A product of the vibrant and progressive political culture of western Massachusetts during the early 1970s, the Alternative Energy Coalition played a key role in the growth of antinuclear activism. In 1974, the AEC helped mobilize support for Sam Lovejoy after he sabotaged a weather tower erected by Northeast Utilities in Montague, Mass., in preparation for a proposed nuclear power plant, and they helped organize the drive for a referendum opposing not only the proposed plant in Montague, but existing plants in Rowe, Mass., and Vernon, Vt. Forming extensive connections with other antinuclear organizations, the AEC also became one of the organizations that united in 1976 to form the Clamshell Alliance, which made an art of mass civil disobedience.

The AEC Records provide insight into grassroots activism of the 1970s and 1980s, galvanized by the seemingly unrestrained growth of the nuclear power industry. The records, emanating from the Hampshire County branch, contain both research materials used by the AEC and organizational and promotional materials produced by them, including publications, minutes of meetings, correspondence, and materials used during protests. Of particular interest are a thick suite of organizational and other information pertaining to the occupation of the Seabrook (N.H.) nuclear power plant in 1979 and minutes, notes, and other materials relating to the founding and early days of the Clamshell Alliance. The collection is closely related to the Antinuclear Collection (MS 547).

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In the early 1960s, Tom Barton (b. 1935) emerged as a leader in the Left-wing of the Young People’s Socialist League, the national youth affiliate of the Socialist Party. Deeply committed to the civil rights and antiwar struggles and to revolutionary organizing, Barton operated in Philadelphia, Chicago, and New York and was a delegate and National Secretary at the 1964 convention in which tensions within YPSL led to its dissolution.

A small, but rich collection, the Barton Papers provide a glimpse into the career of a long-time Socialist and activist. From Barton’s entry into the Young People’s Socialist League in the latest 1950s through his work with the Wildcat group in the early 1970s, the collection contains outstanding content on the civil rights and antiwar movements and the strategies for radical organizing. The collection is particularly rich on two periods of Barton’s career — his time in the YPSL and Student Peace Union (1960-1964) and in the Wildcat group (1968-1971) — and particularly for the events surrounding the dissolution of YPSL in 1964, following a heated debate over whether to support Lyndon Johnson for president. The collection includes correspondence with other young radicals such as Martin Oppenheimer, Lyndon Henry, Juan McIver, and Joe Weiner.

The Belchertown State School Friends Association was established in 1954 to promote improved conditions at Belchertown State School and better treatment of “retarded” or “mentally challenged” citizens in Massachusetts.

The bulk of the collection includes copies of records of court appearances, briefs, the consent decree and related materials, as well as reports and correspondence relating to Mass. vs. Russell W. Daniels, Ricci vs. Greenblatt (now Ricci vs. Okin), and other cases. Also clippings and photocopied newspaper articles; speeches; newsletters; draft of agreement; and scrapbooks. Collection documents the efforts of the Association and Benjamin Ricci, President of the Association, 1970-1977, Chairman of the Board, 1977- , to improve the lot of retarded citizens of Massachusetts, initially those living at Belchertown State School.

Horace Mann Bond, ca.1930

Educator, sociologist, scholar, and author. Includes personal and professional correspondence; administrative and teaching records; research data; manuscripts of published and unpublished speeches, articles and books; photographs; and Bond family papers, especially those of Horace Bond’s father, James Bond. Fully represented are Bond’s two major interests: black education, especially its history and sociological aspects, and Africa, particularly as related to educational and political conditions.

Correspondents include many notable African American educators, Africanists, activists, authors and others, such as Albert C. Barnes, Claude A. Barnett, Mary McLeod Bethune, Arna Bontemps, Ralph Bunche, Rufus Clement, J.G. St. Clair Drake, W.E.B. Du Bois, Edwin Embree, John Hope Franklin, E. Franklin Frazier, W.C. Handy, Thurgood Marshall, Benjamin E. Mays, Pauli Murray, Kwame Nkrumah, Robert Ezra Park, A. Phillip Randolph, Lawrence P. Reddick, A.A. Schomburg, George Shepperson, Carter G. Woodson and Monroe Work.

In 1979 the Vietnamese invaded Cambodia removing the Khmer Rouge from power and ending the four year reign of a regime responsible for the deaths of more than a million people. In the upheaval surrounding the invasion hundreds of thousands of Cambodians fled to nearby Thailand. From camps along the border of Thailand and Cambodia 150,000 Cambodian refugees eventually resettled in the U.S.

The Cambodian Crisis Committee in Amherst, Massachusetts worked to educate Americans about the situation of the refugees, as well as help Cambodian families reunite. Elaine Kenseth Abel, a member of the Family Reunification Advocacy Project, received numerous letters from Cambodian refugees in the U.S. seeking assistance in getting their family members out of Thailand. The collection consists of case files, correspondence, and photographs documenting Cambodian refugees and their American advocates reunite families. The collection also includes newsletters and correspondence from other advocacy groups like the Cambodian Crisis Committee throughout the U.S.

Group comprised of students from the University of Massachusetts and community members who sought to develop and promote cultural, literary, charitable, educational and public affairs television programming. Records include by-laws, articles of organization, organizational histories, annual reports, meeting minutes, correspondence, program schedules, subject files, brochures, handbills, news clippings, and materials relating to a proposed merger with University of Massachusetts Cable Vision. In 1989, CCATV was renamed Amherst Community Television (ACT).

Founded in 1962, the mission of Citizens for Participation in Political Action (CPPAX) was to increase citizen involvement in politics and policy making, and to promote social and economic justice both within the U.S. and globally through U.S. foreign policy. The Franklin and Hampshire Counties chapter of CPPAX has been active in a number of issues of both local and national significance.

Minutes of meetings, subject files, and newsletters reveal issues of importance to the local chapter of CPPAX, issues that include clean elections, peace, nuclear abolition, and health care.

Minutes and correspondence of the Executive Committee, correspondence and general files of chairmen Philip Eddy, David E. Matz, and Donn Kesselheim, as well as correspondence, briefs, and clippings related to legal cases and inquiries undertaken by the chapter.

Born out of a unique collaboration between the United States government and the historic peace churches, the first Civilian Public Service Camps were established in 1941 to provide conscientious objectors the option to perform alternative service under civilian command. Nearly 12,000 COs served in the 152 CPS camps in projects ranging from soil conservation, agriculture, and forestry to mental health. While the work was supposed to be of national importance, many of the men later complained that the labor was menial and not as important as they had hoped. Furthermore with no ability to earn wages and with their churches and families responsible for financing the camps, many COs, their wives and children found themselves impoverished both during and after the war.

During their time off, many of the men in the CPS camps published newsletters discussing education programs, which frequently involved religious study, work projects, and news about individuals sent to family and friends back home. This collections consists of newsletters created in camps in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Indiana, Maryland, and Colorado.

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I

IASH

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

Ice Hockey

see Sports-Men’s Hockey (1910- ) RG-18/2

Sports-Women’s Hockey (1993) RG-18/2

Ichthus (Student Publication) (1967)

RG-45/00/I3

Iconographic Materials, etc. (Oversize)

RG-182

ICP Information Newsletter (Computer and Information Science) (1975- )

RG-25/C3/00

IDB

Information Data Bank RG-30/2/4

IGS

see Institute for Governmental Services (IGS) RG-3/8

Ikhana (Student Publication) (1962-1964)

RG-45/00/I4

Illuminating (newsletter-College of Humanities and Fine Arts) (2000- )

RG-11/10

Immigrant and Refuge Community Leadership and Empowerment, Center for

see Center for Immigrant and Refugee Community Leadership and Empowerment (CIRCLE) RG-13/4/2/4/1

Impact (Office of Economic Development) (1997- )

RG-4/15

In Common (UMass Extention Quarterly) (2002- )

RG-15/8

In Focus (1992- )

RG-25/I6/00

In Touch (School of Education) (1971-1985)

RG-13/00

Increased Recruitment, Task Force on (1991)

RG-40/2/I4

Independents, Young

see Young Independents RG-45/80/Y6.4

Index, The (Student Yearbook) (1870-2005) [ View online ]

RG-45/00/I5

see also Duplicate Collection-The Index (1870-2005) RG-99/7

Index, The–Yearbook Photo Collection (1980s, 1994-1997)

RG-148

Indian, American, Student Association (1988- )

RG-45/40/I6

Indian, Asian, Association (1973-1995)

RG-45/40/I5

Individual Members of Faculty and Staff

see Faculty and Staff–Individual members RG-40/11

Individual Trustees

see Trustees, Individual RG-2/3

Industrial Engineering Department

RG-25/I4

Industrial Relations and Regional Development, Office of

see Office of Industrial Relations and Regional Development (1987- ) RG-4/10

Industry Research on Polymers, Center for University of Massachusetts

see Center for University of Massachusetts Industry Research on Polymers (CUMIRP) RG-25/P7.5

Industry/University Center In Process Design and Control

see Chemical Engineering Department–Industry/University Center In Process Design and Control (1985- ) RG-25/C2/3

Informal Chat With Non-Professional Women, An (Everywoman’s Center) (1972)

RG-7/2/00

Information and Advising Center, College of Arts and Sciences

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

Information Booklets

seeCatalogs(Bulletin Series), General Information Bulletins

see also Handouts RG-30/00/2

Information Data Bank (IDB)

RG-30/2/4

Information Processing (Library) (1975, 1978)

RG-8/4/4

Information Scanning Unit, Massachusetts (MISU)

see Massachusetts Information Scanning Unit (MISU) RG-12/13

Information Science, Computer and

see Computer and Information Science RG-25/C9

Information Systems, University

see Associate Vice Chancellor for Computing and Information Systems RG-6/5

Information Systems

see Data Processing Center (DPC) RG-35/7

Information Technology and Dispute Resolution, Center for

see Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution (CITDR) (2001- ) RG-25/L7.5

Information Technology Services

see UMass Information Technology Services RG-35/7

Initiating Career Achievement Networks

see Project I Can (1992-1994) RG-11/8/1

Inkhorne

see Ynkhorne, The (1926-1927) RG-45/00/Y5

Innovations in Education–Film Lecture Series (1968)

RG-13/3/10

Inquiry Program (School of Education) (1977- )

RG-13/4/2/1

see also Project 10, Inquiry Program RG-32/5

Isenberg School of Management, Eugene M. and Ronnie F.

see School of Management RG-12

Insights (President’s Office) (1973-1974)

RG-3/00/I5

Insights (University Internship Program Newsletter)

RG-11/6

Insignia, Diploma, Motto, Mascot, Mace, etc. (1870- )

RG-1/6

Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (IASH) (1981-1998)

RG-6/19

Institute for Atlantic Studies

see Freiburg Program RG-25/F8

Institute for Governmental Services (IGS), Donahue

RG-3/8

Institute for Labor Affairs

RG-3/9

Institute for Man and His Environment

see The Environmental Institute (TEI) RG-6/4/14

Institute for North American Trade and Economics

see North American Trade and Economics, Institute for RG-25/N6

Institute of Food Technologists (1950)

RG-45/40/I5.2

Institutes, Academic

see Academic Departments, Programs, Institutes, Centers RG-25

Institutes and Centers

see Centers and Institutes, ad hoc Committee on (Faculty Senate, 1985- ) RG-40/2/A3

Institutional Research and Planning

see Office of Institutional Research and Planning (OIRP) RG-4/3/4

Office of Planning and Budget (OPB) RG-4/3/3

Institutional Studies

RG-4/3

see also Office of Institutional Studies (OBIS) RG-4/3/1

Office of Budgeting and Institutional Studies (OBIS) RG-4/3/2

Office of Planning and Budget (OPB) RG-4/3/3

Office of Institutional Research and Planning (OIRP) RG-4/3/4

Office of Institutional Research (OIP) RG-4/3/5

Instruction (Official University Committee) (1910)

RG-40/2/I5

Instructional Applications of Computers (School of Education)

RG-13/3/23/5

Instructional Leadership, Division of (School of Education)

RG-13/4/3

Instructional Resources and Improvement, Center for

see Center for Instructional Resources and Improvement (CIRI) (1964-1978) RG-6/18

Instructional Technology News (Computer Center) (1993)

RG-29/00/5

Integrated Day, Center for (School of Education)

RG-13/3/23/2

Integrated Pest Management Program (IPM) (1988- )

RG-15/8.6

Integrated Sciences Building (2006- )

RG-36/101

Intellectual Property, Director of Commercial Ventures

see Commercial Ventures and Intellectual Property, Director of RG-9/6

Inter Action, UMass

see UMass InterAction (President’s Office Publication) (1994- ) RG-3/00

Inter-Campus Committees (2-Campus and 3-Campus)

RG-3/100

Inter-Campus Committees (5-Campus) (1991- )

RG-3/105

Intercollegiate Daily News (Student Publication) (1933-1934)

RG-45/00/I6

Intercom

see Class of 1916–Intercom RG-50/6

Interdepartmental Program in Film Studies

RG-25/I6

Interdepartmental Program in Film Studies Newsletter(1992-1993)

RG-25/I6

Inter-Library Loan (Library) (1959- )

RG-8/3/4

Inter-Religious Project (Religious Groups) (1997- )

RG-45/70/I5

Intern Evaluation, ad hoc Committee (Faculty Senate, 1969, 1974-1976)

RG-40/2/A3

International Agricultural Studies, Center for (College of Food and Natural Resources)

RG-15/4

International Area Studies (1971- )

RG-6/4/10

International Area Studies Newsletters (1976-1982, 1986-1987)

RG-6/4/10

International Brotherhood of Police Officers (NAGE)

RG-40/5/P6

International Club (Student) (1962-1991)

RG-45/40/I5.3

International Club Newsletter (1965-1968)

RG-45/40/I5.3

International Education, Center for (School of Education) (1967- )

RG-13/3/19/5 and RG-13/4/2/4

International Education, Center for–Technical Reports (1970′s)

RG-13/3/19/5

International Forum

see The Five College International Forum RG-60/5/00

International Fund Newsletter

see International Fund–UMass Around the Globe RG-39/9

International Fund, The (University Relations and Development) (1992- )

RG-39/9

International Newsletter (Academic Affairs) (1974-1976)

RG-6/4/9

International Programs (1967- )

RG-6/4/9

see also Foreign Students advisor/office RG-6/4/12

International Center, William Smith Clark (Building) RG-36/101

International Studies

see International Area Studies RG-6/4/10

Internships (Research and Graduate Studies)

RG-9/4/5

Internships, Office of

see University Internships Program, The (College of Arts and Science) RG-11/6

Internships (Research and Graduate Studies) RG-9/4/5

Interpreter’s Studies Program

RG-25/I7

Interpreter’s Studies Program–Translation Center

RG-25/I7/3

Inter-Religious Project (1997- )

RG-45/70/I5

Intramural and Recreation Sports (Photographs) (1969-1989)

RG-141/1

Intramurals

see Athletic Department RG-18/2

Investigating Attorney, ad hoc Committee on (Faculty Senate, 1969)

RG-40/2/A3

Iota Phi Theta (1987)

RG-45/90/I6

IPM

seeIntegrated Pest Management Program (IPM) RG-15/8.6

Isle of View

see Campus Pond and Isle of View (Physical Plant) RG-36/104/P6

Israel, Student Alliance for

see Student Alliance for Israel (1982) RG-40/80/S7.9

Italian Department

see French and Italian Department RG-25/F9

J

Jackie Robinson Initiative (Dept. of Political Science) (1994-1997)

RG-25/P6.7

January Break, ad hoc Committee for Study of (Faculty Senate, 1976)

RG-40/2/A3

Japan America Club (1990-1995)

RG-45/40/J3

Jewish Affairs, Office of (1994- )

RG-30/1/1/1

Jewish Awareness/Anti-Semitism Task Force (1984- )

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

Jewish Caucus (1984-1993)

RG-45/40/J4

Jewish Faculty Professional Group (1980)

RG-40/3/J4

Jewish Student Union (2000- )

RG-45/40/J5

Jewish Studies, Center for

see Center for Jewish Studies (CJS) RG-25/J8.5

JOE

see Juvenile Opportunities Extension (JOE) (Social Action Group) RG-45/80/J8

Joint Committees of Faculty Senate and either or both Student Senates

RG-40/4

Joint Study Committee (Faculty Senate, 1965-1967)

RG-40/2/A3

Joint Town-University Task Force on North Pleasant Street

see North Pleasant Street, Joint Town-University Task Force (1968- ) RG-36/104/N6

Journalism Connection (1986-1987)

RG-25/E3/00

Journalism Department

see English Department–Journalism RG-25/E3

Journalistic Studies

see RG-25/E3 English Department–Journalism

Judaic Studies [Program and Committee] RG-25/J8

Judaic Studies News (1982-1988, 1996-1999)

RG-25/J8/00

Judiciary (Student Senate, Student Government Association-SGA)

RG-45/1/2

see also Attorney: Legal Services Office (LSO) RG-45/2

Judo, Men’s

see Sport-Men’s judo (1965) RG-18/2

Juggling Club (1988- )

RG-45/40/J8

Junior Extension Series

see Extension Service, Cooperative–Junior Extension Series (1919-1934) RG-15/8

Juvenile Justice Program (School of Education)

RG-13/3/15/4

Juvenile Opportunities Extension (JOE) (Social Action Group) (1973-1974)

RG-45/80/J8