Thurman Wenzl papers
Content Description
This collection contains papers, correspondence, newspapers and clippings, publications, leaflets, and records on events, activities, and professional connections related to Thurman Wenzl's study as a graduate student at the University of Virginia (1963-1969). These materials document his efforts in the Civil Rights Movement and for worker's rights. The items include 1994 reunion materials of the Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC), information on the Radical Student Union of UVA, subject files on Charlottesville including clippings on police brutality, abortion, the Civil Rights Movement, early activism in Charlottesville, and several copies of The Virginia Weekly among other materials.
Dates
- Creation: ca. 1960s-2000
Creator
- Wenzl, Thurman (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is minimally processed and open for research.
Extent
0.2 Cubic Feet (1 half-width letter size document box)
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was a gift from Thurman Wenzl to the Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia on December 10, 2021.
Cultural context
Topical
- Title
- Guide to the Thurman Wenzl papers
- Author
- Rose Oliveira, Accessioning Archivist
- Date
- 2 November 2021
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library Repository
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
P.O. Box 400110
University of Virginia
Charlottesville Virginia 22904-4110 United States