Abbie Hoffman Incident oral histories

Collection

Identifier: UA 0428

Staff Only

Finding aid note: The Ira Gruber and Allen Matusow oral histories are available via scholarship.rice.edu. Request access to the Jerilyn Mardis oral history (stored on Fondren Library's nearline / non-public server) by contacting Woodson Research Center staff at woodson@rice.edu. Please use the Identifier number in your request. It can only be listened to in the reading room until January 2031.

Content Description

This collection contains two video oral histories and one audio oral history. Anna Ta conducted the oral histories.

Dates

Creation: 2019

Conditions Governing Access

The Ira Gruber and Allen Matusow oral histories are available via scholarship.rice.edu.

Request access to the Jerilyn Mardis oral history (stored on Fondren Library's nearline / non-public server) by contacting Woodson Research Center staff at woodson@rice.edu. Please use the Identifier number in your request. It can only be listened to in the reading room until January 2031.

Conditions Governing Use

Permission to publish from this material must be obtained from the Woodson Research Center.

Biographical / Historical

In the spring of 1970, Student Center Board President Jerilyn Mardis invited Abbie Hoffman to speak at Rice University. Unbeknownst to her, the event became a larger fight with the administation that led to fires on campus and the occupation of Allen Center.

To learn the intracacies of this event, please see Anna Ta's online exhibit: https://digitalprojects.rice.edu/protests-at-rice/exhibits/show/abbie-hoffman