The term social change is used in SCUA to refer to individuals and organizations who actively seek to better the world around them, as well as to individuals experiencing shifts in economic, cultural, and social life. Few movements for change exist in isolation. Following W.E.B. Du Bois, we recognize that seemingly disparate issues in social justice are often intrinsically and deeply interconnected, so that to create change in one area requires close attention to others. It is the flow of ideas, people, and organizations that constitutes the warp and weft of social change in the twentieth century.
Created to collocate small groups of manuscripts, documents, letters, and other unpublished materials relating to the history and experience of social change, the Social Change Collection is focused largely on movements of the 1960s and after. While entirely miscellaneous, the collection includes interesting material relating to the peace and antiwar movements during the 1960s, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the conflict in Vietnam, antiimperialist movements in Central and South America, and a small number of items relating to sexuality, gender, and feminism.
The term social change is used in SCUA to refer to individuals and organizations who actively seek to better the world around them, as well as to individuals experiencing shifts in economic, cultural, and social life. Few movements for change exist in isolation. Following W.E.B. Du Bois, we recognize that seemingly disparate issues in social justice are often intrinsically and deeply interconnected, so that to create change in one area requires close attention to others. It is the flow of ideas, people, and organizations that constitutes the warp and weft of social change in the twentieth century.
Scope of collection
Created to collocate small groups of manuscripts, documents, letters, and other unpublished materials relating to the history and experience of social change, the Social Change Collection is focused largely on movements of the 1960s and after. While entirely miscellaneous, the collection includes interesting material relating to the peace and antiwar movements during the 1960s, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the conflict in Vietnam, antiimperialist movements in Central and South America, and a small number of items relating to sexuality, gender, and feminism.
A growing collection,
Inventory
African American
1955-1970
100th anniversary Major R. R. Wright, founder of Citizens Southern Bank and Trust Co. [ . . . born a slave]
1955
Box 4: 1
American Bank: Citizens Southern, Philadelphia Bank organized by Negroes now exemplifies integration in banking
1958
Box 4: 4
Black Panther Party: Sisters and brothers unite for survival: resist and create
ca.1970
Box 5: 14
Black Panther flier from Springfield, Mass.
Central and South America
1973-1989
Comunicado: Ante la reanudacion de les relaciones diplomaticas entre los gobiernos de Espana-Guatemala
1984
Box 5: 1
El Salvador: El Salvador 1982 en las zonas de control popular
1982
Box 4: 10
Espuelazo: la voz del trabajadores agricola de Nueva Inglaterra [newspaper], vol. 2, 6
1973
Box 4: 9
Estamos con el sindicato. Mangua : Publ. Silvio Mayorga
ca.1980
Box 4: 11
Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional (FSLN): Cartilla del propagandista
ca.1984
Box 4: 16
Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional (FSLN): Fonseca Amador, Carlos, Sandino: Guerrillero proletario. Managua : FSLN
ca.1981
Box 4: 13
Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional (FSLN): No la deseamos pero no la tenemos. Managua : Edic. Patria Libre
1981
Box 4: 14
Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional (FSLN): Porque lucha el FSLN junto al pueblo? Managua? : FSLN
1984
Box 4: 15
Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional (FSLN): Women
ca.1984
Box 4: 17
Gran huelga de pescadores [Chile]
ca.1973
Box 5: 3
Represion en el Peru: Documentos no. 3
1977
Box 5: 5
Trabajadores [poster, Brazil]
1989
Box 4: 27
Venceremos [newsletter of Venceremos Brigade], vol. 5, 3: on 19th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution
1978
Box 5: 7
Communism and Socialism
1937-1996
API, vo. 10, 6 [API Pemuda Indonesia, published in Tirana, Albania]
1977
Box 1: 3
Dangers we face: Communist takeover. Kingston, Jamaica
ca.1975
Box 5: 2
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn... will report on the national convention of the Communist Party, U.S.A. (Boston, Mass.)
ca.1944
Flier
Box 5: 8
Meeropol, Michael: How did an "old Left" background guide one individual's take on the explosion of New Left activity after 1966?
ca.1996
Box 4: 19
Progressive Bookshop (Boston, Mass.)
ca.1937-1940
3 fliers
Box 5: 9
Fliers advertising radical and progressive books.
Samuel Adams School for Social Studies. Course catalogs
1945
Box 2: 19
Samuel Adams School for Social Studies. Course catalogs
1946
Box 2: 20
Samuel Adams School for Social Studies. Course catalogs
1947
Box 2: 21
Miscellaneous movements
1950-2008
Abortion: pamphlets and brochures
1967
Box 4: 2
Bracciotti, Stephen: Harbor song, River Run Records : Boston, Mass.
1981
45 rpm disk
Box 5: 10
Test pressing.
Cambridge (Mass.), Civil Defense Agency: Survival under atomic attack, U.S. Government Printing Office : Washington, D.C.
1950
Box 5: 11
Clamshell Alliance: No nukes / Karen Silkwood, Rainbow Snake Music : Leverett, Mass.
Peace and Freedom News nos. 5 and 19 (National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam)
1965-1966
Box 2: 13
Pham, Van Dong: Let us hold aloft the banner of independence and peace. Hanoi : Foreign Languages Publishing House
1965
Box 3: 27
POW: Every GI is A [newspaper] no. 3, Fort Ord, Calif.
1971 May
Box 2: 15
Ramparts Vietnam Primer. San Francisco : Ramparts
1966 Feb.
Box 2: 16
Resistance: New England Edition no. 1
1968 Mar.
Box 2: 17
Resister. The Philadelphia Resister
1968
Box 4: 23
Rivkin, Robert S.: American servicemen have rights, do you know yours? New York : GI Counseling Services
1970
Box 2: 18
SANE: Cameron, Juan, The case for cutting defense spending (offprint from Fortune)
1969 Aug.
Box 2: 23
Scheer, Robert: How the United States got involved in Vietnam : A report for the Center for the Study for Democratic Institutions. Santa Barbara : Fund for the Republic
1965
Box 2: 24
Schesch, Adam and Frances Prevas: Outline history of Vietnam. University of Wisconsin Student/Faculty Committee to End the War in Vietnam
1965 Dec.
Box 2: 12
Sewell, W. R. Derrick and Gilbert F. White: The Lower Mekong: An Experiment in International Revier Development. International Conciliation
1966 May
Box 1: 27
Snow, Edgar: War and peace in Vietnam. New York : Marzani and Munsell
1963
Box 2: 26
Student Mobilization Committee: Join the SMC [recruiting sticker post-Kent State and Jackson State]
1970 May
Box 2: 25
South Vietnam The Struggle [newspaper], vol. 4, 75 and 81; 5, 86. South Viet Nam National Front for Liberation Information Commission
1970-1971
Box 2: 28
South Vietnam: Initial failure of the US 'Limited War'. Hanoi : Foreign Languages Publishing House
1967
Box 2: 27
Student Mobilization for Peace, Columbia University
ca.1968
Box 4: 26
Support the People of Viet Nam, Defeat U.S. Aggressors. Peking : Foreign Languages Press
1965
Box 2: 29
This is how it is. Washington, D.C. : GPO [military orientation brochure]
1966
Box 3: 25
Toronto Anti-Draft Programme: Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada, 1st and 6th eds.
1968, 1971
Box 1: 33
Turner, Terisa E. and Timothy A. Belknap: Takeover! Students USA mobilize for the 90s: documents from the movement
ca.1989
Box 4: 28
Unspeakable war. New York : Labor Committee for Peace in Vietnam
ca.1966
Box 3: 42
Vernon, Hilda: Vietnam : United States' "special war". London : British Vietnam Committee
ca.1965
Box 3: 28
Vietnam : A new phase begins. Monthly Review vol.17, 10
1966
Box 2: 6
Vietnam GI [newspaper]: 1968 Jan., June, Aug., and Sept.; 1969 Jan., Aug.
1968-1969
Box 3: 33
Vietnam Veterans Against the War: Veteran [newspaper], vol. 8, 3
1978 Fall
Box 3: 29
Vietnamese Confederation of Labor: Vietnamese Confederation of Labor speaks to the free world. Saigon : Vietnamese Confederation of Labor
1966
Box 3: 32
Wald, George: Our present dilemma: What is to be done? An address given to the Community Church of Boston
1971
Box 3: 34
War Bulletin [newspaper]. Berkeley, Calif.
1972 Sept.
Box 3: 35
War, welfare, and wildcats. Philadelphia : SR
1971
Box 3: 37
War/Peace, vol. 5, no. 9
1965 Sept.
Box 3: 36
White, Ralph K.: Misperception and the Vietnam War. Journal of Social Studies vol. 22, 3
1966 July
Box 1: 30
Why did Ft. Ord close? [includes letter of transmittal]
1970 Aug. 31
Box 3: 38
Winter Soldier : a publication of Vietnam Veterans Against the War [newspaper], vol. 3, 2 and 3, 10
1973
Box 3: 40
Women in Vietnam. Win vol. 7, 20
1971 Dec. 15
Box 3: 39
Worker and Soldier [newsletter], no. 5 and 6
1971
Box 3: 41
World Federalists of Canada, Victoria Branch: The Facts About the War in Vietnam, 3d ed.
ca.1965
Box 1: 14
Zagarell, Michael et al.: Liberation vs. Vietnamization: a discussion with the leaders and the people of North Vietnam (Young Workers' Liberation League)
1970
Box 4: 33
Women, Gender, Sexuality
1970-1980
Blecki, Catherine L. et al.: Feminist literary criticism: a symposium
1974
Box 4: 5
Cisler, Lucinda: Women: a bibliography
1970
Box 4: 6
Crescendo presents: Casslberry-Dupree [flier]
ca.1980
Box 4: 8
Sexuality survey: Gay male questionnaire (Karla Jay and Allen Young)
1977
Box 4: 25
Women and literature: an annotated bibliography of women writers
1973
Box 4: 29
Women political prisoners in the USSR. New York : Ukrainian Women's League of America
1975
Box 4: 30
Women's Guide to Northampton
1973
Box 4: 31
Young, Allen: Out of the closet: a gay manifesto
1971
Box 4: 32
Administrative information
Access
The collection is open for research.
Provenance
Acquired individually from various sources.
Processing Information
Processed by I. Eliot Wentworth, May 2017.
Digitized content
Selected materials in the collection have been digitized and are available online in Credo
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