Since the 1960s, students at Davidson College have become increasingly involved with local, national, and international issues of social justice, advocacy, and equality. Students, individually and collectively, have participated in and organized demonstrations to campaign for political and social change, both on campus and beyond.
This guide is designed as a resource to help researchers locate archival collections and materials from Archives & Special Collections related to the history of student activism at Davidson College. This guide is organized by topic, including:
For each topic, relevant resources from Archives and Special Collections are listed, as well as other related library and campus resources.
Students protesting apartheid on Chambers Lawn (Quips and Cranks, 1986)
This guide is not a comprehensive bibliography of student activism at Davidson. At this time, there are many recent and ongoing student activism initiatives that may not currently be reflected in our institutional records. Through the Justice, Equality, Community (JEC) Student and Alumni Advisory Council, Archives & Special Collections is currently involved in an ongoing effort to support student activist organizations in documenting their histories, with the hope of adding these records to our institutions archival collections. If you are a student activist and would like to know more about how to document your organization's efforts, please email archives@davidson.edu.
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