Guide to the Jim Tranquada Collection on the Divestment Movement at Stanford
University SC1021
Daniel Hartwig
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
May 2011
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford 94305-6064
Fax Number: (650) 723-8690
specialcollections@stanford.edu
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.
Information about Access
Access: Materials are open to research use.
Scope and Contents note
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.
Box 1, folder 1
Clippings
1977 Spring/Summer
Box 1, folder 3
National press coverage
1977-1978
Box 1, folder 5
South Africa notes, sources, etc.
1977 Spring/Fall
Box 1, folder 6
Stanford student publications: Fire and Sandstone and Organize
circa 1970, 1978
Box 1, folder 7
Berkeley student publication: Disorientatio
circa 1977
Addenda, 2024-052 ARCH-2024-052
Physical Description: .25 Linear
Feet
Box 2
Silkscreened anti-apartheid poster
1977
