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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.

On October 16, students across the country marched to protest the continuation of the Vietnam War. In response to backlash remarks from United States Senators, the author of the piece argues that freedom of speech needs to be respected.

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.

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

Simmons students participate in Occupy Boston.

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."

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

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

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?