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A volunteer undercover narcotics agent comes to Pullman, which leads to the arrest of four students for drug possession, setting off a long-running student fear of WSU employing undercover officers against their students.

A left-wing campus organization of motorcycle-riding professors and grad students (the UAWMFMC, known informally as the "Mothers") hosts a nine-hour kegger benefit of the Seattle Black Panthers' free medical clinics.

"Women in Revolt" is the title of a three-day series of WSU speeches and discussion on women's liberation

Anti-Draft Week includes panels, marches, church services, and a dance. It's organized by the Three Forks Peace Coalition, a regional organization of groups working towards an end to American involvement in Vietnam.

Several hundred draft protesters march from campus to the Selective Service (draft) office, and after police break that up, many march into three grocery stores to participate in a grape boycott protest. The protesters do minor damage to the stores,…

During the national anthem at a WSU/UW basketball game in Bohler Gym, a group of students, white and black alike, take center court and silently raise their right fists in the "black power salute." Some portions of the attending crowd boo in…

WSU MEChA pickets Pullman's Safeway in support of the National Farm Labor Union. The boycott of Safeway would include a raid as part of a larger protest in March.

The fall's third Moratorium includes panel discussions and picketing outside Todd and Sloan Halls.

A capacity crowd attends an Associated Women Students panel on abortion. The Washington state abortion laws at the time had been written in 1909.

A four-day Moratorium is held November 13-16, including a "March Against Death" on the 15th. Estimates put attendance at less than one-third of the October 15th event. The image featured in this item may be found in the Paul Philemon Kies Photograph…

Young Americans for Freedom begin selling red white and blue anti-Moratorium armbands in the CUB, selling over 500 of them.

WSU's Radical Union Guerilla Theater produces a mock trial on the CUB mall. The subjects of the trial are an unnamed "toad" and "tuna" standing in for Placement Bureau head Walter Bristol and WSU President Glenn Terrell. The image featured in this…

On October 1st, the ASWSU Senate votes to take no stand against the Vietnam War, but reverses their stand on October 8th. Events at WSU's Moratorium include discussions, speeches by Governor Dan Evans and Spokane civil rights attorney Carl Maxey,…

50 to 75 students occupy WSU's Placement Bureau to protest military recruitment on campus. After being given 15 minutes to disperse or be arrested, the demonstrators departed. Students reoccupied the office two days later, but dispersed when they…

The first classes begin in WSU's new Black Studies Program.

Reporting in Colfax for their first weekend in jail, five African American students charged in the Alpha Gamma Rho brawl are prevented from entering the courthouse by 75 students from different colleges who support them; they and all involved spent…

Following a basketball game on January 9th where members of the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity uttered racial slurs at members of Goldsworthy Hall, twelve to twenty African American students approach the Alpha Gamma Rho house. At least one student is…

A basketball game between Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity members and Goldsworthy Hall students ends with racial slurs and the AGR students throwing punches.

28 x 22 cm. handout, 1 page. The Pullman Liberation Front sent out a letter updating people about recent events concerning four black individuals accused of rape. The author believed that these individuals were falsely accused and it was instead an…

28 x 22 cm. pamphlet, 6 pages. An unofficial letter from members of some of the University faculty to concerned parents and Alumni about the student strikes. The letter addresses concerns and lays out a timeline and summarzies of student movement…

36 x 22 cm. handout, 1 page. The Washington State University administrators are being accused of negligence when addressing issues brought up by Third World groups. This handout had to have been issues between May 28th and May 31st, 1970.

14 x 22 cm. handout, 1 page. This sheet restates the original purpose of the strike and is mainly addressed to the white students on campus. It states that by helping minorities, white students have the power to be heard and make a change. At the…

What could have been actually found during the time of the big gold rush.

Just a little insight into how the base camps looked like during these people's time in the Klondike. Prospectors in a tent camp at Bennett Lake waiting for the ice on Yukon River to break up.

Image of the mad rush to the Klondike in order to reach the gold and achieve the American Dream.

This is a documentary on the Treaty of Versailles in 1918 and its Consequences, enjoy!
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Postcard shows pedestrians and three entrances to the Boston subway on commercial area of Park Street.