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Guide to the Jim Tranquada Collection on the Divestment
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SC1021
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Call Number: SC1021
Title: Jim Tranquada collection on the divestment movement at Stanford
University
Dates: 1970-1978
Physical Description:
0.5 linear foot
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
Materials were the gift of Jim Tranquada, 2011.
Access: Materials are open to research use.
Collection consists of materials compiled by Tranquada while covering the Stanford
divestment movement as a reporter for the Stanford Daily in 1977-1978. The material
includes leaflets created by the Stanford Committee for Responsible Investment Policy
(SCRIP); press releases issued by SCRIP, Stanford News Service, and ASSU; copies of
Board of Trustees correspondence; reporters' notes' press coverage of the divestment
movement at Stanford and elsewhere; and copies of organizing booklets published by
campus progressives, including Fire and Sandstone (Stanford, circa 1970), Disorientation
(Berkeley, circa 1977); and Organize (Stanford, circa 1978).
Stanford Committee for Responsible
Investment Policy.
Stanford University. Board of
Trustees.
Tranquada, Jim.
Apartheid--South Africa.
Students--Political activity.