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Final three paragraphs, containing his controversial statement about the ongoing Black Panther trial, of Kingman Brewster, Jr.’s remarks at a Yale College faculty meeting, transcription of original.
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Front page of a press release from the Senate campaign headquarters of Connecticut Senate Majority Leader Edward Marcus questioning Kingman Brewster, Jr.’s ability to serve as Yale President based on his statement made at the 23 April faculty meeting.
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Parody broadside Street Wall Journal captures Kingman Brewster, Jr.’s controversial statement at April 23 faculty meeting.
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Typewritten and annotated updates for the Strike Newspaper.
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Planning document from the Housing Coordination Office containing information about housing arrangements at Yale for out-of-town May Day rally participants.
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Informal report detailing the results of the Teach-Out community outreach effort by Yale faculty and students in the weeks prior to the May Day rally.
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"Seven Panels for the Week of April 27, 1970" poster detailing community forums relating to May Day rally issues and sponsored by the Faculty Resource Group.
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“Seven Panels for the Week of April 27, 1970,” annotated typescript.
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Articles about the Law School fire and May Day rally, Strike Newspaper, front page.
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Books burned in the Law Library fire, assumed but never proven to be arson, spread out on the sidewalk at the corner of High and Grove Streets, photograph by Alan Waggoner.
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Books burned in the Law Library fire, assumed but never proven to be arson, spread out on the sidewalk at the corner of High and Grove Streets, photograph by Alan Waggoner.
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First page of a Strike Newspaper press release on student canvassing and teach-ins relating to the Black Panther trial.
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Strike Newspaper, pages 2-3, intended as a communication tool and not a political vehicle according to its editorial statement.
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“With A Little Luck We May Cool The Week-That-Will-Be,” New Haven Register, top half of page 2B.
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“Faculty Votes To Allow Class Suspension,” Yale Daily News, front page.
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Crowd of students in front of Sprague Hall, where a faculty meeting discussing the Black Panther trials and May Day rally was going on, photograph by Stephen West.
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FOIA-requested photocopy of a memorandum, sent via enciphered teletype, from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to top-level Nixon Administration officials providing an analysis of the threat of racial violence in New Haven.
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FOIA-requested photocopy of a New Haven FBI office Airtel transmission to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover providing details of a wiretapped telephone call made from the Black Panther Party’s New Haven headquarters.
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“To the Citizens of New Haven: The People Rally for Peace and Justice,” New Haven Panther Defense Committee broadside.
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The crowd of approximately 5,000 Yale students and other attendees at the first Ingalls Rink meeting on the upcoming May Day rally, photograph by Stephen West.
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Letter to Kingman Brewster, Jr. from Grover J. (Rocky) Rees III (B.A. ’72), a “’conservative’ Yale student” and organizer of the Student Fair Trial Committee, announcing the disbanding of that organization and urging evacuation of the campus.
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“Don’t Strike!!” flier, distributed by the Student Fair Trial Committee, opposing the moratorium on classes at Yale.
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Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin, Jr. speaking at the first Ingalls Rink rally, photograph by Stephen West.
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Anonymous memorandum distributed to students calling for the shutdown of Yale.
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FOIA-requested photocopy of an FBI memorandum and accompanying flier, collected on the Yale campus by an FBI agent, containing detailed instructions for making Molotov cocktails.