W.E.B. Du Bois

Scholar, writer, editor of The Crisis and other journals, co-founder of the Niagara Movement, the NAACP, and the Pan African Congresses, international spokesperson for peace and for the rights of oppressed minorities, W.E.B. Du Bois was a son of Massachusetts who articulated the strivings of African Americans and developed a trenchant analysis of the problem of the color line in the twentieth century.

The Du Bois Papers contain almost 165 linear feet of the personal and professional papers of a remarkable social activist and intellectual. Touching on all aspects of his long life from his childhood during Reconstruction through the end of his life in 1963, the collection reflects the extraordinary breadth of his social and academic commitments from research in sociology to poetry and plays, from organizing for social change to organizing for Black consciousness.

Founders of the Niagara Movement,
ca.1905

The acquisition of the papers of W.E.B. Du Bois in 1972 established SCUA as a center for research in African American history. In subsequent years, the University of Massachusetts has supported the publication of three volumes of Dr. Du Bois’ correspondence and SCUA has served as a resource for many dozens of scholarly articles and books on Du Bois and his legacy. SCUA has also made efforts to build around the Du Bois collection, adding other important printed and manuscript materials both in African American history and in the history of efforts to promote social change.

Beyond Du Bois, significant collections in African American history include the papers of the abolitionist Hudson Family of Northampton, the expatriate playwright Gordon Heath, the sociologist, educator, and former president of Lincoln University, Horace Mann Bond.

Each February, in commemoration of Dr. Du Bois’s birthday, SCUA and the Du Bois Department of Afro-Americans Studies at UMass co-sponsor a colloquium on Du Bois and his legacy. Our lecturers have included distinguished scholars such as Herbert Aptheker, Randolph Bromery, Clayborne Carson, and David Levering Lewis.

Significant collections

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[ O ][ P, Q ][ R ][ S ][ T ][ U ][ V ][ W ][ XYZ ]

A

A & F Notes (1996- ) (Administrative Services)

RG-35/00

AAC

see Academic Advisors Council (AAC) (1986-1993) RG-40/3/A.5

AASA

see Asian American Students Association (AASA) (1975- ) RG-45/40/A8

AAUP

see American Association of University Professors (AAUP) RG-40/5/A2

AAUP Newsletter

see American Association of University Professors Newsletter (UMass Chapter) (1970-1980) RG-40/5/A2

Abilities Unlimited (1986-1990)

RG-45/40/A2

ABLE, Project

see Project ABLE RG-12/2

ABSA

see Applied Behavioral Science Alliance (ABSA) (1973-1974) RG-40/3/A6

Academic Activities Board

RG-30/23/2

Academic Advisors Council

RG-40/3/A.5

Academic Advisory Council (College of Arts and Science)

RG-11/2.1

Academic Affairs

RG-6

Academic Affairs, Assistant Vice President for

RG-3/6/1

Academic Affairs, Associate Vice Chancellor for

see Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Associate (1988) RG-6/3

Academic Affairs Committee (Student Senate) (1972- )

RG-45/7/A2

Academic Affairs, Notes From

see Notes From Academic Affairs (1981-1982) RG-6/00/N6

Academic Affairs Publications

RG-6/00

Academic Affairs, Assistant Vice President for

see Vice President for Academic Affairs, Assistant RG-3/6/1

Academic Affairs, Vice Chancellor for

see Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost RG-6/1

Academic Affairs, Vice President for

see Vice President for Academic Affairs RG-3/6

Academic Budget, Director of

RG-6/11

Academic Calendar (Four & Five College Cooperation) (1958- )

RG-60/5/00

Academic Computing

seeComputing, Provost’s Task Force on Academic (1984- ) RG-40/2/C6.7

Academic Deans Meeting

see Dean’s Council; Provost’s Administrative Council; Academic Deans Meeting (1955-1977) RG-6/2

Academic Departments, Programs, Institutes, Centers

RG-25

Academic Development Center, Counseling and

see Counseling and Academic Development Center (CADC) RG-11/8

Academic Freedom, Faculty Group for (1969-1970)

RG-40/3/A1

Academic Honesty, Committee on (Faculty Senate, 1969, 1977)

RG-40/2/A3

Academic Instructional Media Services (AIMS)

RG-6/22

see also Audio-Visual Department (1948-1990′s) RG-8/1/5.

Academic Matters Committee/Council (Faculty Senate, 1965- )

RG-40/2/A2

see also Predecessor Committees: Curriculum, Course of Study

Academic Matters Council

see Academic Matters Committee (Faculty Senate, 1957- ) RG-40/2/A2

Academic Personnel Policies Committee, ad hoc Multi-Campus (1974-1975)

see Inter-Campus Committees–Personnel Policies Committee, ad hoc Multi Campus Academic (1974-1975) RG-3/100

Academic Personnel Policies Committee (Faculty Senate, 1967- )

RG-40/2/A3

see also Personnel Policy Committee (Faculty Senate, 1967- ) RG-40/2/A3

Academic Planning and Assessment, Office of (OAPA)

see Office of Academic Planning and Assessment (OAPA) RG-4/3/6

Academic Priorities, ad hoc Committee (Faculty Senate, 1978- )

RG-40/2/A3

Academic Programs, Residential

see Residential Academic Programs RG-32/14

Academic Review Committee, ad hoc (Faculty Senate, 1977)

RG-40/2/A3

Academic Support Center, Undergraduate Advising and

see Undergraduate Advising and Academic Support Center (UAASC) (1997- ) RG-6/7

Academic Support Services, Dean

RG-30/4

ACCESS (1989)

RG-45/40/A2.5

ACCENTS (1997- ) (Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station)

RG-15/2.2

Accounting Association

see Accounting Department–Accounting Association RG-25/A2

Accounting, Cashiering

RG-35/5

Accounting Department

RG-25/A2

Acid Rain Monitoring Project Newsletter

see ARM Newsletter (1985-1993) RG-25/W2/00

ACLAN

see Comparative Literature–American Comparative Literature Association Newsletter (ACLAN) (1968-1971) RG-25/C8/00

Acquisitions (Library) (1870- )

RG-8/4/1

Action Committee, ad hoc Faculty/Librarian (1980)

RG-40/3/A1.5

Action, University Year for

see University Year for Action (UYA) RG-6/4/4

Activities and Events, Miscellaneous (Photographs)

RG-145

see also Panoramic Photos RG-170

Activities, Departmental (Photographs)

see Departmental Activities (Photographs) RG-160

Activities Problems, Student Workshop on

see Student Workshop on Activities Problems (SWAP) RG-45/40/S8.8

Activities Without Formal Organization or Name, Student

see Student Activities Without Formal Organization or Name RG-45/100

Acts (Printed materials, oversize)

RG-184/1

Actuarial Program

see Mathematics and Statistics Dept.–Actuarial Program RG-25/M5/3

ADAEP

see Alcohol and Drug Abuse Education Program (ADAEP) (Division of Human Services and Applied Behavioral Sciences) RG-13/4/1

Addresses (Commencement) (1871- )

RG-1/7/3

Adelphia (Honorary Society)

RG-45/60/A3

Administration and Finance, Vice Chancellor for

see Vice Chancellor for Administration and Finance RG-35/1/1

Administration and Leadership (School of Education–Design for Effective Learning Cluster)

RG-13/3/23/7

see also Leadership and Administration, Center for (Educational Planning and Management Cluster) RG-13/3/17/3

Administration, Dean of

see Vice Chancellor for Administrative Services RG-35/1

Administrative Instruction (Administrative Services)

RG-35/00

Administrative Notices

RG-35/00

Administrative Policy, ad hoc Committee on (Faculty Senate, 1957-1958)

RG-40/2/A3

Administrative Reorganization of Special Programs, ad hoc Committee on (Faculty Senate, 1981)

RG-40/2/A3

Administrative Services

RG-35

Administrative Services, Publications

RG-35/00

Administrative Services, Vice Chancellor for

see Vice Chancellor for Administrative Services RG-35/1

Admissions

RG-30/5

see also Graduate Admissions RG-9/5/2

Admissions and Records, Board of (Faculty Senate, 1960- )

RG-40/2/A3

Admissions Task Force, Undergraduate

see Undergraduate Admissions Task Force (1999- ) RG-40/2/U2

Advanced Study in the Humanities, Institute for

see Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (IASH) (1981- ) RG-6/19

Advancement, University

see University Relations and Development RG-39

Advising and Academic Support Center, Undergraduate

see Undergraduate Advising and Academic Support Center (UAASC) (1997- ) RG-6/7

Advising Center, College of Arts and Sciences, Information and

see College of Arts and Sciences Information and Advising Center (CASIAC) RG-11/5

Advisory Council of Women (View online)

RG-30/24

Advisory Council of Women Film (ca. 1927)

RG-186/100/1

Aerobics, Men’s

see Sports-Men’s Aerobics (1988) RG-18/2

Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical and

see Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering RG-25/M6

Aesthetics, Center for

RG-13/3/21/3

Affirmative Action Office (1982- )

RG-4/7

see also Provost for Women and Minority Groups, Associate ( 1968-1981) RG-6/13

Affirmative Business Leadership Education (ABLE)

see Project ABLE RG-12/2

African-Latino-Asian-Native American

see ALANA Honor Society RG-45/60/A3.5

ALANA, Office of

RG-45/80/A4.5

African Students Association

see Afro-American Society RG-45/40/A3.2

Afro-American Society/African Student Association (ASA) (1968- )

RG-45/40/A3.2

Afro-American Studies, W.E.B. Du Bois Dept. of

RG-25/A4

see also Five College Black Studies Program RG-60/5/3; Five College Cooperation RG-60/5

AFSCME, Local 1776; Council 41

see Local 1776 AFSCME; Council 41 RG-40/5/S4

AGENDA, The New Senate (1993 )

RG-45/00/A1

Aggie Banqueteer (1917)

RG-45/00/A2

Aggie Life (Student Body Newspaper)

RG-45/00/A3

see also Aggie Life (Duplicate Collection) (1890) RG-99/1

Aggie Life (Microfilms) (1890-1901) RG-190/11

Aggie Life (Duplicate Collection) (1890)

RG-99/1

Aggie Life (Microfilms)

RG-190/11

Aggie News Letter (1917)

RG-45/00/A4

Aging, Center on

see Center on Aging (Human Development Concentration) RG-13/4/10

Agricultural and Environmental Microbiology

see Environmental Sciences, Department of RG-25/E8

Agricultural and Food Economics

see Food and Resource Economics RG-25/F45

Agricultural and Food Economics–Progress Report on Research (Department Series)

RG-25/F45

Agricultural and Resource Economics, Dept. of

see Food and Resource Economics, Dept. of RG-25/F4.5

Agricultural Education Circular (Extension Service, Cooperative)

RG-15/8

Agricultural Engineering, Department of

RG-25/A5.5

see also Food and Agricultural Engineering RG-25/F4

Agricultural Engineering Laboratory, Wareham

RG-25/M6.1

Agricultural Experiment Station (Main Microfilms)

see UMass Library catalog for holdings

Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of Massachusetts

see Experiment Station (1888- ) RG-15/2.2

Agricultural Extension Service (Main Microfilms)

see UMass Library catalog for holdings

Agricultural Improvement Association (1911-1912)

RG-45/40/A3.6

Agricultural Management Systems Center

RG-25/A5.75

Agricultural Review, Massachusetts

see Extension Service, Cooperative — Massachusetts Agricultural Review (1926-1931) RG-15/8

see also Massachusetts Agricultural Review (1926-1930) (Official University Committee) RG-40/2/M4

Agricultural Review, Mass., Committee on

see Massachusetts Agricultural Review, Committee on (1926-1930) RG-40/2/M4

Agricultural Studies Center

see International Agricultural Studies, Center for RG-15/4

Agriculture, College of

see College of Food and Natural Resources RG-15

Agronomy

see Plant and Soil Sciences RG-25/P4

Agronomy Digest

see Extension Service, Cooperative–Agronomy Digest (1982-1993) RG-15/8

Ahora (Student Social Action Group) (1974)

RG-45/80/A4

AIDS Memorial Quilt Project (1992- )

RG-11/20

AIDS, University Committee on (Official University Committee) (1987-1993)

RG-40/2/A5.5

AIMS

see Academic Institute Media Services (AIMS) RG-6/22

see also Audio-Visual Department (as part of library) RG-8/1/5

Air Science, Military

see Military and Air Science RG-25/M8

ALANA Honor Society

RG-45/60/A3.5

Note: As of 1999, ALANAI (African- Latino- Asian- Native American and International Honor Society)

ALANA, Office of (Asian Latino African Native American)

RG-45/80/A4.5

ALANAI

see ALANA Honor Society RG-45/60/A3.5

Alcohol and Drug Abuse Education Program (ADAEP) (Division of Human Services and Applied Behavioral Sciences)

RG-13/4/1

Alcohol Education Project, Demonstration

see Demonstration Alcohol Education Project RG-30/15/2/3

Alcohol Program, Residential Education

see Residential Education Alcohol Program (REAP) (1987- ) RG-30/31

Alcohol Use, University Committee on (Official University Committee) (1957-1959, 1984- )

RG-40/2/A6

Alliance for Student Power (ASP) (1994- )

see Radical Student Union RG-45/80/R1

Allied Students Against Prejudice (ASAP) (1992)

RG-45/40/A4

ALPHA BITS (1925-1928) (Phi Sigma Kappa)

RG-45/90/P5.6

Alpha Chi Omega (1962-1986)

RG-45/90/A3.5

Alpha Delta Phi (1980)

RG-45/90/A4

Alpha Epsilon Pi (1983, 1986)

RG-45/90/A4.3

Alpha Gamma Rho (1985)

RG-45/90/A4.2

Alpha Kappa Alpha (2000- )

RG-45/90/A4.31

Alpha Lambda Delta (Honor Society)

RG-45/60/A4.2

Alpha Phi Alpha (1995)

RG-45/90/A4.32

Alpha Phi Gamma (Honor Society)

RG-45/60/A4.4

Alpha Phi Mu (Honor Society)

RG-45/60/A4.45

Alpha Phi Omega (1970)

RG-45/90/A4.4

see also Freshman Register (1974-1977, classes of 1978-1981) (Alpha Phi Omega) RG-45/00/F6.5

Alpha Sigma Lambda (Honor Society)

RG-45/60/A4.7

Alpha Sigma Phi

see College Shakespearean Club (Alpha Sigma Phi) RG-45/90/C9

Alpha Tau Gamma (1919- )

RG-45/90/A4.6

Alpha Zeta (Honor Society)

RG-45/60/A4.9

ALSA Forum (National Journal) (1981-1984)

RG-25/L7/00

see also Legal Studies Forum: An Interdisciplinary Journal (1985-1988) RG-25/L7/00

Alternative Schools (School of Education–National Alternative Schools Program)

RG-13/3/21/7

Alternative Schools, Center for

RG-13/4/10

see also Alternative Schools RG-13/3/21/7

Alternative School Program, National

see Alternative Schools (National Alternative Schools Program) RG-13/3/21/7

Alumni

RG-50

Alumni Advisory Committee on Campus Development (1945-1946)

RG-6/15/2

Alumni Affairs

see Alumni Office RG-50/1

Alumni Affairs, ad hoc Committee on (Faculty Senate,1990)

RG-40/2/A3

Alumni, Associate

see Associate Alumni RG-50/2

Alumni Associations (City, Regional, and Other Special Associations–not athletic)

RG-50/5

Alumni Athletic Association, MAC

see MACAAA RG-50/4

Alumni Bulletin (1919-1953)

RG-50/00/3

see also Alumni Bulletin (Duplicate Collection) (1919-1953) RG-99/1

Alumni, by Class (Photographs)

see Students and Alumni, by Class (Photographs) RG-130

Alumni Classes, by Year (including individual students)

see Classes, by Year RG-50/6

Alumni Club, On Campus

see On Campus Alumni Club (1986-1989) RG-40/3/O5

Alumni Committee on Campus Development

see Alumni Advisory Committee (1945-1946) RG-6/15/2

Alumni Connection, The UMASS (1992- )

RG-50/00/3

Alumni Day, Mid-Winter

see Mid-Winter Alumni Day (Official University Committee) (1923-1926) RG-40/2/M5

Alumni Directories

see Directories, Alumni RG-50/1

see also Directories, Student RG-1/00/5

Alumni Directories (Duplicate Collection) (1918, 1929, 1935, 1968)

RG-99/1

Alumni Group, On-Campus

see On-Campus Alumni Group (1986- ) RG-40/3/O5

Alumni Materials (Duplicate Collection)

RG-99/1

Alumni News, MAC College and

see MAC College and Alumni News (Vol. 1-6, 1903-1908) RG-50/00/3

Alumni/ae Newsletter (School of Education)

see School of Education Alumni Newsletter (1993) RG-13/00

Alumni Obituaries, Biographies

see Obituaries, Biographies (Alumni) RG-50/00/2

Alumni Office (Office of Development and Alumni Affairs)

RG-50/1

Alumni Organizations by Class

see Classes by Year (including individual students) RG-50/6

Alumni Periodicals

RG-50/00/3

Alumni Photographs

see Students and Alumni by Class (photographs) RG-130

Alumni Publications

RG-50/00

Alumni, Stockbridge

see Stockbridge Alumni RG-50/3

Alumni/ae Newsletter (School of Education)(1993)

RG-13/00

Alumnus Magazine, The (Photo Collection)

RG-147

Alumnus, The (Alumni Periodicals) (1953-1989) View online (1970-1976)

RG-50/00/3

see also Alumni Connection, The UMASS Winter (1992- ) RG-50/00/3

Amateur Radio Club

see Radio Club, Amateur (1948- ) RG-45/40/R3

American Association of University Professors (AAUP)

RG-40/5/A2

see also American Association of University Professors (AAUP) Newsletter RG-40/5/A2

American Association of University Professors Newsletter (1970-1980)

RG-40/5/A2

American Comparative Literature Association Newsletter (ACLAN) (1968-1976)

RG-25/C8/00

American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees

see Local 1776, AFSCME, Council 41 (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees) RG-40/5/S4

American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CI0, Local-1359, UMASS Chapter

see American Federation of Teachers–UMass Faculty Records (1963-1964) MS152

American Legal Studies Association

see ALSA Forum RG-25/L7/00

American Literature, Early

see Early American Literature RG-25/E3/00

Americans for Freedom, Young

see Young Americans for Freedom RG-45/80/Y6

Amherst Camera Club

see Camera Club, Amherst RG-45/40/C3

Amherst Campus Council

see Campus Council, Amherst (1992- ) RG-4/11

Amherst Campus to Other Campuses of the University, ad hoc Committee

on the Relationship of (Faculty Senate, 1972-1974) RG-40/2/A3

Amnesty International, UMASS (1986-1998)

RG-45/80/A5

An Informal Chat with Non-Professional Woman (1972)

RG-7/2/00

Animal Care Committee (Research and Graduate Studies)

RG-9/1/2/3

Animal Husbandry, Animal Science Club

see Veterinary and Animal Sciences–Animal Husbandry, Animal Science Club RG-25/V2

Animal Rights Coalition (ARC) (1993)

RG-45/80/A6

Animal Science Club

see Veterinary and Animal Sciences–Animal Husbandry, Animal Science Club RG-25/V2

Animal Sciences

see Veterinary and Animal Sciences RG-25/V2

Animals (Photographs)

RG-165

Anniversary Slide Show, UMass 125th

see UMass 125th Anniversary Slide Show (1988) RG-187/1

Anniversaries

see Centennial and Other Anniversaries; Special Days (1868- ) RG-1/8

Annual Reports, Experiment Station

see Experiment Station , Annual Reports (1888- ) RG-15/2.2

Annual Reports, Experiment Station

see Experiment Station, Annual Reports (1882-1895) RG-15/2.1

Annual Reports, University (1863-1989)

RG-1/00/2

View online (1864-1973) or View online (1879-1975)

and Annual Reports, Duplicate Collection (1863-1989) RG-99/2

Anthropological Survey Service, University Monthly

see University Monthly Anthropological Survey Service (UMASS) RG-25/A6/00

Anthropology, Department of

RG-25/A6

Anthropology Research Reports, Dept. of (1968-1989)

RG-25/A6/00

Anti-Racism Coalition (1992)

RG-45/40/A5

Anti-Semitism Task Force, Jewish Awareness

see Civility in Human Relations, Commission on RG-40/2/C3

Apartments (Lincoln, University and North Village)

RG-35/12/1

see also Apartments, North Village RG-36/102/N5

Applesauce (1974-1976)

RG-13/3/21/7

see also Alternative School Programs RG-13/4/10

Applied Behavioral Science Alliance (ABSA) (1973-1974)

RG-40/3/A6

Applied Behavioral Sciences, Division of Human Services

see Division of Human Services and Applied Behavioral Sciences (HS/ABS) RG-13/4/1

Applied Mathematics, Center for

RG-25/M5.5

Applied Technology Center (College of Engineering)

RG-14/3

Aquacultural Engineering Laboratory, Wareham

RG-25/M6.1

Arab/Arab Students Association (ca. 1969)

RG-45/40/A6

Arboretum

see Waugh Arboretum (Physical Plant) (1944) RG-36/104/W3

ARC

see Animal Rights Coalition (ARC) (1993- ) RG-45/80/A6

Archaeological Services (1992- )

RG-6/4/14/6

Archery (Men’s)

see Sports-Men’s Archery (1939-1940, 1947) RG-18/2

Archives (Archives and Manuscripts) (1967- )

RG-8/1/3

Arcon (University Guide Service) (1964-1984)

RG-45/90/A7

see also University Tour Service (1984- ) RG-30/4/1

Area Government, Dormitories and

see Housing Services RG-32

Area Studies (College of Arts and Science)

RG-11/3

Arion Quartet

see Singing Clubs–Arion Quartet RG-25/M9.5

ARM Newsletter (1982-1993)

RG-25/W2/00

Armenian Students Club (1985)

RG-45/40/A7

Army Reserve Unit (1961)

RG-40/3/A7

Army Specialized Training Reserve Program (ASTRP)

see Military and Air Science–ASTRP RG-25/M8/3

Arnold Air Society

see Military and Air Sciences–Arnold Air Society RG-25/M8

Art Department

RG-25/A7

Art Exhibition, ad hoc Committee on the (Faculty Senate, 1967-1968,1975-1976)

RG-40/2/A3

Art Gallery (Herter and University Gallery)

RG-11/15

see also Art Exhibition, ad hoc Committee on the (Faculty Senate) RG-40/2/A3

Art Posters (Poster Collection)

RG-180/5

Art Sites, Galleries and Public

see Galleries and Public Art Sites RG-36/50/G2

Art Sitings (1993 )

RG-11/13

Art Students Association, Undergraduate

see Undergraduate Art Students Association (U-Arts) RG-45/40/U5

Artifacts (Memorabilia, general)

RG-183/1

Arts and Music Committee

RG-45/50/A7

Arts and Sciences

RG-11

Arts and Sciences, College of

see College of Arts and Sciences RG-11/1-7

Arts and Sciences, Dean

see College of Arts and Sciences, Dean RG-11/1

Arts Council

see Fine Arts Council RG-11/13

Arts Extension Service

RG-7/5

Arts Extension Service Newsletter (1977-1981)

RG-7/5

Arts Program, Feminist

see Feminists Arts Program (Everywoman’s Center) RG-7/2/2/2

ASAP

see Allied Students Against Prejudice (ASAP) (1992- ) RG-45/40/A4

Asbestos Control Office

RG-36/2

Asia House, United

see United Asia House RG-45/40/U6

Asia Learning Resource Center, United

see United Asia Learning Resource Center (UALRC) (1990) RG-25/U5

Asian, Latino, African, Native American

see ALANA, Office of RG-45/80/A4.5

see also ALANA Honor Society RG-45/60/A3.5

Asian American Students Organization (AASA) (1975- )

RG-45/40/A8

Asian Arts and Culture

RG-25/F3/A8

Asian Club, South

see South Asian Club (1992- ) RG-45/40/S4.23

Asian Indian Association

see Indian, Asian, Association RG-45/40/I5

Asian Studies (Program and Committee)

RG-25/A8

Asian Studies Committee Occasional Papers Series (1978-1980)

RG-25/A8/00

ASP

see Alliance for Student Power RG-45/80/R1

Assemblies (1946, 1991)

RG-1/10

Assistantships, Teacher Improvement (Graduate School)

RG-10/1/20

Associate Alumni

RG-50/2

Associations, Unions and (Student)

see Unions and Associations (Student) RG-45/45

Associations, Unions and (Faculty and Staff)

see Unions and Associations (Faculty and Staff) RG-40/4

Associations with Other Institutions

RG-60

Astronomy

see Physics and Astronomy RG-25/P3

ASTRP (Army Specialized Training Reserve Program)

see Military and Air Science–ASTRP RG-25/M8/3

Athletic Association, MAC Alumni

see MACAAA RG-50/4

Athletic Council of Faculty Senate (Faculty Senate, 1960- )

RG-40/2/A3

Athletic Department (by sport)

RG-18/2

see also Physical Education, Men’s Department RG-25/P3.1

Physical Education, Women’s Department RG-25/P3.2

Athletics

see Athletic Department RG-18/2

Atlantic Studies, Institute for

see Freiburg Program RG-25/F8

Attorney-Legal Services Office (LSO)

RG-45/2

Au Present (1966)

RG-45/00/A8

Audio Tapes

RG-185/2/1

Audio-Visual Advisory Committee (Faculty Senate, 1979-1986)

RG-40/2/A3

Audio-Visual Council (Faculty Senate, 1956-1960)

RG-40/2/A3

Audio-Visual Department

see Library Audio-Visual Department (1948-1990′s) RG-8/1/5

see also Academic Instructional Media Services (AIMS) (1998- ) RG-6/22

Audio-Visual Software

RG-185 through 190

Auto Pool Committee (Student Senate)

RG-45/7/A8

Auxiliary Services

RG-35/19

A-V Center

see Audio-Visual Department (as part of Library) RG-8/1/5

see also Union Video RG-45/30/U5

Awards (Faculty and Staff)

RG-40/1/11

see also Distinguished Teaching Award RG-1/11

Awards (Printed materials, oversize)

RG-184/2

Awards (Faculty and Staff)

RG-40/1/11

Awards, Prizes (1909- )

RG-1/11

see also University Medal for Outstanding Service RG-2/99

Awareness Committee, Campus

see Campus Awareness Committee (1986- ) RG-40/2/C.5

In the summer of 1967, members of University of Massachusetts Amherst campus groups, such as the Faculty Group on War and Peace and the Students for Political Action, joined with individuals from other area colleges and from the community at large to form the Valley Peace Center of Amherst for the purposes of opposing the Vietnam War, providing draft counseling, eliciting pledges from the government to avoid first use of nuclear and biological weapons, and reduction of the power of the “military-industrial complex”. The Center was active for more than five and a half years, drawing its financial support largely from the community and its human resources from student and community volunteers.

Correspondence, minutes, volunteer and membership lists, financial records, newsletters, questionnaires, notes, petitions, clippings, posters, circulars, pamphlets, periodicals, other printed matter, and memorabilia. Includes material relating to alternative service, boycotts, war tax resistance, prison reform, environmental quality, and political candidates.

African American expatriate, stage and film actor, musician, director, producer, founder of the Studio Theater of Paris and co-owner of the nightclub L’Abbaye. Includes personal and professional correspondence, scrapbooks containing photos and clippings from assorted television and film productions in addition to songs, poetry, and reviews of plays or playbills from productions he attended.

The Papers also contain art work, sheet music, personal and production photographs, and drafts of his memoirs.

Sidney Kaplan, May 1972

An eminent scholar of African American history and activist, Sidney Kaplan was raised in New York City and graduated from City College in 1942. After wartime service as a Lieutenant in the Army, Kaplan returned to his education, completing an MA in history from Boston University (1948) and PhD at Harvard (1960), taking up the study of African American history at a time when few white scholars showed interest. Joining the English Department at UMass in 1946, Kaplan’s influence was widely felt at UMass Amherst and in the local community: he was among the founders of the Department of Afro-American Studies, a founder of the UMass Press, a founder and editor of the Massachusetts Review, and he was the editor of Leonard Baskin’s Gehenna Press. Over more than thirty years at UMass, he worked on diverse projects in history, literature, and the arts, often in partnership with his wife Emma Nogrady, a librarian at Smith College whom he married in 1933, ranging from studies of Poe and Melville to a biographical dictionary of African Americans and a study of Shays’ Rebellion. In 1973, they were co-authors of the first comprehensive study of depictions of African Americans in the visual arts, The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution (based on an exhibition planned for the National Portrait Gallery), and in 1991, the UMass Press published a collection of Sidney’s essays, American Studies in Black and White. A Fulbright lecturer in Greece and Yugoslavia and exchange Professor at the University of Kent, Kaplan was the recipient of the Bancroft Award from the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History for best article of the year in the Journal of Negro History, and he was awarded the UMass Amherst Chancellor’s Medal in 1979, one year after his retirement. Sidney Kaplan died in 1993 at age 80 and was followed by Emma in 2010.

The Kaplan Papers document a long career devoted to the study of African American history and life. The extensive correspondence, research notes, and drafts of articles and other materials offer important insight into the growth of African American studies from the 1950s through 1970s as well as the growth of UMass Amherst into a major research university.

A pioneer in African American history, August Meier was a model of an engaged academic, a prolific writer, active participant in the civil rights struggle, and staunch member of the NAACP, SNCC, and CORE. While pursuing graduate work at Columbia under Henry Steele Commager, Meier taught at a succession of Historical Black Colleges, including Tougaloo (1945-1949), Fisk (1953-1956), and Morgan State (1957-1964). His dissertation, completed in 1957, became the first of eleven books he wrote or edited, Negro Thought in America, 1880-1915 (1963), with much of later work conducted in collaboration with Elliott Rudwick and John Bracey. Meier joined the faculty at Kent State University in 1967 and remained there until his retirement in 1993. His much-anticipated monograph on the history of the NAACP had not been completed at the time of death in 2003.

The Meier collection is am exceptional assemblage of books, pamphlets, and periodicals centering on African American history and culture, the antislavery and civil rights movements, and race relations. Reflecting his research interests and personal history, the collection includes a number of first editions, signed copies, and scarce titles. Many other books and journals owned by Meier have been integrated into the general collections of the University Libraries.

The collection includes publications, ephemera, periodicals, and other communications from a range of radical groups. Much of the collection relates to the sedition trial of Raymond Luc Levasseur and the Ohio Seven, but ranges into related topics, including political prisoners, Communist and revolutionary action, Puerto Rican independence, African liberation movements, and anti-Klan and antiracist activity. It is organized into six series: Ohio Seven (3 boxes), Political Prisoners (2 boxes), John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (1 box), Subject Files (5 boxes), and Radical Periodicals (4 boxes).

From 1987 through early 1988, Daniel and Joyce Stokes published Into the Night, “a newsletter for freedom for political prisoners held in the United States.” Based in Brooklyn, N.Y., this simply-produced publication offered updates and commentary on Americans imprisoned for politically-motivated acts. Reflecting both the legacy of 1960s radicalism and the resurgent activism associated with U.S. imperialism in Central America, Into the Night offered news on the Ohio 7 sedition trial, the MOVE organization, and the fate of Plowshares war resisters.

The Stokes collection contains correspondence from subscribers and supporters of Into the Night, fleshing out their political philosophy and the conditions of imprisonment. Drawn from groups including the MOVE organization, the United Freedom Front, Black Liberation Army, and Plowshares, the correspondents include Ramona Africa, Alberto Aranda, Philip Berrigan, Marilyn Buck, Carl Kabat, Ray Luc Levasseur, Ruchell Cinque Magee, and Carol Manning. The collection also includes copies of other radical publications and a complete run of Into the Night itself.

With a population of nearly a million French Americans, Massachusetts bears witness to the largest continental migration experienced in the Northeast. Under a grant from the Massachusetts Foundation for Humanities and Public Policy, 44 interviews of Franco Americans in the region were conducted from August 8, 1982 to January 18, 1983.

These interviews document the lives of those individuals, covering a period beginning in the late nineteenth century through 1984.