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Archiving Activism

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Welcome! This guide in intended to help users document student and community activism.  Please use the tabs at left to navigate through advice on what to collect and ways to archive these materials either for yourself or with the intent to donate them to an archive.  

First and foremost, please make sure to respect the practices and rules of your fellow activists.  Ask permission if you want to take anything that you haven’t made yourself, and remember that not everyone wants to be photographed or filmed. Please support and respect each other. 

University Archives - Activism collection examples

Large crowd of demonstrators with posters

Dean Rusk demonstration, October 31, 1967

Poster with the words

Vietnam War demonstration poster. April 1972

Tents in Dunn Meadow with spring trees in bloom

Peace Camp artists, Dunn Meadow, May 7, 2002

Rollo turning speaking surrounded by crowd

Rollo Turner talking to students about the Little 500 sit in, May 10, 1968

Crowd of demonstrators in Dunn Meadow with poster for McCarthy

Students at fund-raising concert for the campaign of Eugene McCarthy, Dunn Meadow, April 18, 1968