Protests at OSU

Join Digital Storytelling Intern Libby Whitlow as she follows some of OSU's biggest organized movements and smaller acts of dissent to see potential threads between protests throughout the university's history. This episode features an interview with former Head of Archives, David Peters, and uses many digital sources from the archives including past O'Colly issues and information from the Centennial Series Collection.

Information on Walton's changes to OSU: https://dc.library.okstate.edu/digital/collection/centbooks/id/9577/rec/1

Protests over Wilson and Walton: https://dc.library.okstate.edu/digital/collection/centbooks/id/4157/rec/1

Protesting the Panhellenic Homecoming budget: https://dc.library.okstate.edu/digital/collection/centbooks/id/2781/rec/3

David's article about the Red Scare at OSU: https://issuu.com/brandosu/docs/issu_osu_state_mag_sp_2018

Free speech protests: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/055e80f860fb408bb1beb8ebf4d234d0

Kent State vigil: https://dc.library.okstate.edu/digital/collection/centbooks/id/2933/rec/3

Nixon rallies: https://cdm17279.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/ocolly1965/id/23850/rec/1

SUAB's (Student Union Activities Board) Last Temptation of Christ: https://dc.library.okstate.edu/digital/collection/centbooks/id/1708/rec/4 https://cdm17279.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/ocolly1980/id/25695/rec/21

Link to the Tea and Glee Society Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1vQGfKVU8M

Explore the Archives Facebook page and see photos from the Archives.

The Library hosts a suite of podcasts. Amplified Oklahoma and Dear Oklahoma, both produced by the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program at the OSU Library, can be found wherever you get your podcasts.

David Peters is often known as the "Unoficial historian for Oklahoma State Unviersity." He held positions at the Edmon Low Library since January 1986, working in the General Reference Department, later in Special Collections, then as supervisor of the Map Room. He returned to the Archives in 2000, where he worked until his retirement in 2022.