Protest movements

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 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...