David Eisenman Papers, 1965-74

Papers of David Eisenman, Assistant Dean of Students, include meeting notes, correspondence, newspaper clippings, organizational broadsides of the Graduate Student Association, Black Student Association, and Citizens for Racial Justice, and audio tape recordings, relating to the Special Educational Opportunities Program (Project 500) and especially the September 9-10, 1968 disturbances at the Illini Union, assessments of how the crisis unfolded, how students were being handled by the disciplinary system, university-community relations and how the incident was covered in newspapers, especially the "Chicago Tribune," as well as the academic and magazine analyses of SEOP and the incident.

Oversized materials include posters designed by Eisenman.