The Linda Lear Center for Special Collections and Archives

Summary This collection contains materials pertaining to the 1970 college-wide strike protesting the Vietnam War, held from May 5-10 at Connecticut College. It includes proposals and resolutions, the newsletter Strike Connecticut College, fact sheets for community canvassers, schedule and related documents from Parents Weekend (which took place during the strike), information on the Black Panthers, and two armbands. The items were collected by Vivian Segall, class of 1973, at the end of her freshman...