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Student Activism at University of Maryland

A guide to researching student activism at UMD using student newspapers.

Related Archival Collections

Most of the records collections listed below are a part of the University Publications collection, which consists of a wide variety of printed materials produced by and about the various administrative units, academic departments, student groups, and athletic teams on the UMCP campus. Within this large collection are records of hundreds of Student Organizations and Student Publications. For additional collections, search our archival database here

Digitized Yearbooks

spread of black and white yearbook photos, featuring police arresting a Black student on the Mall, someone destroying a wooden shanty on the mall, and a close up of a black and white student holding hands

Digitized Diamondback Photo Morgue

students marching with signs saying "Students & Youth Against Racism" and "UM Funds out of South Africa"

UMD Posters & Broadsides collection

flyer for a campus event titled, "The Role of the African Student"poster with outline of Africa that read "BLACK MAJORITY RULE! U.S. Out of Southern Africa Now! Protest March 25 & 26"

Young Socialist Alliance records

black and white pamphlet entitled "facts on u.s. support to the racist white minority regimes in southern africa"

Board of Regents records

black and white photo of John Slaughter, chancellor, sits in front of an unhappy crowd of divestments activists at a board of regents meeting

UMD Photo Services photographs

black and white photo of the board of regents from 1971, featuring Ed Hurley

 


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