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Student movements.

 Subject
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Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:

1960s political materials

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924093383259]
Identifier: 37-5-3502
Scope and content

Miscellaneous SDS pamphlets, 1968-1970; May 1970 Strike items; Strike Newsletter, vol. 1, nos. 1-9; clippings, manuscript and other materials relating to the Cornell Canvass for Peace committee, 1970; and Indochina War Information Packets, prepared by the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars for the Faculty Anti-War Group at Cornell, used in lobbying efforts.

Dates: 1968-1970.

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.

Berrigan weekend oral history project

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 13-6-613
Scope and content Interviews with Cornell administrators about the planning for the weekend were conducted by Robert Kaplan with Stuart M. Brown, Jr., Vice President for Academic Affairs on April 15, 1970 (1 tape, 1 transcript); Mark Barlow, Jr., Vice President for Student Affairs, on April 15, 1970 (1 tape, 1 transcript); Jackson O. Hall, Assistant to the President, on April 14, 1970 (1 tape, 1 transcript); Alfred E. Kahn, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, on April 15, 1970; and Steven Muller, Vice...
Dates: 1970.

Black determination ; Crisis at Cornell Spring 1969 [[videorecording].]

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4444
Scope and content

A film by Ralph Diamant, narrated by Tom Jones, A News Reel Film. 15 minutes.

Dates: 1969; Undated

Challenge to Governance oral history project

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 13-6-1285
Abstract

Over 100 interviews with students, faculty, staff, and administrators on subjects including the Vietnam War and the peace movement; the rights of women and minorities, especially blacks' rights and the Willard Straight Hall occupation; efforts to change the governing system at Cornell; and related issues. Most of the interviews have been transcribed.

Dates: 1969-1971.

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.

Charles Atkinson Haynie articles

 Collection — Manuscript box 4 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065264552]
Identifier: 37-5-1030
Scope and content

Photocopies of two brief articles "The Music Room Crowd" (November, 1976) and "Why Us" (December 1976) which were published in Ethos (SUNY at Buffalo). Also "Me and the Italians: and "The End of Capitalism". Articles concern life at Cornell of radical students during the late 1950's and early 1960's.

Dates: 1975-1976.

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.

Coalition Against Apartheid collection

 Collection — Manuscript box 45 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924112457324]
Identifier: 47-5-3798m
Scope and content Fliers, handouts, and press releases; also "Statement presented befor the Ad Hoc Committee of the Cornell Board of Trustees at hearings sponsored by the Cornell Campus Council: Cornell Investment in South Arica--Morally, politically and economically wrong," by Dr. Michael C. Latham, 1978; notes for a talk by Friedman; report of Student Trustee Neil V. Getnick on "Conflicts of Interest and the Cornell Board of Trustees Investment Committee," 1978; and "Position paper: Committee on South...
Dates: 1978.

Cornell Alumni News editor's records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 41-1-1207
Scope and content Files of John Marcham, editor of the Cornell Alumni News, contain correspondence, background material for articles, clippings, notes, photographs, letters to the editor, and other materials pertaining to Cornell University, campus figures, college pranks, student unrest and the Willard Straight takeover, and many other topics relating to the university. Included are files relating to the reprinting of Strunk and White's Elements of Style, and correspondence and an outline of a biography of...
Dates: 1951-1982.