Guide to the Jim Tranquada Collection on the Divestment
Movement at Stanford University
Daniel Hartwig
Stanford University Libraries
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
May 2011
Copyright © 2011 The Board of Trustees of
Stanford University. All rights reserved.
Overview
Call Number: SC1021
Title: Jim Tranquada collection on the divestment movement at Stanford
University
Dates: 1970-1978
Physical Description:
0.5 linear foot
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
Administrative Information
Provenance
Materials were the gift of Jim Tranquada, 2011.
Information about Access
Access: Materials are open to research use.
Scope and Contents note
Collection consists of materials compiled by Tranquada while covering the Stanford
divestment movement as a reporter for the Stanford Daily in 1977-1978. The material
includes leaflets created by the Stanford Committee for Responsible Investment Policy
(SCRIP); press releases issued by SCRIP, Stanford News Service, and ASSU; copies of
Board of Trustees correspondence; reporters' notes' press coverage of the divestment
movement at Stanford and elsewhere; and copies of organizing booklets published by
campus progressives, including Fire and Sandstone (Stanford, circa 1970), Disorientation
(Berkeley, circa 1977); and Organize (Stanford, circa 1978).
Access Terms
Stanford Committee for Responsible
Investment Policy.
Stanford University. Board of
Trustees.
Tranquada, Jim.
Apartheid--South Africa.
Students--Political activity.
Collection Contents
Box 1, Folder 1
Clippings
1977 Spring/Summer
Box 1, Folder 3
National press coverage
1977-1978
Box 1, Folder 5
South Africa notes, sources, etc.
1977 Spring/Fall
Box 1, Folder 6
Stanford student publications: Fire and Sandstone and
Organize
circa 1970, 1978
Box 1, Folder 7
Berkeley student publication: Disorientatio
circa 1977
