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Social Movements Collection
H.Mss.1031  
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  • Descriptive Summary
  • Scope and Contents of the Collection
  • Organization and Arrangement
  • Separated Material
  • Indexing Terms

  • Descriptive Summary

    Title: Social Movements Collection
    Dates: 1938-2018
    Collection number: H.Mss.1031
    Extent: 7.5 Linear Feet (4 document boxes, 1 oversize doc box, 1 half-size document box, 4 flat oversize boxes)
    Repository: Claremont Colleges. Library. Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library. Claremont, CA 91711
    Abstract: This collection is made up of materials from multiple social movements throughout the 20th century. Especially in the 1960s, a boom of social movements erupted across the globe and in the United States formed by groups of people feeling frustrated with the continued oppression and lack of recognition throughout the course of history. There are materials from the Black civil rights movement, Chicano Movement, the United Farm Workers, the Young Lords movement, and surrounding the events of the Zoot Suit riots in Los Angeles. Materails in the collection include photographs, banners, posters, program, Chicano art, and tattoo designs.
    Physical Location: Please consult repository.
    Language of Material: Languages represented in the collection: English, Spanish.

    Administrative Information

    Access

    This collection is open for research.

    Publication Rights

    All requests for permission to reproduce or to publish must be submitted in writing to Special Collections.

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], Social Movements Collection (Collection H.Mss.1051). Special Collections, The Claremont Colleges, Claremont, California.

    Provenance/Source of Acquisition

    Purchased; 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018 and 2019.

    Accruals

    Additions to the collection are anticipated and this finding aid will be updated periodically. Please visit our ArchivesSpace page for a more frequently updated container list: https://claremont.as.atlas-sys.com/repositories/3/resources/728

    Processing Information

    Processed by Phoebe Huth in 2014 in the Claremont Center for Engagement with Primary Sources (CCEPS), with assistance from Lisa Crane. Photographs and posters have been placed in mylar to aid in preservation. Cloth materials were placed in tissue paper. Finding aid prepared by Phoebe Huth, CCEPS Fellow, Fall 2014. Additions prepared by Sara Chetney, MA, 2018 and Myles Mikulic, 2019.

    Biography / Administrative History

    This collection is made up of various materials from differing social movements throughout the 20th century. Especially in the 1960s, a boom of social movements erupted across the globe and in the United States. In the U.S., some of the movements included the Black civil rights movement, the United Farm Workers movement, the Chicano Movement, the second-wave feminist movement, the American Indian Movement, the Asian American Movement, and several other groups of people feeling frustrated with the continued oppression and lack of recognition throughout the course of history. The Black civil rights movement changed over the course of the century, moving from peaceful sit-ins and boycotts to a more militaristic approach with the emergence of the Black Panther Party. The Chicano Movement, including the Young Lords Organization, began to gain more traction in the late 1960's and 1970's, adopting some tactics from the Black civil rights movement. There was also an explosion of Chicano art that inspired many artists around the world. The United Farm Workers movement emerged in the early 1960's and continued into the 1970's to establish rights for workers and to unionize to protect these rights. These movements, and others, created a lasting impact on the rights of humans today throughout the United States.

    Scope and Contents of the Collection

    This collection consists of materials related to social movements throughout the 20th century. There are materials from the Black civil rights movement, Chicano Movement, the United Farm Workers, the Young Lords movement, and surrounding the events of the Zoot Suit riots in Los Angeles. There are a wide variety of materials, including photographs of movement leaders, art inspired from the Chicano movement, original banners from organizations involved in these movements, posters, programs, and periodicals.

    Organization and Arrangement

    This collection has been arranged in the following series:
    • Series 1: Black civil rights movement, 1938-2007 and undated
    • Series 2: Chicanx/Latinx movements Chicanx/Latinx movements, 1943-2005 and undated
    • Series 3: LGBTQIA+ materials, 1971-1991
    • Series 4: Communism, Marxism-Leninism, and Socialism, 1929-1975
    • Series 5: United Farm Workers, 1965-1975 and undated
    • Series 6: Anti-war materials, 1966-1968
    • Series 7: Labor and the economy, 1934-1964
    • Series 8: Tattoos, 1982 and undated
    • Series 9: Political campaigns, 1934 and undated
    • Series 10: Nuclear war, 1961-1968
    • Series 11: Brian Shannon activism photographs, 1960-1979
    • Series 12: Religion and theology, 1965-1970 and undated
    • Series 13: Environmentalism, 1964-1966
    • Series 14: Utopianism and communal living, 1968-1969
    • Series 15: Women's rights and Feminism, 1810-2022
    • Series 16: Human rights movement, 2007-2018
    • Series 17: Conservatism, 1963
    • Series 18: Authoritarianism, Fascism, and Far-right, 2014-2016
    Materials have been organized alphabetically by folder title.

    Separated Material

    These items were purchased with the original collection and then moved.
    The following monograph items can be found in Library Search using the Uniform Title, "Social Movements Collection" or copying and pasting the following into the Search Box for Library Search: ut:Social Movements Collection.
    • Boog. From the Street with Love Milan, Italy: Mediafriends, 2007.
    • Forbes, David R. A True Story of the Christiana Riot. First edition, first issue (?). Quarryville, Pennsylvania: Sun Printing House, 1898.
    • Forbes, David R. A True Story of the Christiana Riot. First edition, second issue, with inscription to Moses Dunmore Quarryville. Pennsylvania: Sun Printing House, 1898.
    • Henry, Martha V. and Joralemon, Peter David. Art From the Inside: Paño Drawings by Chicano Prisoners. Brooklyn, CT: New England Center for Contemporary Art, 2005.
    • Lopez, Jose, Castrejon, Adrian "Spider", Rodriguez, Anthony "Tattoo Tony." Low Rider Tattoo Flash. Milan, Italy: Mediafriends, 2010.
    • Vialetto, Miki and Sawyer, Daniel O. "Danny Boy." Con Safos: Chicano Style Tattoo Art. Milan, Italy: Mediafriends, 2012.
    • Zermeno, Andrew. Huelga! Strike! Tarzana, California, 2010.
    The following monograph item can be found in Library Search by copying and pasting the following into the Search Box for Library Search: ti:"Utah's Greatest Manhunt".
    • Gallagher, Betrand E. Utah’s Greatest Manhunt: The True Story of the Hunt for Lopez by an Eye Witness. First edition. Salt Lake City, Utah, 1913
    The followng materials were originally purchased with the collection but have been moved to the Honnold/Mudd Manuscript Collection (H.Mss.1065).
    • 6 documents regarding California’s independence from Mexico in 1836.
    • A typed transcript from the Superior Court of the State of California in the case of Domingo Mendez v. Manuella Mendez.

    Indexing Terms

    The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library’s online public access catalog.

    Subject Terms

    African Americans
    Black Panther Party
    Black people--Civil rights
    Chavez, Cesar, 1927-1993
    Chicano movement
    Civil rights movements
    Civil rights movements -- United States
    Environmentalism
    Feminism
    Gay liberation movement
    Gay rights
    Labor
    Labor movement
    Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
    King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
    McCarthy, Eugene J., 1916-2005
    Nuclear warfare
    Outsider art
    Peace movement
    Political campaigns
    Religion
    Reproductive rights
    Socialism
    Social movements
    Social movements -- United States
    Tattoo artists
    Tattooing
    Theology
    Tattoo artists
    United Farm Workers
    Women's rights
    Young Lords (Organization)
    Zoot Suit Riots, Los Angeles, Calif., 1943

    Genre and Form of Materials

    Art
    Banners
    Flags
    Newsletters
    Newspapers
    Pamphlets
    Periodicals
    Photographs
    Posters