Records relating to student unrest, 1966-1969 (inclusive).

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Records relating to student unrest, 1966-1969 (inclusive).

Includes records relating to the takeover of University Hall, Students for a Democratic Society, and coeducation housing. Some material dates from 1966. Included in an archival category entitled Chronological miscellany, which consists of materials relating to or created by the Corporation, organized by date.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8183133

Harvard University Archives.

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Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.)

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Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) is a radical student group that descended from the Intercollegiate Socialist Society (ISS) which was founded in 1905. The ISS changed its name in 1921 to the League for Industrial Democracy (LID), a social-democratic educational and organizational group. Its student branch, the Student League for Industrial Democracy (SLID), merged with National Student League in 1935 to form American Student Union (ASU) but soon split over ASUs alleged communist affiliati...

Harvard University. Corporation.

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Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

University Hall (Cambridge, Mass.)

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