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George B. Hartwell Collection of Radical Publications, 1959-1971
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Hartwell, George B.
- Title
- George B. Hartwell Collection of Radical Publications
- Dates
- 1959-1971 (inclusive)19591971
1966-1971 (bulk)19661971 - Quantity
- 1 linear feet
- Collection Number
- XOE_CPNWS0357
- Summary
- A collection of radical publications (primarily from the period 1966-1971), collected by George B. Hartwell in the course of his student activism at Western Washington State College (now Western Washington University).
- Repository
-
Western Washington University, Center for Pacific Northwest Studies
Goltz-Murray Archives Building
808 25th St.
Bellingham, WA
98225
Telephone: (360) 650-7534
cpnws@wwu.edu - Access Restrictions
-
The collection is open to the public for research.
- Languages
- English, English
Historical NoteReturn to Top
Born in Tacoma, Washington, George Boyd Hartwell (1944-2017) graduated from Western Washington State College (now Western Washington University) in 1971, and went on to pursue a career in social work. During his undergraduate years, Hartwell was a founding member and chapter secretary of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Western Washington State College chapter. He was among a group of eight students arrested in November 1968 for distributing anti-draft literature to students at Sehome High School in Bellingham, Washington. The case of the “Sehome Eight” was taken to the Supreme Court of the State of Washington in 1971 as State v. Oyen.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The George B. Hartwell Collection of Radical Publications spans the period 1959-1971 (bulk 1966-1971) and contains publications relating to radical thought and activism across the United States as well as at Western Washington State College (now Western Washington University).
The bulk of the collection comprises newsletters, pamphlets, copies of articles, newspapers and other publications collected by Hartwell as a "Western" undergraduate. Although some of this content was generated in Bellingham, the bulk were published by entities nationwide, including the New England Free Press, Students for a Democratic Society (National Office), and the Student Peace Union. The collection provides evidence of some the influences, concerns and activities of student activists at Western Washington State College. Many of the materials pertain to the anti-war movement and focus on United States involvement in Vietnam and other parts of Asia. Researchers will also find publications about civil rights, the anti-capitalism movement, critiques of institutions (such as universities, the media, and big businesses), and containing calls for a justice revolution in America. Collection contents address issues of race, class and gender equity inside the US and around the world.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Preferred Citation
George B. Hartwell Collection of Radical Publications, Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, Western Libraries Archives & Special Collections.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Processing Note
The collection was processed by Samantha Wu Rose in 2018.
Processing Note
About Harmful Language and ContentResearchers are advised that this collection includes at least one item where the original (published) title includes a racist term that is offensive and harmful: other content in this collection may also be harmful, offensive or triggering. To learn more about problematic content in our collections, collection description and teaching tools (including how to provide feedback or request dialogue on this topic), see the following Statement About Potentially Harmful Language and Content
Acquisition Information
Donated to the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies from George B. Hartwell's estate in 2018.
Related Materials
The Rand Jack Papers at the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies (CPNWS) contain additional records relating to the State v. Oyen legal case. The American Civil Liberties Union – Whatcom County Chapter records (also at CPNWS) contain a small amount of material relating to Selective Service registration.
Separated Materials
Students for a Democratic Society Records, Western Washington University Chapter, 1965-2008 are housed at Western Washington University Archives.
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box | Folder | ||
| 1 | 1 | Directory of Free Schools (Alternatives! Foundation) | approximately 1968 |
| 1 | 1 | Malcolm X Talks to Young People (Young Socialist Alliance) | 1968 |
| 1 | 1 | Guevara, Che. Vietnam & The Third World (Radical Education Project) | 1967 |
| 1 | 1 | Strong, Anna Louise. The Rise of the People's Communes (New England Free Press) | undated |
| 1 | 1 | Huberman, Leo and Paul Sweezy. The Cultural Revolution in China: A Socialist Analysis (New England Free Press) | 1967 |
| 1 | 1 | Gilbert, Dave. Consumption: Domestic Imperialism (Radical Education
Project)
A New Left Introduction to the Political Economy of American Capitalism
|
undated |
| 1 | 1 | Guevara, Che, Norman Bethune, and Frantz Fanon. Medical Cadre (The Jellyroll Press) | undated |
| 1 | 1 | The Campaigner. Vol. 2 No. 1 (SDS Labor Committees of New York and Philadelphia) | 1969 April |
| 1 | 1 | The Milwaukee 14 (The Milwaukee 14 Defense Committee) | approximately 1968 |
| 1 | 2 | The Destruction of Indochina (Stanford Biology Study Group) | 1970 |
| 1 | 2 | The Great Chicago Conspiracy (The Conspiracy) | approximately 1968 |
| 1 | 2 | Radical America: Working Class and Culture. Vol. III No. 2 (Radical America) | 1969 March-April |
| 1 | 2 | Aptheker, Bettina. Big Business and the American University (New Outlook Publishers) | 1966 |
| 1 | 2 | Friedenberg, Edgar Z. Contemptuous Hairdressers: Ceremonies of Humiliation in School (New England Free Press) | 1966 |
| 1 | 2 | Camejo, Peter. How to Make a Revolution in the U.S. (Merit
Publishers)
A speech by Peter Camejo
|
1969 |
| 1 | 2 | What is Guerrilla Theatre Anyway? (Wisconsin Draft Resistance Union) | approximately 1968 |
| 1 | 2 | Newton, Huey. Essays From The Minister of Defense Huey Newton | approximately 1968 |
| 1 | 2 | America's Political Prisoners in South Vietnam (Fellowship of Reconciliation) | approximately 1968 |
| 1 | 2 | The Defense Committee
Open letter from the Defense Committee re: the upcoming trial of the
Harrisburg Thirteeen
|
1971 February 8 |
| 1 | 2 | Bennet, Peggy and Ben Leopold. From The Left | approximately 1968 |
| 1 | 2 | Radical America: Special Lenin-Hegel Issue. Vol. IV No. 6 | 1970 September-October |
| 1 | 2 | Wicks, Norman. Bellingham Justice: Silencing the Left
article re: the prosecution of students (including George B. Hartwell) in
Bellingham, Washington for distributing anti-draft materials at Sehome High
School
|
undated (approximately 1969) |
| 1 | 2 | Piao, Lin / Donald McKelvey. Long Live the Victory of People's War! (New England Free Press) | 1965 |
| 1 | 2 | Dellinger, Dave. Report From Revolutionary China: The Basis of the Cultural Revolution (Liberation) | 1967 |
| 1 | 2 | McKelvey, Donald. Socialist Man and the Chinese Revolution (New England Free Press) | 1967 |
| 1 | 2 | Pollack, Norman. Southern Populism (Southern Student Organizing and New England Free Press) | undated |
| 1 | 2 | United Student National Association Newsletter. Vol. 23 No. 9 | 1970 May 27 |
| 1 | 2 | United Student National Association Newsletter. Vol. 23 No. 10 | 1970 June 3 |
| 1 | 2 | Krebs, Allen. The University (New England Free Press) | 1967 |
| 1 | 2 | The Media is the Pig (Newsreel) | undated |
| 1 | 2 | Rapoport, Anatol. Classified Military Research and the University (Fellowship Publications) | 1969 |
| 1 | 2 | Kolko, Gabriel. The War on Campus (Fellowship Publications) | 1968 |
| 1 | 2 | Radical Education Project Letter (Radical Education
project)
includes list of available literature
|
1970 February |
| 1 | 2 | Radical Literature (New England free Press)
list of articles avalible from the NEFP
|
undated |
| 1 | 2 | Vietnam is a Stake Not a Mistake (Committee of Returned Volunteers) | approximately 1969 |
| 1 | 2 | O'Connor, James. The Meaning of Economic Imperialism (The Radical Education Project) | undated |
| 1 | 2 | Rapoport, Roger et al. Labor in an Affluent Society (New England Free Press) | approximately 1968 |
| 1 | 2 | Heilbroner, Robert L. A Commentary Report: Counterrevolutionary America (Commentary Magazine) | undated |
| 1 | 2 | Young Socialist. Vol. 13 No. 1 (103)
includes articles re: the history of the Young Socialist newsletter, Chicano
Studies, Northern Ireland.
|
1970 January |
| 1 | 2 | Farber, Jerry. The Student is a Nigger (reprinted from LA Free Press) | undated |
| 1 | 2 | Van Lydegraf, Clayton. US Imperialism and the Fascist Danger (Committees of Correspondence) | 1969 July |
| 1 | 2 | Moore Jr., Barrington. Revolution in America?
Coppy of newspaper article
|
undated |
| 1 | 2 | People's Army Jamboree Materials
Material relating to an apparent collective of activists in Portland, Oregon,
who were concerned with issues of working conditions, capitalism in
politics, racism, the war and other topics.
|
1970 |
| 1 | 2 | Einstein, Albert. Why Socialism? (reprinted from the Monthly Review) | undated |
| 1 | 2 | Defend the Berkeley Three (Berkeley Defense Committee) | approximately 1968 |
| 1 | 2 | Wheelock, Mike. Prerequisites to Community: Land Buying Money Making
(Alternatives!)
How to Buy Land and Ways to make Money
|
undated |
| 1 | 2 | Making communities (Alternatives!) | undated |
| 1 | 2 | The Red Papers (Bay Area R.U.) | undated |
| 1 | 3 | Commager, Henry Steele. The University as Employment Agency (The New Republic) | 1968 February 24 |
| 1 | 3 | The People Can Defeat Fascism (Chicago Revolutionary League) | undated |
| 1 | 3 | The World-Wide Revolutionary Storm and the USA (committee of corespondence) | 1967 August |
| 1 | 3 | National Committees to Combat Fascism in America
sign-up sheet to join anti-fascist committees
|
undated |
| 1 | 3 | Oakland Petition for Community Control of Police
For collecting signatures
|
1968 |
| 1 | 3 | Berkeley Petition for Community Control of Police | 1968 |
| 1 | 3 | A Young Man Is Dead (Midpenninsula Free University)
re: a public forum to discuss in Palo Alto
|
1969 |
| 1 | 3 | Cleaver, Eldridge. Black Panther Manifesto (Black Panther
Party)
re: the sentencing of Chairman Bobby Seale
|
approximately 1970 |
| 1 | 3 | Strike Against the Stanford Empire | undated |
| 1 | 3 | What is the War Resisters League? (War Resister League) | undated |
| 1 | 3 | Hartwell, George B. letter to a congressman
Letter protesting sentencing of Robert Major Anderson for failure to report
for the draft (newspaper clipping attached)
|
undated |
| 1 | 3 | The Draft Law and Your Choices (Friends of Peace Committee) | approximately 1965 |
| 1 | 3 | Guide to Conscientious Objection (Students For a Democratic Society) | undated |
| 1 | 3 | What Went Wrong in Vietnam? (Student Peace Union) | undated |
| 1 | 3 | Student Peace Union Membership Correspondence (Student Peace Union) | 1965 |
| 1 | 3 | Student Peace Union Correspondence (Student Peace Union)
includes correspondence, petition, and articles
|
1965 |
| 1 | 3 | An Appeal to the Conscience of America | 1965 |
| 1 | 3 | G.I. or C.O.? (War Resisters League) | 1966 |
| 1 | 3 | We March in Mourning
coordinated by the International Days Of Protest Peace March Committee
|
approximately 1966 |
| 1 | 3 | Ibsen, Henrik. Peer Gynt | 1964 |
| 1 | 3 | Classification Procedure for Conscientious Objectors (Peace Education Program) | 1965 November 16 |
| 1 | 3 | How To Fill In Form 150 For Conscientious Objectors (National Service Board For Religious Objectors) | undated |
| 1 | 3 | Questionaire On Draft Information (Peace Education Program) | undated |
| 1 | 3 | Meacham, Stewart. Resistance To The Draft (Liberation) | 1966 |
| 1 | 3 | Selective Service System Special Form For Conscientious Objector (National Service Board) | 1959 |
| 1 | 3 | Fact Sheet on Vietnam and The Draft (Central Committee For Conscientious Objectors) | undated |
| 1 | 3 | McGovern, George. Congressional Record. Vol. 113 No. 63 | 1967 April 25 |
| 1 | 3 | I.F. Stone's Weekly. Vol. VIV No. 13 (I.F. Stone's Weekly) | 1966 April 4 |
| 1 | 3 | Look At It: America 1969 | 1969 |
| 1 | 3 | Newspaper Articles (The Guardian) | 1969 January 25 |
| 1 | 3 | SF Draft Evader Gets Prison For Open Rebellion (San Francisco Associated Press) | undated |
| 1 | 3 | Student Peace Union Welcome Materials (Student Peace
Union)
includes articles, SPU contitution, and correspondence
|
1965 |
| 1 | 3 | Student Peace Union Correspondence
includes correspondence, article and convention announcement
|
1966 |
| 1 | 3 | No Degree For War (Peace/Rights organizing committee) | approximately 1966 |
| 1 | 3 | Student Peace Union Bulletin (Student Peace Union) | 1965 |
| 1 | 3 | Miscellaneous Clippings | undated |
| 1 | 4 | Helix. Vol. 8 No. 7 | undated |
| 1 | 4 | Helix | 1970 May 14 |
| 1 | 4 | Helix. Vol. 4 No. 7 | undated |
| 1 | 4 | Northwest Passage. Vol. 1 No. 1 | 1969 March 17 |
| 1 | 4 | Western Washington State Collegian. Vol. LVIII No. 29 | 1966 May 20 |
| 1 | 4 | Western Washington State Collegian | 1966 May 13 |
| 1 | 4 | Western Washington State Collegian. Vol. LIX No. 26 | 1967 April 28 |
| 1 | 4 | Western Washington State Collegian. Vol. LVIII No. 21 | 1967 March 31 |
| 1 | 4 | Western Washington State Collegian. Vol. LIX No. 29 | 1967 May 19 |
| 1 | 4 | Western Washington State Collegian. Vol. LIX No. 16 | 1967 February 10 |
| 1 | 5 | Western Front. Vol. LXIII No. 2
Cambodia and the Students
|
1970 July 7 |
| 1 | 5 | Western Front. Vol. LXIII No. 3 | 1970 July 14 |
| 1 | 5 | Western Front. Vol. LXIII No. 4
The Roots of Racism
|
1970 July 21 |
| 1 | 5 | Western Front. Vol. 1 No. 1 | 1970 January 24 |
| 1 | 5 | Western Front. Vol. LXIII No. 7
Freshmen issue
|
1970 August 3 |
| 1 | 5 | Western Front. Vol. LXIII No. 1 | 1970 June 30 |
| 1 | 5 | Western Front. Vol. 1 No. 2
Information re: revolutionary music, and the Seattle strike
|
1969 February 10 |
| 1 | 5 | Western Front. Vol. LXI No. 10 | 1968 December 10 |
| 1 | 5 | Western Front. Vol. LXIII No. 5
Content re: environmental responsibility and the politics of education
|
1970 July 28 |
| 1 | 5 | Western Front. Vol. LVIII No. 6
Western in 1975
|
1970 August 4 |
| 1 | 5 | Western Front. Vol. 63 No. 55
Handwritten note: Columbia Scholastic Press Association Award 1970 - pg 9
|
1971 May 18 |
| 1 | 5 | Western Front. Vol. LXI No. 22 | 1969 April 22 |
| 1 | 5 | Western Front. Vol. LXI No. 14
Educational Reform Week
|
1969 February 4 |
| 2 | 1 | Leviathan. Vol. 1 No. 1 | 1969 March |
| 2 | 1 | Fire Next Time. Vol. 1 No. 1 (Students For A Democratic
Society)
Bring the War Home
|
approximately 1969 |
| 2 | 1 | Something Else!. Vol. 2 No. 1 (The Radical Education Project) | 1966 March |
| 2 | 1 | Win Magazine. Vol. VI No. 10 | 1970 June 15 |
| 2 | 1 | International Socialist Review. Vol. 31 No. 4 (International
Socialist Review Publishing Association)
Marxism Versus Neo Anarchist Terrorism
|
1970 June |
| 2 | 1 | International Socialist Review. Vol. 31 No. 5 (International Socialist Review Publishing Association) | 1970 July-August |
| 2 | 1 | People's Tribune. Vol. 1 No. 3 | 1969 May |
| 2 | 1 | The Student Mobilizer. Vol. 3 No. 3 | 1970 March 10 |
| 2 | 1 | Fire!. Vol. 1 No. 2 | 1969 November 21 |
| 2 | 1 | Independent Socialist Supplement (Independent Socialist Clubs of America) | 1969 July 18 |
| 2 | 1 | Workers World. Vol. 11 No. 13 | 1969 July 12 |
| 2 | 1 | Peace and Freedom Party (Re: Black Panther presidential candidancy) | approximately 1968 |
| 2 | 2 | Berkeley Barb. Vol. 6 No. 26 (Berkeley, California) | 1968 July 5-11 |
| 2 | 2 | El Gaucho. Vol. 50 No. 137 (University of California, Santa Barbara) | 1970 June 5 |
| 2 | 2 | SDS New Left Notes. Vol. 5 No. 6 (Boston, Massachusetts) | 1969 November 13 |
| 2 | 2 | SDS New Left Notes. Vol. 4 No. 21 (Boston, Massachusetts) | 1969 June 6 |
| 2 | 2 | SDS New Left Notes. Vol. 4 No. 29 (Boston, Massachusetts) | 1969 August 29 |
| 2 | 2 | SDS New Left Notes. Vol. 4 No. 20 (Boston, Massachusetts) | 1969 May 30 |
| 2 | 2 | SDS New Left Notes. Vol. 4 No. 27 (Boston, Massachusetts) | 1969 |
| 2 | 2 | SDS New Left Notes. Vol. 4 No. 22 (Boston, Massachusetts) | 1969 June 18 |
| 2 | 2 | SDS New Left Notes. Vol. 4 No. 23 (Boston, Massachusetts) | 1969 June 25 |
| 2 | 2 | SDS New Left Notes. Vol. 4 No. 25 (Boston, Massachusetts) | 1969 July 24 |
| 2 | 2 | Guardian. Vol. 22 No. 19 (Guardian, New York, NY) | 1970 February 7 |
| 2 | 2 | Guardian. Vol. 22 No. 16 (Guardian, New York, NY) | 1970 January 17 |
| 2 | 2 | Guardian. Vol. 22 No. 10 (Guardian, New York, NY) | 1969 December 6 |
| 2 | 2 | Guardian. Vol. 22 No. 14 (Guardian, New York, NY) | 1970 March 14 |
| 2 | 2 | Guardian. Vol. 22 No. 21 (Guardian, New York, NY) | 1970 February 21 |
| 2 | 3 | Guardian. Vol. 22 No. 18 (Guardian, New York, NY) | 1970 January 31 |
| 2 | 3 | Guardian. Vol. 22 No. 20 (Guardian, New York, NY) | 1970 February 14 |
| 2 | 3 | Guardian (Guardian, New York, NY) | 1970 February 28 |
| 2 | 3 | Guardian. Vol. 22 No. 17 (Guardian, New York, NY) | 1970 January 24 |
| 2 | 3 | Guardian. Vol 22 No. 26 (Guardian, New York, NY) | 1970 April 4 |
| 2 | 3 | Guardian. Vol 22 No. 32 (Guardian, New York, NY) | 1970 May 23 |
| 2 | 3 | Guardian. Vol. 22 No. 27 (Guardian, New York, NY) | 1970 April 11 |
| 2 | 3 | Guardian. Vol. 22 No. 23 (Guardian, New York, NY) | 1970 March 7 |
| 2 | 4 | Guardian. Vol. 22 No. 13 (Guardian, New York, NY) | 1969 December 27 |
| 2 | 4 | Guardian. Vol. 22 No. 11 (Guardian, New York, NY) | 1969 December 13 |
| 2 | 4 | Guardian. Vol. 22 No. 29 (Guardian, New York, NY) | 1970 April 25 |
| 2 | 4 | Guardian. Vol. 22 No. 28 (Guardian, New York, NY) | 1970 April 18 |
| 2 | 4 | Guardian. Vol. 22 No. 32 (Guardian, New York, NY) | 1970 May 23 |
| 2 | 4 | Guardian. Vol. 22 No. 37 (Guardian, New York, NY) | 1970 June 27 |
| 2 | 4 | Guardian. Vol. 22 No. 36 (Guardian, New York, NY) | 1970 June 20 |
| 2 | 4 | Guardian (Guardian, New York, NY) | 1970 June 6 |
| 2 | 4 | Guardian. Vol. 22 No. 33 (Guardian, New York, NY) | 1970 May 30 |
| 2 | 4 | Guardian. Vol. 22 No. 31 (Guardian, New York, NY) | 1970 May 9 |
| 2 | 5 | allen, robert l. Dialectics of Black Power (Weekly Guardian Associates) | undated |
| 2 | 6 | Revolutionary Age: The Rebel Girl. Vol. 1, No. 3 (Freedom Socialist
Publications (Seattle, Washington))
Special issue on American women and the Radical Movement
|
undated |
| 2 | 7 | Directory for Personal Growth (Alternatives! Foundation) | approximately 1970 |
| 2 | 8 | Directory of Social Change (Alternatives! Foundation) | approximately 1970 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Radicalism--United States--History--Sources
- Students--Political activity--History--Sources
- Underground press publications--United States--History--Sources
Personal Names
- Hartwell, George B.
Corporate Names
- Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.)--History--Sources
- Western Washington State College--Students--Political activity--History--Sources
Form or Genre Terms
- Newspapers
- Records (Documents)
Finding aid prepared by Samantha Wu Rose for the
Center for Pacific Northwest Studies
2018
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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