This collection includes news clippings, newspapers, documents, publications, and other ephemera related to social movements occurring in the 1960's and 1970's in the United States. Subjects include women, welfare, the Vietnam War, the 1970 University of California Los Angeles campus strike, and other strike-related documents.

Many social movements were occurring during the late 1960's and early 1970's in response to events that were happening in America and the Vietnam War. The social movements included strikes and boycotts due to low paying wages, inequality, the widening welfare gap, the Kent State shooting, and the Vietnam War. This collection contains some material from these social movements, including the publication,Now! Welfare Rights. It also includes material from UCLA (University of California Los Angeles) after it was declared in a "state of emergency" in May of 1970.

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