ABSTRACT
In 1962, students published a gently satirical unofficial student newspaper, Brave Son. The name poked fun at one of current President Raymond Edman's favorite descriptions of the Wheaton student body, "brave sons and daughters true". The editors and writers of Brave Son were not the only Wheaton students to fight for evangelical free speech. Much of the free-speech debate at Wheaton was tied intimately to questions of race and racism. One of the most controversial elements of the early incarnation of Brave Son was its inclusion of a faculty call to greater anti-racist activism on campus. For their part, the faculty at Wheaton remained profoundly divided. Wheaton's leaders could never dismiss such correspondence as merely nosy intrusions by fundamentalist busybodies. If the administrators of Wheaton ignored the anxieties of the broader fundamentalist community, they risked alienating potential students and losing their potential tuition dollars.
