Helen Garvy Papers
Period 1962-1970
Total size 0.5 m.
Consultation Not restricted
Biography
Helen Garvy:graduate of Radcliffe College,Harvard; helped found the Harvard SDS chapter; elected Assistant National Secretary for 1964/1965 and in charge of editing the SDS Bulletin and monthly news magazine and of much coordination with the local chapters and Economic Research and Action Project (ERAP) community organizing projects; afterwards she worked in an SDS community organizing project for two years; in 2000 she completed a documentary film about the SDS called 'Rebels with a Cause'.
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS): founded in 1960 as an educational association aimed at building an articulate left movement within the universities and at extending its influence in American society; it soon became the leading radical and pacifist organization in the USA; split up into several groups in the summer of 1969, e.g. the militant revolutionary Weathermen.
Content
Collection of printed and processed documents. Documents of the Northern Student Movement (NSM), in particular on tutorial projects for blacks 1962-1964; documents of SDS on: the National Council Meeting 1963, National Convention 1964-1965, Peace Research and Education Project (PREP) 1964-1965, Economic Research and Action Project (ERAP) 1964, conferences organized by SDS, etc.; constitution of SDS 1963; documentation published and/or distributed by SDS 1962-1966; documents relating to student action for peace in Boston, including Tocsin documents 1962-1963; some documents and documentation of the National Student Association (NSA) 1962-1963, 1967; documents of congresses on disarmament, community organization, etc. 1962; documents relating to student action at Stanford University, Palo Alto 1969-1970; instructions for, and programs of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom 1963; some printed material on the war in Vietnam, of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), etc.