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McCrummen (JB) GOO! and January 28 Committee collection
SBHC Mss 123
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Title: JB McCrummen GOO! and January 28 Committee collection
Identifier/Call Number: SBHC Mss 123
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
0.21 linear feet
(1 half-size document box)
Creator:
McCrummen, JB
Date (inclusive): December 1969-February 1970
Abstract: This collection consists of documents gathered by environmental activist JB McCrummen relating to activism in the wake of
the blowout and oil spill in the Santa Barbara Channel in 1969. Materials cover the formation of the Santa Barbara-based environmental
organization GOO! (Get Oil Out!) and the January 28 Committee, a coalition of student, environmental, and businesses leaders
formed to commemorate the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill. Materials date from early December 1969 to February 1970.
The collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Research Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish
or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Research Collections. Permission for publication
is given on behalf of the Department of Special Research Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended
to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
[Identification of Item], JB McCrummen GOO! and January 28 Committee collection, SBHC Mss 123. Department of Special Research
Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Gift of JB McCrummen, 2019.
Born in Clovis, California, JB McCrummen graduated from Fresno State University in 1964 with a degree in business and a minor
in agriculture. McCrummen lived in Santa Barbara from 1965 through February 1971, and was involved in anti-oil activities,
the anti-war movement, and other local political groups. McCrummen served on the GOO! (Get Oil Out) Board of Directors from
the spring of 1969 to the fall of 1970. In addition, McCrummen served on the January 28 Committee, a coalition of student,
environmental, and business leaders formed in early fall 1969 to commemorate the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill. The commemoration
was held on January 28, 1970 at Santa Barbara City College, with more than 1000 people in attendance.
GOO! (Get Oil Out!) was formed in the aftermath of the blowout and oil spill in the Santa Barbara Channel in 1969. Since then,
the Santa Barbara-based organization has worked to contain and monitor the oil industry off the coast of Santa Barbara, California,
through governmental and legal action, as well as through education and public awareness campaigns.
GOO! monitors legislation pertaining to oil development in the Santa Barbara Channel on the local, state, and federal level;
supports offshore lease buy-back programs, the development of alternative energy technologies, and government policies local,
state, and federal supporting environmental protection.
This collection consists of documents gathered by JB McCrummen related to early 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill activism and
the formation of GOO! (Get Oil Out!) and the January 28 Committee.
The documents cover McCrummen's service as a member of the board of directors of GOO! from 1969-1970, as well as his executive
directorship of the January 28 Committee from early December 1969 to February 1970. Materials include board of directors minutes,
agendas, and reports; GOO! bylaws and other organizational documents, as well as press clippings related to GOO! activities
from 1969 to 1970.
The activities of the January 28 Committee are captured in correspondence and organizational documents, as well as photographs
and ephemera from the one year commemoration event on January 28, 1970, held at Santa Barbara City College.
Get Oil Out! (GOO!) collection, SBHC Mss 10, Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library.
Community Environmental Council records, SBHC Mss 109. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library,
University of California, Santa Barbara.
All files in this collection contain detailed descriptions of content (in hardcopy) compiled by JB McCrummen.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Environmental justice
Environmental policy -- California -- Santa Barbara Channel
Environmentalism -- California -- Santa Barbara
Oil spills -- California -- Santa Barbara Channel
Political activists -- California -- Santa Barbara
Administrative reports
Agendas (administrative records)
Bylaws (administrative records)
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence
Minutes (administrative records)
Photographs
Printed ephemera
McCrummen, JB -- Archives
Get Oil Out! -- Archives
January 28 Committee -- Archives