Protest movements
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Commission of Inquiry on Disruptive Actions, Board of Regents Records
Collection
Identifier: RG-01-07-03
Scope and Contents
The records consists of a report, statements, memorandum and correspondence, and research related to campus protests and unrest.
Dates:
1968-1971
Sam Walker Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-0125
Content Description
The collection of Sam Walker includes posters, fliers, LPs, and ephemera documenting Omaha organizations, events, and people in the 20th and 21st centuries particularly related to activism, music, and culture. Topics covered include anti-Vietnam War protests, protests against the demolition of Jobbers Canyon, Omaha sheet music, Wounded Knee legal defense fund, Omaha music and performers, Al Smith, jazz vocalist Karrin Allyson, and the Omaha centennial celebration. The fourteen LPs in the...
Dates:
circa 1928-2016
Student Unrest Collection
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: UNO-0194
Scope and Contents
The collection includes news clippings, resolutions, correspondence, student survey, and other documents related to the occupation student organization BLAC (Black Liberators for Action on Campus) of the office of University of Nebraska at Omaha Chancellor Kirk Naylor in November 1969 and the subsequent response. The students were arrested and prosecuted. The news clippings were collected by the university while the documents were collected from a variety of sources, which are not...
Dates:
1969-1973
UNO Demonstration and Rally Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-0114
Content Description
The UNO Demonstration and Rally Collection documents local, national, and international demonstrations, rallies, protests, and other similar actions. The collection includes posters, signs, handbills, and photographs documenting specific events as well as general movements or actions. While there is a specific interest in documenting activities in and around Omaha, example material about demonstrations in other cities can also be found in the collection. For example, the collection includes...
Dates:
circa 1967-2017
UNO Department of Black Studies Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UNO-0263
Scope and Contents
Records collected from and about the Department of Black Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha document the formative years of the department. The collection documents program planning, conflict with Academic Affairs in the 1970s, newsletters, correspondence, and other material. Further description is available by clicking on each series.These folders were originally held in the University Archives File Cabinet Collection. These folders were later supplemented by, and...
Dates:
1970-2012