Protest movements

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Collection of handbills, newsletters, statements and one poster related to 1970s Eritrean and Ethiopian activism in the United States, especially Washington, DC.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of four flyers promoting protests against the Iranian government and the Shah (Mohammad Reza Pahlavi) in the 1960s and 1970s. Two of the documents are from Northern California and the other two are from France.The following descriptions were produced by Bolerium Books:1) A hungry nation does not need a 2500 year celebration!... Join us in opposing it [handbill]. n.p.: Iranian Students Association in the USA, [1971]. 8.5x14 inch handbill,...

Scope and Contents Photograph album of private and public life in 1970s Iran, with a sequence of color photographs documenting the mass demonstrations, protest, and burning buildings of the 1978-1979 Islamic Revolution. It contains 98 photographs mounted to adhesive pages under protective plastic, including 69 in black and white (3.5" x 5") and 29 in color (5" x 7").The early black and white photographs in this album show apparent family members and friends in the late Pahlavi-era of Iran’s White...

Scope and Contents The Maurice Jackson Papers consist of research files and printed materials produced and collected by Georgetown University history professor Maurice Jackson. A series of subject files maintained by Dr. Jackson include materials concerning the history of Washington, D.C., civil rights, and the Washington, D.C. race massacres of 1919 and 1968. Printed materials included in this collection pertain to African American history, communism, socialism, Marxism, Jewish affairs, the Soviet Union, and...

Scope and Contents Group of thirty one broadsides and leaflets, connected with armed struggle against the Shah and the Islamic Republic of Iran, circa 1971-1984. Various places, mostly West Berlin: self-published by the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, also known as Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK).Thirty one original broadsides and handbills distributed by the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) and their sympathizers in Berlin in the 1970s-1980s, such as the Iranische Moslemische...

Content Description Contains material related to the student-led sit-in outside of the White-Gravenor building in April 1986 to urge the Georgetown administration to divest from South Africa in protest over their apartheid policies. Includes a notice dated April 12, 1986 from the students, organized under the name of Freedom College, explaining the reasons for the sit-in as well as listing their desired outcomes; flyers containing updates from Freedom College as the sit-in progressed; a flyer for a divestment...