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African American college students

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Priscilla Gage Specht, collector. Sigma Kappa suspension papers

 Collection — Manuscript box 16 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065303855]
Identifier: 37-4-m.484
Scope and content

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

Dates: 1956.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Priscilla Gage Specht, collector. Sigma Kappa suspension papers

Records regarding the takeover, occupation, of Willard Straight Hall

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 35-7-1295
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...
Dates: 1968-1969, 1989.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Records regarding the takeover, occupation, of Willard Straight Hall

Sigma Kappa, Alpha Zeta chapter records

 Collection
Identifier: 37-4-571
Scope and content Collection contains correspondence, clippings, articles, ephemera, and historical documents from the Alpha Zeta chapter. Included is correspondence and documentation relating to the suspension controversy, including a few issues of the Sigma Kappa Triangle (magazine) and the Sigma Kappa Trianglette (newsletter). Also included is a circa 1920 scrapbook from the first bid to the national organization for affiliation from the local Chi Gamma group (which was then chartered as Alpha Zeta). The...
Dates: 1921-1966.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Sigma Kappa, Alpha Zeta chapter records

Walter Slatoff papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-12-2832
Scope and content

Includes typescript of a lecture on blacks at Cornell and in American society, given shortly after the assassination of Martin Luther King; handwritten notes for a talk on the same subject a year later; typed notes for a talk on racism, April 24, 1969; and a column entitled "Cornell Racism" written by Slatoff for the CORNELL DAILY SUN, April 17, 1969.



Dates: 1968-1975.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Walter Slatoff papers

WATU records

 Collection — Manuscript box 55: [Barcode: 31924131175766]
Identifier: 37-6-4595
Content Description

Collection contains Volume 1 of "WATU, Journal of Black Poetry/Arts", notes and drafts from Wilhelmina Leigh, and assorted invoices and other documents related to subscriptions to WATU, as well as information about Don Lee (faculty advisor for the journal).

Dates: 1966 - 1970
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / WATU records

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