Telegram to University of California Students

DESCRIPTION
Telegram dated July 30, 1976 addressed to University of California informing students of “grave impending crisis” and inviting them to join the “Justice for George Fernandes and Other Freedom Fighters” committee. George Fernandes was one of twenty-five freedom fighters arrested by Indira Gandhi’s administration in June 1976 and tried in the infamous Baroda dynamite case.

THEMES
Activism

ADDITIONAL METADATA
Date: July 30, 1976
Subject(s): George Fernandes
Type: Correspondence
Language: English

PROVENANCE
Holding Institution: San Jose State University
Collection: South Asian Collection at San Jose State University
Digitizer: Xiaoda Wang
Item History: 2013-11-01 (created); 2020-04-09 (modified)

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