Treasures of the Area Studies Collections: Reconsidering Primary Sources and Collections
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Memorandum to Henry (Sam) Chauncey, Jr., Special Assistant to President Brewster, from Emile Estoclet, Jr. regarding threats, made by Youth International Party (Yippie) leader Jerry Rubin the previous day at a rally in Boston, to "burn part of Yale" during the upcoming New Haven May Day rally.
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"Group Votes Moratorium In Support Of Panthers," Yale Daily News, front page.
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Call for a moratorium on classes at Yale, among the demands issued by approximately 400 students attending a 15 April meeting in William L. Harkness Hall.
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Photocopy from FBI files, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, of front cover of People's News Service, Ministry of Information Bulletin Number 15.
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"Yale To Be Tried By The People" article from page 6 of State of Connecticut vs. New Haven 9 newspaper.
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William Kunstler (B.A. '41), chief attorney for the Chicago Seven defendants, speaking at a Woolsey Hall rally protesting the New Haven Black Panther trials, photograph by John T. Hill.
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First page of a letter to President Kingman Brewster, Jr. and Acting Provost Alvin Kernan from Roy S. Bryce-Laporte, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Director of Yale's nascent Afro-American Studies Program, regarding inadequacies in administrative support for the program.
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First page of a letter to Dean Louis Pollak from Operation Breakthrough, Inc. regarding issues raised at a Yale Law School community panel discussion on the urban crisis, especially “the absurdity of an all-white panel discussing a black-white problem.”
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First page of the Black American Law Students Association (headquartered at Yale Law School) position paper on the Black Panther trials in New Haven and elsewhere, courtroom disruptions, and the Nixon administration.
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"Black and Blue: 'Yale Is the Wrong Place For A Black Radical'" by Theodore A. Burrell, Yale Banner 1969, pages 54-55.
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"Student Strike at Law School Centers on Police Harassment, Governance," article from Yale Alumni Magazine, Volume 33, Number 2, page 20.
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Female striker with picket sign, photograph by John Friedman.
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Articles and illustrations dealing with activism around long-standing labor issues relating to women on the Yale campus, Yale Break: A Newspaper For and By Women, Volume 1, Number 2.
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Articles and illustrations dealing with activism around long-standing labor issues relating to women on the Yale campus, Yale Break: A Newspaper For and By Women, Volume 1, Number 3.
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Student opinion on the Yale campus was by no means unanimous regarding the escalation of the war in Vietnam and other issues that were the focus of student activism and protest. "The SUDS cop-out," an anti-SDS flier distributed by an anonymous group.
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Student opinion on the Yale campus was by no means unanimous regarding the escalation of the war in Vietnam and other issues that were the focus of student activism and protest. "Marines are here," anti-ROTC flier distributed by the Yale Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) group.
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First page of a typescript of the remarks made at the Vietnam Moratorium rally on the New Haven Green by Yale President Kingman Brewster, Jr.
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Images of speakers and attendees at the Vietnam Moratorium rally held on the New Haven Green, photographic contact sheet.
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Cover of Vietnam: Bulletin of the Vietnam Solidarity Committee (United Kingdom), Volume 1, Number 5.
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First page of the "Preface" typescript from a draft of the report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, also known as the Kerner Commission, charged by President Lyndon B. Johnson to investigate the outbreak of urban rioting and destruction during the summer of 1967.
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National Guard jeep in front of a burned and looted Detroit storefront, from a draft of the report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, also known as the Kerner Commission, charged by President Lyndon B. Johnson to investigate the outbreak of urban rioting and destruction during the summer of 1967.
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Advertising brochure for Frontlash 70, “a student/youth project for grassroots political participation.”
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Black Panther and Yale Bulldog Solidarity shirt.
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Rally goers on New Haven Green, with Harkness Tower in background, photograph by John T. Hill.
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Letter from Franz Liszt to Cosima Liszt von Bulow