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African Americans -- Education.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 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.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Challenge to Governance oral history project

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.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Challenge to Governance Project records

Emily Howland additional papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064941598]
Identifier: 3115
Dates: 1857-1929.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Emily Howland additional papers

Emily Howland papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2681
Abstract Collection consists primarily of correspondence; letters discuss attempts to establish schools for escaped slaves and freedmen in the South, abolition, Oberlin College President Charles Grandison Finney's opinion of John Brown and other abolitionists, the women's suffrage movement (especially in New York State), women's higher education, temperance, the Universal Peace movement, the National Arbitration League of Washington, aspects of Quaker life, the Society of Friends, the Freedmen's...
Dates: 1797-1938.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Emily Howland papers

Galvin family papers

 Collection — Mu 1022: [Barcode: 31924027053309]
Identifier: 4933
Abstract

Correspondence, passports, photographs, certificates, awards, biographical clippings, and other papers of an upstate New York physician and college professor. Includes correspondence, accounts, historical descriptions, constitution and by-laws, and other papers pertaining to Cornell University's African-American fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha.

Dates: 1906-1987.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Galvin family papers

Institute for Independent Education records

 Collection
Identifier: 6693
Abstract The collection includes approximately 200 brochures from the more than 400 independent schools across the United States and in the U.S. Virgin Islands; records of the activities of the Institute, including training workshop, public conferences, newsletters, reports on student achievement and other topics, based on original research data from funded projects, and transcripts of interviews with administrators, teachers, and parents are part of the collection; over 430 photographs and prints of...
Dates: 1984-2005.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Institute for Independent Education records

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