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Danielle Perelman photographs of student protests at Brown University (PH.1R.2023.005)

Brown University Library

Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: Manuscripts: 401-863-3723; University Archives: 401-863-2148
Email: Manuscripts: hay@brown.edu; University Archives: archives@brown.edu

Inventory

1. Student protest photographs

Container Description Date
Money Talks Brown Protest (March 11, 2015)
245 Megabytes
48 digital files

Contents Note: Photographs document over 400 community members from Brown University participating in a silent march on March 11, 2015, to protest the University's response to two female students' allegations of being drugged and sexually assaulted at a Phi Kappa Psi party in October of 2015. Organized by the student group Act4RJ, demonstrators wore dollar bills taped over their mouths with bright-red numerals "IX" in reference to Title IX. The protestors marched from Wriston Quadrangle, through University Hall taping up lists of 10 demands, and onto the Quiet Green over the course of 45 minutes.

Subjects:
Greek letter societies
sexual assault
2015-03-11
Native Americans at Brown Die In (October 9, 2015)
109 Megabytes
19 digital files

Contents Note: Photographs document 75 students staging a 'die-in' on the Friday before Brown University's Fall Weekend Holiday, renamed Indigenous People's Day in 2016. The die-in was scheduled to last for 52 minutes and 30 seconds to signify '523 years of indigenous resistance.'

Subjects:
Indigenous Peoples' Day
Indigenous peoples--Civil rights
2015-10-09
Native Americans at Brown Indigenous Peoples Day Protest (October 12, 2015)
131 Megabytes
23 digital files

Contents Note: Photographs document Native American students at Brown protesting holding signs and banners to rename Fall Weekend Holiday to Indigenous Peoples' Day at Brown University.

Subjects:
Indigenous Peoples' Day
Indigenous peoples--Civil rights
2015-10-12
Blackout Brown (November 12, 2015)
226 Megabytes
41 digital files

Contents Note: Photographs document students of color gathering on the Quiet Green at Brown University holding signs "We stand with Mizzou" in response to student-led protest against racialized violence at the University of Missouri. The rally included speeches from The Graduate Students of Color Collective, the Nabrit Black Graduate Student Association, and Africana Studies. 

Subjects:
Anti-racism
Racism in schools
Racism against Black people
2015-11-12
Campus Walkout (November 16, 2016)
316 Megabytes
64 digital files

Contents Note: Photographs document over 400 Brown University students, staff, and faculty walkout in response to the 2016 presidential election results in support for the Sanctuary Campus movement and the Dakota Access Pipeline protests at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation.

Subjects:
Immigrants--Political activity--United States
Indigenous peoples--Civil rights
Environmental justice
2016-11-16