Social Movements Collection
Phoebe Huth, Sara Chetney, and Myles Mikulic
Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library
800 North Dartmouth Avenue
Claremont, CA 91711
Email: specialcollections@claremont.edu
URL: https://library.claremont.edu/scl/
© 2019
The Claremont Colleges Library. All rights reserved.
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, 1966-1974 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
Series 1:
Black civil rights movement
1938-2007 and
undated
Scope and Contents
This series contains materials from the Black Civil Rights movement in the United
States, including a 1938 advertisement for an event featuring Duke Ellington, Juanita
Hall, Georgia Burke, and others, put on by the Negro Cultural Committee, and a poster
advocating for the freedom of Black Panther prisoners, like David Hilliard.
Box 1, Folder 1
"The Bourbons Got the Blues" flyer
1938 May 8
Note
Promotional flyer printed in dark blue ink on light blue paper. [New York]: Negro
Cultural Committee, [1938]. 8.5 by 11 inches.
A flyer for a performance which "offered historical sketches of black life from
slavery to the Depression, presented by actors and playwrights in the WPA Negro
Theatre" — Mark Naison, Communists in Harlem During the Depression, p. 203. The black
playwrights Carlton Moss and Dorothy Hailparn wrote most of the skits and enlisted
Georgia Burke, Duke Ellington, Juanita Hall, Rex Ingram, Arthur Wilson and Frank
Wilson as performers. By all accounts, the most memorable acts was Miriam Blecker and
Anna Sokolow's satiric ballet, Filibuster, in which the dancers played senators
opposing the antilynching law while actors read from the politicians' actual
filibuster speeches.
Box 2, Folder 1
"Free David Hilliard" poster
1971
Note
Original poster, silkscreened in red and black. [Oakland]: [Black Panther Party],
1971. 14 by 20 inches.
David Hilliard, a Chief of Staff for the Black Panther Party, was involved in a
shootout with Oakland police. This encounter lead to the death of the teenage militant
Bobby Hutton, two police officers being wounded, and Eldridge Cleaver and Hilliard
being under arrest. Cleaver was able to flee the country while on bail, while Hilliard
was sent to prison.
Box 5, Folder 2, Item 1
"Operation Windowshop" flyer
1961
Note
8.5" x 11" flyer encouraging black families to participate in a "window shop" of
apartments and homes, whether they desire to move or not, in order to demonstrate
their right to equal housing. Events like windowshopping aimed to show those "who
rent or sell housing that we will no longer tolerate limitations based on race,
color or national origin."
Box 5, Folder 2, Item 2
Flyer opposing restrictive housing proposition
1964
Note
8.5" x 11" pink flyer, printed on one side. Sponsored by the United Civil Rights
Committee. Text reads "Protect YOUR Right to Buy, YOUR Right to Rent," and states
its opposition to "Realtor's Jim Crow Housing Proposition."
Box 5, Folder 3, Item 1
Equal job opportunity conference leaflet
1954
Note
6" x 9" flyer advertising a conference in support of a FEPC ordinance for Los
Angeles to ensure equal job opportunities without discrimination by "race, creed, or
color." Sponsored by the following newspapers: Sentinel, Tribune, Eagle,
Herald-Dispatch, El Espectador, Frontier Magazine, CIO-Newsletter, and Pacific
Citizen.
Box 10, Folder 2
"Free the SF8" print
circa 2007
Note
19" x 25" print by Emory Douglas. Created for the Committee for the Defense of Human
Rights to support their campaign to free the "San Francisco 8," eight former Black
Panthers who were arrested in January 2007 for their alleged involvement in the 1971
murder of Sgt. John V. Young at Ingleside Police station, San Franisco.
Box 5, Folder 5
Organizations and Events
Note
Contains various pamphlets, leaflets, flyers, and other promotional materials for
protests, fundraisers, plays, meetings, and other events related to black civil rights
issues.
Box 5, Folder 6
Segregation and Integration
Note
Contains flyers, leaflets, and informational material regarding school segregation
and the fight for the implementation of classroom integration.
Box 5, Folder 7
The Trenton Six
Note
Contains materials regarding the fight to save six men who were sentenced to death
for the murder of a shopkeeper in Trenton, New Jersey. The case was controversial for
the obvious bias agaist the men, and the efforts of civil rights groups and lawyers
succeeded in overturning the original death sentence and gaining a new trial.
Box 5, Folder 9
Violence
Note
Contains materials relating to the violence faced by African Americans, such as bomb
threats, lynchings, and unfair biases in the justice system.
Series 2:
Chicanx/Latinx movements
1943-2005 and
undated
Organization and Arrangement
This series has been arranged in the following subseries:
- Subseries 2.1: Chicanx Outsider Art, 1984-2005 and undated
- Subseries 2.2: La Raza, 1967-1972 and undated
- Subseries 2.3: Young Lords, 1969-1972 and undated
- Subseries 2.4: Zoot Suit Riots, 1940-1979
Subseries 2.1:
Chicanx Outsider Art
1984-2005 and undated
Scope and Contents
This series contains artwork characteristic of the Chicano movement. Items include a
periodical called "The Green Angels" about Mexican Americans in the military, various
paños from prisoners, and art from an amateur female Chicana artist working in a
prison.
Box 1, Folder 2
Green Angels periodical
circa 1984
Note
(Rialto, CA): (Green Angeles), (n.d.but ca. 1984). [48] pages.
The first and apparently only issue of this periodical inspired by the lowrider
culture mag Teen Angels. This magazine is devoted to Mexican Americans in the
military, using photographs of soldiers, letters, along with drawings and collages
of military images.
Box 2, Folder 3
Untitled paño
2005
Note
Avenal State Prison, 2005. 15.5 by 16 inches. Ink on a handkerchief.
Paños are the dominant form of Chicano prison art, typically ballpoint pen drawings
on cotton handkerchiefs. This is a particularly interesting example, attributed to
"Droopy" by its former owner, who acquired it in Avenal State Prison in 2005.
Yaya Gonzalez (artist)
2001-2002 and undated
Note
Artwork by Yaya Gonzalez including a paños, photographs, and drawings. The art
features roses, tragedy-comedy masks, and other drawings in the style of Chicano
flash, inspired by the male dominated prison she worked in.
[No location, but acquired in San Francisco], 2001-2002. In a black zippered
portfolio case.
Box 4, Folder 3
Folder of drawings
2001 June 27 and undated
Box 4, Folder 6
Paños
2002 June 20 and undated
Box 4, Folder 9
Binder, originally holding drawings
Subseries 2.2:
La Raza
1967-1972 and
undated
Scope and Contents
La Raza was a bilingual newspaper and magazine published by Chicano activists in East
Los Angeles from 1967-1977. The paper played a seminal role in the Chicano Movement,
providing activists a platform to document the abuses and inequalities faced by
Mexican-Americans in Southern California.
Box 8, Folder 15
La Raza, Vol. 1, No. 7
1972 January
Box 8, Folder 16
La Raza, Vol. 1, No. 8
1972 April
La Raza newspaper, Vol. 1, Nos. 1, 8,
12
1967
September 4 - 1968 May 11
Box 8, Folder 17, Item 1
La Raza newspaper, Vol. 1, No.
1
1967 September
4
Box 8, Folder 17, Item 2
La Raza newspaper, Vol. 1, No.
8
1968 January
15
Box 8, Folder 17, Item 3
La Raza newspaper, Vol. 1, No.
12
1968 May 11
Subseries 2.3:
Young Lords
1969-1972 and undated
Scope and Contents
The Young Lords were street gang formed by Puerto Ricans in Chicago that evolved into
a diverse revolutionary civil rights group active during the 1960s and 1970s. Its
platform included Puerto Rican independence, freedom of political prisoners, and
withdrawal of military troops from Puerto Rico, Vietnam, and other areas. The Young
Lords also advocated for change in their local communities. Although the Young Lords
began in the Puerto Rican community, the group's goals of civil rights and social
justice attracted members from African American and other Latino populations. This
sub-series contains materials documenting the Young Lords Movement, including
photographs of Jose "Cha Cha" Jimenez, a leader of the Young Lords, as well as a Young
Lords banner.
Box 1, Folder 8
Jose "Cha Cha" Jimenez photograph
1969 June
Note
Chicago: Newspaper Division, Field Enterprises, 1969. 8.25 by 10.25 inch vintage
gelatin silver print.
This photograph, dated June 11, 1969, shows Jimenez in front of the United
Methodist Church, which the Lords took over and turned into the People's Church. The
building became a center for organizing and activism for Puerto Ricans in
Chicago.
Box 1, Folder 9
Jose "Cha Cha" Jimenez surrender photograph
1972 December
Note
Chicago: Sun-Times, 1972. 8 by 10 inches. A vintage gelatin silver print. A typed
caption glued to the back, along with the printed caption from the Dec. 7, 1972,
issue of the paper.
"Cha-Cha Jimenez, Y.L.O. Leader, Hiding from Police Since Aug. 70, Surrenders to
Police Tonight— Crowd Outside Cheers Him On"
After being sentenced to one year in jail on a charge of stealing $23 worth of
lumber, Jimenez went underground. He emerged 27 months later to serve his time. The
image shows Jimenez walking toward the camera as he enters a Chicago police
station.
Box 3, Item 2
Young Lords Organization banner
Note
[New York]: Young Lords Organization, [ca. 1970]. 60 by 42 inches. Brown cloth with
embroidery and applique lettering.
A handmade, double-sided banner for the Young Lords Organization. The verso reads
"Puerto Rico / Puerto Rican" with the island in green cloth in the center. This
banner came out of New York, so it seems likely that it originated there in late
1969 or early 1970, before the YLO became the YLP. Stylistically, this banner, with
its horizontal rifle, is closer to the Young Lords Party iconography than the angled
"Tengo Puerto Rico en mi corazon" logo adopted by the Chicago faction.
Subseries 2.4:
Zoot Suit Riots
1943-1979
Scope and Contents
This series contains items pertaining to the Zoot Suit Riots, a series of violent
clashes in June 1943 largely between U.S. and young Latinos in Los Angeles. Materials
include a Broadway program from the musical "Zoot Suit" depicting the Zoot Suit riots,
and a photograph of the first Zoot Suit on record, originally published in the New
York Times.
Box 1, Folder 10
"First zoot suit on record"
1943 June
Note
6.5 by 8 inch image on 7 by 9 inch paper. Black and white copy-print photograph
with a separate mimeographed caption. Date stamps on the back.
News photo used to illustrate the most widely circulated story about the origin of
the zoot suit style in the immediate aftermath of the Zoot Suit Riots in Los
Angeles. This image is a photograph of a half-tone illustration from the February
1940 issue of Men's Apparel Reporter. Acccording to the caption, Clyde Duncan, a
busboy in Gainesville, Georgia, ordered this suit from the tailor A. C. McEver.
McEver thought it was ridiculous and sent the picture to a trade magazine. When the
Zoot Suit Riots brought the long coat and baggy pants style to national attention,
this photograph was republished in hundreds of newspapers around the country
(including the front page of The New York Times).
Box 1, Folder 11
Zoot Suit Broadway program
1979
Note
New York: Schubert Organization, 1979. First edition. [24] pages, 8.75 by 11.75
inches.
A program for the Broadway production of Luis Valdez's play, Zoot Suit, which
includes a longish essay by Valdez on the origin of the play. Illustrated with
stills from the production. Zoot Suit had a record-breaking run at the Mark Taper
Forum, and then at the Aquarius Theater in Hollywood, where it ran for many months.
It was less successful in New York, lasting just five weeks at the Winter
Garden.
Series 3:
LGBTQIA+ materials
1971-1991
Box 1, Folder 17
Black Lesbian Newsletter and
Onyx
1982, 1984
Note
A six issue broken run of San Francisco's Black Lesbian Newsletter, later Onyx, from
1982 to 1984. Each newsletter is 8.5 x 11 inches, 8-10 pages long, and include
articles, poetry, services, and resources. The publication changed its name to Onyx in
1983. Black Lesbian Newsletter: Vol. 1, Nos. 2-6; Onyx: Vol. 3, No. 5.
Box 6, Folder 3
"High Tech Gays" (HTG) pamphlets
1985-1986
Note
Two six-panel folded brochures for a queer tech organization promoting visibility for
LGBTQ individuals in the early 1980s technology field in Silicon Valley, CA. Contains
a list of companies and institutions that were LGBTQ friendly and employ openly queer
individuals. Written by Rick Rudy.
Information provided by Lux Mentis Booksellers, Portland, ME.
Box 1, Folder 16
Lewd Conduct magazine, Issue 1
1971 October
Note
Los Angeles Gay Community Alliance news magazine.
Box 1, Folder 3
"L.A. Queen" flyer
1991 December 6
Note
An original flyer for the 1st Annual Latino Female Impersonators Beauty Pageant in
Los Angeles, California. Photomechanically reproduced flyer on 8.5" x 11" paper. Flyer
reads: "Self-Help Graphics presents, in conjunction with Viva! and 'A Day without
Art': L.A. Queen."
Series 4:
Communism, Marxism-Leninism, and Socialism
1929-1975
Box 6, Folder 5
"Help Us Save Your University," Angela Davis Fund pamphlet
circa 1969
Note
Single sheet, folded 6-panel pamphlet created by the Angela Davis Fund and the
Committee for and Orderly University. Pamphelt urging readers, presumably UCLA
students to write to Governor of California Ronald Reagan regarding the dismissal of
Angela Davis as Acting Assistant Professor in Philosophy at UCLA based on her ties
with the Communist Party.
National Counter-Olympic Committee
1932
Note
Small archive of materials related to the Communist Party's effort to promote a
boycott of the 1932 Los Angeles Summer Olympics.
Box 6, Folder 4, Item 1
"Boycott the Anti-Labor Olympics" circular
circa 1932
Box 6, Folder 4, Item 2
"Build Workers Sports Movement!" pledge form
circa 1932
Box 6, Folder 4, Item 3
"Join the International Counter Olympic Open Soccer Championship
Tournament" circular
circa 1932
Box 6, Folder 4, Item 4
National Counter-Olympic Committee press release
1932 March 18
Box 6, Folder 4, Item 5
National Counter-Olympic Committee press release
1932 May 13
Box 6, Folder 4, Item 6
National Counter-Olympic Committee circular
circa 1932
Red Sky, Blue Sky newspaper
1970
Note
Seven issues of underground newspaper Red Sky Blue Sky (Nos. 1-7) from March to
November/December 1970.
Box 2, Folder 5, Item 1
No. 1
1970 March
Note
Featured articles: "I Ain't Your Old Lady No More"; "Alan Solganick: Radical
Economist"; "Thinking Change: A Marxist Methodology"; "War & Pollution:
By-products of Capitalism."
Box 2, Folder 5, Item 2
No. 2 (Special Issue)
1970 April
Note
Featured article: "The Tupamaros: Armed Vanguard in Uruguay."
Box 2, Folder 5, Item 3
No. 3
1970 May
Note
Featured articles: "The Subjective Foco"; "Editorial: Free Bobby"; "More
Tupamaros"; "Book review: The Peasants of North Vietnam."
Box 2, Folder 5, Item 4
No. 4
1970 June -
July
Note
Featured articles: "Work is Death!"; "Book review: Ecology and Power"; "Movie
Review: Fellini's Easy Rider {Satyricon}"; "On Women in History"; "A Matriarchal
Past?".
Box 2, Folder 5, Item 5
No. 5
1970 September
Note
Featured article: "Spontaneity vs. The Party: Interview with Jean-Paul Sartre."
Box 2, Folder 5, Item 6
No. 6
1970 October
Note
Articles include: "Letter from a Yippie: Remember Kent/Jackson State!"; "Sisterhood
is Powerful!"; "Paul Nizan: Aden Arabie."
Box 2, Folder 5, Item 7
No. 7
1970
November-December
Note
Articles include: "Long Live Anarchy!"; "Emma Goldman: Anarchism"; "Editorial: Free
Angela Davis."
Box 2, Folder 6
Seize the Time newspaper
1975 July
Note
Volume 2, Number 2 of Seize the Time, a newspaper published by a California-based,
Marxist-Leninist organization of the same name from July 1975. Seize the Time grew out
of the revolutionary national struggles of Black, Chicano, Asian American and Native
American peoples. Inside this Issue: Collectives and Mass Organizations; From Vietnam,
Problems of Cadres and Organization; Mass Line and Scientific Socialism; What is a
Collective?; Black Workers and National Liberation Part II; Class Struggle, Organizing
in the Military. Also contains articles on Wounded Knee (1975) and Grand Juries.
"The Socialist: Official Organ of The Socialist Educational
Society"
1929-1930
Note
New York: Socialist Educational Society. 9 quarto issues; printed wrappers, stapled;
each issue 8 pages.
Box 1, Folder 4, Item 1
Volume 1, number 1
1929 November
Box 1, Folder 4, Item 2
Volume 1, number 2
1929 December
Box 1, Folder 4, Item 3
Volume 1, number 3
January 1930
Box 1, Folder 4, Item 4
Volume 1, number 4
1930 February
Box 1, Folder 4, Item 5
Volume 1, number 5
1930 March
Box 1, Folder 4, Item 6
Volume 1, number 6
1930 April
"The Socialist: Official Organ of The Workers Socialist Party of the
U.S.A."
1937-1938
Box 1, Folder 5, Item 1
Volume 2, number 1
1937 June
Box 1, Folder 5, Item 2
Volume 2, number 2
1937 September
Box 1, Folder 5, Item 3
Volume 2, number 4
1938 July
Series 5:
United Farm Workers
1966-1974 and
undated
Scope and Contents
This series contains materials documenting the United Farm Workers movement. Items
include photographs of Juan Chavez and Cesar Chavez, a flag from the United Farm
Workers, and a poster advertising for a play at University of California Berkeley,
entitled, "The Shrunken Head of Pancho Villa."
Box 1, Folder 6
Cesar Chavez photograph
1966
Note
[Delano, CA]: Jon Lewis, 1966. Gelatin silver print, 8 by 10 inches. Date stamped
June 14, 1966.
Jon Lewis, the photographer, began volunteering with the United Farm Workers in 1966
and became the union's de facto official photographer. Very few vintage prints of his
photographs are in private hands. A rare vintage print from the most important
photographer of the UFW.
Box 2, Folder 4
"Don't Buy Non-UFW Grapes or Gallo Wine" broadside
undated
Box 1, Folder 7
Juan Chavez photograph
1974 June
Note
Chicago: Field Enterprises, 1974. Gelatin silver print, 10.5 by 8.5 inches.
Lenahan, Jack [photographer] Juan Chavez, 36 Yrs. Old, Striking Farm Worker from
California, Working on a Press at United Farm Workers Head quarters in Chicago.
Box 2, Folder 2
"The Shrunken Head of Pancho Villa" poster
1969 April 11
Note
[Berkeley]: Committe for Arts and Lectures, 1969. 11 by 15 inches; printed offset in
three colors.
This is a poster for the April 11, 1969, performance of a play by El Teatro Campesino
on the UC Berkeley campus. The Shrunken Head was Luis Valdez's first full-length play,
written when he was a student at San Jose State University in 1964. It was influenced
by the nascent magical realist movement in Latin American literature and involves
surrealist elements, including a talking head. After college, Valdez joined the United
Farm Workers movement and formed El Teatro Campesino (The Farmworker Theater). His
troop, drawing on agitprop traditions, performed for striking farmworkers and soon
evolved into the first (and still oldest) Latino theater group. El Teatro Campesino
(ETC) material from the 1960s is quite scarce.
Box 3, Item 1
United Farm Workers flag
circa
1960-1969
Note
Rougly 36 inches square, double-sided; 1960s. Constructed from burlap dyed red, with
a white circular field cut with pinking shears, and a black eagle cut from thin black
cloth.
Series 6:
Anti-war materials
1966-1968
Box 5, Folder 1, Item 1
"We are Heading Toward World Destruction", anti-Vietnam War flyer
1967
Note
Broadside flyer 8.5 x 11 inches, yellow, single leaf, printed on one side. Protest
flyer produced by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Features
quotations from Pope Paul, U Thant, George McGovern, Walter Lippman, and the
Republican White Paper on Vietnam.
Box 5, Folder 1, Item 2
Bring the Troops Home Now, anti-Vietnam War
newsletter
1966 April 11
Box 9, Folder 3
"Resist the Draft, Nov. 14" leaflet
1968
Series 7:
Labor and the economy
1934-1964
Scope and Contents
Contains materials relating to labor rights, employment, and economic issues.
Box 5, Folder 10, Item 2
"Diamond Jubilee: 75 Years of May Day" brochure
1961
Note
4" x 9" folding brochure, printed on both sides. Mailer announcing a May Day
celebration at Los Angeles's Zenda Ballroom, featuring a speech by Elizabeth Gurley
Flynn, the National Chairman of CPUSA.
International Pamphlets labor pamphlet series
1934-1935
Note
A series of pamphlets published by International Pamphlets (New York) under the
direction of the Labor Research Association.
Box 6, Folder 7, Item 1
History of May Day
1934
Note
By Alexander Trachtenberg, 31 pages. International Pamphlets, No. 14. Composed and
printed by Union Labor.
Box 6, Folder 7, Item 2
Company Unions Today
1935
Note
By Robert C. Dunn, 31 pages. International Pamphlets No. 43. Composed and printed
by Union Labor.
Box 5, Folder 10, Item 1
"Triple Revolution" manifesto
1964
Note
12 page pamphlet by Dellinger, Dave, et al. Complete text of the Ad Hoc Committee's
controversial manifesto. Issued as an offprint from Bayard Rustin's "Liberation"
magazine. Early attempt to define the terms of the coming transformations of society
in the 1960s. The "triple revolution" is said to consist of the Cybernation
Revolution, the Weaponry Revolution, and the Human Rights Revolution.
Also contains "Commentary" by Dave Dellinger and "Growing Up Absorbed" by Paul
Goodman.
Series 8:
Tattoos
1982 and undated
Box 1, Folder 12
Tattoo artist cards
1982 and undated
Note
This folder contains cards made by Tattoos, Inc. (Berkeley) and 1982 Artist Agency
(Collingswood, New Jersey) showing the work of tattoo artists D. Dennis, D. E. Hardy,
B. Roberts, J. Rudy, Benedict Tisa, and unknown. It also contains a temporary tattoo
advertising the tattoo artist Majenta.
Box 1, Folder 13
Tattoo parlor cards, A - C
Note
This folder contains business cards advertising the tattoo parlors Ambrotos Tattoo
and Body Piercing, Anubis Warpus, Beachin Tattoo, Big Daddy's Tattoo, Blue Bird Tattoo
and Piercing, Body Artt Tattoos and Piercing, Tattoos Christ, The Church of Body
Modification, and Tattoo Creeporium. Some of the cards also advertise the artists
Matthew Zabas, Jim McLeod, Brad Schneider, Paul Booth, Sparky, and Troy Harless.
Box 1, Folder 14
Tattoo parlor cards, E - O
Note
This folder contains business cards advertising the tattoo parlors Tattoo Evolution,
Flesh Tones Tattoos, Freakshow Tattoo and Body Piercing, Greenlake Tattoo, HB Tattoo,
Inflictions Tattoo and Body Piercing, Island Ink Tattoo Company, The Joke's On You!
Tattoos, Lynnwood Tattoo, Tattoo Mania, and Outrageous Tattoo. Some of the cards also
advertise the artists Tom, Mike Ferguson, Kikki, Tommy, Hohnny, Chris, Atom, Catfish
Jay, Gilbert Jumping Eagle, Majenta, Tony Mucci, Paul and Brian, James Gordon, and
Paul L. Espinoza.
Box 1, Folder 15
Tattoo parlor cards, P - W
Note
This folder contains business cards advertising the tattoo parlors Psycho Tattoo,
Purple Panther Tattoos, Red Hot Tattoo, Rock-A-Billy Tattoo Studio, Speedy's Tattoo
Studio, Starborn Tattoo, Sweet Pain Tattoo, Tabu Tattoo, Talon Studio, Tattoo Temple,
Tiki Tat-z, Top Tattoo, and West Side Tattoos and Body Piercing. Some of the cards
also advertise the artists Deano Cook, Painless Jen (Jen McLellan), Dave Poole,
Hiroshi Morino, Ted Ted King of the Dead, Rob Semple, Micky Sharpz, Raya, Shawn
Warcot, and Majenta.
Series 9:
Political campaigns
1934 and undated
California League Against Sinclairism
1934
Note
Two leaflets produced by the California League Against Sinclairism in their campaign
against Upton Sinclair and his "End Poverty in California" (EPIC) campaign during the
1934 California gubernatorial election.
Box 2, Folder 9, Item 1
"Defeat Sinclairism!!" leaflet
circa 1934
Box 2, Folder 9, Item 2
"Plundering the Farmer!" leaflet
circa 1934
Series 10:
Nuclear war
1961-1968
Scope and Contents
This series contains materials published and distributed in order to inform, instruct,
and prepare U.S. citizens for the possiblitly of nuclear war and its consequenses. The
majority of the booklets and pamphlets were produced by the Department of Defense and
Office of Civil Defense, and contain guides to creating and supplying personal fallout
shelters.
Fallout shelter pamphlets
1961-1968
Box 6, Folder 1, Item 1
"Fallout Protection: What to Know and Do About Nuclear Attack"
1961 December
Note
Guidebook for actions to be taken before, during, and after a nuclear attack.
Includes information on radiation, fallout, creating a plan of action in case of
attack, and building a family shelter.
Box 6, Folder 1, Item 2
"Family Shelter Designs"
1962 March
Note
Booklet containing multiple designs and material plans for the creation of a
personal family fallout shelter. The U.S. government encouraged citizens who did not
live near a community shelter to build their own small shelters as a protection in
case of nuclear attack.
Box 6, Folder 1, Item 3
"Emergency Sanitation at Home: A Family Handbook"
1963 May
Note
Handbook containing guideines and lists for storing food, water, and sanitation
supplies in preparation for surviving a nuclear attack. Also contains instructions
for water purification, outdoor cooking, and safe waste disposal.
Box 6, Folder 1, Item 4
"Your Family Survival Plan"
1963 May
Note
Fold-out list of survival supplies and skills needed in case of nuclear attack.
Encourages U.S. citizens to create a shelter plan and provides information on where
to obtain further instructions.
Box 6, Folder 1, Item 5
"In Time of Emergency: A Citizen's Handbook on Nuclear Attack [and] Natural
Disasters"
1968 March
Note
Handbook for U.S. citizens with instructions for what to do before, during, and
after a nuclear or natural disaster. Topics include what to expect in the immediate
aftermath of a nuclear attack, such as fallout, radiation sickness, first aid
methods, and food supply contamination. Also contains a section on creating and
supplying family fallout shelters. Natural disasters such as tornadoes, floods, and
earthquakes are covered briefly.
Box 6, Folder 1, Item 6
Maryland Civil Defense Agency envelope
undated
Series 11:
Brian Shannon activism photographs
1960-1979
Scope and Contents
This series contains black and white photographs by Brian Shannon. The mounted prints
are from assignments for The Militant newspaper between 1966 and 1968. Subjects covered
include the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention, anti-war demonstrations, French
protests, the San Francisco Bay Area "be-in," student protests, Black Panther Party
demonstrations in New York City, and individual activists such as Coretta Scott King,
Tariq Ali, David Harris, and Berkeley activist "Big Bill."
Box 7, Folder 7
Anti-War Marches and Rallies (1 of 2)
circa
1960-1969
Box 7, Folder 8
Anti-War Marches and Rallies (2 of 2)
circa
1960-1969
Box 7, Folder 9
Chicago Democratic Convention
1968
Box 7, Folder 11
Individuals (1 of 2)
circa
1960-1979
Note
Includes photographs of Coretta Scott King, David Harris, Tariq Ali, Berkeley
activist "Big Bill," and Asher Harer.
Box 7, Folder 12
Individuals (2 of 2)
circa
1960-1979
Note
Includes photographs of Tariq Ali and possibly a leader of the Belgium Jeunes
Gardes.
Box 7, Folder 13
Pathfinder Reprint Project
1966-1971
Note
Folder contains photographs that may have been grouped together for use in a 2001
Pathfinder printing of Trotsky writings. Topics covered in the photographs include
anti-war protests, demonstrations at Berkeley and Washington DC, the 1968 Chicago
Democratic Convention, the 1968 Young Socialist Convention, and activists Mary-Alice
Waters, Coretta Scott King, George Novack, and Alain Krivine.
Box 7, Folder 14
Protests (1 of 2)
1966-1969
Note
Includes photographs of the San Francisco Bay Area "be-in," Columbia University
student protests in 1968, University of California Berkeley demonstration against
Governor Reagan's cutbacks, demonstrators against Community Control of Schools in New
York City, and Black Panther Party action at a New York City courhouse.
Box 7, Folder 15
Protests (2 of 2)
1966-1969
Note
Includes photographs of the San Francisco Bay Area "be-in," Columbia University
student protests in 1968, University of California Berkeley demonstration against
Governor Reagan's cutbacks, demonstrators against Community Control of Schools in New
York City, and Black Panther Party action at a New York City courhouse.
Series 12:
Religion and theology
1965-1970 and undated
Organization and Arrangement
This series has been arranged in the following subseries:
- Subseries 12.1: Astara Foundation, 1965-1970 and undated
Subseries 12.1:
Astara Foundation
1965-1970 and undated
Box 8, Folder 1
"Astara's Book of Life," First Degree, no. 1 - no. 3
1965
Box 8, Folder 2
"Astara's Book of Life," First Degree, no. 4 - no. 6
1965
Box 8, Folder 3
"Astara's Book of Life," First Degree, no. 7 - no. 9
1965
Box 8, Folder 4
"Astara's Book of Life," First Degree, no. 10 - no. 12
1965
Box 8, Folder 5
"Astara's Book of Life," First Degree, no. 13 - no. 15
1966
Box 8, Folder 6
"Astara's Book of Life," First Degree, no. 16 - no. 18
1966
Box 8, Folder 7
"Astara's Book of Life," First Degree, no. 19 - no. 22
1966
Box 8, Folder 8
Information booklets
1968-1970 and
undated
Box 8, Folder 9
Order forms and promotional materials
undated
Box 6, Folder 2
"It Can Happen Here" tract
undated
Note
Tract created by the American Tract Society, a Christian literature publisher.
Contains a warning against Communism, particularly against the perceived threat of
state-mandated atheism and the erasure of Christian life in America under Communist
rule. Front cover has had the word "Here" traced in blue ink pen, with a blue ink
scribble and coffee cup stain on reverse.
Series 13:
Environmentalism
1964-1966
Man on Earth pamphlets, Vol. 1, Nos. 1-3
1964-1966
Note
Series of staple-bound pamphlets containing essays on what its editor and author,
S.P.R. Charter, calls "Human Ecology - on Man's interrelationship with his total
environment."
Man on Earth pamphlets, Vol. 1, Nos. 4-6
1965-1966
Note
Series of staple-bound pamphlets containing essays on what its editor and author,
S.P.R. Charter, calls "Human Ecology - on Man's interrelationship with his total
environment."
Series 14:
Utopianism and communal living
1968-1969
Ocean Living newsletters
circa 1968-1969
Note
Twenty-four broadsheet newsletters issued by Ocean Living, a libertarian maritime
communal "lifestyle" periodical devoted primarily to the construction and habitation
of man-made islands suitable for communal living. Includes a broken run of issues from
circa 1968-1969.
Box 9, Folder 4, Item 1
Vol. 1, No. 7
circa 1968-1969
Note
Articles: "Plankton-based diet" and "71 unpopulated Pacific islands."
Box 9, Folder 4, Item 2
Vol. 1, No. 8
circa 1968-1969
Note
Article: "About ferro-cement."
Box 9, Folder 4, Item 3
Vol. 1, No. 9
circa 1968-1969
Note
Letter from Erwin S. Strauss of TTA Enterprises, White Sands Missle Range, New
Mexico.
Box 9, Folder 4, Item 4
Vol. 1, No. 10
circa 1968-1969
Note
Letter from Project Laissez Faire.
Box 9, Folder 4, Item 5
Vol. 2, No. 1
circa 1968-1969
Note
Image and caption: "Fisherman's Paradise."
Box 9, Folder 4, Item 6
I-41 and I-42
circa 1968-1969
Note
Articles: "The Gypsises of the Sulu Sea," "The Land Ship," and "The Ocean Lab."
Box 9, Folder 4, Item 7
I-43 and I-44
circa 1968-1969
Note
Articles: "What is Operation Atlantis?," "Grown your own nodules," and
"Microfilming."
Box 9, Folder 4, Item 8
I-45 and I-46
circa 1968-1969
Note
Articles: "Don't Count Plankton Out" and "The Castaway's Logbook."
Box 9, Folder 4, Item 9
I-49 and I-50
circa 1968-1969
Note
Articles: "The Ship's Library: An Island to Myself" and "The Ocean Lab."
Box 9, Folder 4, Item 10
I-51 and I-52
circa 1968-1969
Note
Articles: "Are Canada and Mexico Illegal?," "The Isle of Roses," "The Real Radio
Free Europe," and "Couple finds freedom from taxation in ocean living."
Box 9, Folder 4, Item 11
I-53 and I-54
circa 1968-1969
Note
Articles: "Radio Pirates Hitch up to the BBC," "Department of Interior Goes
Exterior," "The Ship's Store," "The Castaway's Logbook," and "The Flag of
Sealand."
Box 9, Folder 4, Item 12
I-55 and I-56
circa 1968-1969
Note
Articles: "The Chart Room," "Housekeeping Hints for Life-rafters," "Ocean Treasure
Reading List," "Drink Sea Water?," and "Sea City: Sun Trap on the Dogger Bank."
Box 9, Folder 4, Item 13
I-59 and I-60
circa 1968-1969
Note
Letter from TTA Enterprises, White Sands Missle Range, New Mexico; Article: "The
Castaway's Logbook: How to 'Pasturize' Oysters."
Box 9, Folder 4, Item 14
I-61 and I-62
circa 1968-1969
Note
Articles: "The Ocean Lab," and "Foraging: Malvarotundifolia, an Unusually Useful
Weed."
Box 9, Folder 4, Item 15
I-63 and I-64
circa 1968-1969
Note
Articles: "Islands Made to Order," "Answer for Slum Clearing - Complete Cities
Afloat," "A Seadrome Airport," "A Seaborne Missle Tracking Station," "Return to
Bikini Atoll," "The Ship's Store," and "Instant Igloo."
Box 9, Folder 4, Item 16
I-65 and I-66
circa 1968-1969
Note
Articles: "Indian Has Many Uses for Cornhusk," "Water Hyacinths Have Great Value,"
and "Did Laminated-logs Outsail Solid-log Canoes?"
Box 9, Folder 4, Item 17
I-69 and I-70
circa 1968-1969
Note
Articles: "Summary of the report Hong Kong Europe," and "Will concrete sponges fill
the valleys?"
Box 9, Folder 4, Item 18
I-71 and I-72
circa 1968-1969
Note
Articles: "Selling streamlined 'ice-floes'," "Plastic sheeting goes to sea," and
"Jet age compost in 5 to 6 weeks."
Box 9, Folder 4, Item 19
I-73 and I-74
circa 1968-1969
Note
Articles: "First Circumnavigation by Trimaran," "The Ship's Store," "Raising Fern
Sprouts for Vegetables."
Box 9, Folder 4, Item 20
I-75 and I-76
circa 1968-1969
Note
Articles: "River Trail Leads to Vacation Fun," "Wilderness Adventure," "A Marine
Biology Reading List," "The Ocean Lab: Free Power at Sea," and "The Chart Room."
Box 9, Folder 4, Item 21
II-3 and II-4
circa 1968-1969
Note
Articles: "Want to charter the 'Submaray' shown on the cover?," "Strike Three in
the Search for Paradise by the Richard Aults," "36-foot stoop 'Adventure' detained
by China," "Radio Free America overdue off Long Beach," "Forming-in-tube reported,"
and "Electroluminescent Lighting."
Box 9, Folder 4, Item 22
II-5 and II-6
circa 1968-1969
Note
Articles: "The Ship's Store," "Positive Flotation Obtained by Foam," "The 5.5
Million Square Mile Hardly Inhabited Map," "Power Boat Annual," "1. Beach Users,"
and "2. Marina Development."
Box 9, Folder 4, Item 23
II-7 and II-8
circa 1968-1969
Note
Articles: "Building a Man-Made Island" and "Arizona Utopia Fails."
Box 9, Folder 4, Item 24
II-9 and II-10
circa 1968-1969
Note
Articles: "J.P. vs. America: Impersonal (?) Observations" and "The Ocean Lab: New
(?) Heat Source."
Series 15:
Women's rights and Feminism
1810-2022
Reproductive justice artwork by Meredith Stern
1997-2022
Box 10, Folder 1, Envelope 1
Meredith Stern description of items and curriculum vitae
2022
Box 10, Folder 1, Item 3
"Mine" screen-print
1997
Note
Screen-print on cotton fabric, 10 x 16 inches.
Box 10, Folder 1, Item 4
"Jane: Feminist Underground Abortion Service" poster
2020
Note
Offset printed poster, 11 x 17 inches. Third reprint.
Box 9, Folder 5
"Mine: An anthology of women's choices" zine
2002
Note
Photocopied zine, 59 pages, 7 x 8.5 inches.
Box 9, Folder 6
"Mine: An anthology of reproductive rights" zine
2004
Note
Photocopied zine, 44 pages, 7 x 8.5 inches.
Box 11, Item 1
"Roe" stuffed fish
2006-2016
Note
Three dimensional screen-printed, spray paint stenciled, and hand stamped, printed
and stuffed fish. 22 x 8 x 2 inches.
Box 10, Folder 1, Item 6
"Everyone needs Feminism" print
2014
Note
Four color offset print, 16 x 21 inches.
Box 10, Folder 1, Item 5
"Hear me roar" print
2012
Note
Linoleum block print, 13 x 20 inches. Signed by artist.
Box 10, Folder 1, Item 7
"Our bodies, our rights" print
2014
Note
Screen-print, 16 x 22 inches. Signed by artist.
Box 10, Folder 1, Item 2
"Consensual sex cats" print
2014
Note
Linoleum block print, 11.5 x 12.5 inches. Signed by artist.
Box 10, Folder 1, Item 1
"Comprehensive sex education" print
2021
Note
Screen-print, 11 x 8 inches. Hand-numbered and signed, edition of 100.
Box 10, Folder 1, Item 8
"Reproductive justice" print
2018
Note
Linoleum block print, 19 x 25 inches. Signed by artist.
Box 10, Folder 3
"Female Friendly Society" broadside
1810 July 7
Note
Full title of broadside: "Rules and Orders to be Observed by a Female Friendly
Society, for the Casual Relief of Sick Women, in the Parish of Brockenhurst and its
Vicinity; instituted on the 7th of July, 1810." Brockenhurst refers to a village in
Hampshire, England. The broadside outlines 26 articles for members of the society to
adhere to.
Series 16:
Human rights movement
2007-2018
Box 2, Folder 7
"A History of Racial Injustice" calendar
2018
Note
Produced by Equal Justice Initiative and includes photographs and information on
historical racial injustice.
Series 17:
Conservatism
1963
Box 2, Folder 8
"Martin Luther King....At Communist Training School" broadside
1963
Note
Broadside produced by Poor Richard's Book Shop in Los Angeles reproducing a
photograph of Martin Luther King, Abner W. Berry, Aubrey Williams, and Myles Horton in
a classroom of the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee. The text identifies
the subjects, calling them the "four horsemen of racial agitation...[who] have brought
tension, disturbance, strife and violence in the advancement of the Communist doctrine
of 'racial nationalism.'"
The Highlander Folk School was founded by Don West and Myles Horton in 1953 as a
training facility for southern civil rights workers; it was the frequent subject of
attacks from anti-integrationists. Opening in May 1960 by Frank and Florence Ranuzzi,
Poor Richard's Book Shop was a politcal headquarters for the conservative movement in
Southern California. Poor Richard's catered to national and international customers,
and the Ranuzzis built a thriving walk-in and mail-order business, producing bumper
stickers, flyers, and organizing protests dedicated to the cause of defeating
communism.
Series 18:
Authoritarianism, Fascism, and Far-right
2014-2016
Box 6, Folder 6
White nationalist zines
2014-2016
Note
Two photocopied zines and an article excerpt featuring alt-right, white-nationalist
topics. Two of the zines ("Connect the Dots" and "New Years Resolution") were created
by America Publications from Payson, Arizona. The article is entitled "Oil Lie Broken
No Oil Shortage" by F. William Enghdal from an issue of V.C.I. (Vol. 9, Iss. 4, April
2016).
