California social, protest, and counterculture movement ephemera collection SOC MOV EPH

California Historical Society

2015

678 Mission Street

San Francisco, CA 94105

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Language of Material: English

Contributing Institution: California Historical Society

Title: California social, protest, and counterculture movements ephemera collection

Identifier/Call Number: SOC MOV EPH

Physical Description: 8.0 boxes, 1 oversize (4.5 linear feet)

Date (inclusive): 1965-1980

Physical Location: Collection is stored onsite.

Language of Material: Collection materials are in English.

Abstract: Consists of a variety of ephemera related to social, protest, and counterculture movements in California, particularly in San Francisco and the greater Bay Area. The bulk of the mateiral dates from 1965-1980. The collection includes ephemeral materials such as flyers, brochures, announcements, newsletters, and newspapers.

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All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Director of Library and Archives, North Baker Research Library, California Historical Society, 678 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105. Consent is given on behalf of the California Historical Society as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner. Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], [File name], California social, protest, and counterculture movements ephemera collection, California Historical Society.

Related Collection(s)

California Ephemera Collection

San Francisco Ephemera Collection

Accruals

Additions to the collection are ongoing.

System of Arrangement

Collection is arranged in two series: 1) General social, protest and counterculture movements; and 2) Organizations and publications.

Files in series 1 (General social, protest and counterculture movements) are arranged alphabetically by name of thing, event, place, or topic represented.

Files in series 2 (Organizations and publications) are arranged alphabetically by organization or publication.

Scope and Contents

Consists of a variety of ephemera related to social, protest, and counterculture movements in California, particularly in San Francisco and the greater Bay Area. Some materials are from organizations outside of California, but were collected by participants in movements located in California. The bulk of the material dates from 1965-1980. The collection includes ephemeral materials such as flyers, brochures, announcements, newsletters, and newspapers.

Series 1 (General social, protest and counterculture movements) includes materials related to the Anti-Vietnam War, Free Speech, international human rights and women's movements.

Series 2 (Organizations and publications) includes ephemera related to social justice, anti-war, civil rights and countercultural organizations and publications, such as newsletters and newspapers, related to these topics.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Announcements

Anti-war demonstrations.

Boycotts.

Brochures.

California Ephemera Project

Civil rights -- 1960-1970

Counterculture--California.

Ephemera

Fliers (printed matter).

Free Speech Movement (Berkeley, Calif.)

Gay rights -- California

Human rights -- 1960-1970

Labor.

Newsletters

Newspapers

Organizations -- California

Peace movements -- California

Protest movements -- California

Publications.

Social movements -- California

Women's rights -- 1970-1980

General social, protest and counterculture movements

Affirmative action

Scope and Contents

Includes materials on the University of California v. Bakke (1978) and United Steelworkers v. Weber (1979)

Anti-protest movement

Anti-Vietman War movement--demonstrations and rallies

Anti-Vietnam War movement--draft resistance and conscientious objection

Scope and Contents

Includes materials on the Fort Hood Three, Pfc. James Johnson, Pvt. Dennis Mora, and Pvt. David Samas who were jailed in the stockade at Fort Dix, New Jersey for conscientious objection to the Vietnam War.

Anti-Vietnam War movement--tax protest

Art for peace

Bay Area environmental issues

Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) boycott

Boycotts

Free Angela Davis

Gatherings and happenings

Gay and lesbian rights

Gay and lesbian rights movement ephemera collection

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Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco

Hare Krishna

Housing and renter's rights

Scope and Contents

Includes materials about the International Hotel, San Francisco evictions.

Human rights and social justice--Africa

Human rights and social justice--Cuba and Puerto Rico

Human rights and social justice--Middle East

Human rights and social justice--South America

Human rights and social justice--Southeast Asia and China

Scope and Contents

Includes materials on Vietnam, Philippines and East Timor.

Human rights and social justice--United States

Labor

Martin Luther King Jr. rally

Mexican-American rights movement

Native American rights movement

New Left organizations

Nuclear disarmament

People's Park

Police repression

Port Chicago Vigil

Prisoners rights and prison reform

Racism in education

Sexual liberation

Siege of Beirut

Socialism

Statements on peace

Physical Location: Oversized materials are located in SOC MOV EPH OV Box 1, Folder 6.

Stockwell, John (Critic of CIA operations)

Watergate

Welfare rights

Women's movement--abortion and reproductive rights

Women's movement--addiction

Women's movement--aging

Women's movement--arts and theatre

Women's movement--careers

Women's movement--film

Women's movement--finances

Women's movement--health

Women's movement--International Women's Day and International Women's Year

Women's movement--labor

Women's movement--legislation

Women's movement--Mexican-American women

Women's movement--music and musicians

Scope and Contents

Includes materials on Olivia Records of Oakland, California.

Women's movement--newsletters

Women's movement--politics

Women's movement--prostitution

Women's movement--radio programs

Scope and Contents

Includes materials for KPFA's radio serial Feminist Radio Serial Project .

Women's movement--Socialist feminists

Women's movement--violence against women

Scope and Contents

Includes newsletters of Women Against Violence in Pornography and Media.

Women's movement--workshops and events

Organizations and publications

79 Cent Spread (Carmel)

Ad Hoc Committee for Peace in Vietnam

The Ally: A Newspaper for Servicemen (Berkeley)

America After Vietnam (George F. Kennan)

American Friends Service Committee

American Liberty League

American Society to Defend Children

Angry Arts Week West

Another Mother for Peace (Beverly Hills)

August 6-9 Committee (United Committee)

Bay Area Asian Coalition Against the War

Bay Area Peace Coordinating Committee (also Bay Area Peace Organizing Committee)

Berkeley Barb (Newspaper, Berkeley)

Black Panther Black Community News (Black Panther Party, Oakland)

The Bond: The Servicemen's Newspaper (Berkeley)

The Bowditch Review (University of California, Berkeley)

Breakthrough (Magazine)

Bring the Troops Home Now (Newsletter, Cambridge, Massachusetts)

Californians for Liberal Representation

Canyon Collective (Newsletter)

Citizens for a Democratic Society (Automobile boycott)

Citizens for Governmental Restraint, Inc.

Physical Location: Located in SOC MOV EPH OV Box 1, Folder 1.

Citizens for Irish Justice

The Committee (Theater)

Committee for the Presidio 27

Committee for Independent Political Action (University of California, San Francisco Medical Center)

Community for New Politics (Scheer for Congress)

Concerned Citizens of Palo Alto

Concerned Citizens of San Mateo County

Conscience (Newsletter, San Francisco)

Diggers (San Francisco)

Downtown Peace Coalition

El Malcriado: The Voice of the Farm Worker

Eureka-Noe Valley Concerned Citizens

Free Speech Movement

Funding Feminists Coalition

Greene, Felix (Journalist, San Francisco)

Haight-Ashbury Record (San Francisco)

Haight-Ashbury Tribune (San Francisco)

Haight-Ashbury Vietnam Committee--General

Physical Description: 3.0 folders

Physical Location: Oversized materials are located in SOC MOV EPH OV Box 1, Folder 2.

Haight-Ashbury Vietnam Committee--Petitions

I.F. Stone's Weekly: Special Report from Vietnam

Independent Socialist Club

Individuals Against the Crime of Silence

Insight (Student newsletter, Los Angeles)

International Days of Protest Peace March Committee

International Non-Violent Peace Brigade

International Re-Education Foundation

Iranian Students Association in Northern California

The Kept Press (Palo Alto)

Lampost (Newsletter of Youth for Service, San Francisco)

Liberty Amendment Committee of the USA, Tax Report, 1966 (Los Angeles)

Los Angeles Committee to End the War in Vietnam

Physical Location: Located in SOC MOV EPH OV Box 1, Folder 3.

Los Angeles Digger News

Los Angeles Free Press

Mammon (San Francisco)

Maverick (San Francisco)

May Second Movement

Medic (Albany)

Mental Health Disaster Corps (San Francisco)

Midpeninsula Observer (Palo Alto)

Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam (Spring Mobilization Committee)

Physical Location: Oversized materials are located in SOC MOV EPH OV Box 1, Folder 4.

The Movement (Newsletter of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee of California)

Muhammad Speaks (Muhammad's Mosque, Chicago, Illinois)

National American Party

National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam (Newsletters, Madison, Wisconsin)

National Guardian Committee of San Francisco

National Organization of Women (San Francisco chapter)

New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam (also Bay Area Peace Action Council)

New Thought Peace Fellowship

Newsman's Gadfly

Northern California Peace Action Council

Northern Californians to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee

The Oracle (San Francisco, Los Angeles)

Physical Location: Located in SOC MOV EPH OV Box 1, Folder 5.

P.O. Frisco (San Francisco)

Peace Activists Defense Committee

Peace Commission of the Northern California District of the Communist Party

Peace and Freedom Party

Peace Letter (Newsletter, SOEPEC)

Peace Torch Marathon

The Peacemaker (Cincinnati, Ohio)

People's World (San Francisco)

The Plain Truth: A Magazine of Understanding (Pasadena)

Prevert (University of Southern California newsletter)

Progressive Labor Party

Quaker Action Group (Friends Sail for Haiphong)

Ramparts (Magazine, San Francisco)

Ramparts (Special reports, San Francisco)

Ramparts ( The Sunday Ramparts , San Francisco)

Ramparts ( The Tuesday Ramparts , San Francisco)

Rebel Worker Organization

Redwood City Citizens Against Racism

Redwood City Committee Against Napalm

Regional Vietnam Peace Conference

Revolutionary Communist Party

Rolling Stone (San Francisco)

San Francisco Express Times

San Francisco Peninsula Committee on Soviet Jewry

San Francisco Women for Peace

San Francisco Women's Center

Scene (Smart Set Int., Inc., anti-drug newsletter)

Sedition (San Jose)

Sons and Daughters (American Documentary Films, Inc.)

Southern Californians for New Politics (Venice)

The Spokesman (San Francisco)

Stanford University protest groups

Statewide Conference on Power and Politics

Stop Our Ship (S.O.S., USS Coral Sea )

Student Peace Union

Students for a Democratic Society (San Francisco State College)

Physical Description: 2.0 folders

Students for a Democratic Society (University of California, Berkeley)

Students Organized Education and Action League (S.O.E.A.L.)

Synapse (University of California, San Francisco)

Turn Toward Peace, Pacific Central Region

Unitarian Fellowship for Social Justice, Acts for Peace, San Francisco Peace Action

United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO

Scope and Contents

Includes materials of organizations supporting the United Farm Workers of America.

United States Committee for Friendship with the German Democratic Republic

Vietnam Blues (Bindweed Press, San Francisco)

Vietnam Courier (Hanoi)

Vietnam Day Committee, San Francisco State College

Vietnam Day Committee, University of California, Berkeley

Vietnam Moratorium Committee of the Monterey Peninsula

Vietnam Observer (San Francisco)

Vietnam Summer (San Francisco)

Vietnam Veterans Against the War

W.E.B. DuBois Club (San Francisco chapter)

War Bulletin (Berkeley)

War Registers League Western Region (Resist, Peace and Liberation Commune, The Resistance)

West Contra Costa Peace Center

Where is Vietnam? (Lawrence Ferlinghetti, San Francisco)

William Winter Comments, Special Vietnam Issue (Sausalito)

Women for Racial and Economic Equality

Women Strike for Peace, San Francisco Women for Peace

Women's History Research Center

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

Workers World (New York, New York)

Yes on P (Citizens for a Vote on Vietnam)

Physical Location: Oversized materials are located in SOC MOV EPH OV Box 1, Folder 7.

Young Socialists Alliance

Zengers (San Francisco State University)