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The Handicapped Win Demands - End H.E.W. Occupation
In April 1977, disability activists nationwide picketed or occupied the Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) offices to fight for the passage of Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act. The largest and longest protest took place at the HEW offices…
Two pages from The Beacon displaying portraits of teachers at Chelsea High School.
Inscription: Recto: 1921 THE BEACON [See individual photos for additional captions.], Inscription: Recto: [p.] 7 [left to right:] Helen M. Biscoe, English; Freda J. Belcher, Science; Marion J. Breath, History; Josephine R. Burke, Spanish; Margaret A.…
Mario Savio Berkeley Free Speech Movement
Mario Savio, right, who led the Freedom of Speech movement at the University of California, speaks at a 'Peoples Park' rally on the university campus in Berkeley, Calif., June 26, 1969. Savio spoke of freedom of speech, and then told the estimated…
Mario Savio
Mario Savio, 22, leader of he University of California students' Free Speech Movement, smiles during a rally on campus celebrating victory for political freedom in Berkeley, Calif. on Dec. 10, 1964. Savio, a philosophy junior from N.Y., was to be in…
Pro-Confederate account of the Battle of Gettysburg
Pro-Confederate account of the Battle of Gettysburg
Father Terry Letter to Coretta Scott King
A letter from then-president of Santa Clara University Father Thomas D. Terry to Coretta Scott King, expressing his condolences to her and her children following the assassination of her husband Martin Luther King Jr. He also states in the letter…
Leaving Andersonville
Photograph of drawing by James E. Taylor shows Union prisoners going through door in stockade wall as one prisoner collects a cake of bread.
A squelcher for woman suffrage / C.J. Taylor.
Print shows a woman being denied the opportunity to vote because she is wearing a dress and a hat that are too wide for the narrow booths labeled "Ballots Must Be Prepared In These Booths" where the ballots are marked. A policeman is standing on the…
Women in the barracks of the newly liberated Auschwitz concentration camp.
The Soviet film about the liberation of Auschwitz was shot over a period of several months beginning on January 27, 1945, the day of liberation. It consists of both staged and unrehearsed footage of Auschwitz survivors (adults and children) taken in…
[High school, Santa Cruz] B1364
View of Mission Street looking towards Santa Cruz High School (center); St. Charles Hotel on the right, barber pole on left side of the street; horse-drawn wagon on right; railroad tracks in the center of the street.