Although the exact provenance of this small collection is uncertain, the materials appear to have been collected by an individual, possibly a woman, associated with the early days of the Roxbury Action Program and Boston branch of the Black Panther Party. Steeped in Black Power ideology, the collection includes publications of the Black Panther Party, the Nation of Islam, and other organizations, as well as an insightful series of transcripts of Roxbury Action Program meetings held during its first few months of operation.

Background on Roxbury Action Program

Contents of Collection

Inventory of Collection

Adefunmi, Oserjeman, An African marriage. Harlem, N.Y. : Yoruba Temple	ca.1969		Box 1: 1
African American history and culture quiz	1944		Box 1: 2
African Nationalist Union, The Blackman, vol. 4:1 (photocopy)	1972 Aug.		Box 1: 3
American Oil Co., American traveler’s guide to Negro history, 3d ed. Chicago, Ill.: American Oil Co.	1967		Box 1: 4
Art Ad Corporation (letter of solicitation)	ca.1970		Box 1: 5
Black Community of Boston, General State of Emergency	1968		Box 1: 6
Black Panther, vol. 2:25	1969 Mar. 9		Box 1: 7
Black Panther, vol. 2:26	1969 Mar. 16		Box 1: 8
Black Panther, vol. 2:27	1969 Mar. 23		Box 1: 9
Black Panther, vol. 2:27	1969 Mar. 31	2 copies	Box 1: 10
Black Panther, vol. 2:30	1969 Apr. 20		Box 1: 11
Black Panther, vol. 3:2	1969 May 4		Box 1: 12
Black Panther, vol. 3:4	1969 May 19	2 copies	Box 1: 13
Black Panther, vol. 3:5	1969 May 25		Box 1: 14
Black Panther Party, Black Panther Community News Service (Roxbury, Mass.), vol. 1:2, 3 (two variant copies)	1969		Box 1: 15
Black Panther Party, Precautions for tear gas and mace	ca.1969		Box 1: 16
Black Panther Party, Questionaire for Black Panther Party	ca.1969		Box 1: 17
Black Panther Party, Ten Point Program of the Black Panther Party	1966		Box 1: 18
Black Panther Party of Boston, Black Panther Party of Boston presents 2 movies “Off the pig” and “Huey”	1969 Feb. 16		Box 1: 19
Black Students of Boston College, Black Students of Boston College and the Congress of African People present Immamu Baraka (broadside)	1973 Mar. 9		Box 1: 20
Black Students Union, Legal first aid for students	ca.1969		Box 1: 21
The Black woman in the home-family	ca.1974		Box 1: 22
Black Workers Congress, From protest to resistance: the case of Black draft resisters in New Orleans	1971		Box 1: 23
Blackness Unlimited: Circular letter offering products, including sample of decal, “Symbol of Black dignity”	1969		Box 1: 24
Browne, Robert S., “The case for Black separatism”	ca.1970		Box 1: 25
Can you relate to this? If not, call 445-9711 for draft counseling (broadside)	ca.1970		Box 1: 26
Chandler, Dana, Dana Chandler (Akin Duro) Artist in Residence, Northeastern University (signed by the artist)	1976		Box 1: 27
Code words (used in community defence)?	ca.1969		Box 1: 28
CORE booklists (list of publications)	ca.1969		Box 1: 29
Cox, Donald Lee (Field Marshall D.C.), What is ultra democracy?	ca.1969		Box 1: 30
Douglas, Emory, Revolutionary student posters (man and woman with gun)	ca.1970	2 posters	Box 1: 31
Federation of Southern Cooperatives, Cooperatives: Power for poor people. Atlanta, Ga. : Federation of Southern Co-ops	ca.1970		Box 1: 32
Golden Legacy Illustrated History Magazine, vol. 1 : Toussaint L’Ouverture	1966		Box 1: 33
Golden Legacy Illustrated History Magazine, vol. 2 : The saga of Harriet Tubman, “The Moses of her people”	1967		Box 1: 34
Golden Legacy Illustrated History Magazine, vol. 3: Crispus Attucks and the minuteman	1968		Box 1: 35
Golden Legacy Illustrated History Magazine, vol. 4 : The life of Benjamin Banneker	1968		Box 1: 36
Hamilton, Ernest, Black Power: what is it? S.l. : Scoham Publication	1966 July		Box 1: 37
Hammer: the Voice of United Community Construction Workers, vol. 1:6 (photocopy)	1973 June		Box 1: 38
Ifco News, vol. 5: 1	1974		Box 1: 39
Johnson, Edwina Chavers, Calendar of Afro-American contributions to America	1963		Box 1: 40
Khadijah, Sister, The Republic of New Africa	1969		Box 1: 41
Kilson, Martin et al., Black studies: myths and realities. New York : A. Philip Randolph Education Fund	1969 Sept.		Box 1: 42
Leader, vol. 2:24, 28, 32	1969		Box 1: 43
Lee-Smith, Hughie, To my Black sisters (A Freedomways greeting card). New York : Freedomways Magazine	1971 Freb.		Box 1: 44
Minstrels, Gr’ezi wohl, Frau Stirnimaa! (45 rpm recording). EMI	1969		Box 1: 45
Morey, James L. and Mel Epstein, Housing development: A tool for community economic development in low-income areas. Cambridge, Mass. : Center for Community Economic Development	1971 Oct.		Box 1: 46
Movement, vol. 5:3, 4	1969 Apr.-May		Box 1: 47
Muhammad Speaks, vol. 8:29	1969 Apr. 4		Box 2: 1
Muhammad Speaks, vol. 12:20	1973 Jan. 26		Box 2: 2
Muhammad Speaks, vol. 13:3	1974 Apr. 12		Box 2: 3
Muhammad Speaks, vol. 14:42	1975 June 27		Box 2: 4
Muhammad, Elijah, Progress	ca.1969		Box 2: 5
Mumininas of Committee for Unified Newark, Mwanamke mwananchi (the nationalist woman). NewArk, N.J. : Mumininas of CFUN	1971		Box 2: 6
Myers, Robin, Black craftsmen through history. New York : Institute of the Joint Apprenticeship Program	1970		Box 2: 7
The NAACP life membership story (offprint). Ebony Magazine	1967 Mar.		Box 2: 8
National Commission for Resources on Youth, You’re the tutor. New York : National Commission on Resources for Youth	1970		Box 2: 9
New African, vol. 2:1	1969 Apr. 20		Box 2: 10
New Urban League of Greater Boston, Community Survival Fund	1970		Box 2: 11
New Urban League of Greater Boston, Survival Magazine, vol. 1:3	1970 Feb.		Box 2: 12
The Onyx (fragment)	1973 Apr. 16		Box 2: 13
Path Finder Press catalog and flier	1973		Box 2: 14
Payton, Gloria, Is political freedom dead at Brandeis?	1969		Box 2: 15
People have a right: The report of the First National Conference on Rural Housing. Washington, D.C. : National Conference on Rural Housing	1969		Box 2: 16
Photograph: African American man laying wreath at statue of the Minuteman, Concord, Mass.	ca.1970		Box 2: 17
Plainfield Joint Defense Committee, Special Independence Day Issue	1971 July		Box 2: 18
Potemkin Collective, Radicals words (or) you can’t tell the revolution without a dictionary. Newport, R.I. : Potemkin Collective	1970		Box 2: 19
Potemkin Military Legal Aid Project, Little red book of military law. Newport, R.I. : Potemkin Collective	1972		Box 2: 20
Real Paper, vol. 2:36	1973 Sept. 5		Box 2: 21
Rogers, J. A., 100 amazing facts about the Negro, with complete proof, 23d ed. New York : Helga M. Rogers	1957		Box 2: 22
Rollins, Bryant, Poetry for my friends. Harlem, N.Y. : s.n.	1973		Box 2: 23
Roxbury Action Program (statement of purpose and objectives)	ca.1969		Box 2: 24
Roxbury Action Program, Buzz Session 1 (manuscript)	1969 Mar. 20		Box 2: 25
Roxbury Action Program, Buzz Session con’t #1 (typescript)	1969 Mar. 20		Box 2: 26
Roxbury Action Program, Buzz Session II (manuscript)	ca.1969		Box 2: 27
Roxbury Action Program, Buzz Session? (manuscript)	1969 Apr. 3		Box 2: 28
Roxbury Action Program, Buzz Session? (manuscript)	ca.1969		Box 2: 29
Roxbury Action Program, Finch, Arthur (typescript)	1969 Mar. 24		Box 2: 30
Roxbury Action Program, Group discussion (typescript)	ca.1969		Box 2: 31
Roxbury Action Program, Orientation, George Morrison (manuscript)	1969 Mar. 10		Box 2: 32
Roxbury Action Program, Orientation, George Morrison (typescript)	1969 Mar. 10		Box 2: 33
Roxbury Action Program, Section reading list	ca.1969		Box 2: 34
Roxbury Action Program, Session on roles and tools: Ed McClure (typescript)	1969 Mar. 27		Box 2: 35
Roxbury Action Program, Stationery	ca.1969		Box 2: 36
Roxbury Poor People’s Movement, An appeal for public support by the Roxbury Poor People’s Movement	ca.1969		Box 2: 37
Rustin, Bayard, Three essays by Bayard Rustin. New York : A. Philip Randolph Education Fund	1969 Sept.		Box 2: 38
Service Remembering and Resurrecting (memorial service for Martin Luther King, Franklin Park, Mass.)	1969 Apr. 04		Box 2: 39
Sisters of BCD, Black woman’s role in the revolution. Newark, N.J. : Jihad Productions	1969		Box 2: 40
South Vietnam in Struggle, no. 24	1968 Dec. 20		Box 2: 41
Southern Conference Educational Fund, Protest the jailing of Walter Collins and the situation of black draft resisters	1971		Box 2: 42
Southern Education Program, Teach a Brother! (broadside)	1969		Box 2: 43
Straight from the Horse’s Mouth (magazine), vol. 2:1	1970		Box 2: 44
Tenants’ rights. Boston, Mass.? : s.n.	ca.1970		Box 2: 45
We will be closed Friday Feb. 21, 1969. Malcolm X (broadside)	1969		Box 2: 46
Welty, Joel, Meeting people’s housing needs (offprint). Ottawa, ON : Canadian Cooperative Digest	1969		Box 2: 47
Workers Monthly: Organ of the Independent Trade Union Action Council, vol. 2: 2 (photocopy)	1972 Dec.		Box 2: 48
Yazid: How to oppress people in 13 easy lessons	ca.1969		Box 2: 49

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Cite as: Roxbury Action Program Collection (MS 765). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.

This exhibit includes 55 mounted images and 99 35mm slides taken during the brigade’s time in Nicaragua, documenting the brigade’s construction work and providing a valuable visual record of life in Nicaragua during the Contra war. Used in public talks about Contruyamos Juntos, the collection includes exhibit labels that explain the purpose and activity of the brigade, the history of Nicaragua, and the Contra attack in January 1986.

The fifteen imprints comprising this collection of scarce broadsides, all printed in the short-lived Free State of Fiume. During the brief period of his reign in Fiume, D’Annunzio issued propagandistic broadsides, proclamations, and leaflets almost daily, often distributing them by airplane drop over the city. Included is a rare first edition of D’Annunzio’s most famous piece from the Fiume period, Italia e vita.

The Bowman Papers center on Mitzi and Pete Bowman’s antinuclear activism, dating from their first forays with STOP in the mid-1970s through the growth of opposition to Vermont Yankee in the approach to 2010. The collection offers a valuable glimpse into the early history of grassroots opposition to nuclear energy and the Bowmans’ approach to organizing and their connections with other antinuclear activists and to the peace and environmental movements are reflected in an extensive series of notes, press releases, newsclippings, talks, ephemera, and correspondence. The collections also includes extensive subject files on radiation, nuclear energy, peace, and related topics.

Offering insight into the growth of the organic agriculture movement and the organizations that have sustained it, the Henderson Papers document Henderson’s involvement with NOFA, SARE, and the GVOCSA, along with her work to establish organic standards and promote organic practices. Henderson’s broad social and political commitments are represented by a rich set of letters from her work educating prisoners in the late 1970s, including correspondence with Tiyo Atallah Salah El and John Clinkscales, and with the American Independent Movement in New Haven during the early 1970s, including a nearly complete run of the AIM Bulletin and its successor Modern Times.

The records of NORML offer a perspective on more than forty years of grassroots advocacy in cause of drug policy legislation. Highly varied in nature, the records include organizational records, research files on marijuana and marijuana use, promotional materials prepared by NORML, and letters from persons incarcerated for possession. The collection is currently being received by SCUA with new additions expected in the near term.

Centered in western Massachusetts and concentrated in the last decade of her life (2000-2010), the Nancy Foster Papers includes a record of one woman’s grassroots activism for peace, civil liberties, and social justice. The issues reflected in the collection range from the assault on civil liberties after the 9/11 terrorist attacks to immigration, hunger and poverty, the Iraq Wars, and the conflict in Central America during the 1980s, and much of the material documents Nancy’s involvement with local organizations such as the Social Justice Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst. The collection also contains a valuable record of Nancy’s participation in local politics in Amherst, beginning with the records of the 1972 committee which was charged with reviewing the Town Meeting.

Background on Nancy Foster

A committed advocate for peace and social justice, Nancy Foster spent decades working through, and sometimes against, the political system to effect positive social change. Born in Duluth, Minn., on Dec. 24, 1928, Nancy Elizabeth (Abbott) Foster was raised in the small town of Warwick, New York. The middle of three daughters born to Frank and Lorena Abbott, her political views were shaped by the hardships of the Great Depression, Pearl Harbor, and the Second World War, and by her father’s faith that it was possible for government to help ordinary people.

A superior student, Nancy was keenly attuned to current events from an early age, writing her senior thesis in high school on the atomic bomb and delivering a valedictory address in 1946 where she called for keeping atomic energy under the control of the Nuclear Regulatory Agency. One year after graduating from Swarthmore with a degree in economics and political science (1950), Nancy married her college classmate, John Foster, and moved to Cambridge, Mass. While John pursued graduate study in biochemistry at Harvard, followed by a postdoctoral position at MIT, Nancy was employed in local social agencies, studied in the School of Social Work at Boston University, and gave birth to the first of the couple’s two children. When their lives were uprooted after John was ordered to Japan to fulfill his military service, Nancy remained busy. While overseas, she carried out the research for her master’s degree in social work, collecting material on marriages between U.S. servicemen and Japanese women, and she gave birth to the couple’s second child.

The Fosters returned to Massachusetts in 1958, settling in Needham. It was there that Nancy’s activism quickened. Energized by local protests against housing discrimination, Nancy volunteered for the Needham Fair Housing Committee, just the second such organization in the Commonwealth, and she was appointed secretary after attending only her first meeting. Just as significantly for the future course of the Fosters’ activism, Nancy and John found themselves deeply impressed by the commitment to social justice exemplified by the Unitarian minister at the First Parish in Needham, sparking what would become a lifelong religious affiliation.

From Needham, John went on to work for two and half years with the National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C., and characteristically, Nancy became active in the local community. Working as a counselor in a clinic for pregnant teenagers, Nancy was witness to some of the early civil rights riots in the city and during Martin Luther King’s March on Washington, she worked a tent on the Mall dispensing “soul help.” By the time the Fosters returned to Massachusetts in 1969, settling in Amherst, Nancy’s involvements seemed only to increase. As a member of the League of Women Voters, she helped to organize a study of the executive branch of town government, leading her in turn into a stint on Town Meeting that eventually extended fourteen years. When the nuclear freeze movement took hold in the Pioneer Valley in the early 1980s, she took up the challenge of organizing against nuclear escalation; in particular, leading local resistance to Reagan-era plans for the mass relocation of urban residents to small towns in the event of nuclear war. Her efforts to raise the issues before the Amherst Select Board and local citizenry resulted in the Board voting against town participation in the project, and her methods for raising awareness served as a model for other towns across the country.

Her highest profile work during this period centered on opposition to the Ground Wave Emergency Network (GWEN), which was intended to serve as a military communications system in the aftermath of a nuclear war. When Nancy learned that the Air Force was planning to build a GWEN communications tower in Amherst in 1985, she invited the colonel in charge of the program to address the town and explain the reasons for the project. Despite the skepticism of the Select Board, Nancy raised the issue in Town Meeting and publicly presented the counterpoint to the colonel’s presentation. Working closely with her colleague Lois Barber, and with the support of local Republican representative Silvio Conte, Nancy saw opposition to the GWEN system spread widely in New England and the mid-Atlantic states, eventually leading Congress to force the Air Force to suspend the program until a thorough study of the impact of electromagnetic radiation on the public was completed.

In later years, Nancy continued to press for social justice locally and regionally, working closely with the Bill of Rights Defense Committee and the American Civil Liberties Union, and with local activist organizations such as SAGE and the Social Justice Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst. Her antiwar work accompanied work on a host of related issues ranging from hunger and economic inequality to opposing the Patriot Act and the erosion of civil liberties in the years following the September 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. A regular presence at the Amherst July 4th parades, she was noted for carrying placards promoting civil liberties, earning a senior activist award from the Amherst Human Rights Commission. In addition to her social and political activism, Nancy was a beloved family member and the center of a large circle of friends. She died in Amherst on June 24, 2010, and was survived by her John and children.

Contents of Collection

Inventory of Collection

Amherst, Mass. Select Board	2007		Box 4
Amherst, Mass. Select Board: letter on torture	2005		Box 4
Amherst, Mass. Select Board: Resolution to Restore the Rule of Law	2005-2006		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: Civil liberties	2002		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: Civil liberties	2003-2005		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: Civil liberties	2004-2005		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: Human Rights Commission	2002-2003		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: Human Rights Commission	2008		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: Jones Library rules	2005		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: Jones Library Trustees (Patriot Act)	2003		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: Jones Library: Patriot Act	2002-2003		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: July 4 parade	2007-2008		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: July 4 parade	2002		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: July 4 parade	2003		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: July 4 parade	2004		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: July 4 parade	2005		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: July 4 parade	2006		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: July 4 parade	2008		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: July 4 parade	2009		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: July 4 parade.: posters	2003		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: July 4 parade: chronology	2005		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: July 4 parade: op ed	2008		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: League of Women Voters	2008		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: questions for Town Manager	2005-2006		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: Rules and orders regulating the use of the Town Common and/or paved areas	2006		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: Town Meeting Study Committee	1972-1974		Box 5
Amherst, Mass.: Town meetings	1972		Box 5
Amherst, Mass.: Town meetings	2008 Fall		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: Town meetings	2008 Spring		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: Town meetings	2009		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: Town meetings (newsclippings)	1972		Box 5
Amherst, Mass.: Town meetings comprehensive planning	2002-2006		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: Town meetings Handbook	2007		Box 4
Civil Liberties Restoration Act	2004		Box 1
Civil liberties: 9/11 Commission bills	2003-2004		Box 1
Civil liberties: Academic Freedom HR 3077	2003-2004		Box 1
Civil liberties: ACLU	2009		Box 5
Civil liberties: ACLU Conference: Lobbying congress	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: ACLU: Conference	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: ACLU: Fund appeals	2002-2005		Box 1
Civil liberties: ACLU: internet articles	2002-2004		Box 1
Civil liberties: Amherst, Mass.	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: calling torturers to account	2009		Box 5
Civil liberties: CLEAR act	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Clippings and basic documents: Bill of Rights Defense Committee	2002-2004		Box 1
Civil liberties: Clippings and basic documents: civil liberties	2002-2004		Box 1
Civil liberties: Clippings and basic documents: civil liberties miscellaneous	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Clippings and basic documents: clippings	2003-2004		Box 1
Civil liberties: Clippings and basic documents: Magna carta	Undated		Box 1
Civil liberties: Clippings and basic documents: Massachusetts ACLU	2002-2004		Box 1
Civil liberties: Clippings and basic documents: meeting with John Olver	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Clippings and basic documents: Patriot Act, citizens’ rights	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Clippings and basic documents: petitions to Congress	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: concerns for Barack Obama	2009		Box 5
Civil liberties: Congressional correspondence	2001-2004		Box 1
Civil liberties: Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights, etc.	Undated		Box 1
Civil liberties: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: amending FISA	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Forum on Civil Liberties: clergy participation	2002		Box 1
Civil liberties: Forum on Civil Liberties: consults DOVER/SAGE	2002		Box 1
Civil liberties: Forum on Civil Liberties: co-sponsors	2002		Box 1
Civil liberties: Forum on Civil Liberties: flyer, handouts, program	2002		Box 1
Civil liberties: Forum on Civil Liberties: literature for forum	2002		Box 1
Civil liberties: Forum on Civil Liberties: literature for forum	2002		Box 1
Civil liberties: Forum on Civil Liberties: Magda Ahmad’s folder with questions turned in	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Forum on Civil Liberties: money	2002		Box 1
Civil liberties: Forum on Civil Liberties: notes, correspondence	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Forum on Civil Liberties: panelists	2002		Box 1
Civil liberties: Forum on Civil Liberties: panelists	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Forum on Civil Liberties: possibilities for panel	2002		Box 1
Civil liberties: Forum on Civil Liberties: public schools in Amherst	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Forum on Civil Liberties: publicity	2002		Box 1
Civil liberties: Forum on Civil Liberties: videotaping	2002		Box 1
Civil liberties: Forum on film	2004-2006		Box 1
Civil liberties: Forum on Film: Unconstitutional	2005		Box 1
Civil liberties: Immigrants and detainees: ACLU Conference	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Immigrants and detainees: ACLU Conference notes	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Immigrants and detainees: changing standards for asylum	2004		Box 1
Civil liberties: Immigrants and detainees: civil liberties handouts	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Immigrants and detainees: Federal, state, and local cooperation with the Immigration and Naturalization Service	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Immigrants and detainees: N-Seers	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Immigrants and detainees: Patriot Act	2001-2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Immigrants and detainees: police surveillance, CAT eyes program	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Immigrants and detainees: Total Information Awareness Act	2002		Box 1
Civil liberties: Immigrants and detainees: treatment of detainees	2002-2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Immigrants and detainees: treatment of immigrants	2002-2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Immigrants and detainees: treatment of protesters	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Miscellaneous	2004		Box 1
Civil liberties: Northampton Action: Bill of Rights Defense Committee National Conference	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Northampton Action: civil liberties resolutions, other towns	2004		Box 1
Civil liberties: Northampton Action: Greenfield Community College Conference	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Northampton Action: Northampton resolutions	2002		Box 1
Civil liberties: Patriot Act II: background	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Patriot Act II: Victory	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Patriot Act Section 215: defeat	2004		Box 1
Civil liberties: Patriot Act: bills to reprint	2003-2004		Box 1
Civil liberties: Patriot Act: historical parallels	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Police involvement in immigration law: background	2002-2004		Box 1
Civil liberties: Press Freedom	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: SAFE act	2003-2004		Box 1
Civil liberties: The War on Terror and the Constitution	2008		Box 5
Civil liberties: Thoughts on civil liberties; know your rights	2002-2003		Box 1
Correspondence: Carson, James E. and Jean	1989-2005		Box 2
Correspondence: Guevara, Jose	1995-2001		Box 2
Correspondence: Hennessey, Rich and Ann	2004		Box 2
Correspondence: Leonard, Marcia	2001-2005		Box 2
Correspondence: Morey, Susan	2001-2003		Box 2
Correspondence: Tillman, Ina	2000-2001		Box 2
Cuba	1998		Box 2
Disaster relief: Afghanistan relief (Oxfam)	2001		Box 3
Disaster relief: African AIDS service	2001		Box 3
Disaster relief: El Salvador (earthquake)	2001		Box 3
Disaster relief: Haiti (flooding)	2004		Box 3
Disaster relief: Honduras (Hurricane)	1998		Box 3
Disaster relief: Honduras (Hurricane) press coverage	1998		Box 3
Disaster relief: Hurricane	1998		Box 3
Disaster relief: Hurricane Mitch	1999		Box 3
Disaster relief: India (earthquake)	2001		Box 3
Disaster relief: Tsunami	2004-2005		Box 3
El Salvador newsclippings	1980-1981		Box 5
El Salvador: Amherst Committee	1981		Box 5
El Salvador: correspondence with politicians (Silvio O. Conte, Paul Tsongas)	1981-1983		Box 5
El Salvador: Ecumenical memorial service, Amherst, Mass.	1981		Box 5
El Salvador: Unitarian Universalist Service Committee	1981		Box 5
Elderhostel: Central Europe	2000		Box 2
Elderhostel: record of trips	2000		Box 2
Elderhostel: Sicily	1999		Box 2
Elderhostel: Spain, part 1	1997		Box 2
Elderhostel: Spain, part 2	1997		Box 2
Elderhostel: Turkey	2001		Box 2
Foster, Nancy. Resume of political activities	2007		Box 5
Host family application	1997		Box 2
Hunger: Bread for the World	1999-2001		Box 3
Hunger: Bread for the World	2004-2005		Box 4
Hunger: Bread for the World	2001		Box 3
Hunger: Bread for the World: Africa: background	2001		Box 3
Hunger: Bread for the World: Africa: background from Frank Holmquist	2001		Box 3
Hunger: Bread for the World: Africa: Hunger to Harvest	2001		Box 3
Hunger: Bread for the World: Africa: Hunger to Harvest materials	2001		Box 3
Hunger: Bread for the World: Africa: updates	2001		Box 3
Hunger: Bread for the World: AIDS in Africa	2001		Box 3
Hunger: Bread for the World: Congressional resolution (Jim Stipe)	2001-2002		Box 2
Hunger: Bread for the World: Drop the debt	2001		Box 3
Hunger: Bread for the World: Interfaith Committee	2001		Box 2
Hunger: Bread for the World: interfaith meeting	2001		Box 2
Hunger: Bread for the World: Massachusetts Annual Gathering	2001		Box 3
Hunger: Bread for the World: meetings with John Olver	2000		Box 3
Hunger: Bread for the World: Project Bread	2001		Box 2
Hunger: Bread for the World: Senate Bill 583 (Kennedy-Specter) Nutritional assistance for working families and seniors	2001		Box 3
Hunger: debt (master copies)	1999		Box 3
Hunger: Debt relief Amherst	1999		Box 3
Hunger: debt relief handouts	1999		Box 3
Hunger: debt relief legislation	1999		Box 3
Hunger: debt relief talk (with Carmen Diana Deere and Jim Stipe)	1999		Box 3
Hunger: Food bank, Bread for the World pamphlets	1999		Box 3
Hunger: Hunger and debt relief legislations	2000		Box 3
Hunger: Interfaith Committee for Forgiveness of Global Debt	1999-2000		Box 3
Hunger: Lay Academy for Oecumenical Studies	2000		Box 3
Hunger: Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst offerings of letters and service on debt relief	1999-11		Box 3
Hunger: Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst: Offering of letters	2001-10		Box 3
Hunger: Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst: Offering of letters	2001-05		Box 3
Hunger: Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst: Offering of letters	2001-04		Box 3
Impeachment	2006-2008		Box 5
Interfaith Coalition	2002-2003		Box 4
Iraq sanctions protest	1999		Box 4
Iraq talk	2001		Box 3
Iraq War mobilization	2002-2003		Box 4
Iraq War: articles	2002-2003		Box 4
Iraq War: letters to Congress	2002-2003		Box 4
Iraq War: MoveOn.org	2002		Box 4
Iraq War: opposition to invasion	2002-2003		Box 4
Iraq War: PTSD	2009		Box 5
Iraq War: response to terrorism	2001-09		Box 4
Israeli-Palestinian conflict	2002		Box 4
La Paz Centro Sister City Project	1999-2001		Box 3
Massachusetts Voters for Clean Elections	2002-2003		Box 3
Massachusetts Voters for Clean Elections	1999-2000		Box 3
Massachusetts Voters for Clean Elections	2001		Box 3
Massachusetts Voters for Clean Elections: Question 2 letters to the editor	1998		Box 3
Massachusetts Voters for Clean Elections: Question 2 literature	1998		Box 3
Massachusetts Voters for Clean Elections: Question 2 press coverage	1998		Box 3
Massachusetts Voters for Clean Elections: Question 2 workshops	1998		Box 3
Nuclear war pamphlets (includes photo of Nancy Foster, 2001)	1982		Box 5
Peace: Israeli-Palestinian peace	2002-2003		Box 3
Peace: Vigil for Peace: 9/11/2002	2002		Box 4
Randall Forsberg for Senate campaign	2002		Box 4
SAGE meetings	2007-2009		Box 5
SAGE meetings	2004-2005		Box 4
SAGE meetings	2002		Box 4
SAGE meetings	2003		Box 4
SAGE: opposition to tax breaks to millionaires	2004		Box 4
SAGE: table on the Town Commons	2005		Box 4
Sojourner’s Magazine, Moral Response to Terrorism	2001		Box 4
State and local political: charter change	2002		Box 2
State and local political: nuclear arms under Bush	2002		Box 2
State and local political: Robie Hubley for Select Board	2003		Box 2
Torture: articles of interest (including Christopher H. Pyle)	2004-2009		Box 5
Torture: letters to John Olver and letters to the editor	2009		Box 5
Torture: Pyle, Christopher H. talk (Tyll Van Geel)	2009		Box 5
Torture: Pyle, Christopher H.: writings	2004-2007		Box 5
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee	Undated		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee	2007-2009		Box 5
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee	2004-2005		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee	1999-2000		Box 3
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee	2002-11		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee	2002-10		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee	2002-09		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee	2002-05		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee	2003-05		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee	2002-04		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee	2003-04		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee	2002-03		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee	2002-02		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee	2003-02		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee	2001		Box 3
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee	2002		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee	2003-01		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: activities	2000-2004		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: activities	2003		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: agenda	2002-01		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: annual reports	2002-2008		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: civil liberties	2002-2003		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: civil liberties	2002		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: Cot shelter	1996-1997		Box 3
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: Cot shelter	1997-1998		Box 3
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: Cot shelter	1998-1999		Box 3
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: Cot shelter	1999-2000		Box 3
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: Cot shelter	2000-2001		Box 3
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: Cot shelter	2001-2002		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: Cot shelter	2003-2005		Box 4
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: Cot shelter	2006-2007		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: dialogue on the war on terrorism	2002		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: Environmental Action Group	2002-2003		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: Iraq messages	2002		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: meet with legislators	2005		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: minutes	2003-2004		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: minutes	2005-2006		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: minutes	2006-2007		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: social justice on war	2003		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: Survival Center	2000-2004		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: welcoming congregation	2001		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst meetings	2005-2006		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst ministers	2005		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst stationery	Undated		Box 3
Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst: by-laws	2001		Box 3
Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst: Guide for facilitators	1999		Box 3
Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst: leadership skills	2001-2002		Box 3
Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst: minister	2002-2004		Box 3
Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst: rules or order	1997		Box 3
Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst: social justice service	2001		Box 3
Welfare Reform (CPPAX): Downsizing of America	1994		Box 2
Welfare Reform (CPPAX): handouts and clippings	1994		Box 2
Welfare Reform (CPPAX): living wage	1994		Box 2
Welfare Reform (CPPAX): Massachusetts	1994		Box 2

The WFCR Collection contains nearly 4,500 reel to reel recordings of locally-produced radio programs, reflecting over fifty years of the cultural and intellectual life of western Massachusetts. Drawing upon the talents of the faculty and students of the Five Colleges (Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and UMass Amherst), the collection offers a remarkable breadth of content, ranging from public affairs to community and national news, cultural programming, children’s programming, news and current events, scholarly lectures, classical music, and jazz.

A wide ranging and highly diverse collection, the Kleckner Papers document a life in art and activism. The diaries, letters, notes, and essays in the collection are augmented by hundreds of photographic prints and artwork in a variety of media.

Ranging from an autobiographical account that outlines his development as an activist (prepared in anticipation of a trial for conspiracy charges under the Smith Act) to drafts and notes relating to his book Giving Them Hell, the Sidney Lipshires Papers offers an overview of his role in the Communist Party and as a labor organizer. The collection also contains his testimony in a 1955 public hearing before the Special Commission to Study and Investigate Communism and Subversive Activities, photographs, and biographical materials.