University Protest and Activism Collection, 1958-2018, bulk 1968-1972

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Series III: Alumni and Parents, 1968-1971

Correspondence, memoranda, flyers, notices, and other public statements created by alumni and parental organizations are contained in this series. The former include alumni associations and alumni groups organized on the basis of identity and issues. The materials contained within the files for these organizations reflect alumni views on the student unrest at Columbia, the University's response, and its potential restructuring. Letters from individual alumni to the associations, the report by Alumni Federation President Laurence E. Walsh, and public statements and publications by alumni groups are particularly useful sources. Alumni groups also addressed high profile topics, including the Vietnam War. Documentation produced by parental groups relates to the 1968 student upheaval at Columbia and its consequences, and, to a much lesser extent, anti-war activism. Materials found in Box 73 are part of Accession



Box 4 Folder 5 Ad Hoc Alumni Council and School of Social Work Alumni, 1968


Alumni--Unaffiliated


Box 4 Folder 6 Commentaries, 1968


Box 4 Folder 7 Correspondence and Public Statements, 1968


Alumni Associations and Offices


Alumni Federation of Columbia University


Box 4 Folder 8 Board of Directors


Box 4 Folder 8 Public Statements


Box 4 Folder 8 Walsh Report


Box 4 Folder 8 Alumni Recommendations for the Future Government and Operation of Columbia University,, 1968


Box 4 Folder 9 Walsh, Lawrence E.--Correspondence, 1968


Box 4 Folder 10 Watkins, Morris W.--Memoranda to Board of Directors and Alumni Correspondence,, 1968-1970


Box 4 Folder 11 Columbia College, 1968-1971


School of Engineering


Box 4 Folder 12 Quadripartite Committee--Reports by Faculty and Students, 1968


Box 4 Folder 13 Williams, Doane--Correspondence, 1968


Box 4 Folder 14 Union Theological Seminary, 1968


Box 4 Folder 15 Alumni for a New Columbia, 1968


Box 4 Folder 16 Class of 1906, 1967, 1906, 1967


Box 4 Folder 17 Columbia Ad Hoc Parents for Peace Committee, 1970


Box 4 Folder 18 Columbia Alumni for a New University, 1968


Box 4 Folder 19 Columbia Concerned Parents Committee, 1968



Box 73 Folder 1-2 Columbia Concerned Parents: Letters, 1968


Box 73 Folder 3 Columbia Concerned Parents:No Amnesty, 1968


Box 73 Folder 4 Columbia Concerned Parents:Amnesty, 1968


Box 73 Folder 5 Columbia Concerned Parents: New York Times Ad, 1968


Box 73 Folder 6 Columbia Concerned Parents:Defence, 1968


Box 73 Folder 8 Columbia Concerned Parents:Finances, 1968



Box 4 Folder 20 Committee of Concerned Black Alumni, 1968


Box 4 Folder 21 Independent Alumni Association, 1968