The Chicago Seed underground newspaper group, 1967 to 1972, documenting the changing politics and graphic language of Chicago counterculture from the psychedelic underground of the late 1960s through the antiwar, labor, prison, reproductive rights, tenant, and gay and trans organizing of the early 1970s. Founded in 1967 by Don Lewis.....
Steve Rose's photographic coverage of demonstrations, strike activity, broadcast spaces, and police control in New York City and Washington, D.C., circa 1969–1971, with dissent moving through street assembly, underground and movement media, institutional protest, and municipal enforcement. Rose, active in New York documentary photography during the early 1970s, photographed activists.....
[Radical Activism] [Student Protest] Wisconsin, Madison student protest press photo archive documenting antiwar mobilization and police suppression in Madison, Wisconsin, 1965 to 1970, a concentrated visual record of how campus dissent, municipal policing, and press transmission operated during the Vietnam War era. The group centers on successive flashpoints in Madison.....
Coalition for Abortion Rights and Against Sterilization and anonymous author, two printed items dating from circa 1968 to 1978, document grassroots organizing around reproductive rights, anti sterilization advocacy, and radical feminist political strategy during the late twentieth century women’s liberation movement. The materials engage directly with the legal and social.....
Anarchist political and direct action pamphlet group from 2002 to circa 2012, documenting the circulation of historical anarchist theory alongside contemporary writing on prison abolition, militarism, feminism, foreclosure resistance, criminal justice, mutual aid, environmental activism, and conspiracy politics. Much of the group was printed or distributed by A New World.....
Black civil rights and Black Power press photograph archive, 1960s to 1972, documenting a decade in which demands for racial equality moved through mass marches, direct action, Black Power politics, employment campaigns, economic boycotts, and confrontations with police. The photographs range from the June 23, 1963 Detroit Walk to Freedom.....
[African American] [Black Radicalism] Keating, Edward M. Free Huey! The True Story of the Trial of Huey P. Newton (1971) documents the prosecution of Huey P. Newton and situates the case within the broader political and legal conflicts surrounding the Black Panther Party during the late 1960s. Written by the.....
Boston school desegregation press photograph archive, 1975 to 1979, documenting the prolonged resistance, policing, and street violence that followed federal court intervention in the city's segregated public school system. In 1974, federal judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr. ruled in Morgan v. Hennigan that the Boston School Committee had deliberately maintained.....
New York Peace Action Coalition. National Antiwar Convention poster. 1971. Produced in the immediate aftermath of the May Day protests, this poster documents antiwar organizing at a moment of intensified confrontation between activists and federal authority, when mass arrests in Washington, D.C. drew national attention to draft resistance and civil.....
Haight-Ashbury Free Press; Haight-Ashbury Eye; Haight Ashbury Tribune. Group of three underground newspapers published between 1967 and 1970, documenting countercultural communication systems and grassroots organizing in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district. The material documents the system of alternative press networks through tabloid-format publications, revealing how activists, artists, and community members disseminated.....
Bakke-era affirmative action and anti-racist organizing pamphlets, press photographs, and municipal employment forms which preserve how the 1977-1978 Regents of the University of California v. Bakke fight extended beyond the Supreme Court into university admissions, public hiring, and school desegregation, documenting the political language and administrative practice surrounding one of.....
Anarchist and radical political zine archive, circa 1990s to 2019, documenting the underground print networks through which historical anarchist texts circulated beside writing on contemporary labor organizing, capitalism, prisons, policing, and human rights. Sixteen zines and pamphlets move between canonical texts by Errico Malatesta and Noam Chomsky to movement literature.....
Herndon, Angelo. Let Me Live, 1937, a radical autobiographical account of African American labor organizing and state repression during the Jim Crow era. The work addresses racialized legal control and labor suppression through Herndon’s arrest, prosecution, and legal defense under Georgia’s insurrection law. Herndon’s narrative records his 1932 arrest for.....
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Smith, Harriet Kwanza instructional document, 1969, establishes an early textual framework for the development and dissemination of Kwanzaa within the context of Black Power–era cultural nationalism and community-based education. Produced during the initial years following the holiday’s creation by Maulana Karenga, the document defines the meaning, symbols, and procedures of.....
Labor Press photo archive documenting the labor consequences of NAFTA through farm work, economic dislocation, and anti trade protest in the 1990s. The archive documents agricultural labor, rural economies, and public resistance to free trade policy through newsroom photographs showing how NAFTA was understood not only as an international trade.....
Archive of fourteen photographs documenting the Palestinian experience across two critical historical periods: pre-state Palestine in the 1930s and the internationalization of the Palestinian question in the 1970s. The collection combines early regional views and later press photography to present a sustained visual record of displacement, conflict, and diplomatic engagement.....
Short, Fast + Loud punk periodical archive, 2003 to 2014, documenting the communities that formed around hardcore, powerviolence, grindcore, thrash, and related underground music through interviews, personal columns, comics, performance photography, and writing on sexuality, identity, friendship, and participation in local and international scenes. Chris Dodge of Spazz and Slap.....
[Black Panther Party][Black Radicalism] Newton, Huey P., ed. The Black Panther, a January 24, 1970 issue documenting the Party's grassroots coordination of housing activism, prisoner defense, community service, and international political education through a single print organ. The front page reads, “We Demand Decent Housing,” anchored by coverage of Geneva.....
[Black Panther Party][Black Radicalism] Newton, Huey P., ed. The Black Panther, March 3, 1969 issue of the Black radical newspaper, a periodical linking international antiwar solidarity, prisoner defense, labor boycott campaigns, branch reporting, and local documentation of police violence. Rather than concentrating on a single event, this issue shows the.....
Overthrow. Archive of eight issues of the underground newspaper published by the Youth International Party (YIP) between 1980 and 1985, documenting systems of radical protest, anarchist organizing, underground journalism, and countercultural activism during the Reagan era. The material documents how the Yippies used independent print networks, graphic propaganda, satire, and.....
Anarchist and radical ecology zine group from the 1990s through early 2000s, documenting the convergence of environmentalism, anti corporate politics, direct action, DIY practice, and anarchist social theory in the independent print culture surrounding the turn of the millennium. Ecological subjects dominate the group: genetic engineering and industrial agriculture, clandestine.....
Anti-Vietnam War press photographs recording violent police response, campus protest, social justice organizing, and police confrontation, circa 1969 to 1972, include recruitment protests, street mobilization, coalition messaging, and state response through photographs tied to the Vietnam Moratorium, University of Chicago protest activity, and University of Michigan demonstration culture. Between Chicago.....
Rubin, Jerry, Yippie press photograph and article archive, 1966 to 1973, documents the countercultural antiwar communication system that linked street theater, press photography, radical publishing, and courtroom politics during the Vietnam War era. The material shows the mechanisms of Yippie activism through public performance, circulated news images, published movement correspondence.....
Anarchist and activist pamphlet group from 1998 to 2017, documenting the circulation of political theory alongside practical writing on policing, surveillance, infiltration, digital security, militarism, and legal self defense. The twelve publications connect the 1990s anarchist zine culture represented by Theo Witsell’s Spectacle with the security concerns surrounding Occupy Wall.....
[Prison and Incarceration][Social activism] Prison reform organizing conference broadside. Attica and San Quentin prison organizing stand at the center of this January 1972 Berkeley conference broadside, which opens with a Brecht quote, “Slave, who is it that shall free you...all of us or none”, and declares that “no one in.....
