David Lyons and Matthew Lyons. Cornell divestment movement collection, 1976-1987.
Collection Number: 18-2-2541
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
David Lyons and Matthew Lyons. Cornell divestment movement collection, 1976-1987.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
18-2-2541
Abstract:
Reports; legal documents; memos; and articles, leaflets, posters, and other publications,
all relating to the movement for Cornell divestment in South Africa.
Creator:
Lyons, David, 1935-
Lyons, Matthew Nemiroff.
Quanitities:
1 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Matthew Lyons (Cornell University Class of 1986) helped to organize and participated
in the first divestment sit-ins at Cornell's Day Hall in April-May 1985, as well as
the May 8, 1985 action, "Take It To the Straight." In the fall of 1985, he helped
to coordinate the divestment movement's daily sit-ins and civil disobedience at Day
Hall. David Lyons, Matthew's father, is professor of law and philosophy at Cornell
University. He was part of the first group of Cornell faculty and staff to be arrested
in the divestment sit-ins in April 1985. He helped to draft the principal Faculty
and Staff Against Apartheid (FSAA) documents including "Why Cornell Should Divest"
and the FSAA's reply to the Proxy Review Committee Report on divestment. He represented
Shantytown residents within the Cornell judicial system with regard to their complaints
against the central administration.
Reports; legal documents; memos; and articles, leaflets, posters, and other publications,
all relating to the movement for Cornell divestment in South Africa.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
David Lyons and Matthew Lyons Cornell divestment movement collection, #18-2-2541.
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Names:
Cornell University -- : Students.
Places:
South Africa -- Economic conditions -- 1961-
United States -- Foreign relations -- South Africa.
Subjects:
Disinvestment.
Students -- Political activity.
Student movements.
CONTAINER LIST
|
Container
|
Description
|
Date
|
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
CIA protests
|
Spring 1985 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
SADC (South Africa Divestment Coalition) report
|
1983, 1985 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Trustee and Johnson Wax investment policies
|
1976-1985 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Trustee conflicts of interest re: investment policy
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Articles on divestment and divestiture - non-Cornell sources
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Articles on South Africa - non-Cornell sources
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Harvard alumni divestment work
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Cornell divestment leaflets, memos, etc.
|
Apr.-June 1985 |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Spring 1985 cases - City Court
|
1985 |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Spring 1985 cases - Cornell judicial system
|
1985 |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Faculty and Staff Against Apartheid (FSAA)
|
Spring 1985 |
| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Shantytown civil litigation
|
Spring 1985 |
| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Cornell Review (anti-divestment)
|
May 1985 |
| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Divestment Convocation
|
June 1985 |
| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Ithaca Journal reporting protest
|
June 1985 |
| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Divestment legal analysis
|
Summer 1985 |
| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Eduation Against Oppression
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Cornell divestment leaflets, memos
|
Summer, Fall 1985 |
| Box 1 | Folder 19 |
FSAA
|
Summer, Fall 1985 |
| Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Faculty referendum on divestment
|
May-Sept. 1985 |
| Box 1 | Folder 21 |
New York Supreme Court cases
|
Fall 1985 |
| Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Fall 1985 cases - Cornell judicial system
|
1985 |
| Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Proxy Review Committee report and discussion/replies
|
Fall 1985-Jan. 1986 |
| Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Non-divestment activism related to divestment movement
|
1985-1986 |
| Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Spring 1986 cases - Cornell judicial system
|
1986 |
| Box 1 | Folder 26 |
FSAA
|
Spring 1986 |
| Box 1 | Folder 27 |
Cornell Divestment and Anti-Racism Coalition leaflets, memos
|
1986 |
| Box 1 | Folder 28 |
Cornell Judicial System Cases
|
Fall 1986 |
| Box 1 | Folder 29 |
Arts Faculty Resolution 10/86 / FSAA
|
Fall 1986 |
| Box 1 | Folder 30 |
Spring 1987 cases - Cornell judicial system
|
1987 |
| Box 1 | Folder 31 |
Humor
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 32 |
Leftist student publications
|
1985-1987 |
| Box 1 | Folder 33 |
FSAA
|
1987 |
| Box 1 | Folder 34 |
UAW and faculty/student support
|
1985-1987 |
| Box 1 | Folder 35 |
Free speech and Cornell photo policy
|
1977-1985 |
| Box 1 | Folder 36 |
Proposed Campus Code changes (RAMPO)
|
June-late 1985 |
| Box 1 | Folder 37 |
New Campus Code, etc. instituted
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 38 |
Free Speech Commission
|
1986-1987 |
| Box 1 | Folder 39 |
Shantytown documents
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 40 |
Drafts of shantytown complaints
|
May 1985 |
| Box 1 | Folder 41 |
Original shantytown complaints vs. Cornell
|
May-June 1985 |
| Box 1 | Folder 42 |
Prior cases relevant to shantytown hearings (Cornell judicial system)
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 43 |
Amended shantytown complaints
|
June 1985 |
| Box 1 | Folder 44 |
Exchange of memos re: shantytown complaints
|
Summer 1985 |
| Box 1 | Folder 45 |
Shantytown appeal to Cornell Hearing Board
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 46 |
Shantytown appeal to Cornell Review Board
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 47 |
Divestment poster
|
Spring 1985 |