Abstract The Harry Edwards Papers contain items created and collected by Dr. Edwards throughout the course of his more than fifty-year career as a sociologist, scholar, and activist. Through these objects he documents historic moments in the Civil Rights movement, his involvement in professional sports, and academic achievements. Materials in this collection consist of photographs, documents, textiles, magazines, books, manuscripts, news articles, posters and flyers, journals, framed items, and...

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...

Abstract The Plato Yanicks Collection on San José State University Athletics consists of several sports-related memorabilia collected by Plato Yanicks (1933-2022) who was a San Jose State College alum as well as a successful high school coach of track and field and cross country. The bulk of the collection consists of materials related to the 1968 Black Athletes Olympics Boycott, the San Jose State Track and Field team between 1952-1988, and the participation of San Jose State athletes in multiple...