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Title: New Left Collection
Dates: 1963-2004
Collection Number: 69001
Collection Size:
90 manuscript boxes, 5 oversize box, 1 oversize folder, 1 envelope, 1 microfilm, 3 phonorecords
(38.45 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Booklets, leaflets, reports, and clippings, relating to the purposes, tactics, and
activities of various New Left and right-wing groups, draft resistance, student
disorders, and the anti-Vietnam War movement. Collected under the direction of Edward J. Bacciocco.
Language:
English.
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], New left collection, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1969. An increment was added 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.
College students--United States.
Communism--United States.
Conscientious objectors--United States.
Draft--United States.
Radicalism--United States.
Socialism--United States.
Student movements--United States.
Subversive activities--United States.
Universities and colleges--United States.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements.
United States--Social conditions--1960-1980.
Bacciocco, Edward J.
Scope and Content of Collection
Between 1969 and 1973, the New Left collection was developed and maintained at the Hoover
Institution as a curatorship under the direction of Dr. Edward J. Baccioco, author of
American New Left: Reform to Revolution, 1956-1970 (Hoover Institution,
1974). The collection now is divided into two groups. Long runs of newspapers,
periodicals, and other serial publications are held in the Hoover Institution Serials
Department. Ephemera, such as leaflets, pamphlets, newsletters, clippings, and
miscellaneous issues of newspapers and periodicals are held as a special collection in
the Archives.
Subject matter is varied and extensive. The collection documents the movement against the
war in Vietnam; draft resistance; activity of the Students for a Democratic Society; the
marijuana initiative sponsored by the radical coalition in Berkeley, California; the
efforts by the Eldridge Cleaver faction of the Black Panther Party to organize a Black
Liberation Army; pronouncements of Marxist-Leninist organizations, such as the Venceremos
and the Revolutionary Union, high school insurrection; radicals entering electoral
politics; the organization of prison inmates for revolutionary purposes; radicals in the
professions; planned disruption of the 1972 presidential conventions and election; the
American Indian Movement; and radical plans to discredit the American bicentennial
celebration. The collection also includes materials on Right-Wing groups.
The special collection of ephemera in the Archives is continually being enhanced by newly
acquired material, including a sizeable increment of materials donated by Mr. Richard
Cates in 1974. The holdings of the Serials Department on the New Left has also been
increased. Issues of current titles are received on a regular basis and the Bell and
Howell microfilm collection of underground newspapers recently was transferred to the
Hoover Institution from the Main Library (Stanford University). A published guide to the
microfilm, entitled
Newspaper Microfilm Collection (PN 4827 U
55 Index 1963/74), is available in the Serials Department.