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Perkins, James Alfred, 1911-1998

 Person

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Challenge to Governance Project records

 Collection — Box 4: [Barcode: 31924093390437]
Identifier: 47-5-1309
Abstract

Correspondence, transcripts of interviews, minutes, statements, broadsides, photographs, clippings, and other materials pertaining to civil rights activism and the work of various groups at Cornell to alter the institution's governing structure.

Dates: 1969-1970.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Challenge to Governance Project records

Charles E. Palm papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 21-2-1478
Abstract Correspondence, typescripts, reports, drafts, handwritten notes of telephone conversations, and publications pertaining to his deanship of the New York State College of Agriculture from 1959 to 1972 and to his work as Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Agricultural Sciences beginning in 1972. The papers mainly document the administration and growth of the New York State College of Agriculture, its departments, committees, and related activities, including the New York State Agricultural...
Dates: 1956-1986.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Charles E. Palm papers

Cornell University student protest films

 Collection — Dvd 780
Identifier: 37-11-2759
Abstract Documentation of the events of the 1969 student protests, April 19 and 20, 1969. Includes footage of the occupation of Willard Straight Hall, the mass assembly and addresses in Barton Hall, and members of the University Faculty leaving Bailey Hall. Shows African American students giving speeches with guns, the takeover, members of the student body, speeches by the administration, and a press conference. Individuals include Eric Evans, Steven Muller, James Perkins, Dale Corson, and others....
Dates: 1969.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Cornell University student protest films

Dale R. Corson papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3-11-1665
Abstract The Dale R. Corson papers consist of office files, correspondence, and other material deriving chiefly from his provostship (1963-1969) and presidency of Cornell University (1963-1977). The papers illustrate the Corson administration reconstituting the University following the trauma of the 1969 student revolt and the negative publicity following the takeover of Willard Straight Hall; dealing with anti-war demonstrations and protests relative to other social and local issues; and surviving...
Dates: 1963-1977.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Dale R. Corson papers

James A. Perkins papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3-10-1022
Abstract

The papers of James A. Perkins consist of correspondence, reports, administrative management forms and records, drafts of speeches, correspondence, notes of telephone conversations, memoranda for the record, substantive inter-office notes and memos, commission reports, departmental reports to the President, tape recordings, transcripts, broadsides, a phonodisc, and letters received by the President's Office concerning the events on campus in the Spring of 1969

Dates: 1963-1969.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / James A. Perkins papers

L. Michael Goldsmith papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065324042]
Identifier: 37-5-3049
Scope and content

Correspondence, collected subject files, newspaper clippings, posters and ephemera collected by a Cornell student in 1969 pertaining to the Willard Straight Takeover. Includes correspondence from James Perkins, Cornell University President at the time.

Dates: 1969.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / L. Michael Goldsmith papers

William G. Tomlinson correspondence with James A. Perkins

 Collection — Manuscript box 22 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065306957]
Identifier: 37-10-m.860
Scope and content

Letters from Tomlinson to Perkins, November 19, 1968 and May 1, 1969, with Perkins' responses, May 8, 1969 and undated (photocopies).

Dates: 1968-1969.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / William G. Tomlinson correspondence with James A. Perkins

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