Andrew Sacks photographs, 1964-1980, 1964-1980

Summary

Creator:

Sacks, Andrew.

Abstract:

Photographer from Ann Arbor, Michigan. Photographs (prints and negatives) of student demonstrations at the University of Michigan, draft card burnings and other anti-Vietnam War protests, of the riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, of appearances of John Cage, Lyndon Johnson, Timothy Leary, Eldridge Cleaver, John Sinclair, John Lennon, Stevie Wonder, and Gerald Ford in Ann Arbor, and a meeting of Ku Klux Klan in Dearborn, Michigan.

Extent:

1 linear foot

Language:

English

Call Number:

92847 Aa 2

Authors:

Finding aid created by May Davis Hill, 1982; revised by Leonard A. Coombs, Dec. 1994

Background

Scope and Content:

The collection contains prints and 35 mm negatives of photographs taken between 1964 and 1980. The photographs primarily document student protests and other student political activities at the University of Michigan, as well as some other campus activities, including political speakers and social and musical events. Some events outside of Ann Arbor are also documented, including the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago and a Ku Klux Klan meeting in Dearborn, Mich.

The photographs are arranged chronologically, and are described in the following list by topic and date. Some undated photographs are grouped at the end of the sequence. Although the bulk of the collection is made up of negatives, for most topics the collection also contains prints of selected frames. In some cases there are no prints, and in a few cases no negatives. The list indicates these cases.

Prints and negatives are filed in parallel sequences in the collection, both in the same order.

Biographical / Historical:

Andrew Sacks was a student at the University of Michigan from 1965 until 1969, and was a photographer for the Michigan Daily during those years. During his senior year he served as photography editor for the Daily. After graduation, Sacks remained in the Ann Arbor area, working as a freelance photographer. He maintains a website at http://www.saxpix.com/.

Acquisition Information:

The prints were donated by Andrew Sacks (donor 6781 ) in June 1982. The negatives were donated in Oct. 1994.

Rules or Conventions:

Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)

Subjects

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Subjects:

African Americans -- Civil rights.
Riots -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Demonstrations.
Drug abuse.
Ecology.
Marijuana.
Music -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor.
Police -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Police -- Michigan.
Political parades and rallies.
Riots.
Slogans.
Symbols.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements.

Formats:

Photographs.

Names:

Black Action Movement (University of Michigan)
Democratic National Convention (1968 : Chicago, Ill.)
Ku Klux Klan (1915-)
University of Michigan -- Buildings.
University of Michigan -- Students -- Political activity.
University of Michigan -- Students -- Social life and customs -- 1961-1970.
Cage, John.
Cleaver, Eldridge, 1935-1998.
Fleming, R. W. (Robben Wright), 1916-2010.
Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006.
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973.
Leary, Timothy, 1920-1996.
Lennon, John, 1940-1980.
Pike, James A. (James Albert), 1913-1969.
Sinclair, John, 1941-
Wonder, Stevie.

Places:

Ann Arbor (Mich.)
Dearborn (Mich.)