Bob Sheldon papers, 1968-1991.

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Bob Sheldon papers, 1968-1991.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32794915

Drafts of Sheldon's speeches, articles, diary and notes; newsclippings; printed materials; and transcripts of trials and F.B.I. files. Materials relate chiefly to his political activism as a draft resister in 1968; a visit to China in the 1970s (including his slides from the trip); work with the Communist Workers Party in the 1970s and the Green Party in the 1980s; union organizing at Cone Mills Textile plant in the 1970s; and various Palestine issues in the 1980s.

ca. 500 items.

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7345115

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Internationalist Book Store (Chapel Hill, N.C.)

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Grünen (Political party)

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Cone Mills Corporation

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Cone Mills Corporation (and predecessor Proximity Manufacturing Company and its other subsidiary and affiliated companies) manufactured denim and other textiles chiefly in North Carolina and South Carolina. Moses Herman Cone (1857-1908), Ceasar Cone (1859-1917), and other Cone family members began investing in the textile industry in the late nineteenth century and for much of the twentieth century were world leaders in textile manufacturing. The collection consists of the records of Cone Mills ...

Communist Workers Party.

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Sheldon, Bob

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Political activist; nurse; owner of Internationalist Book Store in Chapel Hill, N.C. Sheldon was murdered in the store on February 21, 1991. From the description of Bob Sheldon papers, 1968-1991. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 32794915 Political activist; nurse; owner of Internationalist Book Store in Chapel Hill, N.C. Sheldon was originally from Colorado, and moved to Chapel Hill in the late 1970s. He opened the Internationalist Book Store as a reading room ...