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Accession #MC2011/128
TopicConvocation #018: Sharp, Gene, Focus on Issues for Social Change, 1975 and Photographs,
KeywordsNonviolence, Peace, Important Person, Famous Person,
TitleDr. Gene Sharp: "Focus on Issues for Social Change"
SizeOne Cassette Tape and One CD
LocationCassette Tape in Convocation Filing Cabinet and CD in Convocation CD Cabinet in order of date. Photographs in Peace Studies Small Photo Box #58.
CitationDr. Gene Sharp: "Focus on Issues for Social Change", MC2011/128, Archives and Brethren Historical Collection, Funderburg Library, Manchester University, North Manchester, Indiana.
AccessResearchers are responsible for determining copyright status of archived materials where this is relevant to their intended use of the materials.
ProvenanceArchives' Collection
Scope and Content

Dr. Gene Sharp speaks on "Focus on Issues for Social Change," delivered on 2 October 1975.  Dr. Sharp has been described as the world's top theorist of nonviolent strategy.

1.  One cassette tape.

2.  Two CDs.  One CD is for circulation.  Both CDs are in the Convocation CD Media Cabinet (IIS). 

Date of Accession31 March 2011
Bio History Note

Dr. Sharp's Great Aunt graduated from Manchester College in the area of Music in 1905.

http://www.thenation.com/article/159265/gene-sharp-nonviolent-warrior

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12522848

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Sharp

 

Archivist Note

Cassette tape transferred to CD by Instructional Technologies Department in March 2011.

Dr. Sharp's picture was identified in a box containing Peace Studies photographs* on 2 November 2011 by James Falkiner, Mark E. Johnston Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies. Jeanine Wine identified a student in the image as being Robert Stauffer Curry.  This places the picture as being taken during Sharp's 1975 visit. 

Description prepared 31 March 2011 by Jeanine M. Wine.

*[Photograph Small Box #58].

 


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