Gus Hall and Communist Party USA political archive, 1960 to 1972, tracing Hall’s return to public party leadership after his imprisonment, his participation in the international communist movement, and the CPUSA’s 1970s program of antiwar mobilization, Black liberation, labor organization, and electoral campaigning. Hall served as the party’s general secretary.....
[Student Activism][Anti-Vietnam] El Gaucho, the University of California, Santa Barbara student newspaper, reporting on the November 15 Vietnam Moratorium, the anthropology department fight over Professor Bill Allen, and disputes over Black Studies and student power. Five issues dated November 10 to December 2, 1969, with front-page headlines including “Student groups.....
[Social Activism] Broadside protesting the murder of 23 year old art student Timothy Lee in California in 1985. Timothy Lee was found hanging from a tree in Concord, California on November 2, 1985, shortly after two Black men, Tony Hall and Jeff Miller, were stabbed nearby by men in KKK.....
[Student Activism][New Left] Indicator, three 1968 issues covering campus politics, the Vietnam War, the Mexico City student killings, and the curricular fight over Black Studies. The October 23, November 6, and November 20, 1968 issues lead with headlines including “BATTLE FOR SURVIVAL,” “Liberalism is a Casualty of the War,” and.....
[Student Activism][Black Panthers] El Gaucho, the University of California, Santa Barbara student newspaper, a record of California student activist reporting in the weeks after the October 15, 1969 Vietnam Moratorium, from the arrest of Michel Barton and Mick Kronman to Black Students Union demands for the removal of Black Studies.....
[Student Activism][Anti-Racism] UC Berkeley student organizing broadside advocating for Third World Studies and against racist education policy. "Third World students" voice a demand for “an autonomous Third World college,” and the rejection of a Black Studies department “under the control of the administration.” The broadside ties those demands to the.....
