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Black History Month – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Each February, the United States celebrates Black History Month, which underscores and celebrates the contributions of African American Culture to the American experience over hundreds of years. Black History Month also examines and highlights the terrible oppression African Americans have experienced during these hundreds of years, and those who fought Continue Reading
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Archives in [or about] Space!
In October 2016, the SCRC brought in an exciting new collection from former NASA employee Martin Sedlazek. Sedlazek, who trained as an electrical engineer, worked for NASA in numerous capacities from the early 1960s until he retired in 1995. He collected material from the various projects he worked on, including Continue Reading
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Thanksgiving Holiday
An update on our holiday hours: The Special Collections Research Center will be closed Wednesday, November 23rd through Sunday, November 27th for the Thanksgiving holiday. The Special Collections Research Center will open again on Monday, November 28th at 10:00 am. You can find our regular Fall semester hours on our Continue Reading
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Vietnam Moratorium “Scroll” Documents George Mason College Community’s Activism
On October 10, 1969 a neatly dressed George Mason College student presented Chancellor Lorin A. Thompson with a loosely-rolled scroll of paper containing the signatures of over 600 Mason students, faculty, and staff. The document petitioned Thompson to excuse students, faculty, staff and administration from classes and college business on Continue Reading
