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This collection of baseball memorabilia honors San Jose State University Hall of Fame baseball player Howard "Lefty" Blethen. Materials include two awards, two autographed baseballs, and one autographed football. The materials are dated between 1978 and 2001.

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This collection consists of the personal papers pertaining to Marian Melendy, the first woman to be elected to the Santa Clara County Board of Education. The date range for this collection is 1947 to 2016.

Abstract The San José State University Jewish Studies Program Records contain materials documenting the creation of the Jewish Studies Program and its various courses, programs, and events; the receiving of grants from organizations and foundations; and the reporting of the Jewish Studies Program in the press. Materials in this collection include program reports, course descriptions, correspondence, flyers, pamphlets, meeting agendas, press clippings, philanthropic organization documentation, budget...

Abstract The Diane Solomon Civil Rights and Viet Nam War Era Button Collection represent the history of social and political movements during the 1960s and 1970s. Political buttons have been used for centuries as a means to support political candidates and later became popular in promoting specific social causes. Political buttons, pins, fobs and banners were very popular and inexpensive to produce. The buttons in the collection represent many of the social and political movements of the 1960's and...

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J. Benton White (d. 1931- ) was the first ombudsman on racial issues at San José State University. His position was created in 1967 by President Robert D. Clark in response to racial conflict and discrimination on campus, and was the first of its kind at a college or university in the United States. The bulk of the papers are correspondence, news clippings and reports from 1967-1971.