The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) is a coalition of predominantly faith based institutions that are committed to socially responsible investing. The strength of the records lies in their documentation of the ICCR's programs, its work on individual issues, and its work with individual corporations and the U.S. Security and Exchanges Commission (SEC).
The records document the founding and development of Amnesty International of the USA, Inc. (AIUSA) and its national office. AIUSA is the largest national section of Amnesty International, an international human rights non-governmental organization (NGO). The records include material related to the board of directors, executive directors, administration, operations, campaigns, casework, publicity, special projects, and the work of the organization and its membership on human rights issues.
A collection of over 340 pieces of original material related to the demonstrations at Columbia University and their after-math, focused on actvities led by the Columbia Students for a Democratic Society (Columbia SDS) to protest the Vietnam War, end the construction of a Columbia gymnasium on public park land in Harlem, and include University students in institutional decision-making. Most items date to the spring and fall of 1968, including newspaper and magazine clippings, flyers for protests and demonstrations, letters, leaflets, journal and newspaper issues, essays, notices, press releases, memos, meeting minutes, proposals, and many other items, all collected and archived by Stuart Gedal, a student at Columbia and prominent SDS member.
The Mike McGrady Papers contain the draft manuscripts, correspondence, memos, and newspaper clippings related to a publishing hoax in 1969, where 26 reporters for Newsday wrote a novel under the penname Penelope Ashe.
Lucie Brock-Broido (1956-2018) was an American poet and educator. She authored four volumes of poetry A Hunger (1988), The Master Letters (1995), Trouble In Mind (2004), and Stay, Illusion (2013). The papers contain production material related to each book, drafts, manuscripts, personal and professional correspondence, teaching material, personal and biographical documents, printed resources, childhood mementos, books owned by Brock-Broido, and editions of Brock-Broido's books.
The collection documents the career and personal life of Trinidadian-born Black British activist and journalist Darcus Howe (1943-2017). Howe was best known as a defendant in the 1971 Mangrove Nine trial, a founding member of the Race Today Collective and editor of its journal, Race Today, and a producer of television series and documentary films for the British television station Channel 4. There is also material from the later life of Howe's cousin, the prominent intellectual, postcolonial writer, and activist C. L. R. James (1901-1989).
Established in 1965 by Columbia University, the Double Discovery Center (DDC) provides educational programs and services to low income and first generation college-bound junior high and high school students in New York City. The DDC is one of the oldest Upward Bound programs in the United States. The collection contains the records of the DDC from 1965 to 2005, including student files and materials documenting the DDC's primary programs, Upward Bound and Talent Search.
A small collection of the records of the Institute of Philosophy and Politics of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, dating from circa 1965 (the Institute's founding) until 1994. The Institute sponsored interdisciplinary research in history, philosophy, and the social sciences with applications for educational theory and policy.
The Strickman Cigarette Filter Collection documents Columbia's brief ownership of the patent for a cigarette filter invented by chemist Robert Strickman. Soon after their announcement of the agreement, the filter was found to be not much more effective than those in use at the time and Columbia withdrew its support. These records includes Columbia's statements, correspondence, and other materials generated throughout the incident.
