NTE2ua408.xml Guide to the Washington State University's Women's Center Take Back the Night Posters 2023 Washington State University's Women's Center Take Back the Night Posters Finding aid prepared by Mark O’English Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections © 2023 Finding aid encoded by Suzanne James-Bacon. 2023 Finding aid written in English. English. Finding aid based on DACS 2nd Edition ( Describing Archives: A Content Standard). Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections Archives 408 Washington State University. Women*s Center Washington State University's Women's Center Take Back the Night Posters 2023 2 Linear feet of shelf space 1 Oversize folder Posters and documentation from the 2023 annual Take Back the Night march at Washington State University. (MASC STAFF USE) This collection is located entirely in the oversized flat collections section of MASC. Collection materials are in English

The first Take Back the Night Rally and March at Washington State University was sponsored by the Women’s Center and Pullman N.O.W., and took place on Monday, October 17th 1983, starting at 6:30 p.m. in the Adams Mall parking lot. They have taken place annually since, with sponsorship moving among several campus organizations, including the YWCA.

The 2023 march took place on April 6, 2023 at 5 pm, starting at Todd Hall. The walk moved to Thatuna street, then Linden, Monroe, California, B, and ended at Colorado St., running about 1.2 miles and about a half hour. It was sponsored by the Women’s Center and the Coalition for Women Students (CWS).

The collection primarily consists of 23 posters carried during the walk. Most of the posters were pre-created by Women’s Center students and staff, and the posters which make up this collection were those not kept by individual marchers.

Additionally, the collection includes a 20 page printout with some planning documentation of the march, the text of a speech preceding it, and about 10 photographs from the march.

This collection is open and available for research use.

These signs are in the public domain.

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Washington State University's Women's Center Take Back the Night Posters, 2023 (Archives 408)

Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.

Lorena Cruz of the WSU Women’s Center donated this collection to the Washington State University Libraries on April 10, 2023, where they were retained as UA2023-02.

University Archivist Mark O’English processed this collection in April 2023.

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Washington State University. Women*s Center -- Records and correspondence Take Back the Night (Organization) Protest movements -- Washington (State) -- Pullman Women -- Crimes against -- Prevention Women college students -- Crimes against -- Prevention Victims of violent crimes Abused women Women Civic Activism Colleges and Universities Washington (State)