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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 sound recordings, 1 videorecording
(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.
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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.
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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