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Title: Raymond R. White Collection
Dates: 1966-1985
Collection Number: 2011C10
Collector: Raymond R. White
Collection Size:
3 manuscript boxes, 4 oversize boxes and 1 oversize banner
(4.0 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: The Raymond R. White collection consists of documents relating to the Stanford antiwar movement and to the wider radical political
and countercultural scene in the Palo Alto area in the late 1960s and early 1970s. White was a member of a conservative group,
the Stanford branch of the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), that actively opposed campus radicals during this period. Along
with other YAF members, White systematically collected materials published by and pertaining to Stanford radicals and the
demonstrations that they organized. He also collected leaflets, pamphlets, and serial issues published by a variety of New
Left organizations and counter-cultural groups in the greater Palo Alto area. The White collection includes some posters
and a considerable number of fugitive and ephemeral materials not found in other collections pertaining to radical political
movements at Stanford and in its vicinity during this period.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages:
English
Boxes 1-2 are
CLOSED
The remainder of the collection is open for research.
The Hoover Institution Archives only allows access to
copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives
at least two working days before your arrival. We will then advise you of the accessibility of the material you wish to see
or hear. Please note that not all audiovisual material is immediately accessible.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.
[Identification of item], Raymond R. White Collection, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 2011.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog Socrates at
http://library.stanford.edu/webcat . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in Socrates is larger than the number of boxes
listed in this finding aid.
New Left collection, Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford Draft Counseling Office collection, Hoover Institution Archives
| 1950 | Born, New Rochelle, New York |
| 1967-1976 | Studies at Stanford University, where he is active in conservative student groups |
| 1973 | Awarded doctorate in biology, Stanford University |
| 1982-present | Teaches biology at City College of San Francisco |
Scope and Content of Collection
The Raymond R. White collection consists of documents relating to the Stanford antiwar movement and to the wider radical political
and countercultural scene in the Palo Alto area in the late 1960s and early 1970s. White was a member of a conservative group,
the Stanford branch of the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), that actively opposed campus radicals during this period. Along
with other YAF members, White systematically collected materials published by and pertaining to Stanford radicals and the
demonstrations that they organized. He also collected leaflets, pamphlets, and serial issues published by a variety of New
Left organizations and counter-cultural groups in the greater Palo Alto area. The White collection includes some posters
and a considerable number of fugitive and ephemeral materials not found in other collections pertaining to radical political
movements in the Peninsula during this period.
While much of the White collection centers on the antiwar movement, it also has materials relating to the case of Stanford
University professor and Venceremos leader H. Bruce Franklin, whose teaching career at Stanford ended in 1972, after prolonged
proceedings initiated by the Stanford administration. Franklin's dismissal was controversial at the time, as were his political
views. In addition to being a tenured English professor, Franklin was the leader of Venceremos, a Maoist organization that
openly advocated armed struggle as part of its revolutionary program. The result of a split within the Revolutionary Union
(which later became the Revolutionary Communist Party), Venceremos aligned itself with the Black Panther Party and other militant
organizations active in the San Francisco Bay Area at the time.
The White collection comprises the largest set of documents in the archives specifically relating to Stanford and its environs
during the turbulent era of the Vietnam War and the mass protests that arose in opposition to it. Although its creation and
order were determined by the conservative political agenda of White and his collaborators, the collection will provide researchers
with a detailed view of the groups that were most active in the radical movement at Stanford and in the Palo Alto area at
the time. It will also show that Stanford had its own radical milieu, and although it was much smaller than the Berkeley
movement of the same era, it was one that had a significant impact on campus life.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Stanford University.
Radicalism--United States.
Student movements--United States.