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Willard Straight Hall takeover, 1969.

 Subject
Subject Source: Source Not Specified

Found in 8 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.

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.

Cornell University student protest films

 Collection — Dvd 780
Identifier: 37-11-2759
Abstract Documentation of the events of the 1969 student protests, April 19 and 20, 1969. Includes footage of the occupation of Willard Straight Hall, the mass assembly and addresses in Barton Hall, and members of the University Faculty leaving Bailey Hall. Shows African American students giving speeches with guns, the takeover, members of the student body, speeches by the administration, and a press conference. Individuals include Eric Evans, Steven Muller, James Perkins, Dale Corson, and others....
Dates: 1969.

R.D. Miller Challenge to Governance correspondence

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065218418]
Identifier: 11-1-1277

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]