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4 Jun, 4 tweets, 2 min read

Roll out your best news anchor voice and zoom back to June, 1966 in Roanoke, VA: "Preliminary runs for the Roanoke Soap Box Derby took place tonight and will continue tomorrow at the Roanoke Drag strip." #ArchivesOnWheels

search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_li…

"Some 15 entrants put their home constructed races through their paces tonight some of them reaching speeds of up to 31 miles and hour."

"The preliminary runs will continue tomorrow morning for the main event which is schedueld for July 16th. The winner will get a trip to Arkon, Ohio where the finals of the US Soap Box Derby is held each year."

Our WSLS_TV News Film Collection is an amazing trove of ~13,000 news film clips and 18,000 pages of the accompanying scripts read on air by anchorpersons from their mid-20th century broadcasts (~1951 to 1971):
explore.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/show/…

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4 Jun

This #Pride Month, we recognize the voices and contributions from our past starting with Julian (Hartridge) Green, the earliest known member of the LGBTQ+ community here at UVA. Green came from Paris as a first-year student in the College in 1919, after serving in World War I.

A prolific journal writer, Green began to note his attraction to men while at UVA. After two years as a student, and a year as an assistant professor of French, he returned to Paris in spring 1922.

Apart from 14 volumes of published journals, he also wrote 10 novels and a “frank” four volume autobiography.

Julian and his sister Anne, MSS 9188-f
"Diary," PQ2613 .R3 Z533 1964

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11 May 20

On Monday, May 11, 1970, 73% of the student body turned out to vote on the Strike and the nine demands. Follow the thread below for flyers posted around Grounds against and in favor of the strike, the referendum results, and other events of the day. #maystrikeincontext #1970UVA

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The @cavalierdaily published a list of polling places on Grounds:

Flyers and posters for and against the Strike were posted around Grounds (most via the Social Movements collection search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u38999…)

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22 Apr 20

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Fifty years ago, the May Strike protests erupted at @UVA: student activism & anti-war protests intertwined with the civil rights, women’s rights, & other progressive movements #maystrikeincontext #1970UVA

As we prepare our forthcoming exhibition and mark the fiftieth anniversary of the May Strike, over the next four weeks we will "live” tweet the events as they unfolded in 1970, day by day (sometimes hour by hour).

#OTD on April 21, 1970, the UVA chapter of the Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC) announced the start of The Ten Days …

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