Student Protests and Strikes at Northwestern University 1965-1979

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Student Protests and Strikes at Northwestern University, 1965-1979

Student Protests and Strikes at Northwestern University 1965-1979

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The Student Protests and Strikes Collection consists of diverse materials that document political demonstrations and protests organized by students, spanning from August 1965 through October 1979. Each event included in this collection documents a segment of the history of Northwestern students' political activism. The collection as a whole illustrates the ascendance of political activism among NU students and faculty, both as the product of individual actors and circumstances affecting the NU community as well as the product of the state of American youth at large. The collection includes items that evince the planning and execution of various strikes, sit-ins, teach-ins, boycotts, demonstrations and discussions, and also contains materials more generally pertaining to student protest, political expression and alternative youth culture in America in the late 1960s and 1970s. Materials include newspaper clippings, flyers, formal demands from and negotiations with the university administration, magazine articles, administrative memos and speeches. A number of the documents in this collection were accumulated in 1973 by Robert Mayo, Professor of English. A letter from Mayo in the first folder of the collection explains how he gathered the documents.

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