STANDing in The Spotlight is a series to highlight Project STAND members and how they use the project.
Joined February 2019
What They are doing
Sally Johnson, student and peer outreach archivist, presented at the Project STAND 4th Symposium at Arizona State University, with support from her home department (History) and the University Libraries.
OU Submitted two collections, one related to the Students for a Democratic Society and one a broader collection of “underground” campus newspapers, and have two more collections in queue.
Photos from the archives
On Valentine’s Day 1977, poet and activist, Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) with a large gathering at the Oklahoma Memorial Union ballroom. OU Libraries Western History Collections. 
Augustine Wiah raises his fist in support of Trayvon Martin at rally on the OU campus, March 26, 2012. Photo by Ricardo Patino. Image courtesy of the OU Daily. 
Members of OU Unheard demonstrate to show support for students protesting racism at the University of Missouri in March 2015. Photo by Jacqueline Eby. Image courtesy of the OU Daily 
Amos T. Hall, resident counsel for the NAACP; Thurgood Marshall, attorney from the New York office of the NAACP; Dr. H. W. Williamston, Idabel, state president of the NAACP; with OU Law School student Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher,1948. OU Libraries Western History Collections. 
Student “die-in” organized by the OU student group Revolutionary Baddies to protest the September 16, 2016 death of Terence Crutcher in Tulsa. Photo by Noor Eemaan. Image courtesy of the OU Daily 
Students on the OU campus South Oval gather to commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, April 1973. OU Libraries Western History Collections