RMA03515 Guide to the Cornell Divestment Movement Collection, 1983-1987 Cornell Divestment Movement Collection, 1983-1987 Compiled by RMC Staff Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library August 2008

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Finding aid encoded byRMC Staff, August 2008 2007-05-29 converted from EAD 1.0 to EAD 2002 Guide to the Cornell Divestment Movement Collection,1983-1987 Collection Number: 47-5-3515 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Cornell University Library Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu RMC Staff August 2008 Sharon Jank 2006 Marcie Farwell, October 2018 © 2006 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY Cornell divestment movement collection, 1983-1987 47-5-3515 3 cubic feet. Legal Documents, Publications, Reports Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library Reports, legal documents, memos, articles, leaflets, posters, publications, and other items, all relating to the movement for Cornell divestment in South Africa. Collection material in English BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Barbara Ebert participated in the first divestment sit-ins at Cornell's Day Hall in April-May, 1985.

Joel S. Fetzer was born on November 13, 1965, in Jacksonville, Florida. After his father, a Naval intelligence officer, was transferred to the Pentagon in Washington DC in 1970, Fetzer spent most of his childhood in the nearby suburb of Woodbridge, Virginia. He studied abroad at the Universities of Paris (France) and Manheim (Germany), then graduated summa cum laude from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Arts in Government and English in 1988. By 1996, he had received a Master of Arts, Master of Philosophy, and Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University. While at Yale, he was awarded the Ebert Dissertation Fellowship from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation of Bonn, Germany, and the Peace Scholar Fellowship from the United States Institute of Peace.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Much of the material was collected by Barbara Ebert. Reports, legal documents, memos, articles, leaflets, posters, publications, and other items, all relating to the movement for Cornell divestment in South Africa. Material not collected by Ebert includes slides of divestment and anti Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) protests on campus taken by Joel Fetzer '88..

 SUBJECTS Names: Ebert, Barbara. Fetzer, Joel. Cornell University--Students. Subjects: Space weapons. Strategic Defense Initiative. Student movements. Students--Political activity. Disinvestment. Places: United States--Foreign policy--South Africa. South Africa--Economic conditions--1961- INFORMATION FOR USERS Cite As:

Cornell divestment movement collection, #47-5-3515. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

 CONTAINER LIST 1 1 CCD Banking 1 2 CCD Funding Applications 1 3 CCD Key Lists 1 4 CCD Official Registration(s) 1 5 Contact Lists 1 6 Administration Miscellaneous 1 7 CCD Legal Matters 1986 1 8 Relihan Sit-In Oct. 30, 1986 1 9 Trespass Counts Oct. 8, 1986 1 10 Fingerprinting Documentation 1 11 Contempt of Court Oct. 8, 1986 1 12 Court Papers June 27, 1985 1 13 Change of Attorney Papers 1 14 Getnick, Neil V., Conflict of Interest Report May 1978 1 15 South African Investment Report Dec. 6, 1978 1 16 Investments Report to Board of Trustees May 28, 1983 1 17 Update of 1983 Report on Cornell Investments in S. Africa 1 18 Southern Africa Activist Memorandum Feb. 10, 1987 1 19 Signed Petition Apr. 4, 1986 1 20 The Crisis in Minority Faculty at Cornell, Draft 1 21 Anti-Racism Coalition 1 22 Divestment Legal Defense Fund Banking 1 23 Anti-Racism Coalition 1986 1 24 Cornell Radical Union 1 25 Noam Chomsky Talk Summary Feb. 1987 1 26 Free Speech Commission 1 27 Chomsky Articles 1 28 Education Against Oppression Presentation: China in Transition Mar. 5, 1987 1 29 CCD Photographs 1 30 Violence of Racism and Militarism Info Sheets 1 31 S.B. Fuller's Correspondence with Babara Ebert 1 32 Petition Forms 1 33 Copies of South Africa: Apartheid, Divestment, and Cornell 1 34 Printouts of CCD's Computer Bulletin 1 35 Faculty Letter to COrnell Vice President 1 36 Faculty Network Against Apartheid May 20, 1985 1 37 Peace and Justice Course Catalog Fall 1986 1 38 Cornell University Commencement Brochure May 31, 1987 1 39 Unions and Activities Memorandums Aug.-Sep. 1985 1 40 Press Releases June 1985-Mar. 1986 1 41 City of London Anti-Apartheid Group Info 1 42 'Divest Now' Mortarboard Covers 1 43 Divestment Convocation Flyers and Brochures 1985 1 44 Herbster Negotiations 1 45 Miscellaneous 1 46 South African Freedom Charter 1 47-51 Activist Info Sheets and Flyers 2 1 Centre Against Apartheid Notes and Documents 2 2 Issues of Uprising! 2 3 Issues of Sechaba 2 4 Publications 2 5 Pamphlets 2 6 Issues of Outrage 2 7 Issues of Spark 2 8 ECSA 2 9 Composition Journal, various authors 2 10 National Student Conference on S. Africa Info 2 11 Copy of Compendium of NY Law 1975 2 12-14 Action Alerts, Articles, Miscellaneous 2 15-19 Coalition Newspaper Clippings 1986-1990 2 20-23 Newspaper Clippings 3 Protest Artifacts 4 Photos, Camera Film, Memorabilia 4 Slides of divestment and anti Star Wars protests Spring 1985

Images from the campus store, arts quad, and Day Hall. Slides taken by Joel S. Fetzer '88

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