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  • Title: New Left collection
    Date (inclusive): 1923-2004
    Collection Number: 69001
    Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
    Language of Material: English
    Physical Description: 70 manuscript boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 1 oversize folder, 1 envelope, 1 microfilm, 3 phonorecords (28.0 Linear Feet)
    Abstract: The New Left Collection largely relates to radical movements for political and social change in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. It is the largest resource in the archives devoted to this turbulent period in American history. Organized alphabetically by subject file, the collections consists of serial issues and other printed matter, and includes a great deal of ephemera, especially leaflets and flyers. Topics covered in the collection include the movement against the Vietnam War; student radicalism; the civil rights movement and black militancy; revolutionary organizations; the women's liberation movement; and the counter-culture.
    Creator: Bacciocco, Edward J.

    Access

    The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

    Use

    For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives

    Acquisition Information

    Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1969. An increment was added in 2011.

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], New left collection, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    Scope and Content of Collection

    The New Left Collection largely relates to radical movements for political and social change in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. It is the largest resource in the archives devoted to this turbulent period in American history. Organized alphabetically by subject, the collection consists of serial issues and other printed matter, and includes a great deal of ephemera, especially leaflets and flyers. Topics covered in the collection include the movement against the Vietnam War; student radicalism; the civil rights movement and black militancy; revolutionary organizations; the women's liberation movement; and the counter-culture.
    There is a special emphasis in the collection on protest movements that emerged on college campuses in the San Francisco Bay Area. There are extensive materials relating to events at Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley, and San Francisco State University. There is also considerable documentation of the organization, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), dating from its earliest years through the factional struggles that culminated in a split in SDS in 1969.
    The collection was initially developed and curated by Dr. Edward Bacciocco, author of American New Left, 1956-1970 (Hoover Institution Press, 1974). Numerous increments have been added to the collection over the years; many of these incremental materials are described at the end of the finding aid. A number of topics in the register appear more than once, as a general heading or as a subheading, as in the case of Students for a Democratic Society, which appears both as a general subject and under the headings of a number of universities where local groups of SDS were active.

    Related Collection(s)

    Radical Right Collection, Hoover Institution Library & Archives

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Sound recordings
    Communism -- United States
    Subversive activities -- United States
    Conscientious objectors -- United States
    Universities and colleges -- United States
    Socialism -- United States
    Radicalism -- United States
    Draft -- United States
    Student movements -- United States
    College students -- United States
    Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements
    United States -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980