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African American college students

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Africana Studies and Research Center fire items

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064942711]
Identifier: 47-5-1327
Scope and content

Contains newspaper clippings and articles about the fire and general comments on student unrest. Also includes letter from Lola Dudgeon to Dave and Tove hammer regarding Africana Center fire and events of April, 1970.

Dates: 1970.

Alpha Phi Alpha records

 Collection
Identifier: 37-4-2509
Abstract

Files regarding Alpha Phi Alpha and its history, particularly the Cornell chapter.

Dates: 1907-2021.

Booker T. Washington Club minute book

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924093385429]
Identifier: 37-6-3516
Scope and content

Minute book, kept by Sarah E. Thomas, with constitution and membership lists.

Dates: 1934-1935.

Cornell University Africana Studies and Research Center records

 Collection
Identifier: 53-1-3363
Abstract

Contains course syllabi for courses taught in the 1970s.

Dates: 1969-1976.

Cornell University Afro-American Studies Program interviews

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065481008]
Identifier: 13-6-2028
Scope and content

Transcripts of interviews of Tom Jones and others concerning the beginnings of the Afro-American Studies Program.

Dates: 1968.

Cornell University Special Trustee Committee on Campus Unrest records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2-6-1444
Scope and content

Includes tapes and transcripts of interviews, printouts, financial records, and other materials relating to the Special Trustee Committee on Campus Unrest (Robertson Committee).

Dates: 1969-1971.

Eileen Linsner, collector. Sigma Kappa suspension papers

 Collection — Manuscript box 17 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065304283]
Identifier: 37-4-m.538
Scope and content

Correspondence, mimeographed material, and clippings relating to the suspension of the Cornell chapter of Sigma Kappa by the national organization for pledging an African-American girl.

Dates: 1956-1962.

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.

Kappa Xi Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha

 Collection
Identifier: 8763
Content Description

Photographs of members and events

Dates: 2010 - 2019

Office of Visual Services protest photographs

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065187712]
Identifier: 4-3-2093
Scope and content

Photographic prints, slides, contact sheets and film taken on the Cornell University campus. Includes the Willard Straight Hall takeover by black students protesting discrimination and the Carpenter Hall takeover by Vietnam War protestors.

Dates: 1969-1972.