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Willard Straight Hall takeover.

 Subject
Subject Source: Source Not Specified

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Joel H. Silbey papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-17-1821
Scope and content Correspondence, research, lecture notes, memoranda, clippings, leaflets, and items concerning events at Cornell University in 1969-1970 including the occupation of Willard Straight Hall and other student protests. Includes copies of The New Left and Liberal Democracy by Walter Berne; A Case Study of a University's Pattern of Error by Allan P. Sindler, September 1969, for the panel on The New Left and the University; incomplete draft manuscript of Backfire, The Lesson of Cornell, later Open...
Dates: 1969-1970.

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.

Robert Stephen Pasley, Jr. papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 18-2-1669
Scope and content Pasley's files as a member of the board hearing the case of the proposed dismissal of Cornell University Professor John D. Hartman, including transcript of the hearings, exhibits introduced at the hearings, papers supplied to the board by Hartman, and papers initiating and closing the case; also, material relating to the Uniform Code of Military Justice; University Committee records relating to the takeover of Willard Straight Hall by black students in 1969; material relating to the...
Dates: 1951-1976.