Abstract

Over 100 interviews with students, faculty, staff, and administrators on subjects including the Vietnam War and the peace movement; the rights of women and minorities, especially blacks' rights and the Willard Straight Hall occupation; efforts to change the governing system at Cornell; and related issues. Most of the interviews have been transcribed.

Scope and content Correspondence, research, lecture notes, memoranda, clippings, leaflets, and items concerning events at Cornell University in 1969-1970 including the occupation of Willard Straight Hall and other student protests. Includes copies of The New Left and Liberal Democracy by Walter Berne; A Case Study of a University's Pattern of Error by Allan P. Sindler, September 1969, for the panel on The New Left and the University; incomplete draft manuscript of Backfire, The Lesson of Cornell, later Open...