TAPE RECORDINGS

PAPERS

College Hall Occupation Oral History Project, 1986

Finding Aid

Finding aid prepared by Maida Goodwin and Karen Eberhart.

Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

© 2003


Collection Overview
	Creator:	Smith College.
	Title:	College Hall Occupation Oral History Project
	Dates:	1986
	Abstract:	Student demonstration. Includes interviews and papers.
	Extent:	1 box(.75 linear ft.)
	Language:	English.
	Identification:	RG 80

Historical Note

The College Hall Occupation Oral History Project was the work of two students enrolled in History 367b, Problems in American History: Autobiography, Biography, and Oral History in Twentieth Century America as taught by Maurice Isserman in spring 1986. The sixteen cassette tapes and two papers were given to the College Archives in the summer and fall of 1986 by the coordinators of the project, Donna Kenny '87 and Maureen Dooley Lawrence '87.


	Feb. 20, Thursday	Student/faculty rally and sit-in encouraging total divestment prior to the spring meeting of the Board of Trustees.
	Feb. 22, Saturday	Trustees choose not to adopt the divestment proposal set forth by the Senate Ethical Investment Committee.
	Feb. 24, Monday
	Feb. 25, Tuesday
	Feb. 26, Wednesday
	Feb. 27, Thursday	Protesters agree to negotiate with President Dunn. A small group of protesters begins a hunger strike.
	Feb. 28, Friday	Negotiations continue. Protesters hold a rally and announce the hunger strike to the public.
	Mar. 1, Saturday	An agreement is reached between President Dunn, the Board of Trustees, and the protesters.
	Mar. 2, Sunday	Occupation ends with a press conference and victory rally. Mar. 6, Thursday Required teach-in on South African-related issues and on relations between the Board of Trustees and the campus community.