Associated Students of Stanford University, Speakers Bureau, audio-visual materials 1981-1996

Seale, Bobby, 1936-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sc4zpt (person)

Bobby Seale is the co-founder, with activist Huey P. Newton, of the Black Panther Party. Seale was one of the eight people charged by the US federal government with conspiracy charges related to anti-Vietnam War protests in Chicago, Illinois, during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Seale's appearance in the trial was widely publicized and Seale was bound and gagged for his appearances in court more than a month into the trial for what Judge Julius Hoffman said were disruptions. Seale's c...

Walker, Alice, 1944-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rg6mwv (person)

Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (born February 9, 1944, Eatonton, Georgia), American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel The Color Purple.[3][4] Over the span of her career, Walker has published seventeen novels and short story collections, twelve non-fiction works, and collections of essays and poetry....

Dworkin, Andrea, 1946-2005

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tj9cfk (person)

Author, critic, and radical feminist Andrea Dworkin was born on September 26, 1946, in Camden, New Jersey. She was the daughter of Sylvia (Spiegel), a secretary, and Harry Dworkin, a guidance counselor. In 1965, while attending Bennington College, Dworkin was arrested in New York City for protesting against the Vietnam War, and spent four days in the Women’s House of Detention. She later made headlines, publicizing her brutal treatment at the hands of staff, which led to a grand ju...

Richards, Ann, 1933-2006

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6912v1h (person)

Dorothy Ann Richards (née Willis; September 1, 1933 – September 13, 2006) was an American politician and 45th Governor of Texas (1991–95). A Democrat, she first came to national attention as the Texas State Treasurer, when she gave the keynote address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention. Richards was the second female governor of Texas and was frequently noted in the media for her outspoken feminism and her one-liners. Born in Lacy-Lakeview, Texas, Richards became a schoolteacher after...

Haley, Alex, 1921-1992

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xj0gb0 (person)

Alexander Murray Palmer Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992) was an American writer and the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family. ABC adapted the book as a television miniseries of the same name and aired it in 1977 to a record-breaking audience of 130 million viewers. In the United States, the book and miniseries raised the public awareness of black American history and inspired a broad interest in genealogy and family history. Haley's first book was The Auto...

Friedan, Betty, 1921-2006

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kt7fsq (person)

Betty Friedan was born Bettye Goldstein on February 4, 1921, in Peoria, Illinois, the daughter of Harry and Miriam (Horwitz) Goldstein. She attended Peoria public schools and graduated summa cum laude from Smith College in 1942. She continued her studies as a University fellow in psychology at the University of California, Berkeley (1943). In June 1947 she married Carl Friedan, an advertising executive; they had three children (Daniel, Jonathan, and Emily) and were divorced in May 1969. Fried...

Malamud, Bernard

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6715x1v (person)

Biographical Note 1914, Apr. 26 Born, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1936 B.A., City College of New York, New York, N.Y. 1936 1940 Worked in a factory, at various stores, and as a clerk in the Census Bureau, Was...

Pauling, Linus, 1901-1994

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zk5j54 (person)

Born in Portland, Oregon on 28 February 1901. Died on 19 August 1994. Education: B.S., Chemical Engineering, Oregon State College (1922), Ph.D., Physical Chemistry and Mathematical Physics, California Institute of Technology (1925). Employment: 1925-1926 National Research Council; 1926-1927 Universities of Münich, Zürich, and Copenhagen; 1922-1969 California Institute of Technology; 1969- Stanford University; 1973-1979 Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine. From the descr...

Stanford university

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60w243j (corporateBody)

Stanford entered into a research project with the National Iranian Radio and Television agency in 1974 to study and recommend a satellite-based communication system for Iran and how to utilize it for Iran's educational radio and television. From the description of Stanford NIRT project records, 1974-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122510722 The Leland Stanford Junior University was established in 1885 in memory of Leland Stanford Jr., the only child of Senator and Mrs. ...

Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xj0f8p (person)

Gore Vidal was born Eugene Luther Gore Vidal in West Point, New York, on October 3, 1925, to Eugene Luther and Nina Vidal. Vidal shortened his name during his teen years to honor his maternal grandfather, with whom he lived for several years in the late 1930s. After his parents divorced, Vidal lived with his mother and her new husband in northern Virginia and attended a series of boarding schools. After graduating from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1943, Vida...

Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60m2zqs (person)

Adrienne Cecile Rich, poet, author, feminist, and teacher, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on May 16, 1929, the daughter of Helen (Jones) and Arnold Rice Rich. She attended the Roland Park Country School in Baltimore, Md. (1938-47). A 1951 graduate of Radcliffe College, in that year she won the Yale Younger Poets Award with the publication of her first book, A Change of World . Following her studies at Oxford University (winter 1952-53), she traveled through Europe. The following de...

King, Alonda.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6389pr2 (person)

Thompson, Hunter S.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rc9jqw (person)

Hunter S. Thompson was a well-known journalist and author, and an associate of writer Ed McClanahan. From the guide to the Hunter S. Thompson Collection, 2005-2006, (Utah State University.) ...

Lovelace, Linda

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6f7983b (person)

Biafra, Jello

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xh0xb1 (person)

Zinoviev, Aleksandr, 1922-2006

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6n62fv4 (person)

Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q05zxx (person)

Ray Bradbury novelist and screenwriter; Herman Melville, novelist. From the description of Moby Dick : screenplay, 1956, January 27. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 144652495 Ray Douglas Bradbury was born in Waukegan, IL, Aug. 22, 1920; started his writing career in 1943; the winner of various awards, he is known primarily for writing fantasy and science fiction stories; he has authored numerous novels, short stories, plays, films, poems, and articles, includi...

MacKinnon, Catherine A.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69d9bzv (person)

Stanford University. Associated Students

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ht7dh3 (corporateBody)

The ASSU was organized in October 1891; each registered student is a member. The ASSU works to represent the interests, needs and perspectives of Stanford students. From the description of Associated Students of Stanford University records, 1891-2006. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754864100 The purpose of the student task force, advised by Prof. John Hackmann, was to review and analyze the University Food Service program in order to development recommendations for its enhan...

Associated Students of Stanford University. Speakers Bureau

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67206hw (corporateBody)

Carver, Raymond, 1938-1988

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kw5fnv (person)

Raymond Carver May 25, 1938- August 2, 1988. Pacific Northwest writer, author of short stories, novels, poetry, and essays. From the description of Raymond Carver family photographs, 1938-1963 (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 765505805 Author. From the description of Letters, 1969-1970. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 40809247 ...

Olsen, Tillie

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6k47x5j (person)

Biography Tillie Olsen was born in Nebraska in 1913 and has lived in San Francisco for most of her life. Her education was cut short by the Depression: she wrote and published when young, but the necessity of raising and supporting four children and full-time work prevented her from writing for twenty years. She was in her mid-forties before she began again. Tell Me A Riddle was originally published in 1962, and its title novella received the...

Chisholm, Shirley, 1924-2005

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wx86n7 (person)

Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm (1924-2005) activist, educator, politician and author was born in Brooklyn, New York, the oldest of four girls. She lived in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn with her factory worker father, Charles (originally from British Guyana) and her seamstress and domestic worker mom, Ruby Seale (who came from Barbados). Between 1927 and 1934, Chisholm was sent to live with her grandmother, Emaline Seale, in Christ Church, Barbados. Chisholm attended local school, ...

Stanford University. Associated Students. Speaker's Bureau

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6583j54 (corporateBody)