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A humanities course on contemporary issues organized a Survival Faire at San Jose State College. In this view several students and faculty are gathered together in a class room. One student is holding a survival faire balloon. Civil Rights and Campus Protest Collection, MSS-2010-07-07, San José State University Library Special Collections & Archives. According to a press release dated 21 January 1970, Humanities 160, Contemporary Issues, organized a Survival Faire at San Jose State College, February 16-20. The purpose of the faire was to raise awareness to the college community and broader public on the problems of environmental survival. The Faire sponsored a week of activities that included events, exhibits, speakers, panels, workshops, films, exhibits, plays and a funeral procession and a nine hour wake to celebrate the burial of a 1970 car, among other events. See Civil Rights and Campus Protest Collection, Box 3. Alexander Street Press, original scanned as .bmp.
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