Buenfil, John,. Social Movements Collection [manuscript] ca. 1959-2000 [bulk 1970-1988].
Title:
Social Movements Collection [manuscript] ca. 1959-2000 [bulk 1970-1988].
The collection contains papers pertaining to various radical political organizations and social action groups in the United States, chiefly collected by University of Virginia library employee Charles Finn, a founding member of the Committee for a Social Movements Collection. A large segment of the collection pertains to the 1970 May strike at the University of Virginia. The Southern Student Organizing Committee and the Students for a Democratic Society are the largest groups represented in the collection. Other organizations and individuals represented include the American Friends Service Committee, Amnesty International Group 157, Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors, Charlottesville Activists' Coalition, Charlottesville Latin America Solidarity Committee, Charlottesville Latin America Support Center, Charlottesville Resistance, the Christic Institute, Coalition for a New Foreign and Military Policy, Dalkon Shield Information Network, Harrisburg 8, Indochina Solidarity Committee, Jerry Falwell, June 12 Rally Committee, and May Day (University of Virginia Strike, 1970), Also Medical Aid for Indochina, Moral Majority, National Action/Research on the Military-Industrial Complex, National Interreligious Service Board for Conscientious Objectors, National Organization of Women, National Right to Life Committee, New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, New York H-Block/Armagh Committee, Nine to Five: National Association for Working Women, Nukewatch, October 18 Resistance Campaign, People for the American Way, Philadelphia Resistance, Piedmont Alliance for Safe Energy, Political Rights Defense Fund, Promoting Enduring Peace, Rio Grande Defense Committee, Safe Energy Communication Council, Salvadoran Medical Relief Fund, San Diego County Draft Resisters Defense Fund, the University of Virginia Radical Student Union, the Virginia Organization to Keep Abortion Legal, the War Resisters League, War Tax Resistance, Weather Underground, Women's Health Center of Charlottesville, Women's History Research Lobby, and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. The collection also contains correspondence and papers of John Buenfil; memorabilia, chiefly buttons; and the papers of Charlie Finn inluding political and personal correspondence, writings, and miscellaneous items. The collection also contains a phonodisk and accompanying filmstrip "The automated air war," 1972, produced by National Action/Research on the Military Industrial Complex, a project of the American Friends Service Committee. Of interest is a paper by Rory Little "Strike! a study of Protest at the University of Virginia in May 1970" partially based on audiocassette interviews in MSS 9430-a. Transcripts are included.
ArchivalResource:
ca. 5500 items.
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