UVA Hospital Worker, 1970s

On this fourth day of Kwanzaa, it seems only fitting to turn our attention to one of the most important documents emerging out of African Americans’ collective struggle for economic justice at the University of Virginia: the Muddy Floor Report. It’s a lengthy but quite informative analysis of the racial politics of UVA’s occupational structure.

Office of Equal Opportunity Programs, An Examination of the University’s Minority Classified Staff (The Muddy Floor Report), June 1996