all held by white students during this time. Because most of the students at FTU were white, black students felt the need join together to create real change on campus. On Octothe Black Student Union was formed at Florida Technological University (now University of central Florida).
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