Topics:
Students for a Democratic Society at OU; anti-Vietnam protests; counterculture and censorship issues; civil rights movement. OU has a rich history of student activism that can be directly related to the nation-wide movements of the 1960s-1970s.
Selected sources:
- Folder “Demonstrations, protests, etc.”
- Folder “Huber, Sen. Robert”
- Folder “Poetry Reading – Nude 1968”
- Folder “Student Organizations at OU, 1959-1980, by Holly Waddell” A history of all student organizations at OU – political, religious, cultural…
- Folder “Student Disruptions”
- Folder “Teach-Ins”
- Folder “Vietnam Moratorium Day – 10/15/69”
- Folder “Recruiters – Military”
- Box 5, Folder “Commission on Student Life -- 1967-1968”
- Box 15, Folder “Oakland Observer -- 1962-1966”
- Box 19, Folder “State of Michigan -- Senate -- Committee on Campus Disorder and Student Unrest”. Requests for information about OU from Senator Huber, Chair of the Committee.
- All Dean of Students files
See also:
- The Oakland Observer and many other student publications
- Student life, 1960s-1970s collection (collection of flyers, meeting minutes and other documents produced by student organizations about women's liberation, anti-Vietnam activism, etc.)
- Records of the Dorm Council and Fitzgerald House (minutes of meetings, reports, flyers... produced by students in the dorms and residences)
- Michael Westphal, "The Death of the Oakland Observer: A Students' History of Oakland University in the 1960s," capstone paper, Oakland University, 2008
- State of Michigan Senate Committee to Investigate Campus Disorders and Student Unrest, Final Report, 1970
