Scope and content Records of the takeover of Willard Straight Hall, Cornell University, by black students, April 19-20, 1969; includes a memorandum regarding damage done, photographs, and clippings; also includes national magazine clippings, Daily Sun coverage, and other paper ephemera from 1969. Includes copies of photographs and timeline of events from a 1989 exhibit on the takeover, a postcard from the 2005 production of "Learning Curve," a play based on the takeover, and March/April 2019 issue of the...

Abstract

Files of Cornell University's student union include files relating to the creation of the student union, correspondence, financial records, printed material, scrapbooks, guestbooks, and some Straight family correspondence.