New Work Location
We are out at the Library Connections Annex now! All of the material from the Hall Hoag Collection is stored at the Annex and we will be working through all 1,600 boxes this summer. The goal of this...
View ArticleBlack Panther Party
This week’s highlighted organization is the Black Panther Party. Founded in 1966 in Oakland, California, by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, The Black Panther Party was a revolutionary socialist...
View ArticleA Four Year Bummer
A Four Year Bummer was a small publication started in 1969 by students at The University of Illinois and servicemen stationed at the Chanute Air Force Base in Champaign, Illinois and was affiliated...
View ArticlePolitical Poster
We recently found 20 large political posters that seem to have been used by the Boston Area American Veterans Committee. The poster in this post specifically mentions Gordon Hall. It also highlights...
View ArticleIllinois State University Milner Library
Recently researching for another blog post I cam across at digital collection of Gordon Hall conducted interviews at The Milner Library at Illinois State University in its “Voices of Extremism”...
View ArticleThe Truth At Last
The Truth At Last was a “White activist newspaper[1]” published by Dr. Edward Fields from 1988-2008. The Truth At Last was preceded by a similar newspaper called The Thunderbolt from 1958-1988. The...
View ArticleSurveillance Files by Gordon Hall
In doing his research Gordon Hall would create surveillance files for many extremist groups and extremist group members. He would attend protests, follow people to meetings, attend group meetings and...
View ArticleRevolutionary Communist Party, USA
The Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, (a.k.a Bay Area Revolutionary Union and Revolutionary Union) was founded in 1969 by former members of the Students for a Democratic Society. Bob Avakian was the...
View ArticleSocialist Labor Party of America
The Socialist Labor Party, founded in 1876, in New York City is the oldest socialist party in the United States. The SPL was arguably at its most powerful in late 1870s when an SPL state senator was...
View ArticleGordon Hall Lecture Flyer
This week’s item is a flyer printed for a lecture that Gordon Hall gave at East Tennessee State University on May 6, 1969. Hall was able to build his collection and conduct his research mostly from...
View ArticleBrain-Washing (Lord’s Covenant Church)
This weeks item is a pamphlet written by Lt. Col. Gordon Mohr called Brain-Washing: A Synthnesis of a Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics from 1982. The “textbook spells out methods which secret...
View ArticleThe East Village Other
The East Village Other was a counter-cultural newspaper founded in New York in 1965 by Walter Bowart, Ishmael Reed (who named the newspaper), Allen Katzman, Dan Rattiner, Sherry Needham and John...
View ArticleAmerican Family Association
The American Family Association is fundamentalist Christian organization that is known for opposing same-sex marriage, pornography and abortion. The AFA, originally known as the National Federation for...
View ArticlePeople’s Coalition for Peace and Justice
The Peoples Coalition for Peace and Justice was founded in 1970s with the primary object to oppose U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.[1] The PCPJ was created as a successor to the Mobilization...
View ArticleEnd of Year 1 Update
It has been 1 year since I started as the Project Director for the Hall-Hoag grant and we have been able to accomplish a lot over the first year. It has been a very fun and exciting journey so far and...
View ArticleOne, Inc.
One Magazine was published by One, Inc., a gay rights organization founded in 1952 by Antonio Reyes, Martin Block and Dale Jennings in Los Angeles. The group started publishing One Magazine in 1953...
View ArticleYoung Americans for Freedom
The Young Americans for Freedom was founded in 1960 and still exists today. Ideological the group follows the Sharon Statement developed at the home of William F. Buckley in Sharon Connecticut, which...
View ArticleChicago Seed
The Chicago Seed was an underground newspaper founded by Don Lewis and Earl Segal in the Old Town neighborhood of Chicago and was printed from 1967 to 1973. The Seed, edited for years by Abe Peck, was...
View ArticleQuicksilver Times
The Quicksilver Times was a Washington, D.C. based underground newspaper that published somewhat sporadically from 1969 until 1972. Founded by Terry Becker Jr. wrote in support of civil rights,...
View ArticleOverthrow
Overthrow was a publication associated with the Yippie movement founded by Dana Beal. The paper, originally called The Yipster Times was started in 1972 and became known as Overthrow in 1979. The...
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