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Container
Contains 13 Results:
Anti-War/Peace Movement, circa 1967-1975
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2-5
Scope and Contents
This file consists of multiple folders that contain posters, fliers, leaflets, pamphlets, literary publications, and recruitment materials created and distributed in the late 1960s to early 1970s. The bulk of the materials pertain to upcoming demonstrations, acts of civil disobedience including strikes and boycotts, and active advocacy campaigns and events organized in protest of US involvement in the Vietnam War. Political groups creating materials and organizing many of the actions...
Dates:
circa 1967-1975
Activism-General 1960s, circa 1967-1975
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
This file contains a small number of news clippings, posters, pamphlets, and publications created or distributed during the late 1960s related to a wide range of causes including May Day rallies, experimental college course offerings, socialist critiques and thought, outreach to the Kennedy Assassination Inquiry Committee, student activism, worker advocacy, WBAI programming, NYC Department of Environmental Protection water standards, and New York State fiscal policy. The materials pertain...
Dates:
circa 1967-1975
CUNY Campaigns, 1969
File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents
This file consists of two fliers created in 1969 by student groups, the Student Advisory Council of the City University of New York and CCNY Committee for Open Admissions. In these fliers, the groups discuss current administrative issues with diversity, academic curricula, funding, and budgetary support of CUNY students and call for students to apply political pressure and organize. In additional to these fliers, there are two buttons from 1969 with the slogans “Don’t Cut CUNY”...
Dates:
1969
Harvey Silver Personal Materials, circa 2020
File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents
This file consists of three handbills advertising two separate exhibitions that took place in 2020 featuring photographs taken by Harvey Silver. Silver’s photographs reproduced on the handbills are of live performances, musicians, and images of upstate New York.
Dates:
circa 2020
International Issues, circa 1967-1975
File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
This file contains a small number of posters and educational/recruitment materials issued by various activist organizations from around New York City around the late 1960s to early 1970s. Organizations calling for political action (rallies, protests, etc) and distributing the materials include the Iranian Students Association, the American Committee to Keep Biafra Alive, and the Revolutionary Youth Organizing Committee. The issues touched upon by these organizations include the civilian...
Dates:
circa 1967-1975
Ocean Hill - Brownsville UFT Strike, circa 1968
File — Box: 1, Folder: 10-11
Scope and Contents
The file consists of two folder of materials that include posters, fliers, informational brochures, meeting agendas, statements, and list of demands created or distributed in Brooklyn, New York in 1968. These materials reflect the socio-cultural dynamic and tension existing between the students, striking teachers, community members, and school administration in the public school system in the Ocean Hill and Brownsville neighborhoods of Brooklyn, New York. Organizations or groups creating...
Dates:
circa 1968
Party Platform and Candidate Ephemera, circa 1964-1969, bulk: 1968 - 1969
File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents
This file contains posters, fliers, leaflets, campaign contribution receipts, party platform statements, sample ballots, campaign promotional materials, stickers, and publications created and distributed from the mid 1960s to late 1960s pertaining to political candidates and current issues in US electoral politics. These materials were created and distributed by groups such as the National Mobilization Committee, the Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee, the Coalition for a Democratic...
Dates:
circa 1964-1969; Majority of material found within 1968 - 1969
Protests and Political Activism, circa 1968-1969
File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
This file contains posters, leaflets, and handbills created and distributed in 1968 and 1969 surrounding the US National election of 1968. Within the materials, various activist groups including the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the Radical Organizing Committee (ROC), the Yippies, the Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee, and others promote various forms of political protest including pickets, strikes, demonstrations, and marches against party politics and political...
Dates:
circa 1968-1969
Queens College, circa 1967-1975, bulk: circa 1968-1969
File — Box: 1, Folder: 15-22
Scope and Contents
This file consists of six folders of materials including press statements and releases, newspaper clippings, newsletters, mimeographs, posters, fliers, position papers, and bulletins surrounding the student movement, campaigns, and political activities that took place on Queens College’s campus in the late 1960s to early 1970s. The bulk of the materials (seven folders in total) in this file relate to the ejection of General Electric recruiters from campus by student activists at...
Dates:
circa 1967-1975; Majority of material found within circa 1968-1969
Race Relations and Black Power, circa 1967-1975
File — Box: 1, Folder: 23
Scope and Contents
This file consists of a small number of posters, fliers, leaflets, educational and recruitment materials, and organizational statements created and distributed in the 1960s in New York City by organizations such as the Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee, the Youth Against War and Facism, and the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). The materials advocate for rallies and demonstrations against the actions of the police and US government to subjugate and disenfranchise Black...
Dates:
circa 1967-1975
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