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Students -- Political activity

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

Black and Blue: Yale Volunteers in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement, 1963-1965 [research material and senior essay] by Jodi L. Wilgoren, Class of 1992, Yale College

 Collection
Call Number: RU 98
Abstract:

The materials consist of audiotapes and transcripts of interviews, posters, flyers, reminiscences, memoranda, clippings assembled by Jodi L. Wilgoren (Yale 1992) for her senior essay titled Black and Blue: Yale Volunteers in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement, 1963-1965.

Dates: 1992

Conflict between Students for a Democratic Society and Students for a Free Campus at Yale University records

 Collection
Call Number: RU 21
Abstract:

The records consist of reports, correspondence, and related materials, maintained by the dean of Undergraduate Affairs, concerning the investigation of conflict that took place on the Yale campus in 1969-1970 between Students for a Democratic Society and Students for a Free Campus.

Dates: 1969-1971

Graduate Employees and Students Organization, Yale University, records

 Collection
Call Number: RU 201
Abstract: The records consist of a pamphlet describing the T. A. Solidarity (TAS) at Yale University and their goals, a blank membership card, photocopies of unionization and job action proposals, a blank graduate student data sheet, buttons documenting the early unionization efforts and job actions, interviews, reports, copy of the organization web site [computer files], and printed material documenting T. A. Solidarity (TAS) and the Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO) at Yale...
Dates: 1988-2005

Marvin K. Lane, Class of 1937, Yale College, photograph collection documenting life at Yale University

 Collection
Call Number: RU 974
Abstract:

The material consists of photographs of Marvin Kenneth Lane (Yale 1937) documenting his graduation, Yale faculty, and a student demonstration in support of Jerome Davis, an associate professor in the Yale Divinity School who was allegedly dismissed for his political beliefs and activities.

Dates: 1937

May Day Rally and Yale collection

 Collection
Call Number: RU 86
Abstract:

The materials consist of correspondence, press releases, oral history transcripts, objects, and printed material documenting Yale student involvement in the 1970 May Day rally in New Haven, Connecticut and published materials collected by the donor as a stringer for the "New York Times" related to Yale's student strike, the anti-war movement, and the Black Panthers trial in New Haven. Also included are publications related to anti-war activities nationally.

Dates: Circa 1969-1974

Movement (Protest) collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 617
Abstract:

An intentionally assembled collection of newspapers, pamphlets, leaflets, broadsides, and miscellanea relating to anti-war, socialist, student, and radical political movements in the United States, Africa, Europe, Asia, and Latin America, 1946-1980.

Dates: 1946-1980

Office of the President, Yale University, records concerning the May Day rally

 Collection
Call Number: RU 16
Abstract: The records include background materials on the Black Panther party, information on the trial, and a series of Strike Newspapers issued by Dwight Hall. Also included are materials documenting Yale's approach and efforts toward organizing peaceful co-existence during the weekend events, as well as published information chronicling each day and summarizing media coverage. Other materials describe the faculty meeting held to address the issue of suspending academic activities during the trial,...
Dates: 1970-1976

Out From Behind the Walls of Ivy: Dwight Hall and Student Activism in the 1930s and 1940s [research material and senior essay] by Richard D. Willits, Class of 1982, Yale College

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Call Number: RU 97
Abstract:

The materials consist of drafts, notes, oral history interview tapes and transcripts, release forms, and other materials assembled by Richard D. Willits (Yale 1982) for his senior essay titled Out From Behind the Walls of Ivy: Dwight Hall and Student Activism in the 1930s and 1940s.

Dates: 1982

Thomas Strong photographs of New Haven May Day rally

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Call Number: MS 2030
Abstract:

The collection consists of twenty-two color and black and white prints of Yale University and New Haven before, during, and after the May Day rally in 1970. Images concentrate on slogans painted on boarded-up store fronts around the Yale campus, banners and signs either hanging from buildings or carried by protestors, and crowds on the New Haven Green and the Yale campus.

Dates: 1970

Student activism at Yale University collection

 Collection
Call Number: RU 351
Abstract: The records consist of correspondence, notes, memoranda, newsclippings, and flyers, maintained by Christopher Lowe and Ann Braude documenting student activism, sexual harassment, affirmative action, and women's groups at Yale. Records concerning the following groups and events are included: the Yale Student Labor Support Group; the Coalition Against Apartheid; T. A. Solidarity (TAS) and the Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO); the 1984 and 1988 labor strikes at Yale; and the...
Dates: circa 1984-1991

Anna Wipfler senior essay and interviews documenting lesbian and gay student activism at Yale

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Call Number: RU 1097
Abstract:

The papers consist of Anna Wipfler's (Yale 2009) senior essay, "The Making of 'the Gay Ivy': A History of Lesbian and Gay Student Organizing at Yale, 1969-1987" and her interviews with lesbian and gay Yale alumni.

Dates: 2008-2009

Yale Civil Rights Council records

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Call Number: RU 1052
Abstract:

The records consist of newsletters, correspondence, and brochures of the Yale Civil Rights Council.

Dates: 1964-1965

Yale Daily News interview of Kingman Brewster, Jr.

 Collection
Call Number: RU 517
Abstract:

The records consist of an interview [audiocassette] of Kingman Brewster, Jr. concerning May Day, 1970.

Dates: 1975