Box 1

This file consists of four information packets created and distributed by the US Government and New State Narcotic Addiction Control Commission in the 1960s. The materials cover US Military recruitment and volunteering programs, US Selective Service requirements, and the Supreme Court’s recent decision regarding the legality of marijuana and its classification as a controlled substance.

This file consists of a single printed item credited to Peter Sedwick. The item contains a recommended reading list on Women’s Liberation and feminist theory as well as offers a brief statement regarding the sociological significance of this perspective and academic study.

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.