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  • Collection Summary
  • Administrative Information
  • Biographical/Historical Note
  • Scope and Content of Collection
  • Indexing Terms

  • Collection Summary

    Title: Herbert F. Weiss papers
    Dates: 1947-2003
    Collection Number: 2009C55
    Creator: Weiss, Herbert F.
    Collection Size: 32 manuscript boxes (12.8 linear feet)
    Repository: Hoover Institution Archives
    Stanford, California 94305-6010
    Abstract: Writings, notes, correspondence, government documents, bulletins and issuances of Congolese political organizations, reports, studies, conference materials, and printed matter, relating to nationalism in and independence of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Parti Solidaire Africain, Patrice Lumumba, civil war and political opposition groups in the Congo, and political conditions elsewhere in Africa. Used in part as research material for the book by H. F. Weiss, Political Protest in the Congo: The Parti Solidaire Africain during the Independence Struggle (Princeton, 1967).
    Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
    Languages: French English

    Administrative Information

    Access

    Collection is open for research.
    Access to sound recordings, video recordings, or motion picture material requires at least two weeks advance notice. Please contact the Hoover Institution Archives for further information.

    Publication Rights

    For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], Herbert F. Weiss papers, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.

    Acquisition Information

    Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 2009.

    Accruals

    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.

    Biographical/Historical Note

    American political scientist.

    Scope and Content of Collection

    Writings, notes, correspondence, government documents, bulletins and issuances of Congolese political organizations, reports, studies, conference materials, and printed matter, relating to nationalism in and independence of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Parti Solidaire Africain, Patrice Lumumba, civil war and political opposition groups in the Congo, and political conditions elsewhere in Africa. Used in part as research material for the book by H. F. Weiss, Political Protest in the Congo: The Parti Solidaire Africain during the Independence Struggle (Princeton, 1967).

    Indexing Terms

    The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
    Lumumba, Patrice, 1925-1961.
    Parti solidaire africain (Congo)
    Nationalism--Congo (Democratic Republic)
    Congo (Democratic Republic)--History.
    Congo (Democratic Republic)--History--Civil War, 1960-1965.
    Congo (Democratic Republic)--Politics and government--1908-1960.
    Congo (Democratic Republic)--Politics and government--1960-1997.
    Africa--Politics and government--1960-