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Group shot of student protest, view of Peace to Live sign, with people in the background.

Students assembled on Brookline Avenue near Simmons Hall during Moratorium Day, October 15, 1969, wearing arm bands, carrying signs, one of which reads: Give Peace a Chance.

Student demonstrators on perhaps quad / residence campus holding protest signs during a May Day ceremony. Signs read: What Cost Education? Will Students Leave after Faculty?

Student demonstrators on perhaps quad / residence campus holding protest signs during a May Day ceremony. Signs read: Why? Don't Let Simmons Degenerate. Venerate Worthy Professors. Where Oh Where Has Our Tuition Gone?

Jane Fonda posed speaking at the podium in front of Bartol Hall during an Influencers speakers program. President Holmes is posed sitting and listening.

Unidentified group of students at a peace demonstration, arms raised showing the peace sign, a black band visible one one raised arm, unidentified location.

Photograph of tents set up beneath Beech Trees behind the Main College Building in protest of plans to remove trees for construction. Sign hung in tree reads "Know Your Roots."

Simmons students participate in Occupy Boston.

Janice Kozyra, a Simmons freshman, was arrested on February 21, 1962 while participating in a civil rights sit-in demonstration in Easton, Maryland.

In 1965, Simmons students founded a Civil Rights Club. The goals of the organization was to increase students and faculty participation in civil rights activities and to discuss possible misconceptions about civil rights.