Summary

Creator:

Grunwald, Ron

Abstract:

Ron Grunwald was an undergraduate at Duke University during the late 1970s. This collection contains materials reflecting his participation in student activism movements at Duke University and in the community, especially the Duke Southern Africa Coalition and the Radical Academic Union. Types of materials included are: printed matter, posters, newsletters, flyers, clippings, correspondence, memoranda, financial records, and an audiocassette. The bulk of material is from 1977 to 1980. Major subjects included are: student activism at Duke University, Associated Students of Duke University, international politics, human rights, Radical Academic Union, the Ku Klux Klan, Southern Africa Coalition, South Africa, unionization, Terry Sanford, and International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation. English.

Extent:

0.5 Linear Feet
500 Items

Language:

English.

Collection ID:

UA.30.01.0041

University Archives Record Group:

30 -- Student and Alumni Papers and Materials
01 -- Individuals

Background

Scope and Content:

Contains printed matter, posters, newsletters, flyers, clippings, correspondence, memoranda, financial records, and an audiocassette concerning protest activities at Duke University and in the community.

Biographical / Historical:

Ron Grunwald graduated from Duke University in 1980 (A.B., Trinity College). As an undergraduate student, he was a member of activist groups on campus including the Duke Southern Africa Coalition and the Radical Academic Union. The Southern Africa Coalition at Duke University concerned itself with human rights in South Africa as well as corporate divestment in the United States. The coalition sponsored the conference "Universities and Southern Africa" in 1978. The Radical Academic Union at Duke University protested President Terry Sanford's position on the board of International Telephone and Telegraph. Grunwald also corresponded with the Associated Students of Duke University and the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees regarding unionization at Duke.

In the local community, he was associated with the North Carolina Public Interest Research Group, the Northeast Coalition for the Liberation of Southern Africa, Triangle Vigil Committee and the Kudzu Alliance/Citizens Against Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant. The Triangle Vigil Committee organized against Ku Klux Klan presence in North Carolina and planned vigils to alert the public to current Klan activities, especially the Greensboro, N.C. killings in 1979.

Ron Grunwald is currently a faculty member at Duke University.

Acquisition Information:

The Ron Grunwald Papers was received by the University Archives as a gift in 1995.

Processing information:

Processed by Emily Glenn

Completed December 1, 2002

Encoded by Valerie Gillispie, June 2, 2003

Updated by Sherrie Bowser, May 2007

Updated by Meghan Lyon and Ani Karagianis, Feb. 2023

Rules or Conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Related

Related Material:

• Terry Sanford. Papers, 1926-1995 and n.d. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.
• Terry Sanford Records and Papers, 1945-1998. University Archives, Duke University.
• Eisinger, Jana,The Divestment Campaign at Duke University: Stepchild of the Civil Rights Movement. University Archives, Duke University.

Subjects

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Subjects:

Student movements -- North Carolina
Civil rights movements -- North Carolina
Antinuclear movement -- North Carolina
Human Rights -- Africa
College students -- Political activity -- United States
Corporate divestiture -- South Africa

Formats:

Clippings (information artifacts)
Posters
Sound recordings

Names:

International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) -- North Carolina
AFSCME
Duke University -- Students -- Political activity
Grunwald, Ron
Sanford, Terry