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This interview covers Kathryn’s experiences growing up in Carbondale, Illinois, her college years at Southern Illinois University and graduate school at the University of Illinois’s Library Sciences program.

White police officers are shown holding the arms of the Freedom Riders outside of the Greyhound station

Certificate of participation in the Boston Freedom Schools by the Ryan Family.

This interview with William Majett by Ayinde Budd, Majett describes his upbringing in Wilmington, Delaware and his education at the University of Delaware as an African American in the 1960s.

The Pentagon Papers are classified documents leaked by Daniel Ellsberg in 1971 which revealed the hidden history of U.S. decision-making in Vietnam. (Fueled a lot of social unrest)

The Woodstock Festival which was held in August 1969, brought together over 400,000 people for three days of peace, music, and unity, symbolizing the countercultural ideals of freedom and communal harmony.

Young black demonstrators in the image are lined up outside the theater while a group of white teenage boys make a line in front of them.

Handwritten arrest record for Huldah Elizabeth Taylor on May 15, 1963 for trespassing during at Greensboro, North Carolina sit-in demonstration.

This scrapbook is part of a set of scrapbooks compiled by Clarence Lee Harris during the 1980s to commemorate the sit-ins through his own perspective.