Social movements

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James Forman was an important figure in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, serving as Executive Secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) between 1961-1966, and a life-long intellectual and activist. This collection includes copies of Forman's published works, FBI files Forman obtained through FOIA requests, and A/V materials documenting Forman's activism in the 1980s-1990s.

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The collection contains a diverse array of political and social issue posters, as well as several art prints, bumper stickers, and postcards from the 1960s-2020. Used as tools for community organizing, to express political and social discontent, and fight for social change, political posters offer unique insights into histories of struggles using a combination of high-contrast colors, striking images and vivid illustrations coupled with sharp slogans and descriptive text.

Scope and Contents In the first interview session, which took place on April 6th, 2021, Samuel Anderson and Obden Mondesir discussed Andersons’ early upbringing, exposure to both segregation and racism at a young age, education, and his career that lead to his contributions to the SEEK program at Queens College. Anderson moved several times during his youth, and spent time in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Long Island, Panama, and Connecticut. He attended Pratt Institute and then transferred to Lincoln University for...

Scope and Contents Microfilmed newspapers cover a diverse range of movements such as the anti-Vietnam War movement, civil rights, women’s rights, gay rights, American Indian issues, Black power, Eastern spirituality, the New Left, and the youth and counterculture of the 1960s-1970s. Publications are individually cataloged in two places: first, as catalog entries in OneSearch (use keyword "underground newspaper collection", then...