Social Change Collection
1937-2008
MS 457
5 boxes
(2.5 linear feet)
Special Collections and University Archives, UMass Amherst Libraries
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Created to collocate small groups of manuscripts, documents, letters, and other unpublished materials relating to the history and experience of social change, the Social Change Collection is focused largely on movements of the 1960s and after.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.
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Join the SMC, 1970
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Created to collocate small groups of manuscripts, documents, letters, and other unpublished materials relating to the history and experience of social change, the Social Change Collection is focused largely on movements of the 1960s and after.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.
A growing collection,
The collection is open for research.
Cite as: Social Change Collection (MS 457). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
Acquired individually from various sources.
Processed by I. Eliot Wentworth, May 2017.
Selected materials in the collection have been digitized and are available online in Credo
Although many of SCUA's collections overlap in content with the Social Change Collection, two particular collections stand out:
- Thomas Barton Papers (MS 539)
- Social Change Periodicals Collection (MS 306)
African American
Communism and Socialism
Counterculture
Peace
Political activism
Social change
Vietnam War
Women and feminism
Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.)
Economic Research and Action Project
Anti-imperialist movements
Antiwar movements
Feminism
Peace movements
Student movements
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements
Fliers
African American1955-1970
41100th anniversary Major R. R. Wright, founder of Citizens Southern Bank and Trust Co. [ . . . born a slave]1955
44American Bank: Citizens Southern, Philadelphia Bank organized by Negroes now exemplifies integration in banking1958
514Black Panther PartySisters and brothers unite for survival: resist and create1970
Black Panther flier from Springfield, Mass.
Central and South America1973-1989
51Comunicado: Ante la reanudacion de les relaciones diplomaticas entre los gobiernos de Espana-Guatemala1984
410El Salvador: El Salvador 1982 en las zonas de control popular1982
49Espuelazo: la voz del trabajadores agricola de Nueva Inglaterra [newspaper], vol. 2, 61973
411Estamos con el sindicato. Mangua : Publ. Silvio Mayorga1980
416Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional (FSLN): Cartilla del propagandista1984
413Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional (FSLN): Fonseca Amador, Carlos, Sandino: Guerrillero proletario. Managua : FSLN1981
414Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional (FSLN): No la deseamos pero no la tenemos. Managua : Edic. Patria Libre1981
415Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional (FSLN): Porque lucha el FSLN junto al pueblo? Managua? : FSLN1984
417Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional (FSLN): Women1984
53Gran huelga de pescadores [Chile]1973
55Represion en el Peru: Documentos no. 31977
427Trabajadores [poster, Brazil]1989
57Venceremos [newsletter of Venceremos Brigade], vol. 5, 3: on 19th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution1978
Communism and Socialism1937-1996
13API, vo. 10, 6 [API Pemuda Indonesia, published in Tirana, Albania]1977
52Dangers we face: Communist takeover. Kingston, Jamaica1975
58Elizabeth Gurley Flynn... will report on the national convention of the Communist Party, U.S.A. (Boston, Mass.)1944Flier
419Meeropol, MichaelHow did an "old Left" background guide one individual's take on the explosion of New Left activity after 1966?1996
59Progressive Bookshop (Boston, Mass.)1937-19403 fliers
Fliers advertising radical and progressive books.
219Samuel Adams School for Social Studies. Course catalogs1945
220Samuel Adams School for Social Studies. Course catalogs1946
221Samuel Adams School for Social Studies. Course catalogs1947
Miscellaneous movements1950-2008
42Abortion: pamphlets and brochures1967
510Bracciotti, StephenHarbor song, River Run Records : Boston, Mass.198145 rpm disk
Test pressing.
511Cambridge (Mass.), Civil Defense AgencySurvival under atomic attack, U.S. Government Printing Office : Washington, D.C.1950
510Clamshell AllianceNo nukes / Karen Silkwood, Rainbow Snake Music : Leverett, Mass.197745 rpm disk
Songs by Pat de Cou and Tex La Moutain.
222Columbia Strike CommitteeWhy we strike1968
418Impeach President Bush and Vice President Cheney [flier]. UMass Amherst2007
21Mamanova, TatyanaFotoalbum 6, Around the World. St. Petersburg : Woman Earth Press2008
22Mamanova, TatyanaSucces d'estime. St. Petersburg : Woman Earth Press2007
23Mamanova, TatyanaWoman and Earth. St. Petersburg : Woman Earth Press2007
420Meher Bab's Universal Message [brochure]1964
54North American Peace Pagoda (Leverett, Mass.): ephemera from dedication ceremony1985
422Programs that help people in Western Massachusetts1985
56Scare Words: a compilation of Republican attacks on progressive legislation since 1882. Washington, D.C. : Democratic National Committee1950
424Servicios sociales en Espanol: Agencies in Hampshire County with Spanish speaking staff1985
Students for a Democratic Society1963-1972
31Boston GM boycott, SDS worker solidarity regional conference1970
214Boston People's Coalition for Peace and JusticeThe Point, however, is 1972to change it1972
47Committee on Poverty of the Martin Luther King Jr. CouncilDorchester County, South Carolina: political importance of the poor1969 Nov.
32Economic Research and Action Project (ERAP) of SDS: applications, advertisements, reports, newsletters1963-1965
33Economic Research and Action Project (ERAP) A Movement of Many Voices1966
34Free SDS now! Revolutionary Peoples' Caucus of SDS call to become a revolutionary organization1970
35New England Regional SDS Newsletter1970
421Parmentel, Noel E. and Marshall J. DodgeFolk Songs for Conservatives. New York : Unicorn Press1964
38SDS and Cuba: pamphlets1968
318SDS Conference of Poverty and the Economy1965
310SDS correspondence1962, 1969
313SDS March on Washington: fliers, pamphlets, agendas1965
314SDS miscellany1968
316SDS papers for liberal study group1963
317SDS Poverty Program material1964
319SDS studies: America and the new era1963
320SDS studies: Booth, Paul, Students work to convert America1965
321SDS studies: Brown, Connie, Cambridge, Maryland: a case study1964
322SDS studies: Burlage, Robb, This is war? Poverty in America with a study of Appalachia1964
323SDS studies: Gorson, Arthur, The road to a Voice for Jobs and Justice1965
324SDS studies: Nossiter, Bernard, The new folklore of Capitalism1962
312SDS: documents on SDS and the split1968-1969
36SDS-affiliated organizations: Demonstration fliers1970
37SDS-affiliated organizations: Petitions and boycott fliers1965-1971
311SDS-distributed articles1965
39Students for a Democratic Society Bulletin, vol. 3, 41965 Jan.
315Students for a Democratic Society National Constitution1967
326Union for Jobs and Income Now (U-Join): fliers and brochures [SDS affiliate]1966
124Vietnam Day CommitteeNews from the Vietnam Day Committee, Berkeley, California [organized by SDS1965
331Vietnam Day CommitteeVietnam Day Committee News, vol. 1, 21965 July-Aug.
Vietnam and antiwar1952-1990
15Bowditch Review, 2 (Berkeley, Calif.)1967
43Ackerman, Adolph J. Atomic power: who looks after public safety1969
12All hands abandon ship: Free the New London Three1970 Oct.
512Amherst Draft Counseling CenterAdvertising card1980
513B2 stealth bomber bill1990
Miniature mock $100 bill in protest of expense of the B2 bomber.
14Barber, Melanie GordonThe Third Anniversary, Anatomy and Progress in Memory of Doctor Thomas Anthony Dooley. Taconic, Conn. : Bardon Press1965
17Bring the Troops Home Now Newsletter, vo. 1, 161966 Nov. 23
16Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, vol. 2,21970 Jan.
24Burrows, Ken, ed. Vietnam Speak Out, or, how we won the war. Monocle vol. 6, 41965
18Cannon, TerryVietnam: a thousand years of struggle. San Francisco : People's Press1969
19Case of GIs United Against the War in Vietnam, Ft. Jackson, S.C. New York : GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee1969
116Conflict in Indochina (Far East Spotlight)1953
110Confrontation at Wesleyan: Recruiter asked to leave [pamphlet]1969 July
132Dellinger, DavidNorth Vietnam: Eyewitness Report. Liberation vol. 2, 91966 Dec.
112Draft Call, vol. 1,31968 Feb. 27
113Duff, PeggyVietnam: The Credibility Gap. London : CND1967
117Fatigue Press, issue 20: For and By the GIs of Fort Hood1969
412Ferber, Mike and Dave HarrisResistance. Philadelphia : Philadelphia Resistance1968
118Fishel, Wesley R. and T. A. BissonThe United States and Vietnam: Two Views. Public Affairs Pamphlet no. 3911967
119Fonda, Jane; Benjamin Spock; Julian BondSpecial Bulletin1970
120Fort Gordon Soldiers: Free to Gis and Civilians and Even Lifers1970 May
121Free Political Prisoners in South Vietnam1974 July
11Friends Peace CommitteeABCs About Vietnam [pamphlet]1965
122Galbraith, John KennethHow to get out of Vietnam. New York : Signet Broadside1967
123Gradual can mean a lifetime: Vote immediate withdrawal (Cambridge, Mass., Vietnam Referendum)1970
125Hanh, Thich NhatIn search of the enemy of man1965
111Healy, DorothyA Communist speak at a teach-in on Vietnam (Southern California Communist Party)1966 Mar. 25
135Ho, Chi MinhAgainst us: Aggression for national salvation. Hanoi : Foreign Languages Publishing House1967
136Ho, Chi MinhOn Lenin and Leninism. Moscow : Novost Press1971
115How the USA curbs national independence (Reprint, Far East Reporter)1952
129Jenness, DougWar and resolution in Vietnam. New York : Young Socialist1965
131Lamb, Helen B. The tragedy of Vietnam: Where do we go from here? New York : Basic Pamphlets1964
126Lawyers Committee on American Policy Towards VietnamAmerican policy vis-a-vis Vietnam1965
134Map of the peoples of mainland Southeast Asia. National Geographical Society1971
25Mobilizer to Get US Out of Vietnam, vol. 5, 11968 Oct. 25
128National Peace Action CoalitionIs the war winding down? An NPC white paper1971
28Next Step: A GI Newspaper, vol. 2, no. 3, 6, 71971
27NFL of South Vietnam: The onlt genuine and legal representative of the South Vietnam people. South Vietnam : Liberation Editions1965
330Nhugyen, Khac VienVietnam '80. Hanoi : Vietnam Courier1980
29North, Joseph: An invitation to hear a U.S. journalist, "The Vietnamese assess their options"1972
210One struggle, many fronts. New York : The Enraged Ones1972
211Out Now [newspaper], vol. 1, 21970 July
213Peace and Freedom News nos. 5 and 19 (National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam)1965-1966
327Pham, Van DongLet us hold aloft the banner of independence and peace. Hanoi : Foreign Languages Publishing House1965
215POW: Every GI is A [newspaper] no. 3, Fort Ord, Calif.1971 May
216Ramparts Vietnam Primer. San Francisco : Ramparts1966 Feb.
217Resistance: New England Edition no. 11968 Mar.
423Resister. The Philadelphia Resister1968
218Rivkin, Robert S. American servicemen have rights, do you know yours? New York : GI Counseling Services1970
223SANE: Cameron, Juan, The case for cutting defense spending (offprint from Fortune)1969 Aug.
224Scheer, RobertHow the United States got involved in Vietnam : A report for the Center for the Study for Democratic Institutions. Santa Barbara : Fund for the Republic1965
212Schesch, Adam and Frances PrevasOutline history of Vietnam. University of Wisconsin Student/Faculty Committee to End the War in Vietnam1965 Dec.
127Sewell, W. R. Derrick and Gilbert F. WhiteThe Lower Mekong: An Experiment in International Revier Development. International Conciliation1966 May
226Snow, EdgarWar and peace in Vietnam. New York : Marzani and Munsell1963
225Student Mobilization CommitteeJoin the SMC [recruiting sticker post-Kent State and Jackson State]1970 May
228South Vietnam The Struggle [newspaper], vol. 4, 75 and 81; 5, 86. South Viet Nam National Front for Liberation Information Commission1970-1971
227South Vietnam: Initial failure of the US 'Limited War'. Hanoi : Foreign Languages Publishing House1967
426Student Mobilization for Peace, Columbia University1968
229Support the People of Viet Nam, Defeat U.S. Aggressors. Peking : Foreign Languages Press1965
325This is how it is. Washington, D.C. : GPO [military orientation brochure]1966
133Toronto Anti-Draft ProgrammeManual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada, 1st and 6th eds.1968, 1971
428Turner, Terisa E. and Timothy A. BelknapTakeover! Students USA mobilize for the 90s: documents from the movement1989
342Unspeakable war. New York : Labor Committee for Peace in Vietnam1966
328Vernon, HildaVietnam : United States' "special war". London : British Vietnam Committee1965
26Vietnam : A new phase begins. Monthly Review vol.17, 101966
333Vietnam GI [newspaper]: 1968 Jan., June, Aug., and Sept.; 1969 Jan., Aug.1968-1969
329Vietnam Veterans Against the WarVeteran [newspaper], vol. 8, 31978 Fall
332Vietnamese Confederation of LaborVietnamese Confederation of Labor speaks to the free world. Saigon : Vietnamese Confederation of Labor 1966
334Wald, GeorgeOur present dilemma: What is to be done? An address given to the Community Church of Boston1971
335War Bulletin [newspaper]. Berkeley, Calif.1972 Sept.
337War, welfare, and wildcats. Philadelphia : SR1971
336War/Peace, vol. 5, no. 91965 Sept.
130White, Ralph K. Misperception and the Vietnam War. Journal of Social Studies vol. 22, 31966 July
338Why did Ft. Ord close? [includes letter of transmittal]1970 Aug. 31
340Winter Soldier : a publication of Vietnam Veterans Against the War [newspaper], vol. 3, 2 and 3, 101973
339Women in Vietnam. Win vol. 7, 201971 Dec. 15
341Worker and Soldier [newsletter], no. 5 and 61971
114World Federalists of Canada, Victoria BranchThe Facts About the War in Vietnam, 3d ed. 1965
433Zagarell, Michael et al. Liberation vs. Vietnamization: a discussion with the leaders and the people of North Vietnam (Young Workers' Liberation League)1970
Women, Gender, Sexuality1970-1980
45Blecki, Catherine L. et al. Feminist literary criticism: a symposium1974
46Cisler, LucindaWomen: a bibliography1970
48Crescendo presents: Casslberry-Dupree [flier]1980
425Sexuality survey: Gay male questionnaire (Karla Jay and Allen Young)1977
429Women and literature: an annotated bibliography of women writers1973
430Women political prisoners in the USSR. New York : Ukrainian Women's League of America1975
431Women's Guide to Northampton1973
432Young, AllenOut of the closet: a gay manifesto1971