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College students -- Political activity.

 Subject
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Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:

Glad Day Press publications

 Collection — Box 4: [Barcode: 31924065107777]
Identifier: 2961
Abstract Handbills and serials published by Glad Day Press, including material concerning the Vietnam War, the Black Liberation Movement, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS); and the Cornell University Carpenter Hall takeover, May 1972. Serials include Caw! and New Left Notes (both published by the SDS), Mobilizer, Cornell-Ithaca Mobilizer, The First Issue, Workers Bulletin, Watu (published by The Black Literary Society of Cornell University), Dateline: Ithaca, New Patriot, Volunteers, Tiohero,...
Dates: 1967-1973.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Glad Day Press publications

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

Lawrence Felix Kramer papers

 Collection — Box 6: [Barcode: 31924065227427]
Identifier: 37-7-2151
Abstract

Collection consists of documents, correspondence and publications generated by leftist political groups active in the Ithaca, New York area from 1966 to 1972.

Dates: 1966-1980,-1966-1972 (bulk)
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Lawrence Felix Kramer papers

Left wing political activities printed material

 Collection
Identifier: 3650
Abstract

Consists primarily of printed items, newspapers, broadsides, brochures, clippings, newsletters, and pamphlets, mostly relating to Cornell University and its student organizations. Also includes notes and correspondence.

Dates: 1966-2007.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Left wing political activities printed material

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.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Office of Visual Services protest photographs

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.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Pentagon march oral history project

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

Richard Pieper slides

 Collection — Manuscript box 48 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924113451326]
Identifier: 37-5-4108m
Scope and content

Slides documenting the Barton Hall "sit-in" in 1969.

Dates: 1969.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Richard Pieper slides

Robert D. Miller papers

 Collection
Identifier: 21-13-3960
Abstract

Collection includes personal and professional materials regarding his travels and work at Cornell

Dates: [ca. 1933-1998]
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Robert D. Miller papers

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.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Student activism oral history project

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