Campus Unrest at the University at Buffalo Collection (State University of New York at Buffalo)
Organization
Historical Note
University Archives has several areas of collecting focus. One of these is the Campus Unrest at the University at Buffalo Collection. The bulk of the holdings is made up of materials relating to campus unrest at UB in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and includes the occupation of the university by city of Buffalo police, the arrest of 45 faculty members, censorship of the Spectrum student newspaper, strikes, and protests. Also included are collections covering student activism across the United States and internationally.
Campus Unrest: Individual Collections records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3/5/974
Overview
An open collection of
donated materials and recollections relating to the period of campus unrest at
the University at Buffalo (1969-1971).
Campus Unrest: Research conducted by Dean G. Pruitt and James Gahagan, Psychology Department
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3/5/897
Overview
Interviews, chronologies and surveys collected by social psychologists, Dean G. Pruitt and James Gahagan pertaining to the events on the South campus of the State University of New York at Buffalo mainly from February to April 1970.
Elwin H. Powell papers
Collection — Box: 1-95
Identifier: 22/3F/1088
Overview
The papers of Elwin H.
Powell (1925-2001), activist and sociology professor at the University at
Buffalo. Collection includes extensive research and writings concerning
political events in the UB and Buffalo communities.
Found in:
University Archives
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Elwin H. Powell papers
Squire Hall Demonstrations records
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 8/8/975
Overview
The Squire Hall Demonstrations Records
document student protests when the University at Buffalo converted the student union into a dental clinic for the Dental School, March 1982.