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Organizational Responses to the Kent State Shootings
Special Collections and Archives
Organizational Responses to the Kent State Shootings
Special Collections and Archives
Organizational Responses to the Kent State Shootings
- Repository: Kent State University Libraries. Special Collections and Archives.
- Title: Organizational Responses to the Kent State Shootings
- Inclusive Date(s): 1969-1979
- Author: Finding aid prepared by Rennie Greenfield, November 2015
- Creation: Finding aid encoded by Rennie Greenfield using the OhioLINK EAD Application in 2015
- Origination: Kent State University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and Archives
- Extent: .16 cubic feet (1 slim document case)
- Physical Location: 11th floor (May 4 Collection, Box 216)
- Finding Aid Identifier: OhKeUSC0169
- Abstract: This collection contains flyers, leaflets, pamphlets, and other printed materials created by national and local organizations that reflect reactions Kent State shootings, and document inter-related activist movements in response to the Jackson State shootings, the Vietnam War, and the draft.
- Revision(s):
- October 2021 - Updated by Liz Campion
- Language(s): The records are in English
History of Organizational Responses to the Kent State Shootings records
This collection was compiled by the Department of Special Collections and Archives at Kent State University. It contains materials acquired by the Kent State University Libraries from a variety of organizations that reflect reactions to the Kent State shootings, and document inter-related activist movements in response to the Jackson State shootings, the Vietnam War, and the draft.
Scope and Content
This collection contains flyers, leaflets, pamphlets and other printed responses from both university and national organizations regarding the Kent State shootings and a host of related activist movements. There are open letters, flyers and brochures, newsletters, and press releases from organizations such as the ACLU, The Campus Crusade for Christ, and the Northwoods branch of the Kent Anarchists, among others.
Statement of Arrangement
This collection has been arranged alphabetically by organization name.
Related Material
Many other collections within the May 4 Collection have information and materials by and about some of the organizations included in this collection. Please perform a search of the Special Collections and Archives site and use the May 4 Collection Subject Index to find additional related holdings.
Preferred Citation
Organizational Responses to the Kent State Shootings. May 4 Collection. Kent State University Libraries. Special Collections and Archives.
Controlled-access Headings
The following are found in this collection:
- Subjects:
- Kent State Shootings, Kent, Ohio, 1970
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements
- Kent State University--History
- Kent (Ohio)--History
- Organizations/Corporations:
- American Civil Liberties Union
- Campus Crusade for Christ
- Citizens Committee for Constitutional Liberties
- Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in S.E. Asia
- University Centers for Rational Alternatives
- Vietnam Veterans Against the War
- Young Socialist Alliance (U.S.)
- Americans for Peace
- Committee of Kent State Massacre Witnesses
- Kent Community for Non-Violent Change
- Kent Council for Peace in Vietnam
- Kent Legal Defense Fund
- Kent Liberation Front
- Kent Students' Medical Fund
- Kent Students for Peace
- May 4 United Front
- Kent State Anarchists
- Student Fund for Kent Damages
- Student Grievance Committee
- War Resisters League
- Concerned Citizens of KSU
- Kent Reform Council
- Mayday Coalition
- Revolutionary Student Brigade
- Material Types:
- Fliers (printed matter)
- Brochures
- Newsletters
- Press releases
- Correspondence
Detailed Description of the Collection
- Box 216 / Folder 1
- ACLU, 1970-1976
- Box 216 / Folder 2
- Americans for Peace, undated
- Box 216 / Folder 3
- Campus Crusade for Christ, 1970
- Box 216 / Folder 4
- Citizens Committee for Constitutional Liberties - "Bad Scene at Kent State", 1971
- Box 216 / Folder 5
- Committee of Kent State Massacre Witnesses, 1970
- Box 216 / Folder 6
- Concerned Citizens of KSU, 1969, undated
- Box 216 / Folder 7
- Kent Community for Non-Violent Change, 1970
- Box 216 / Folder 8
- Kent (United Kingdom) Council for Peace in Vietnam, 1970
- Box 216 / Folder 9
- Kent Legal Defense Fund, 1970-1972
- Box 216 / Folder 10
- Kent Liberation Front, 1970, undated
- Box 216 / Folder 11
- Kent Reform Council, 1971
- Box 216 / Folder 12
- Kent Students' Medical Fund, 1970
- Box 216 / Folder 13
- Kent Students for Peace, undated
- Box 216 / Folder 14
- KSU Veterans Against the War, 1970, undated
- Box 216 / Folder 15
- Mayday Coalition, 1971, undated
- Box 216 / Folder 16
- May 4th United Front, 1972-1973, undated
- Box 216 / Folder 17
- Northeast Ohio Peace Calendar, 1970
- Box 216 / Folder 18
- Northwoods Branch of Kent Anarchists, undated
- Box 216 / Folder 19
- Revolutionary Student Brigade, 1979, undated
- Box 216 / Folder 20
- Student Fund for Kent Damages, 1970
- Box 216 / Folder 21
- Student Grievance Committee, 1970
- Box 216 / Folder 22
- Student Mobilization Committee, 1970-1972, undated
- Box 216 / Folder 23
- University Centers for Rational Alternatives, 1970
- Box 216 / Folder 24
- Vietnam Veterans Against the War, 1972
- Box 216 / Folder 25
- Vietnam Veterans Against the War, 1973
- Box 216 / Folder 26
- War Resisters League, undated
- Box 216 / Folder 27
- Young Socialist Alliance, undated
