Box 1

Abstract

Collection of fliers, posters, buttons, handbills, and other political ephemera from the 1960s-1970s documenting activist movements in New York City, Queens, and Queens College. Topics include the Vietnam War, 1968 presidential and other elections, students’ rights, and racism. Materials in the collection were gathered by Harvey Silver, a Queens College alumnus who was student activist and photographer of various political and cultural events in the 1960s-1970s.

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...

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...

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”...

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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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...