Thomas M. Grace papers

Special Collections and Archives

Thomas M. Grace papers

Special Collections and Archives

Thomas M. Grace papers

Repository: Kent State University Libraries. Special Collections and Archives.
Title: Thomas M. Grace papers
Inclusive Date(s): 1958-2020
Bulk Date(s): 1968-2020
Author: Finding aid prepared by Anita Clary, November 2022
Creation: Finding aid encoded by Anita Clary using the OhioLINK EAD Application in 2022
Origination: Grace, Thomas M., 1950-
Extent: 11 cubic feet (9 record storage boxes + 1 slim document case + 1 textile box + 1 oversize folder)
Physical Location: 11th floor (May 4 Collection, Boxes 229-238)
Finding Aid Identifier: OhKeUSC0218
Abstract: A 1972 graduate of Kent State University, Thomas M. Grace is one of nine students who survived bullet wounds on May 4, 1970, when Ohio National Guard shot into a crowd of students demonstrating on campus. He is a scholar and adjunct professor of American history, specializing in both the protest movement of the 1960s and the American Civil War. This collection includes materials related to the Kent State Shootings and their aftermath, activism, labor and unions, and political campaigns.

Language(s): The records are in English

Biography of Thomas M. Grace

Thomas M. Grace is one of nine students who survived bullet wounds on May 4, 1970, when Ohio National Guard shot into a crowd of students demonstrating at Kent State University. He is a scholar and adjunct professor of American history, specializing in both the protest movement of the 1960s and the American Civil War. His published work includes Kent State: Death and Dissent in the Long Sixties (University of Massachusetts Press, 2016); "Kent State and Historical Memory" in Democratic Narrative, History & Memory, edited by Carole A. Barbato and Laura L. Davis (Kent State University Press, 2012); as well as scholarly and popular format articles about the Civil War. He is a regular contributor to America's Civil War.

Grace was born in Syracuse, New York in 1950. He earned a bachelor of arts degree in history and political science from Kent State University in 1972 and a master of arts degree in social work from State University of New York at Buffalo in 1975. After many years as a social worker and union representative, he earned a PhD in history from SUNY Buffalo.

Grace spoke at the second and fifth commemorations of the May 4 shootings and in every decade since. He served on the board of the Kent Legal Defense Fund, which raised funds for twenty-five defendants charged for their roles in the May antiwar demonstrations. During the 1970s, he was part of a group of plaintiffs that won a 1974 US Supreme Court decision, Scheuer v. Rhodes, for their right to sue Ohio National guardsmen and state officials. Grace also testified at the federal grand jury that returned criminal charges against eight guardsmen in March 1974. Of the thirteen plaintiffs and their families, he was the only one to testify in both the subsequent 1975 and 1978 civil trials.

Pursuing a long-term interest in public history, Grace suggested the placement of historic signage at Kent State where the fatal confrontation occurred, an idea that came to fruition in 2007. From there he served on a committee of scholars that oversaw the creation of the May 4 Visitor Center and placement of additional outdoor signage, making Kent State University the only location in the United States where the anti-Vietnam War movement is interpreted. Concurrent with this effort, work was undertaken to preserve what remained of the site of the campus confrontation with the area being placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. Subsequently, in December 2016, the same site received designation from the National Park Service (NPS) as a National Historic Landmark. Grace helped craft the language for the NPS plaque and, together with Alan Canfora, another former student wounded in 1970, worked with the university in 2017 to remove non-historic tree growth from the site of the shootings.

Grace also served as a historical consultant for "Death on the Campus," a documentary film on the Kent State Shootings for Creative Differences Productions, which aired on the National Geographic Channel in March 2008, and "Fire in the Heartland," a film chronicling student activism at Kent State University, which premiered March 2010 at the Cleveland Film Festival.

Scope and Content

This collection contains the papers of Thomas M. Grace relating to activism in general, and the events of May 4, 1970, and their aftermath in particular. The collection includes writings and speeches by Grace and others, materials associated with his work with labor and unions and politics, subject files, and other materials created and collected by Grace in the course of his career.

Statement of Arrangement

The Thomas M. Grace papers are arranged in the following series:

Series 1: Biographical Information
Series 2: May 4 Commemorations
Series 3: May 4 Memorials and Visitors Center
Series 4: Legal Cases
Series 5: Labor and Unions
Series 6: Politics
Series 7: Subject Files
Series 8: Posters
Series 9: Artifacts
Series 10: Clippings and Periodical Issues

Separated Material

Selected works by Thomas M. Grace are shelved separately and cataloged in KentLINK.

Related Material

Several digitized photographs and other information related to Tom Grace can be found in the Kent State Shootings: Digital Archive. Additional news and articles can be found in the Daily Kent Stater Digital Archive.

Preferred Citation

Thomas M. Grace papers. May 4 Collection. Kent State University Libraries. Special Collections and Archives.

Acquisition Information

The materials in this collection were donated to Kent State University Special Collections and Archives by Thomas M. Grace.

Controlled Access Headings
The following are found in this collection:

Subjects:
Grace, Thomas M., 1950- -- Archives
Kent State Shootings, Kent, Ohio, 1970
Kent State Shootings, Kent, Ohio, 1970 -- Anniversaries, etc.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements
Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century
Kent State University. May 4th Task Force -- History -- 20th century
Labor movement -- United States -- History

Persons:
Hammond, Kenneth J.
Hayden, Tom
Jackson, Jesse, 1941-
Mothersbaugh, Mark
Oglesby, Carl, 1935-2011
Rhodes, James A. (James Allen), 1909-2001
Schwartz. Michael, 1937-2024
Stamps, Robert
Warren, Beverly J.
Young, Neil, 1945-

Functions:
United States -- History -- Study and teaching
Student movements
Protest movements
Labor movement
Political campaigns

Occupations:
Student protesters
Historians
Labor leaders
Screenwriters

Material Types:
Correspondence
Artifacts (object genre)
Publications (documents)
Posters
Political posters
Fliers (Ephemera)
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Photographs
Speeches

Detailed Description of the Collection

Box 229
Series 1: Biographical Information, 1964-2014, Undated

Folder 1
Biographical Statements, 2014

Folder 2
Business Cards: Thomas M. Grace, Undated

Folder 3
Christian Brothers Academy, 1964, 1987-2002, Undated

Folder 4
Curricula Vitae, Undated

Folder 5
Dissertation Prospective: "A Legacy of Dissent: The Culture and Politics of Protest at Kent State University, 1965-1977", 1999-2000

Folder 6
Graduate School: SUNY Buffalo, 1973-1975

Folder 7
Graduate School Paper: "The Beginning of the End: Race and the Democrat's Dilemma in the 1968 Election", 1998

Folder 8
Photograph, 1970

Folder 9
Selective Service System Notice of Classification, 1968

Box 229
Series 2: May 4 Commemorations, 1974-2020

Arrangement
The May 4 Commemorations series is arranged chronologically.

Folder 10
May 4 Commemoration, 1974

Folder 11
May 4 Commemoration, 1975

Folder 12
May 4 Commemoration, 1976

Folder 13
May 4 Commemoration, 1977

Folder 14
May 4 Commemoration, 1978

Folder 15
May 4 Commemoration, 1979

Folder 16
May 4 Commemoration, 1980

Folder 17
May 4 Commemoration, 1984

Scope and Content
Includes commemorative address by Tom Grace.

Folder 18
May 4 Commemoration, 1985

Folder 19
May 4 Commemoration, 1987

Folder 20
May 4 Commemoration, 1990

Folder 21
May 4 Commemoration, 1991

Folder 22
May 4 Commemoration, 1996

Scope and Content
Includes remarks by Tom Grace and a photograph of him speaking.

Folder 23
May 4 Commemoration: "Casualties of War", 1997

Folder 24
May 4 Commemoration: "Sisters in the Struggle", 1999

Folder 25
May 4 Commemoration: "Experiencing Democracy: Inquire, Learn, Reflect", 2000

Folder 26
May 4 Commemoration and Second Annual Symposium on Democracy, 2001

Scope and Content
Includes remarks by Tom Grace.

Folder 27
May 4 Commemoration and Sixth Annual Symposium on Democracy, 2005

Folder 28
May 4 Commemoration and Tenth Annual Symposium on Democracy, 2009

Folder 29
May 4 Commemoration, 2010

Folder 30
May 4 Commemoration, 2016

Folder 31
May 4 Commemoration: Presidential Speaker Series, Bob Woodward, 2019

Folder 32
May 4 Commemoration: 50th Anniversary, 2018-2020

Scope and Content
Includes planning documents.

Biography or History
Tom Grace was a keynote speaker for the May 4, 1970 Then & Now: Voices for Change program sponsored by the College of Education, Health and Human Services held July 31-August 1, 2019. Grace also gave a plenary speech for the May 4 Symposium: New Directions in Scholarship on the Vietnam War sponsored by the KSU History Department and University Research Council on February 29, 2020.

Box 229
Series 3: May 4 Memorials and Visitors Center, 1980-2013

Arrangement
The May 4 Memorials and Visitors Center series is arranged chronologically.

Folder 33
May 4 Site and Memorial Brochures, 1980, 2007

Folder 34
May 4 Memorial: Campaign, 1982-1986

Folder 35
May 4 Memorial: National Open Design Competition, 1985

Folder 36
May 4 Memorial: Winning Design: Press Kit, 1986

Folder 37
May 4 Memorial: Winning Design: Ian Taberner, Team Leader, 1986

Folder 38
May 4 Memorial: Winning Design Disqualification, 1986-1987

Folder 39
May 4 Memorial: Winning Design: Bruno Ast, Team Leader, 1986, 1994

Folder 40
May 4 Memorial: American Legion Opposition, 1986

Folder 41
May 4 Memorial: Reduction in Scope of Project, 1987-1989

Folder 42
May 4 Memorial: Groundbreaking, January 1989

Folder 43
May 4 Memorial: Clippings, 1992, 2005

Folder 44
May 4 Individual Student Marker Dedication, 1999

Folder 45
May 4 Ohio Historical Marker, 2005-2007

Scope and Content
Includes remarks by Tom Grace at the dedication ceremony.

Folder 46
May 4 Visitors Center: Clippings, 2008-2013

Folder 47
May 4 Visitors Center: Walking Tour Trail Markers Site Plan and Draft Text, 2009

Folder 48
May 4 Visitors Center: Correspondence, 2009-2010

Folder 49
May 4 Visitors Center: Exhibit Outline for Approval, January 2010

Folder 50
May 4 Visitors Center: Exhibit Script Draft, Reviewers Copy, June 2010

Folder 51
May 4 Visitors Center: Dedication Program, May 4-5, 2013

Folder 52
May 4 Visitors Center: Brochures and Flyers, Undated

Box 230
Series 4: Legal Cases, 1970-1982

Arrangement
Files in this series are arranged alphabetically.

Folder 1
Correspondence, 1970-1975

Folder 2
Correspondence, 1978-1982

Folder 3
Gym Annex Protest, Notice to Vacate, 1977

Folder 4
Kent 25, 1970-1971

Folder 5
Kent State Cases Settlement, April 1979

Folder 6
Kent State Shootings: Canterbury Press Conference Transcript, May 5, 1970

Folder 7
Kent State Shootings: Civil Trial, 1975

Folder 8
Kent State Shootings: Clippings, 1970-1976, undated

Folder 9
Kent State Shootings: Interviews, 1970

Folder 10
Kent State Shootings: Legal Complaints and Petitions, 1970-1972

Folder 11
Kent State Shootings: Ohio National Guard Statements, 1970

Folder 12
Kent State Shootings: Press Releases and Resolutions, 1971-1973

Folder 13
Kent State Shootings: Scrapbook, folder 1 of 3, 1977-1979

Folder 14
Kent State Shootings: Scrapbook, folder 2 of 3, 1977-1979

Folder 15
Kent State Shootings: Scrapbook, folder 3 of 3, 1977-1979

Folder 16
Kent State Shootings: Special Grand Jury, Portage County, Ohio, 1970

Folder 17
Krause, et. al. v. Rhodes, et. al.: Rhodes Deposition, 1974

Folder 18
Krause, et. al. v. Rhodes, et. al.: Trial Proceedings, 1978

Folder 19
Krause v. Rhodes: Appeal, 1979

Folder 20
Krause v. Rhodes: Appeal, Briefs of Appellee Sanford Jay Rosen, 1979

Folder 21
Krause v. Rhodes: Closing Argument on Behalf of Plaintiffs, undated

Folder 22
Krause v. State of Ohio: Jurisdictional Statement, undated

Box 231
Series 5: Labor and Unions, 1963-2014

Arrangement
Files in the Labor and Unions series are arranged alphabetically.

Folder 1
Address: Hawthorne, Gregory L. "First Amendment Retaliation and Whistle Blower Claims", Undated

Folder 2
Article: Giffels, David. "The Good Life, Made in Ohio," online at Ohio.com, 2003

Folder 3
Article: Grace, Thomas M. "Trumka, Richard L. (1949- ), for the Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working Class History, Undated

Folder 4
Article: Miller, G. W. and S. B. Ware. "Organized Labor in the Political Process: A Case Study of the Right-to-Work Campaign in Ohio," in Labor History, 1963

Folder 5
Black & Decker Electric Company Strike, 1936, Kent, Ohio, Undated

Folder 6
Book Excerpt: Benin, Leigh David. The New Labor Radicalism and New York City's Garment Industry: Progressive Labor Insurgents in the 1960s, 2000

Folder 7
Book Excerpt: Hall, Gus. It Takes a Fight to Win, 1972

Folder 8
Book Excerpt: Lynd, Staughton, ed. We Are All Leaders: The Alternative Unionism of the 1930s, 1996

Folder 9
Buffalo AFL-CIO Council, 1990, 2005-2006, Undated

Folder 10
Buffalo Coordinating Committee on the Mideast Crisis, 1991

Folder 11
Carrier Strike, Syracuse, New York, 2003-2005

Folder 12
Catholics for Union Labor, 1991

Folder 13
Coalition for Economic Justice, Awards Banquet Program, 2009

Folder 14
Communications Workers of America, Jobs With Justice, 1987

Folder 15
Conference: First Chicago Labor Conference for Worker Education, 1988

Folder 16
Conference: Harvard Law School Labor and Worklife Program, 2016

Folder 17
Conference: NYSUT Leadership Conference, 2014

Folder 18
Conference: UAW/Bell Aircraft Strike of 1939: Its Impact on Unions in 1992, 1992

Folder 19
Conference; Workers Conference, Loveland, Ohio, 1972

Folder 20
Labor: Brochures and Flyers, 1974-2001, Undated

Folder 21
Labor: Correspondence, 1987-1990, Undated

Folder 22
Lordstown, Ohio, 1972-1974, 1999, 2010

Folder 23
New York State Public Employees Federation: Annual Delegate Convention, 1985

Scope and Content
Includes transcript of address of Richard L. Trumka, President of United Mine Workers of America. The transcript is inscribed to Tom and signed by Trumka.

Folder 24
New York State Public Employees Federation: Contact Lists, 1985, Undated

Folder 25
New York State Public Employees Federation: Correspondence, 1985-2006

Folder 26
Newsletter: "The Communicator," NYS-PEF, 1985, 1990, 2015-2016

Folder 27
Newsletter: "The Focus," NYS-PEF, 1985

Folder 28
Newsletter: "The Legacy," Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, 2006

Folder 29
Newsletter: New York State United Teachers newsletters, 2006, 2014

Folder 30
Newsletter: "Public Service Reporter", 1983

Folder 31
Newsletter: "Steel Sparks", Circa 1979

Folder 32
Newsletter: "The Union Advocate," PEF Region One, 1985-1988

Folder 33
Newsletter: "The Union Focus," NYS-PEF, 1994, 2004-2006

Folder 34
Pamphlet: Progressive Labor Party: Strike, Circa 1971

Folder 35
Publication: Barry, Bill. I Just Got Elected--Now What? A New Union Officer's Handbook, 2007

Folder 36
Publication: Harris, Jerry. The Changing Face of Labor; Class Analysis for the 1980s, Undated

Folder 37
Publication: Lynd, Staughton. Labor History, Oral History and May 4, 1998

Biography or History
Remarks made at the Annual Dinner of the Friends of the Kent State University Libraries, April 15, 1998.

Folder 38
Publication: Progressive Labor magazine, 1975

Folder 39
Publication: "To the Point...of Production: An Interview with John Watson," reprint of 1969 article in The Fifth Estate, Undated

Folder 40
Service Employees International Union, 1982-1988, 2004

Folder 41
Sheet Metal Workers International Association, 1970-1974

Scope and Content
Includes publication Constitution and Ritual, revised and amended September 1970 and publication Agreement Between Carrier Corporation and Local Union 527 Sheet Metal Workers' International Association, dated December 10, 1971.

Folder 42
Stonecutters Union, Clinton Square, Syracuse, New York, 2001-2002

Folder 43
Truckers Fight, 1974

Folder 44
United Mine Workers of America, General Information, 1959, 1981-1995, Undated

Folder 45
United Mine Workers of America, Pittson Coal Company Strike, 1989

Folder 46
West Seneca Development Center, Correspondence, 1987-1992

Folder 47
Western New York Area Labor Federation, AFL-CIO, 2005-2009, 2018

Folder 48
Western New York Labor Coalition for Jobs, 1981

Box 232
Series 6: Politics, 1984-1988

Arrangement
Folders in the Politics series are arranged chronologically.

Folder 1
Presidential Campaign, 1984

Folder 2
Eve, Arthur O., New York State Assembly, 1986

Folder 3
National Rainbow Coalition, Accounting Controls and Procedures Manual, Circa 1986

Folder 4
National Rainbow Coalition, Convention, Washington DC, 1986

Folder 5
National Rainbow Coalition, Correspondence, 1986-1988

Folder 6
National Rainbow Coalition, Flyers, 1986-1988

Folder 7
Democratic National Convention, "1988 Final Call", 1987

Folder 8
Politics, clippings, 1987-1988, Undated

Folder 9
Democratic Designating Petitions, 1987-1988

Folder 10
Voting Information, 1987-1988

Folder 11
Jesse Jackson Presidential Campaign, correspondence, 1987-1988, Undated

Folder 12
Labor for Jesse Jackson, 1987-1988, Undated

Folder 13
New Yorkers for Jesse Jackson, 1988, Undated

Folder 14
Jesse Jackson Presidential Campaign, Union Support, 1988

Folder 15
Democratic National Convention, Rules Committee Membership and Correspondence, 1988

Biography or History
Grace was a member of the Standing Committee for Rules for the 1988 Democratic National Convention.

Folder 16
Democratic National Convention, Rules Committee Background and Proposed Rules, 1988

Folder 17
Democratic National Convention, Information Packet, Atlanta, 1988

Folder 18
Democratic National Convention, Democratic Platform, Minority Report, 1988

Folder 19
Kerry/Edwards Presidential Campaign, Ohio, 2004

Folder 20
Presidential Campaign, 2008

Folder 21
Presidential Campaign, 2016

Folder 22
Working Families Party, 2017-2019

Folder 23
Contact Lists: Higher Education, Undated

Folder 24
Contact Lists: Labor Unions, Undated

Box 233
Series 7: Subject Files, 1958-2020

Folder 1
Activism: Artists for Justice, 1974, 1974

Folder 2
Activism: Chino Defense Committees, 1972

Folder 3
Activism: Community for Social Action: On the Battlefield: Cairo, Illinois, circa 1970

Folder 4
Activism: Investigation of Students for a Democratic Society: Part 2, (Kent State University), U.S. House Committee on Internal Security, 1969

Folder 5
Activism: Kent Students for a Democratic Society, 1968-1969

Folder 6
Activism: Kent Students for a Democratic Society, Reunion Conference, 1989

Folder 7
Activism: Kent Students for a Democratic Society, Reunion and Retrospection, 2000

Folder 8
Activism: Kent Students for a Democratic Society, Reunions, 2005, 2010

Folder 9
Activism: Kent Students for a Democratic Society, "Who Rules Kent?," paper, undated

Folder 10
Activism: National March and Rally Against Racism, Boston, 1974

Folder 11
Activism: Peoples Coalition for Peace and Justice, Undated

Folder 12
Activism: Radical Education Project, publications, circa 1968-1972

Folder 13
Activism: Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade, circa 1979

Folder 14
Activism: "SDS:101 From the Inside," by Dennis O'Neil, 1987

Folder 15
Activism: Seattle Liberation Front, 1970

Folder 16
Activism: Southern Conference Education Fund, 1975-1979

Folder 17
Activism: Springfield Area Movement for a Democratic Society, Massachusetts, 1969

Folder 18
Activism: Students for a Democratic Society, 1969-1974, 1989-2008

Folder 19
Activism: Students for a Democratic Society, publications, 1969, undated

Scope and Content
Titles: Bring the War Home!; Cuba: A History; Liberation Will Come from a Black Thing; Two GIs in the Struggle; United States 1967: High Tide of Black Resistance; Vietnam; Which Side are You On? U.S. History in Perspective; Workers and the American Economy: Data on the Labor Force

Folder 20
Activism: United Students Against Rhodes, 1985-1986

Folder 21
Activism: Vietnam Solidarity Committee, Panel and Film event, undated

Folder 22
Activism: Vietnam Veterans Against the War, 25th Anniversary, 1992

Folder 23
Adams, John P., Board of Christian Social Concerns of the United Methodist Church, 1971-1984

Folder 24
Address: Grace, Thomas. "My God They Are Killing Us", 1992

Scope and Content
Fort Hays State College, End of the Innocence Conference, Hays, KS.

Folder 25
Address: Grace, Thomas. "My God They Are Killing Us", 1993

Scope and Content
Keuka College, Keuka Park, NY.

Folder 26
Address: Grace, Thomas. Class Talk at Canisius College, Buffalo, NY, 2001

Folder 27
Address: Grace, Thomas. "Labor and Postwar Change: The 1958 Campaign Against the Right-to-Work Amendment", 2004

Scope and Content
Ohio Academy of History Annual Meeting, Tiffin, OH.

Folder 28
Address: Grace, Thomas. "Kent State Revisited", 2012

Scope and Content
Northeast Popular Culture Association Conference, Rochester, NY.

Folder 29
Address: Grace, Thomas. "Reflections on the Kent State Shootings," Chautauqua, NY, 2018

Folder 30
Address: Grace, Thomas. "Kent State Shootings, May 4, 1970: The Day the War Came Home and its Legal Aftermath", 2019

Scope and Content
The Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association, Cleveland, OH.

Folder 31
Address: Grace, Thomas, et.al. "Voices of May 4, 1970: Reflections 50 Years Later", 2019

Scope and Content
National Council for the Social Studies Conference, Austin, TX.

Folder 32
Address: Grace, Thomas, et.al. Roundtable: "50th Anniversary: Cambodia and the Campuses: Lessons Learned and Unlearned", 2020

Scope and Content
American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New York.

Folder 33
Address: Grace, Thomas. "Lessons in Law and Order: The Ohio National Guard and the Kent State Killings", 2020

Scope and Content
New Directions in Scholarship on the Vietnam War Conference, Kent State University, Kent, OH.

Folder 34
Article: Brinkley, Alan. "Liberalism's Third Crisis," in The American Prospect, 1995

Folder 35
Article: Brock, Chris. "Impressions and Misconceptions," in Watertown Daily Times, 2020

Folder 36
Article: Canham-Clyne, John. "Where have all the lessons gone?," in In These Times, 1991

Folder 37
Article: Elkins, Stanley M. "Lessons and Judgments," in Commentary, 1971

Folder 38
Article: Freeman, Joanne B. "Founding Bothers," online at www.common-place.org, 2002

Folder 39
Article: Garfield, Ken. "Loss and Legacy: a chance meeting, and how the campus shootings at KSU inspired a lifetime of social activism," in Southpark magazine, 2020

Folder 40
Article: Grace, Thomas M. "Reckoning: Kent State: What and how to remember?," in The Sixties: a Journal of History, Politics and Culture, 2009

Folder 41
Article: Graham, Mark W. "Memorializing May 4, 1970 at Kent State University: Reflections on Collective Memory, Public Art and Religious Criticism," in Literature & Theology, 2006

Folder 42
Article: Griswold, Charles L. "The Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Washington Mall: Philosophical Thoughts on Political Iconography," in Critical Inquiry, 1986

Folder 43
Article: Hatzenbuehler, Ronald L. "Assessing the Meaning of Massacre: Boston (1770) and Kent State (1970)," in Peace & Change, 1996, 2001

Folder 44
Article: Hine, Darlene Clark. "The Greater Kent State Era, 1968-1970: Legacies of Student Rebellions and State Repression," in Peace & Change, 1996, 2001

Folder 45
Article: Holstein, Elaine. "Anniversary," in The Progressive, 1988

Folder 46
Article: Isserman, Maurice. "Four Dead in Ohio, 25 Years Later," in The Chronicle of Higher Education, 1995

Folder 47
Article: Leuchtenburg, William E. "The Pertinence of Political History: Reflections on the Significance of the State in America," in Journal of American History, 1986

Folder 48
Article: Miles, Deborah A. "Kent State Massacre Resurrected by a PEF Union Activist," in The Communicator, 2016

Folder 49
Article: O'Hara, John Fitzgerald. "Kent State/May 4 and Postwar Memory," in American Quarterly, 2006

Scope and Content
Article is pages 301-328 in publication; pages 302 and 303 are missing.

Folder 50
Article: Rudwick, E. and A. Meier. "The Kent State Affair: Social Control of a Putative Value-Oriented Movement," in Sociological Inquiry, circa 1971

Folder 51
Article: Wischmann, Lesley. "Four Dead in Ohio," in American Heritage, Undated

Folder 52
Article: Zimmer, Paul. "Strangers in Friendly Places," in The Gettysburg Review, Undated

Folder 53
Barnette, Joseph, 1989

Biography or History
Barnette was a member of the Ohio National Guard during the May 4 shootings.

Folder 54
Book Chapter: Banks, James and Paula. "Kent State: how the war in Vietnam became the war at home," in Vietnam and the Antiwar Movement, 1989

Folder 55
Book Chapter: Crompton, Rosemary. Class and Stratification: An Introduction to Current Debates, Chapter 1, 1998

Folder 56
Book Chapter: Grace, Thomas M. "Code: Kent State," in From Camelot to Kent State: The Sixties Experience in the Words of Those Who Lived It, 1988

Scope and Content
Folder includes newsclippings about the book.

Folder 57
Book Chapter: Grace, Thomas M. "Kent State and Historical Memory," annotated draft for symposium book, 2009

Folder 58
Book Chapter: Robbins, Mary Susannah. Against the Vietnam War: Writings by Activists, Introduction, 1999

Folder 59
Book Chapter: Wright, Erik Olin. Class Counts, Chapter 7, 2000

Folder 60
Book Promotion: Grace, Thomas M. Kent State: Death and Dissent in the Long Sixties, 2016-2017

Folder 61
Book Reviews: Assorted Titles, 1997-2004, undated

Folder 62
Book Reviews: Reviews for Books About the 1960s, 1987-1994

Folder 63
Book Reviews: Reviews for Books About the 1960s, 1995-2001, 2012, Undated

Folder 64
Book Reviews: Reviews of Kent State; Death and Dissent in the Long Sixties, by Thomas M. Grace, 2016-2017, Undated

Folder 65
Book Talks: Grace, Thomas M. Kent State: Death and Dissent in the Long Sixties, 2016-2017

Folder 66
Booklet: Arnold, Caroline. The Wrens of May: Recollections and Reflections on Kent State May 4 1970, 2013

Folder 67
Boram, Jane, 2009-2010

Folder 68
Bukosky, Leonard F., 2002-2008, Undated

Folder 69
Bukosky, Paul, 1969

Folder 70
Burns, Ken and Geoffrey Ward, Documentary Projects, 2014

Folder 71
Canfora, Alan, 1975-2009

Box 234
Series 7: Subject Files, 1958-2020

Folder 1
Canfora, Roseann (Chick), "Chix Politix Comix", 1970

Folder 2
Canfora, Roseann, 1977-1979, Undated

Folder 3
Carmedy, Michael, 1972-1973

Folder 4
Carson, John Jr. and Beverly, 1968, 1992, 2002

Scope and Content
Includes oral history with John Carson regarding political life in Kent, Ohio.

Folder 5
Celeste, Richard, Ohio Governor, 1990

Scope and Content
Includes Celeste's remarks at the Kent State Memorial dedication.

Folder 6
Chicago 8, 1970, 2000

Folder 7
Chicago Area Marxist-Leninist Study Group, 1982

Folder 8
Colloquium: The Frank and McMillen/Armstrong Manuscripts, 2003

Folder 9
Conference: Columbia 1968 + 40: War, Race, Activism, and the University, 2008

Folder 10
Conference: Jackson State and Kent State Commemorative Conference, 1990

Folder 11
Conference: Kampuchea Conference, proceedings, Stockholm, 1979-1980

Folder 12
Conference: Organization of American Historians, Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 2014

Folder 13
Conference: Organization of American Historians, Annual Meeting, Washington DC, 2020

Folder 14
Conference: Progressive Student Conference, Kent State University, 1980

Folder 15
Conference: Rebels with a Cause: Student Protest in the United States, George Mason University, VA, 1990

Folder 16
Conference: Symposium on Democracy, Kent State University, 2009

Folder 17
Conference: Vietnam Antiwar Movement: The Charles DeBenedetti Memorial Conference, Toledo, OH, 1990

Folder 18
Conservative Student Forum Group at KSU, 1991

Folder 19
Consulting: Kent State University Press, 2018-2019, Undated

Folder 20
Cook, Mary Jo, 1975

Folder 21
Convention: Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, 7th Annual, Pittsburgh, PA, 2013

Folder 22
Correspondence: Diacon, Todd, KSU Executive VP and Provost, 2017-2018

Folder 23
Correspondence: General, 1970-2020, undated

Folder 24
Correspondence: Kent State University, various departments, 1968-2006

Folder 25
Correspondence: Schwartz, Michael, KSU President, 1984-1990

Folder 26
Correspondence: Sympathy for Alan Canfora, 2021

Folder 27
Correspondence: Warren, Beverly, KSU President, 2018-2019

Folder 28
Course Materials: Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, 1998-2006

Folder 29
Course Materials: D'Youville College, 2007

Folder 30
Creative Differences: Kent State Documentary Project, 2007

Folder 31
Crumb, Robert, 1972, 2001, 2014

Folder 32
Davis, Thomas M. papers, 1970, 1974

Biography or History
"Tom Davis was a longtime and much respected member of the English Department at KSU. He served several years as a faculty marshall," Tom Grace note.

Folder 33
Delaney, Michael, 1970-1971, Undated

Biography or History
Delaney was a member of the Ohio National Guard during the May 4 shootings.

Folder 34
Democratic Socialists of America, 2014-2016

Folder 35
DeWine, Mike, Ohio Governor, 2020

Folder 36
Doyle, Michael, History Professor, Ball State University, 1999

Folder 37
Dyer, David, 2000-2005

Folder 38
Emmer, Ruth and Jack, Undated

Scope and Content
Includes 1962 publication of Communist Activities in the Cleveland, Ohio, Area, Part 2: Hearings before the Committee on Un-American Activities House of Representatives.

Folder 39
Erickson, Edward O. Jr. (Rick), 1969-1970, 2005

Folder 40
Essay: Avakian, Bob and Steve Hamilton. "Revolutionary Youth and the Road to the Proletariat", Undated

Folder 41
Essay: White, Michael. "An Essay on Restructuring the Organization and Discipline of the Anti-Imperialist Movement at Kent State University", Undated

Folder 42
Essay: Unknown Author. Untitled, regarding Melvin Laird, Madison, WI, 1971

Folder 43
Essay: Unknown Author. "The 1994 Elections: The Right vs. 'Left' Contest that Never Happened", Undated

Folder 44
Essay Review by Thomas Grace, 1998

Folder 45
Fankhauser, David, Freedom Rides: Recollections, printed webpages, 2002

Folder 46
Film: Fire in the Heartland, Screening and Panel Discussion, 2018

Folder 47
Film: Kent State, NBC Television, 1981

Folder 48
Film: Letter to the Next Generation, PBS Point of View Film, 1990

Folder 49
Film: Ohio, Universal Pictures Project, 1996

Folder 50
Filo Photo, Missing Pole, 1995

Folder 51
Flyers: Activism, 1968-1969

Folder 52
Flyers: Activism, 1970-1973

Folder 53
Flyers: Activism, Undated

Folder 54
Flyers: Activism, Kent State University, 1970s

Folder 55
Flyers: Activism, Ohio, Undated

Folder 56
Flyers: Historians for Peace and Democracy, Undated

Folder 57
Flyers: Joe Hill Collective, 1970s

Folder 58
Flyers: Kent Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), 1968-1970, Undated

Folder 59
Flyers: May 4 Coalition, 1970s

Folder 60
Flyers: May 4 United Front, 1970s

Folder 61
Flyers: Vietnam Veterans Against the War, 1970s

Folder 62
Forum: Changing Perspectives: Reevaluating the Kent State Shootings, Emerson College, Boston, MA, 2001

Folder 63
Freedom of Information Act, 1975-1977

Folder 64
Gardner, Randy, 2011-2017

Folder 65
Golding, Brage, KSU President, Statement on KSU's New HPER Facility, 1977

Folder 66
Gordon, William (Bill), 1984, 2007, 2018

Folder 67
Grace, Anne, Undated

Biography or History
Sister of Tom Grace.

Folder 68
Grace, Patrick, 1971, 1979

Scope and Content
Includes text of 1971 speech about Kent State shootings.

Biography or History
Brother of Tom Grace.

Folder 69
Grace, Thomas V., 1970, 1995-1999, Undated

Biography or History
Father of Tom Grace.

Folder 70
Gulf War, 1991, 2002

Folder 71
Halliday, Kirk W., Memoir: "Free the Kent 20,000", 2007

Folder 72
Hammond, Ken, 1982-1999, undated

Folder 73
Hampton, Fred, 1969, 1989, 2009

Folder 74
Hanley, James M., U.S. Congressman, 1970, 2003

Scope and Content
Includes a photograph of Hanley with Grace taken in September 1970.

Folder 75
Havens, Hunter, 2008, Undated

Folder 76
Hayden, Tom, 1979, 2007

Scope and Content
Includes a signed copy of Hayden's remarks as keynote speaker of Kent State University's eighth annual Symposium on Democracy and Peace: Historical Links and Implications for World Order, held May 3-4, 2007.

Folder 77
Heineman, Kenneth, Academic Papers, Undated

Scope and Content
Titles: "'Look Out Kid, You're Gonna Get Hit:' Kent State and the Anti-Vietnam War Movement, 1964-1969," "To Undo the Heavy Burdens: The Student Anti-Vietnam War Movement at the Non-Elite State Universities," and "Twentieth Century Jeremiahs: Cultural and Class Influences in the 1960's Student Anti-War Movement."

Folder 78
Heineman, Kenneth, Correspondence and Interview of Tom Grace, 1988-1991

Box 235
Series 7: Subject Files, 1958-2020

Folder 1
Hoffman, George, "Comrade George", 2009, Undated

Folder 2
Holstein, Elaine, 1980-2004

Folder 3
Hynde, Chrissy, 1997-2006

Folder 4
Ifshin, David, 2000, 2008

Folder 5
International Jewish Peace Union, 1988

Folder 6
Jones, Thai, 2018

Folder 7
Kahler, Dean, 1975, 1984

Folder 8
Kent Legal Defense Fund, 1970-1971, Undated

Folder 9
Kent May 4 Center, 1989-1990

Scope and Content
Includes newsletters and updates about May 4 issues and concerns.

Biography or History
The Kent May 4 Center was an educational organization that was founded by Alan Canfora and independent of Kent State University.

Folder 10
Kent May 4 Center: Newspaper, "Kent Free Press", 1991

Folder 11
Kent May 4 Memorial Foundation, 1986-1989

Scope and Content
Includes newsletters and updates about May 4 issues and concerns.

Biography or History
The organization was founded by Alan Canfora to address education and advocacy for justice, truth and peace. It was independent of Kent State University.

Folder 12
Kent State University Center for Peaceful Change, Undated

Folder 13
Kent State University History Department Reunion, 2013

Folder 14
Kent State University Position Paper: Statement of Policy, October 14, 1970

Folder 15
Kent State University Responses to May 4 Shootings, 1970

Scope and Content
Includes letters to students and parents, policy statements, and informational bulletins.

Folder 16
Kent Students Medical Fund, 1970, 1975

Folder 17
Klaich, Delores, Papers from KSU Archives, 1965-1975

Folder 18
Knopf, Richard, KSU History Professor, 1970, 1989-2001

Folder 19
Knox-Quinn, Carolyn (aka Candy Erickson), 1992

Folder 20
Kolko, Gabriel, 1961-1969, 2001

Folder 21
Krause, Allison, Undated

Folder 22
Kunstler, William (Bill), 1995, 2013

Folder 23
Letters to the Editor by Tom Grace, 1974-2003

Folder 24
Lough, Thomas S., KSU Professor, Survey and Articles, 1970, 1986-1988

Folder 25
Lynd, Staughton, 1997-2001

Folder 26
Maryniak, Benedict (Ben), 2008-2010

Scope and Content
Includes eulogy by Tom Grace.

Folder 27
May 4: The Guard's March, Undated

Folder 28
May 4 Coalition: Gym Annex Controversy, 1977-1978

Folder 29
May 4 Coalition: Newspaper, The Truth Demands Justice, 1978

Folder 30
May 4 Task Force, 1978-1991, Undated

Folder 31
May 4 Teaching Guide: Summerlin, Heidi. What Were the Students Hoping to Accomplish?, Undated

Folder 32
May 4 Witness Interviews by Milo, 1982

Folder 33
McAlary, Mike, News Story and Tom Grace Response, 1989

Folder 34
Miller, Daniel, Director, Fire in the Heartland, 2005

Folder 35
Mitchell, Bea, 1992

Biography or History
Mitchell was one of Tom Grace's nurses at Robinson Memorial Hospital in 1970.

Folder 36
Mohr, Reinhold, 1972, Undated

Folder 37
Morris, Al, President of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, 1996, 2000

Scope and Content
Includes memorial remarks by Tom Grace.

Folder 38
Mothersbaugh, Mark, 2001-2008

Folder 39
Munves, James, Kent State Coverup book, 1979-1984

Folder 40
National Conference of American Socialists, Proceedings, Cleveland, OH, 1958

Folder 41
Newspaper Articles by and About Tom Grace, 1970-2018

Folder 42
Obituaries, Collected, 1982-2018

Folder 43
Oglesby, Carl, 1991, 2000-2005

Folder 44
Olds, Glenn, U.S. Senate Campaign, 1986

Folder 45
Paper: Brand, James R. "May 4, 1970: A Critical Annotated Bibliography", 1983

Folder 46
Paper: Grace, Thomas. "My God They are Killing Us", 1997

Folder 47
Paper: Grace, Thomas. Untitled, regarding fate of post-war liberalism from 1968-1984, Undated

Folder 48
Perloff, Richard, 2019

Folder 49
Powell, Jeffrey David, 1969, 1994, Undated

Folder 50
Pyle, Andy, Undated

Folder 51
Rapone, Thomas, Free Speech Society, 1990

Folder 52
Ravenna Arsenal, 2009

Folder 53
Ray, Joel, 2016

Folder 54
Resolution for National Day of Mourning, May 6, 1970

Folder 55
Rhodes, James, Ohio Governor, 1974, 1999-2003

Folder 56
Robbins, Terry F., 1963-2004

Scope and Content
This file contains three articles about the Weather Underground organization.

Biography or History
Robbins was active in Students for a Democratic Society in Cleveland and Kent, and was indicted for inciting riots at Kent State in 1968. He later joined the underground group, the Weathermen, also known as Weather Underground.

Folder 57
Roskens, Ronald, 1990

Folder 58
Rowe, John, 2018, Undated

Folder 59
Russell, James, 1995, 2007

Folder 60
SANE, Kent Chapter, 1961-1963

Folder 61
Satrom, Leroy, Mayor of Kent, Ohio, 1970, 2004

Folder 62
Scheuer, Sandy, 2018, Undated

Folder 63
Schroeder, William (Bill), 2019

Folder 64
Segal, George, "Abraham and Isaac, In Memory of May 4, 1970," Sculpture Dedication, 1979

Scope and Content
Includes photograph of Segal with the sculpture.

Folder 65
Shafer, Larry, 1970, 1980

Biography or History
Shafer was a member of the Ohio National Guard during the May 4 shootings.

Folder 66
Sihanouk, Norodom, Former Head of Cambodia, 1979-1980, 1998, Undated

Scope and Content
Includes article written by Tom Grace.

Folder 67
Sima, Joe, Regarding Terry Norman and May 4 Shootings, 2007

Folder 68
Stamps, Robert (Robby), 1989, 1993, 2008

Scope and Content
Includes memorial remarks by Tom Grace.

Folder 69
State University of New York-Buffalo, 2005, Undated

Folder 70
Student Projects: "Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio," by L. Howard, E. Seifried, and J. Sparks, 2002

Folder 71
Student Projects: "The Social History of the Ravenna Arsenal," by Peter M. Newman, 1990

Folder 72
Student Projects: Papers on the May 4 Shootings, 1990s, 2016, Undated

Folder 73
Student Projects: Tom Grace Interview Given to Chic Canfora's Student, Undated

Folder 74
Symposium: Rebels With a Cause: Student Protest in the United States, Undated

Folder 75
Thompson, Daniel R., 2004-2011, Undated

Folder 76
Tussey, Jean, 2000-2001, Undated

Folder 77
Victory Bell, 2000

Folder 78
WMMS Radio Station, 2007, Undated

Folder 79
Walsh, Joe, 1986, 2001

Folder 80
Warren, Kenneth, "House Organ," Poetry booklet, 2010

Folder 81
Wells, Lynn, 1981, 1990-1991

Folder 82
White, Michael, 1972

Scope and Content
Statement regarding police reaction to end of school year celebrations in downtown Kent, Ohio.

Folder 83
Young, Neil, 2000-2002, 2010

Folder 84
Young, Stephen M., U.S. Senate, 1970, 1984-1985

Folder
Series 8: Posters, 1969-2010, Undated

Physical Location: One oversize folder containing all posters; filed in map case.

Piece 1
Fire in the Heartland film poster, 2010

Piece 2
Jesse Jackson '88, 1988

Piece 3
Jesse Jackson '88, 1988

Piece 4
Jesse Jackson '88: Come See and Hear, April 1988

Piece 5
Jesse Jackson '88: Get Out and Vote, April 1988

Piece 6
May 4 Coalition: Take the Hill Rally, Circa 1977

Piece 7
May 4 Task Force: The Truth Demands Justice, May 1977

Piece 8
May 4 Task Force: The Truth Demands Justice, May 1978

Piece 9
May 4 Task Force: Remember Kent State: "The New Wave of Resistance", May 1980

Piece 10
May 4 Task Force: Kent State May 4 1970...'The Day the War Came Home' Ten Year Review, December 1980

Piece 11
May 4 Task Force: Remember Kent State: "Flowers are better than bullets", May 1984

Piece 12
May 4 Task Force: Kent State Remembers: 15th Annual Commemoration, May 1985

Piece 13
May 4 Task Force: Remember Kent State: 17th Annual Commemoration, 1987

Piece 14
May 4 Task Force: Make Peace With the Past: 18th Annual Commemoration, May 1988

Piece 15
May 4 Task Force: Students in Action: 19th Annual Commemoration, May 1989

Piece 16
May 4 United Front: Kick the US Out of Vietnam Now!, Undated

Piece 17
May 4 United Front: No Mohr Fyke, Undated

Piece 18
Memorial May 4, Kent, Ohio: The not-so-silent Spring, Spring 1980

Piece 19
Night of Solidarity with Vietnam, University of Buffalo, Undated

Piece 20
No Classes May 4: Strike, Circa 1978

Piece 21
Quicksilver Times Poster Insert: May 1, January 1971

Piece 22
SDS: End ROTC, Circa 1969

Piece 23
SDS: Record Beacon Stater, Circa 1969

Piece 24
Wanted: Enemy of the People (Fyke), Undated

Piece 25
Weather Underground: New Morning, Changing Weather, Circa 1970

Scope and Content
This poster contains the text of a communication released and signed by Bernadine Dohrn as a response to a New York townhouse explosion on March 6, 1970. Members of the Weather Underground were making bombs and one exploded, killing three members of the group. The communication outlines philosophical changes taking place within the organization, including a stronger role for women in the group.

Box 236
Series 9: Artifacts, 1932, 1977-1992, 2004, Undated

Piece 1
Bandana, Undated

Piece 2
Handout: Hang Nixon!, Undated

Piece 3
Handout: KSU's Been Fyked, Undated

Piece 4
Kerry-Edwards Presidential Campaign Event Ticket, 2004

Piece 5
Kerry-Edwards Presidential Campaign Volunteer Badge, 2004

Piece 6
Name Badge: Democratic National Convention with Unity pin, 1988

Piece 7
Permit: Bethlehem Steel Corporation Employees' Garden Permit, 1932

Piece 8
Photograph: SEIU International Convention Panoramic Photo, Washington DC, 1992

Piece 9
Political Pin: Jesse Jackson '88, 1988

Piece 10
Political Pin: Kerry-Edwards: A Stronger America, 2004

Piece 11
Sticker: Democrats for Middle East Peace, Undated

Piece 12
Sticker: Remember Kent State: Move the Gym, Circa 1977

Piece 13
Sticker: The United Chilean Resistance Will Triumph!, Undated

Piece 14
Sticker: United Mine Workers of America: Support Trumka, Roberts and Banovic, Undated

Piece 15
Sticker: United Mine Workers of America: Vote Trumka, 1982

Piece 16
T-shirt: Voting Questions? Ask Me, Undated

Box 236A
Series 9: Artifacts, Undated

Piece 1
Fringe Buckskin Jacket, Undated

Series 10: Clippings and Periodical Issues, 1958-2019

Scope and Content
This series is comprised of clippings and issues of newsletters, independent newspapers, magazines, and other similar periodicals that were collected by Grace. The topics include social justice, activism, Indochina, the Vietnam War, Kent State University, politics, and history.

Box 237
Clippings, 1958-2019

Arrangement
Clippings are arranged alphabetically by subject. Subjects with multiple folders are sorted by year.

Box 238
Periodical Issues, 1968-2012

Arrangement
Periodical issues are arranged alphabetically.

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