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name: label: Collection Creator
content: Harris, Marvin, 1927-2001
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content: Marvin Harris papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3.17 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1947-1999
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: NAA.2009-27, Series 6
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content: Archival materials
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content: This series is arranged in 2 sub-series: (6.1) Columbia University, 1947-1980; (6.2) University of Florida, 1981-1999
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content: This series contains Harris' administrative and teaching files as professor at Columbia University and University of Florida. Harris taught at Columbia University from 1953 to 1980 and was at University of Florida from 1980 until his retirement in 2000. His students' graded assignments and letters of references are restricted as well as some of his University of Florida faculty recruitment files. For more of his students' files, see Series 5. Name Subject Files.

Harris' activism in the 1960s at Columbia University is also documented in this series. Harris was one of the organizers of the Ad Hoc Teaching Committee on Vietnam and served as vice-chairman of Vietnam Facts, which later changed its name to Mass Media for Peace. Harris was involved in the student protests of 1968 at Columbia University. In April of that year, students occupied five campus buildings to protest the university's involvement in government wartime research and its controversial plans to build a gymnasium at Morningside Park. Harris was a member of the Ad Hoc Faculty Group, which was formed to act as mediators between the striking students and the administration. Violence erupted when the administration called in the police, which resulted in several people being injured and over 700 people arrested. Harris was one of the professors from the Ad Hoc Faculty Group standing between students and police in front of Fayerweather Hall, one of the occupied buildings. In his article, "Big Busts on Morningside Heights" (1968), Harris recounted the events of the protests and criticized the actions of the university administrators. He was one of the few faculty members that openly sided with the students. Materials from that time period include university memos, pamphlets, Harris' oral history, and notes on Seymour Melman's oral history. See Series 9. Photographs for photos from the protests.