Student movements -- Michigan
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Associated Students of MSU records (ASMSU)
Record Group
Identifier: UA-12.1.1
Scope and Content
The records of the Associated Students of Michigan State University (ASMSU) include policy codes, meeting minutes, agendas, proposals, reports, correspondence with campus and other universities' departments and officials, materials relating to ASMSU presidents, handbooks, news clippings, fact sheets, press bulletins, and scrapbooks.
Topics of interest in the records include People’s Park, women’s curfew for dormitories, Women’s Inter-Residence Council, Men’s Hall Association, student...
Dates:
1940 - 2010; Majority of material found within 1954 - 2010
Clifton R. Wharton, Jr. papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-2.1.14
Scope and Contents
(1) BOARD OF TRUSTEES FILES. 1969-1977. 3 cu. ft.Records documenting Wharton's relations with the Michigan State University Board of Trustees. The files consist largely of correspondence and memoranda between Wharton and various board members concerning all facets of university governance. The folders of general correspondence and correspondence with individual board members are particularly valuable for providing insight into the various issues dealt with in the board...
Dates:
1947 - 1977
Don Stevens papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-1.1.2
Scope and Contents
The Don Stevens papers include a variety of materials on higher education, particularly Michigan State University, as well as disputes and conflicts pertaining to it. Some of which includes student protests to campus issues including racial problems, ROTC, and the grape and lettuce boycott. Also in the collection are materials related to labor unions, labor issues and disputes, labor education and legislation, including AFL-CIO statements, magazine articles, speeches, executive board...
Dates:
1944 - 1973
Forrest W. Starrett papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.77
Scope and Contents
The collection includes football programs, copies of newspaper clippings related to a student riot after a baseball game between M.A.C. and the University of Michigan, and campus photographs. Several items concern the student excavation of the Union Building basement.
Football programs are for Creighton University vs. Michigan Aggies (November 10, 1923) and Michigan Aggies vs. Indiana (October 28, 1923). Memorabilia includes ticket stubs, a photograph book entitled ...
Dates:
1922 - 1931
James Zarichny collection
Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.284
Scope and Content
The collection consists of the document "The Case Against James Zarichny." James Zarichny attended Michigan State College (now Michigan State University) and was placed on disciplinary probation for being involved in the American Youth for Democracy (AYD) organization. The AYD had applied to be a recognized student organization but was denied. The members of the organization continued to meet for which they were placed on disciplinary probation when this was discovered by the college. ...
Dates:
1949
Kamuyu-wa-Kang'ethe papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.112
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of the 1970 essay "A Thesis of Protest," by Kamuyu-wa-Kang'ethe, a Michigan State University anthropology student, which he wrote instead of his master's thesis. It decries western education, anthropology, and demands acceptance of African institutions as equal to European.
Dates:
1970
Lansing Magazine publication
Collection
Identifier: UA-28.11
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the January/February 1979 issue of Lansing Magazine. The magazine contains two articles on Ransom E. Olds -- "How Lansing lost and Regained Oldsmobile" and "The Incredible Saga of How R. E. Olds Got the Boot." Also included is an article on Michigan Agricultural College student unrest on the night of February 22, 1911. The magazine also offers an insight into the economic and social life of Lansing, Michigan in...
Dates:
1979
Ruth Simms Hamilton papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.269
Scope and Contents
The Ruth Simms Hamilton papers consist of subject files and research materials on African American issues, including civil rights and affirmative action at MSU and other universities. The collection includes case studies of MSU conflicts and protests, newspaper clippings, files about other countries, files about university programs, and papers written by Hamilton and others.Also included are files about MSU student organizations which include Akers Black Caucus, Associated Black...
Dates:
1968 - 1982
Walter Adams papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-2.1.13
Scope and Contents
Walter Adams' papers contain administrative subject files, speeches, and correspondence from his short term as President of Michigan State University. Subject files contain monographs, correspondence, and other documents related to the various schools and departments of the university, and to student affairs. Includes a proposal for a Russian and Eastern European Studies Center. Correspondence deals primarily with state and community issues, with some from the Board of Trustees and from the ...
Dates:
1969