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New digital collection: VCU Gay Alliance of Students

The VCU Gay Alliance of Students digital collection contains legal documents, correspondence, applications, and other materials related to the VCU Gay Alliance of Students (GAS) and its court case against the university from 1974 to 1976. The case, Gay Alliance of Students v. Matthews, was one of the first LGBTQ+ student organizing cases to reach […]

VCU Libraries launches digital collection of Richmond Civil Rights-era films

Still images from reels (left to right, top to bottom): A 1965 voting rights march; an anti- and pro-Vietnam War protest, 1967; a 1966 American Nazi Rally; the previous Vietnam War protest; and footage from the trial of Jamil Al-Amin, 1968. A new digital collection offers a rare window into Richmond’s civil rights era and […]