"Student at University of Michigan. Leaflets, flyers, newsletters, and campaign materials concerning Campus Action, the mayoral campaign of Robert J. Harris in 1969, Interfaith Council for Peace, Eugene McCarthy's presidential campaign in 1968, Mobilization, Resistance, Socialist Labor Party, Student Peace Union, Students for a Democratic Society, Vietnam Summer, Young Americans for Freedom and Young Socialist Alliance."
A cut-out copy of an article owned by campus minister of Guild House, J. Edgar Edwards, published in The Michigan Daily, student newspaper of University of Michigan. The article discusses the complications in securing funding and the amount of planning a large-scale teach-in requires. Robert Moore, a student journalist, quotes University of Michigan professors involved in the planning process of the eventual on-campus teach-in.
A copy of a flier for a speaking event featuring celebrities David Harris and Joan Baez. The flier advertises 'resistance' events at both Eastern Michigan University and University of Michigan.
A pamphlet published by the SDS in 1966, collecting excerpts from the "Port Huron Statement," a statement clarifying SDS's founding convention. The statement was first drafted in 1962, and was edited several times during the Vietnam War period. Therefore, it includes SDS's proposals for peaceful solutions to the Vietnam crisis. From 1962 to 1966, SDS printed and reprinted 65,000 copies of the pamphlet in total to distribute among college students all over the U.S. for a price of 10 cents per copy, aiming at both propagating its ethos and recruiting new student members. The copy presented here is the third edition of the pamphlet.
The front page of The Michigan Daily's extra issue for April 1, 1968, states in a large headline that President Lyndon Baines Johnson will not seek a second term as President of the United States. Next to a photo of President Johnson is a photo of Senator Eugene J. McCarthy from Minnesota, who ran for the Democratic nomination on an antiwar platform in 1968 and won popularity on many college campuses. The bottom left corner of the front page includes a photograph of University of Michigan students celebrating President Johnson's announcement on the Diag.
A flyer created by Student Mobilization Committee and distributed within Ann Arbor area. It advocates for bringing the U.S. soldiers in Vietnam back home.
This flyer, distributed by the Student Peace Union, defines common words associated with the Vietnam War from the critical perspective of antiwar activists.
A sign-up form distributed by the Student Peace Union among local students in Ann Arbor. Students planning to join the Union were required to confirm several moral commitments and to pay 3 dollars in dues.
This brochure contains information about the Vietnam War from the perspective of Young Americans for Freedom, a national group of conservative students founded in 1960 with support from William F. Buckley, Jr., a well-known conservative commentator and founder of The National Review. The brochure also contains background and membership information for those interested in learning more about joining the organization.
