Research Guides
History Day at Special Collections: Topic: Student Activism
Special Collections is a great resource for all your Pacific Northwest primary source needs!
Background Information
Student activism in the 1960s and 1970s was a hot button topic on UW's campus. Student's organized around a wide variety of topics, including race, gender, the Vietnam War, and labor. There are a lot of different resources in Special Collections on many of these issues depending on your particular topic we can pull newspapers, student group records, or published materials discussing how students talked about and worked on these issues.
- Vietnam War Era Ephemera Collection: Special Collections has digitized a wealth of materials related to student protests and social justice activism around Seattle in the 1960s.
Primary Sources
- The fight to legitimize blackness : how black students changed the universityCall Number: Thesis 58660
Revolt on the CampusCall Number: LA229 .W4 1973- Rites of Passage: A Memoir of the Sixties in SeattleCall Number: F899.S45 C76 1995
- Student activism as a collective response to feelings of powerlessness.Call Number: Thesis 18510
- Student unrest in Washington; report.Call Number: LA382.5 .A47 1971
- University administrative style and student protest.Call Number: Thesis 18680
- UW DailyUW's student newspaper has been completely digitized for the years 1967-1968. Microfilm copies of the Daily in its entirety are in MicNews at A3139, but you can search the database on keywords and names.
- Alex and Sue Gottfried PapersRecords and ephemera for UW professor of political science, who was a peace and civil-rights activist and active in working with students.
- Students for a Democratic Society recordsRecords and ephemera for student group focused on their opposition to the Vietnam War.
- Charles A. Evans PapersCorrespondence, minutes, reports, notes dealing with "student unrest" and other general matters which concerned the Senate Executive Committee in the late 1960s.
- George A. Arthur PapersRecords for a University of Washington student activist in Students For A Democratic Society, who wrote for the Daily and was a staff member of the "Seattle Flag" in the late 1960's.