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Student protesters -- Michigan -- East Lansing

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Barry D. Amis papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.500
Content Description The collection contains flyers, notes, correspondence, and newspaper clippings related to the creation of the Black Student Alliance and its early history from 1967 to 1969. Included are newspaper clipping editorials that Amis wrote while a student. Also included are blank forms, hate mail, and a factsheet about the Orangeburg Massacre. The collection can be viewed online at https://onthebanks.msu.edu/Object/162-565-7729/barry-d-amis-papers-/ and ...
Dates: 1967-1970, undated

James J. Nugent collection

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-28.48
Scope and Contents Note The James J. Nugent collection consists of images taken by Nugent at a Vietnam protest march on May 14, 1970 that went from MSU to the Capitol with a rally at the Capitol afterwards. The images show people marching along Michigan Avenue, protest signs, and a damaged car. There is also an image of people holding a mock coffin with the words Vietnam Cambodia Kent. Other images show the protestors at the Capitol. There are also images of people protesting in support of United Farm Workers. ...
Dates: May 14, 1970, undated

John Beck papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA-17.350
Scope and Contents The John P. Beck papers contains materials related to Zolton Ferency's political campaigns in 1978 and 1982, Michigan Democratic Socialist Caucus, and the MSU Iranian Film Project. Also of note in the collection is a poster for a 1971 MSU Vietnam War protest rally, a 1973 conference program about MSU's involvement in foreign policy in the 1970s, and a booklet by the groups, The Daily Death Toll and Boston Area Clergy and Laity Concerned, about the Honeywell company's involvement in...
Dates: 1971-1982, 2014, undated

Michigan State University 1970 Student Strike records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-26.1
Scope and Contents

The records consist of materials related to student demonstrations and strikes in May 1970. Topics of the protests included ROTC, and the war in Vietnam. Materials include newspaper clippings, copies of student flyers, as well as press releases. There are also copies of typewritten notes of timeline of events, damage to buildings, and class attendance. There is also a flyer about Bobby Seale in the Bulletins and Announcements folder.

Dates: 1970

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

Student organizations and publications records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-12
Scope and Contents The collection consists of material related to Michigan State University student organizations including brochures, event flyers, event programs, minutes, newsletters, publications, and constitutions. The material was collected from events, bulletin boards and student organization websites. Material is categorized by the name of the organization or by subject including African American groups, fraternity and sorority, international student groups, medical and dental groups, sexual...
Dates: 1957 - 2017

Unattributed MSU History collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA-26.3
Scope and Content The collection contains MSU historical materials from unknown sources. The materials include an announcement for an alumni reunion, alumni reunion program held during the Semicentennial year, Feronian Society twenty-fifth anniversary event program, program for the junior banquet for the class of 1906, a page recording weekly hours for labor for the Mechanical Engineering department in 1895, postcards of the library (Linton Hall) and Wild Garden (Beal Garden), MIAA field meet ticket,...
Dates: 1867-1989, undated