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Ua3/10/2 We Are One Wku, Wku President's Office - Caboni

WKU Archives Records

Email from WKU president Timothy Caboni to WKU Alumni and friends. An identical email was sent to the WKU Community.

Ua12/2/25 United Student Activists, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about United Student Activists.

The Rock Of Red Power: The 1969-1971 Occupation Of Alcatraz Island, Sarah Spalding

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

When over 90 Native Americans first made the voyage to Alcatraz Island on a November 1969 morning, there was little that could be predicted about what would unfold in the coming years. Alcatraz Island, the infamous prison that held criminals on the forefront of world news in the early twentieth century, would soon become an activist symbol. What followed November 20, 1969 was almost two years of continued Native American occupation of the island and a whirlwind of both media and federal attention. By the end of 1971, the remaining occupiers of Alcatraz were forcibly removed by federal marshals. However, …

To Make A Better World Tomorrow: St. Clair Drake And The Quakers Of Pendle Hill, Andrew Rosa

History Faculty Publications

This article is part of a larger project by the author to record St. Clair Drake’s contribution to the black radical tradition. Here he examines Drake’s involvement with the Quakers in the early years of the Depression. Drawing on writings in African American and Popular Front periodicals of the time, it considers how a Quaker community shaped Drake’s identity as an intellectual activist and how his encounter suggests the ways in which black intellectuals engaged with non-violence as a philosophy and strategy for social change before he civil rights movement. Drake’s participation in non-violent campaigns for workers’ rights, world peace …

University College Connection Winter 2012, Dennis K. George, Dean, Wendi Kelley

UC Publications

No abstract provided.

Ua1b2/1 War & Wku, Kim Purvis

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

A paper regarding how WKU was affected by war during the 20th century, includes an overview of protest movements and underground newspapers in the late 1960's.

Ua3/4/1 Student Unrest - Letters Of Support, Wku President's Office, Dero Downing

WKU Archives Records

Contents of folder entitled Student Unrest - Letters of Support housed in UA3/4/1 President Dero Downing's Subject File for the period May through June 1970. Correspondence between Dero Downing and WKU supporters praising his actions in handling student protests.

Ua3/4/1 Student Unrest - Reports & Remarks, Wku President's Office, Dero Downing

WKU Archives Records

Contents of folder entitled Student Unrest - Reports & Remarks housed in UA3/4/1 President Dero Downing's Subject File for the period February 1969 through June 1970. Includes correspondence between Dero Downing and students, form letters used by Yale University during the period, White House press releases and clippings.

Ua3/4/1 Student Unrest - Western 1970, Wku President's Office, Dero Downing

WKU Archives Records

Contents of folder entitled Student Unrest -- Western 1970 housed in UA3/4/1 President Dero Downing's Subject File. Includes correspondence between student groups and Dero Downing regarding student demands; broadsides and clippings.

Ua68/10/1 Sociological Symposium No. 3 – The Sociology Of The Middle Years, Wku Sociology

WKU Archives Records

Table of Contents:

• Bart, Pauline B. Why Women’s Status Changes in Middle Age
• Bourque, Linda Brookover & Kurt W. Back. The Middle Years Seen Through the Life Graph
• Davidson, James D. Religious Involvement & Middle Age
• Deutscher, Irwin. From Parental to Post-Parental Life: Exploring Shifting Expectations
• Geschwender, James A. & Benjamin D. Singer. Riot Participation & the Middle Years
• Herb, Terry R. Middle Age & Aging: Neugarten’s Approach
• Levin, Jack & Gerald Taube. Attitudes Toward Public Housing Among Middle Age Tenants
• Levin, Martin L., William W. Pendleton & Lewis Bowman. Political Partisanship of Middle Age Voters
• Mayer, Thomas F. Middle …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. Xv, No. 11, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Regular features include:

• Alumni News
• Athletics
• Club Notes
• Music Morsels
• Payoff with Pay
• Personals
• Society
• Training School

This issue contains articles:

• Robinson, Ogden Contest to Be Held in May
• Western’s First Line Quintet Placed on All-SIAATeam
• Chester Channon Baby Christened February 26 – Mary Channon
• Rehearsals Get under Way as Cast Is Completed for ‘Two Gentlemen of Verona’
• Student Undergoes Operation at City Hospital
• Thirty-five Singers to compose Chorus on Baltimore Trip
• ROTC Drill to Begin Soon
• Registrar E.H. Canon’s Father Dies after Short Illness – W.S. Canon
• Zack …