Leon F. Litwack collection of Berkeley, California, protest literature
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-2616
Scope and Contents
The Leon F. Litwack Collection of Berkeley, California, Protest Literature consists of newspapers, periodicals, flyers, handbills, newsletters, mailings, memoranda, reports, sound recordings, and other materials compiled by Leon Litwack that primarily document the protest movements of the 1960s and 1970s, particularly in and around Berkeley, California. The collection includes materials related to civil rights, Vietnam War protests, the Black Panther Party, the Free Speech Movement and the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s. Also included are memoranda, meeting minutes, reports, and publications distributed to faculty at the University of California, Berkeley.
Dates
- 1939 - 2004
- Majority of material found within 1964 - 1989
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
The Leon F. Litwack Collection of Berkeley, California, Protest Literature is the physical property of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Serendipity Books on the Frederick W. and Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 2008.
Arrangement
The collection is organized into four series: I. Files. II. Newspapers. III. Periodicals. IV. Sound Recordings.
Extent
22 Linear Feet (25 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Overview
The collection consists of newspapers, periodicals, flyers, handbills, newsletters, mailings, memoranda, reports, sound recordings, and other materials compiled by Leon Litwack that primarily document the protest movements of the 1960s and 1970s, particularly in and around Berkeley, California. The collection includes materials related to civil rights, Vietnam War protests, the Black Panther Party, the Free Speech Movement and the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s. Also included are memoranda, meeting minutes, reports, and publications distributed to faculty at the University of California, Berkeley.
Leon F. Litwack
Leon F. Litwack was born in 1929 in Santa Barbara, California. He received a B.A. (1951) and Ph.D. (1958) from the University of California at Berkeley, where he also served as a professor in the History Department from 1965 to 2007. Litwack's scholarship focused on African-American history and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1980 for his book, Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery.
Processing Information
Collections are processed to a variety of levels, depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived research value, the availability of staff, and competing priorities. The library attempts to provide a basic level of preservation and access for all collections as they are acquired, and does more extensive processing of higher priority collections as time and resources permit.
This collection received a medium level of processing, which included rehousing all material into acid-free folders and boxes, and organizing material into series. Within Series I. Files, the material remains in the order it was received by the library. The library has not attempted to refine its arrangement. The item level descriptions for materials in Series I were created by Serendipity Books and repurposed for this finding aid. These items have not been verified.
This collection received a medium level of processing, which included rehousing all material into acid-free folders and boxes, and organizing material into series. Within Series I. Files, the material remains in the order it was received by the library. The library has not attempted to refine its arrangement. The item level descriptions for materials in Series I were created by Serendipity Books and repurposed for this finding aid. These items have not been verified.
- Berkeley barb
- Black Panther Party
- Civil rights -- California -- Berkeley -- 20th Century
- Counterculture -- California -- Berkeley -- 20th Century
- Daily Californian (Berkeley, Calif.)
- Fliers (printed matter)
- Freedom of speech -- California -- Berkeley -- 20th Century
- Handbills
- Litwack, Leon F.
- Memorandums
- Newsletters
- Newspapers
- Periodicals
- Protest literature -- California -- Berkeley -- 20th Century
- Reports
- Sound recordings
- University of California, Berkeley
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- California -- Berkeley
Creator
- Title
- Guide to the Leon F. Litwack Collection of Berkeley, California, Protest Literature
- Author
- by Tom Hyry and Leigh Golden
- Date
- 2009
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository
Location
121 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Opening Hours
Access Information
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