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Tranquada (Jim) Collection on the Divestment Movement at Stanford
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SC1021
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Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Jim Tranquada collection on the divestment movement at Stanford
University
Identifier/Call Number: SC1021
Physical Description:
0.75 Linear Feet
2 boxes
Date (inclusive): 1970-1978
Language of Material:
Undetermined .
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
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).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Students -- Political activity.
Apartheid -- South Africa.