Anti-Vietnam-War Strike Materials May 6 - 12, 1970

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Anti-Vietnam-War Strike Materials May 6 - 12, 1970

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The Anti-Vietnam War Strike Materials Collection comprises a diverse assortment of documents and other materials relating to the University-wide strike that took place over a seven day period in May of 1970. The collection spans the period of the strike and its aftermath through the summer and fall of 1970, and includes several items predating the strike but important to its eventual realization. This collection of newspaper clippings, press releases, flyers, and memosrecords the events that too

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Northwestern university

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During World War II, Northwestern offered its facilities for use by the War Department. The Army, Navy, and Civil Aeronautics Administration operated eleven training programs at Northwestern in addition to the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (N.R.O.T.C.) established in 1926: the Navy V-7, Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School; the Navy V-5, Naval Aviation Prepatory Program; the Navy V-1, Accredited College Program; the Naval Training School (Radio); the Army Signal Corps Officers Training Scho...

Northwestern Anti-Vietnam War Strike, May 6-12, 1970

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As on many university campuses throughout the country, the spring of 1970 proved to be a watershed moment in the history of student activism at Northwestern. Campus reaction to a series of events coalesced to produce a climate of political ferment, culminating in a student-initiated University-wide strike that lasted for seven days, from May 5 through 12, 1970. Although many factors contributed to the explosive situation on campus at that time, two events may be cited as...