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Scope and Contents The timeline follows groups such as the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the Office of the Dean of Women's Association of Women Students (AWS), the Commission for the Status of Women (CSW), and the Gay Liberation Front (GLF), among others. Robin Morgan, a speaker at the Minority Opinions Forum, inspired the February Sisters occupation of the East Asian building in 1972 which is covered in detail. The occupation successfully led to the granting of their demands for establishing an...

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The timeline follows groups such as the Student Peace Union (SPU), Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the Civil Rights Commission (CRC), the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE), and the Student Labor Organization (SLO) among others.

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Also includes portions of the women's decade timeline as well as a more detailed timeline for 1966 and 1967.

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Loose notes on Council on Racial Equality (CORE), Council on Civil Rights (CRC), the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and others.

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Includes pamphlets on the Kansas Fair Housing Bill, the constitution and by-laws for the Congress of Racial Equality, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) civil rights statements, and papers from the Kansas Advisory Council on Civil Rights 6th Annual Conference.

Scope and Contents The KULAC was an affiliate of the national Students for a Democratic Society organization, whose bulletin is included along with the KULAC constitution. Laird Wilcox (originator of the Wilcox Collection at the Kenneth Spencer Research Library) served as an officer of KULAC and led discussions for the taped series SUA Minority Opinions Forum. The folder also contains papers from the Civil Rights Coordinating Committee's non-violent demonstrations opposing discriminatory housing on and off...

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Also includes a program for a San Diego, California memorial for CORE members Cheney, Schwerner, and Goodman.

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Notes on Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and Student Peace Union, an organization where Christine Leonard served as secretary, among others..

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Includes a Student Peace Union organizers' handbook along with newsletters and statements written by Hook, a leader in the KU chapter of the organization. The folder also includes articles about Hook's 1975 suicide death.

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Includes papers from the organizations and what appear to be contemporaneous notes.

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Notes on student groups and protests as well as include three newsletters: Students for a Democratic Society Journal Issue #3, Kandide: a journal of Kansas New Left thought #1, and The Screw: a twisted device for holing things together #1.

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Includes notes; a timeline; a photocopy of Leonard being quoted in Journal of Liberal Ministry; a copy of The Screw #4; and photocopies of two reports, one dissenting, of a student faculty committee on university governance and senate code.

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Notes on a Lawrence High Black Student Union walk out, birth control, the Vietnam War, and other topics. Three copies of The Screw are also included, Nos. 8, 10, and 12; one of which includes a statement by Jerry Rubin and an invitation to a Yippie celebration at the Democratic convention in Chicago.

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Notes on birth control, opposing the ROTC (Reserve Officers' Training Corps) on campus, and other topics.

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Topics include student marches supporting the Chicago 7 and the regents' opposition to Professor Valvel; student elections; the fire at the Union; 1970 local elections; Black Student Union protests against discrimination; and the police shootings of Rick [Dowdell] and Nick [Rice].

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Includes Playboy articles on the peace movement; MLK and Bobby Kennedy assassinations; a letter from the Quaker Service Vietnam; a National Black Economic Development Conference manifesto calling for reparations; and Committee for Nuclear Information and anti-war fliers from New York City.

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Notes and timelines on women's rights, birth control and access to abortion, the exclusion of women, human sexuality, and civil rights.

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Includes articles on protests and police in Lawrence; a people's guide to street fighting; a poetry page; an article on a protest to free Bobby Seale; feedback from readers; "The Dope Column" detailing the types of drugs in town and their prices; and a copy of a Black manifesto that circulated around Lawrence while the Black Student Union's Harambee newsletter was not being printed.

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Notes on childcare, birth control, and pay disparity.

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Notes on daycare petitions, women's health care, the appointment of Marilyn Stokstad (the first woman associate dean to serve at KU), and the fulfillment of other February Sisters' demands.

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Includes community meeting minutes, Leonard's description of the gynarchical structure of the free school community, and member lists.

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Includes papers for an unnamed feminist and/or lesbian newsletter with an envelope addressed to Ms. N[ancy] Abuza.