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As part of a nationwide campaign to recruit students to work for the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, two National Organization of Women (NOW) representatives visited Simmons College.

Simmons nursing students in a stockroom, handling medical supplies.

Simmons School of Library and Information Science students created a mobile library for Occupy Boston protesters.

Simmons students from the School of Library and Information Science and School of Social Work participate in Occupy Boston.

Front page from a pamphlet published by the Women's Center celebrating Women's Week, 1995.

A letter to the editor in which a pro-choice student recalls her experience at a Simmons student pro-life meeting in 1993.

On December 8, 1965, Simmons professors, including Tilden Edelstein, Frederick Anderson, and Lawrence Langer voiced their opinions against U.S. policy in Vietnam at a panel held at Simmons College.

Eleven members of the Simmons faculty signed a statment crafted by the former abassador to India, John Kenneth Galbraith, defending the right of students to protest the draft and the war in Vietnam.

Simmons students led a silent sit-in to protest the current level of support for students of color. The students presented President Helen Drinan with a list of Ten Demands.

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.