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Title: 1968-1969: Year of Protest, Year of Reform, Image 04
Date: October 4, 2019
Creator: Dan Kerr
Description: Mark Speiser
Subject: Washington, DC; American University; student; alumni; 1969; activism; protests; Adam Clayton Powell; Muhammad Ali; Martin Luther King; Robert Kennedy; March on Pentagon; anti-war; race
Country: United States
Collection: American University 1968-1969: Year of Protest, Year of Reform
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1745
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: 1968-1969: Year of Protest, Year of Reform, Image 10
Date: October 4, 2019
Creator: Maren Orchard
Description: Dan Kerr talks with Thomas Hartman, a graduate of the Class of 1963.
Subject: Washington, DC; American University; student; alumni; 1969; activism; protests; Adam Clayton Powell; Muhammad Ali; Martin Luther King; Robert Kennedy; March on Pentagon; anti-war; race relations
Country: United States
Collection: American University 1968-1969: Year of Protest, Year of Reform
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1751
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Susan Haris Interview, October 4, 2019
Date: October 4, 2019
Creator: Haley Steinhilber; Susan Haris
Description: Susan Haris, American University Class of 1969, reflects on her time as a politically active American University student. She remembers her favorite professor and how grateful she felt to be attending AU in his class. She discusses seeing speakers such as Adam Clayton Powell and Muhammad Ali at AU. Susan shares how the political activism and turmoil of the 1960s led her to get involved, and she talks about her experiences at the March on the Pentagon and anti-Vietnam War protests. She reflects on how the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy changed the culture of DC and Baltimore. She ends on a positive note: "we all got through it, and here we are."
Subject: Washington, DC; AU alumni; AU students; 1969; 2019 Golden Eagles Reunion; Adam Clayton Powell; Muhammad Ali; Martin Luther King, Jr., assassination of; Robert F. Kennedy, assassination of; March on the Pentagon (October 1967); Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Cambodia; Activism on American University campus; Anti-war protests; SDS (Students for a Democratic Society); Diversity at AU
Country: United States
Collection: American University 1968-1969: Year of Protest, Year of Reform
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1951
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

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