Student Activism (3 results)

10 ¾ x 16 inch sheet. Poster for an event at the University of Kentucky featuring KRS-One and Kwame Ture (misspelled "Toure"), formerly known as Stokely Carmichael. Ture was a central figure in the civil rights and Black power movements: among numerous other activities, he led the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, was an "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party andfollowing his move to Africa due to targeting by COINTELPROled the All-African People's Revolutionary Party. Lawrence "Kris" Parker, or KRS-One, is a rapper and activist from the Bronx, known for his politically conscious lyrics; in a New York Times op-ed, he wrote that "Rap music, stigmatized by many as mindless music having no artistic or socially redeeming value, can be a means to change."[1] Though the exact format and topic of the event is not clear, the poster advertises that KRS-One "uses the words of the street to confront REAL life in America, especially Black Life", and that Ture is "at the heart of the struggle". The poster is likely from the late 1980s or 1990s; KRS-One's debut album with Boogie down Productions, Criminal Minded, was released in 1987, and Ture died of cancer in 1998. [1] KRS-One, "A Survival Curriculum for Inner-City Kids", The New York Times, September 9, 1989, 23. Very slight staining, some pinholes; excellent to near fine.

[Student Activism][Black Panthers] El Gaucho, the University of California, Santa Barbara student newspaper, a record of California student activist reporting in the weeks after the October 15, 1969 Vietnam Moratorium, from the arrest of Michel Barton and Mick Kronman to Black Students Union demands for the removal of Black Studies chairman Setahrd Fisher and Angela Davis's November 4 appearance on campus. Across five late-October and early-November 1969 issues, the paper prints front-page headlines including "Two arrested for moratorium action," "Blacks demand firing of Black Studies Dept. head," "BSU denounces Cheadle and breaks communication with administration," and "Angela Davis speaks to UCSB community today," placing UCSB within the wider California New Left fights over antiwar protest, Black student power, ethnic appropriations, police action, and the political authority of the university itself. Noon rallies, Legislative Council votes, faculty statements, guest editorials, and letters to the editor give the archive the texture of organizing in progress rather than retrospective summary. El Gaucho. Vol. 50, nos. 24, 26, 27, 28, and 30. Santa Barbara, California: University of California, Santa Barbara, October 27 to November 4, 1969. Archive of 5 issues with coverage centered on antiwar mobilization, Black Studies conflict, student government appropriations, ecological politics, and campus debate over public speech and university governance. [1] Wilson, Becca, ed. El Gaucho. Santa Barbara, California: University of California, Santa Barbara, October 27, 1969. Vol. 50, no. 24. Front page coverage centers on the arrests of Michel Barton and Mick Kronman in the aftermath of the Vietnam Moratorium under the headline "Two arrested for moratorium action," paired with an interview feature, "Busted students - what they think," and an editorial asking "Why cancel classes for Shriver, not for moratorium?" Interior commentary extends the issue's activist frame through debate over class cancellation, political speech, and the university's treatment of protest. [2] Wilson, Becca, ed. El Gaucho. Santa Barbara, California: University of California, Santa Barbara, October 29, 1969. Vol. 50, no. 26. This issue shifts from the Moratorium's immediate aftermath to student institutional strategy, with "Leg Council tackles ethnic appropriations," "Santa Barbara's law system under scrutiny by JAR," and "Two day moratorium planned." The paired attention to Associated Students funding, Judicial Administration Review, and plans for the November 13-15 Moratorium shows student activism moving through both protest and campus governance. [3] Wilson, Becca, ed. El Gaucho. Santa Barbara, California: University of California, Santa Barbara, October 30, 1969. Vol. 50, no. 27. The strongest issue in the group for Black student organizing at UCSB, opening with "Blacks demand firing of Black Studies Dept. head," "BSU's Bob Mason says Fisher is not acceptable," and "Fisher answers BSU charges." Its interior editorial, "Dr. Fisher, your people have spoken," makes clear that the fight concerned who would control Black Studies, whether black students would be recognized as legitimate participants in departmental decision-making, and how Chancellor Vernon Cheadle's administration was handling that demand. [4] Wilson, Becca, ed. El Gaucho. Santa Barbara, California: University of California, Santa Barbara, October 31, 1969. Vol. 50, no. 28. Student government and Black student protest converge here in "Leg Council appropriates money to ethnic groups, JAR" and "BSU denounces Cheadle and breaks communication with administration," with additional coverage of a campaign to lower the voting age. The issue preserves the language of the break itself, including Robert Mason's charge that the administration had failed to admit black students' right to make decisions about black studies concerns. [5] Wilson, Becca, ed. El Gaucho. Santa Barbara, California: University of California, Santa Barbara, November 4, 1969. Vol. 50, no. 30. Angela Davis's scheduled UCSB appearance anchors the issue under the headline "Angela Davis speaks to UCSB community today," followed by "Trusteeship condemned," a "BLACK FACULTY STATEMENT," and a full "Guest editorial from the Black Students Union." Davis's presence links the local Fisher dispute to the statewide University of California crisis surrounding her UCLA appointment, Communist Party affiliation, and the Regents' intervention, giving this final issue particular force within California New Left and Black campus politics. California was an especially concentrated area for New Left student activism advocating for antiwar organizing, Black student control over Black Studies, voting reform, environmental concerns, and statewide conflict over the governance of the University of California. Because El Gaucho was printing these disputes as they unfolded, the archive preserves not only headline events but the campus organ through which student activists shared information on government appropriations, committee hearings, rally announcements, faculty interventions, legal-defense language, and guest editorials. Newsprint toned with expected wear, including horizontal folds, edge chipping, short tears, creasing, and some small marginal losses; text and headlines remain clear. Overall very good condition. A UCSB student newspaper run from the week in which California student activism moved across the printed page from Moratorium arrests to Black Studies struggle to Angela Davis.

[Student Activism][New Left] UC San Diego student activist newspaper Triton Times, June through December 1968, covering Black student organizing, Associated Students politics, and campus protest in Southern California. Across these issues, student reporters cover local conflicts over education outreach, partisan university control, and diversity studies in real time during a period of increased New Left activism and student involvement in California. Triton Times. Volume 5. University of California, San Diego, 1968. Group of 7 issues spanning June 14 to December 6, 1968, including one commencement issue and six regular issues. Folio newspaper format. [1] Showley, Roger M. (ed.). Triton Times. University of California, San Diego, 1968. Commencement Edition, June 14, 1968. "The First Class 1964-1968" issue ties UCSD's founding cohort to arguments over student participation and political agency, with articles including "Students Speak Out On the Issues," "Students' Role In the University," and "Isolation or Involvement? Popkin: University Should Play a Revolutionary Role in Society." The same number places Robert F. Kennedy's killing at the center of campus political feeling under "Robert F. Kennedy, 1925-1968," while an editorial declares, "Initiative is Our Spirit." [2] McCarthy, John (ed.). Triton Times. University of California, San Diego, 1968. Vol. 5, no. 3, October 18, 1968. Front-page coverage leads with "Black Students Stop Parties at UCSB" and the Educational Opportunities Program column "EOP Director Outlines Goals," which states, "The purpose of the Education Opportunities Program is to enroll as many qualified and near-qualified students from minority groups or low-income backgrounds." The issue also prints "Cleaver Gives 2nd 139X First Illegal Lecture At Cal," linking Eldridge Cleaver, Social Analysis 139X, and the academic freedom struggle that would recur in later UCSD numbers. [3] McCarthy, John (ed.). Triton Times. University of California, San Diego, 1968. Vol. 5, no. 5, November 1, 1968. This issue turns to student government and Black political debate through "John Muir Government Underway," "Reagan Won't," and "Weisberg Raps Warren," while "Profs Confront Students Friday" records Chancellor McGill, the UCSD Academic Senate, Eldridge Cleaver, and the TNC circular in a shared argument over "student-faculty relations." The same number also carries "Ex-S. Viet. Ambassador Speaks," extending the paper's activism coverage beyond campus procedure into Vietnam-era political dissent. [4] McCarthy, John (ed.). Triton Times. University of California, San Diego, 1968. Vol. 5, no. 6, November 8, 1968. "Undergrads to Vote on Compulsory Fee" and "AS Leaders Launch Crusade" present the mechanics of Associated Students governance, while "TNC Protests Action of San Diego Police" reports arrests at Balboa Park after Free Speech Movement and SDS leafleting. Inside, Herman Rumper's "Pigs or People?" names police violence directly, recounting a San Diego police officer with a "riot gun," Black Panther leader Ken Denman, and a forum where "young, white and middle class" students confronted the city's use of force. [5] McCarthy, John (ed.). Triton Times. University of California, San Diego, 1968. Vol. 5, no. 7, November 15, 1968. Student government dominates this issue through "AS Prepares for Regents Meeting," "Muir To Hold Rights Meeting," "AS Fees: You Get What You Pay For," and "AS Senate Notes." The paper prints President Shepard's complaint that the student presidents "played into the conservative Regents' hands," while the Muir rights petition calls for a "more meaningful form of community college government" and links campus procedure to "Personal Rights," "Freedom of Expression," and "Student Rights." [6] McCarthy, John (ed.). Triton Times. University of California, San Diego, 1968. Vol. 5, no. 8, November 22, 1968. Black and Chicano student activism comes forward in "Hunger Strike Grows; Students Show Support," which names MAYA leader Israel Chavez, Black Lounge publicity work, and BSC participation in the strike committee. The same issue records the Educational Policy Committee fight in "CEP Report Goes to Regents," Shepard's defense of the student presidents in "Shepard Stands Up For His Sheen," and faculty pressure on the Regents in "Faculty Responds to Reagan Threat." [7] McCarthy, John (ed.). Triton Times. University of California, San Diego, 1968. Vol. 5, no. 10, December 6, 1968. "Faculty Fights For Relevancy" and "Muir Rights Convention In Recess" return to the November Regents confrontation, while "CPE Initiates Course Inquiries" and "The University Gap" extend the debate into curriculum, budgeting, and student control over educational priorities. "AS Senate Notes" records the committee structure, funding questions, and campus political alignments behind these disputes, and the issue closes with "Muir Rights," preserving the rights language that student organizers were attempting to formalize. These newspapers trace a semester at UCSD in which Black student demands, Associated Students procedure, faculty resistance, anti-police protest, and antiwar debate were argued across this campus forum. The paper also addresses issues at large and national figures including Eldridge Cleaver, Ken Denman, Chavez, William J. McGill, President Shepard, Victor Rumsey, and members of the Muir rights committee, making the papers especially strong on the intersection of Black student organizing with student government and broader activist politics at a University of California campus. Moderate toning, horizontal fold lines, edge wear, and occasional small chips. Overall very good condition. A run of student newspapers from UC San Diego's student press on Black protest. politics, Regents conflict, and campus governance.