During a student festival at Indiana University, chapters of the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity and the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority combined to present a play set in a laundry where the clothes come to life. To create the illusion that the clothes were moving about, the students used an old theatrical trick, blacking out the actors' faces and hands with makeup. But the effect proved too subtle for the campus's black activists, who denounced the Greeks for sponsoring a "minstrel show" and got them to apologize for performing in "blackface."

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