Content Description A collection of seven items from the 1972 Children’s March for Survival, which was organized by the National Welfare Rights Organization to protest the Nixon administration's policies on welfare, education, and child care. Items include a flyer with information about participation in the march; informational handouts about student rights, the H.R. 1 welfare reform bill’s impacts on low-income families, the free and reduced price school lunch program, environmental health impacts on children,...

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A collection of propaganda and campaign material issued by the Comités de Défense de la République, a right-wing Gaullist coalition that formed in reaction to the protests of May 1968 in France. Many of the items encourage people to vote for Charles de Gaulle and to save France from a Communist dictatorship. Two of the items are critical of François Mitterand of the Fédération de la Gauche Démocrate et Socialiste and his presidential hopes.

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Two flyers and a broadside produced by the Conseil pour le maintien des occupations (CMDO) during the May 1968 protests in France. All three items call for a worker revolution against the existing class structure and bureaucracies, arguing that French labor unions are ineffective and out of touch. They advocate for the creation of a classless society governed by a federated series of Workers' Councils.

Scope and Contents A broadsheet issued by the Miami Convention Coalition for an anti-repression rally held on the evening of August 21, 1972 at the Miami Beach Convention Hall as part of the protests against the 1972 Republican National Convention in Miami and to commemorate the one year anniversary of the death of Black prisoner George Jackson, who was killed by prison officials in an alleged escape at San Quentin.The broadsheet lists the following featured speakers at the rally: Bobby Seale and...

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The photograph album contains thirty manila pages and fifty-three black and white photographs mounted in pairs. Photographs of student protesters in hard hats and white scarves, factory workers, and police are taken at close range and in the midst of confrontation. The album appears to have been compiled by the company under protest, the Shimura Kako Company, a nickel factory in Tokyo, Japan in 1969.