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College students -- Political activity.

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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

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.

Pentagon march oral history project

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 13-6-2479
Scope and content

Interviews discuss the interviewees' backgrounds and political philosophy, as well as detailing the events of the march.









Dates: 1967-1968.

Student activism oral history project

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 13-6-2478
Scope and content In the first interview, on June 20, 1966, David Brandt, the president of the Executive Board, was interviewed by Gould P. Colman about what led Cornell's student government to take a position on the draft exam and Vietnam and aobut the steps that the Executive Board took following the passage of the resolutions to educate the student body about the issues involved in the referendum. Brandt was also interviewed on November 22, 1966; (3 tapes, 3 transcripts). Additional interviews were...
Dates: 1966, 1968.