Peg Watkins papers

May 4 Collection -- Box 121

Finding Aid

Prepared by Cara Gilgenbach, April 9, 1997; Updated November 2018

Inclusive Dates: 1977-78
Extent: .33 cubic foot (1 document case)
Physical Location: 12th floor

Scope and Content: This collection primarily deals with Tent City and the gym annex demonstrations of 1977-78 at Kent State University. It contains a variety of items including newspaper clippings, letters to the editor (some of which were written by Peg Watkins), flyers, and newsletters. The collection helps to provide information on the various groups active on campus during the late 1970's that were concerned with issues surrounding the events of May 4, 1970. It also helps to highlight the complexity of the debates over how May 4, 1970 should be characterized and commemorated by the University, and by the nation as a whole.

Acquisitions Note: Peg Watkins, a KSU student at the time of the gym annex demonstrations, donated this collection on April 3, 1997.

May 4 Collection -- Box 121
Folder -- Contents

1. "Arrested for Reading This?": Flyer [about rally in support of persons arrested Oct. 24], April 6, [no year]
2. Brochure on May 4, prepared by Glenn W. Frank, Thomas R. Hensley, Jerry M. Lewis, [1980?]
3. Center for Peaceful Change, May 4 Task-Force, and Faculty Senate: Schedule of Events: 1980 Commemoration, May 1-4, 1970
4. Court of Common Pleas, Portage County, Ohio: Temporary Restraining Order [re. Tent City], July 11, 1977
5. Daily Kent Stater, May 17, 1977 [article on Tent City] (filed in map case)
6. Daily Kent Stater, Sept. 30, 1977
7. Daily Kent Stater, Oct. 4, 1977
8. "Kent Community Forum . . . Economic Aspects of the HPER Bldg.": Flyer, Sept. 14, [1977?]
9. "The Kent Heritage," by Dr. Lawrence S. Kaplan: Statement of Support by some KSU Faculty: Daily Kent Stater, Sept. 21, 1977
10. Kent State F.A.C.T. [First Amendment Conservation Task-Force]: FACT: Vol. I, No. 2, March 1978
11. "A Letter to Our Students, from Faculty of Kent State University," May 4, 1978
12. May 4 Coalition: "Can the KSU Gym Be Rotated?": [3 page document], August 15, 1977.
13. [May 4 Coalition?]: "Chronology of HPER Facility Planning and May 4 Coalition," [1977]
14. May 4 Coalition: First Edition: Vol. I, No. 1, April 10, 1978
15. [May 4 Coalition?]: "Remember Kent State. Move the Gym": Bumper sticker, [197?]
16. May 4 Coalition: "Remember Kent State, National Rally": Flyer, June 4, [1977]
17. May 4 Coalition: "We Shall Not Be Moved": Flyer, [1977?]
18. May 4 Coalition: "We Shall Not Be Moved! - Reply to President Olds' Statement of 5-18-77": Flyer, [1977]
19. May 4 Coalition: "Welcome to Kent!" Flyer [about May 4 Coalition], [no date]
20. [May 4 Coalition?]: [Untitled declaration]: "How did the people who have been running Kent State University get themselves into this mess over the gymnasium?" [no date]
21. May 4 Task Force: "A Chronology - Kent, Ohio - May 1-4, 1970," [no date]
22. Newspaper clipping: "Forgetting is not easy": [Don Silver editorial], 1977
23. Newspaper clipping: [Mary McGrory editorial about gym annex, n.d.]
24. Newspaper clipping: [Photos from May 4, 1978 observance, n.d.]
25. Newspaper clipping: [about Pres. Golding in favor of gym shift]: Cleveland Plain Dealer, August 13, 1977
26. Newspaper clippings [about May 4 and gym annex demonstrations], 1977 (and other dates)
27. Presidential Notice and Order [regarding demonstration activities], Oct. 19, 1977
28. Record-Courier, July 12, 1977 [article on rally in support of Tent City protesters arrested] (filed in map case)
29. Record-Courier, July 13, 1977 [articles on "end of Tent City"]
30. Record-Courier, July 14, 1977 [articles on arrested Tent City demonstrators] (filed in map case)
31. Record-Courier, July 29, 1977 [articles on gym annex demonstrations] (filed in map case)
32. Record-Courier, July 30, 1977 [articles on gym annex demonstrations] (filed in map case)
33. SMACCK [Students Maintaining & Advocating Co-operation & Constructiveness at Kent]: Please Listen to the Truth!": Flyer, May 4, 1978
34. SMACCK [Students Maintaining & Advocating Co-operation & Constructiveness at Kent]: "We Want Our Campus Back!": Flyer, [no date]
35. The Sprout: Kent, Ohio: Special Issue, June 4, 1977
36. Tentropolis Community News, [1977?]
37. "To the Kent State Community. . ." [Proclamation about May 4 commemoration signed by Cate Caldwell, Thomas Allen Brunner, R. Thomas Myers, and Brage Golding], Sept. 24, 1977
38. T-shirt: "Remember Kent State Move the Gym", [1977]
39. Watkins, Peg: Letter to the Editor [copy of letter sent to Pres. Golding]: Daily Kent Stater, Nov. 2, 1977
40. Watkins, Peg: Letter to the Editor: Daily Kent Stater, [197?]
41. Watkins, Peg: Letter to the Editor: Daily Kent Stater, [197?]
42. Watkins, Peg: Letter from Michael Schwartz [welcome back], Aug. 30, 1977
43. Watkins, Peg: Letter to Michael Schwartz [response], Sept. 8, 1977
44. Young Socialist Alliance of Kent: "Lessons of May, 1970 and August, 1977": Flyer, [no date]