[Marxism] From Max Elbaum: Update: Revolution in the Air Archives

[Walter Lippmann <walterlx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Twenty years ago I donated nearly everything held in my fifty-sixty
years of archives from the Socialist Workers Party to the Southern
California Library myself twenty years ago where Sarah Cooper, chief
librarian there for over twenty-years told me that my collection was
the best-organized they'd ever received when I turned it over. From
time to time I add to the collection. It's an excellent archive which
began with the Communist Party, but expanded well-beyond that.

Their website:
http://www.socallib.org/

Some of the murals outside it:
http://www.socallib.org/SCLWebSite/murals.html


Walter Lippmann
http://www.walterlippmann.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/

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Friends,

I have donated the extensive archives used in researching and writing
"Revolution in the Air" to the Southern California Library for Social
Studies and Research. The donated material consists of 40 boxes of
books, journals, newspapers, pamphlets and internal documents from
the late-1960s revolutionary upsurge and then the 1970s-80s "new
communist movement."

This archive will be added to the Library's existing "Mike Conan
Collection" of new communist movement materials. Mike was a dear
comrade and friend - you can read an appreciation of his life and
activism at http://freedomroad.org/content/view/22/64/ Before Mike
died of cancer in 1994 he arranged for his large archive to be made
available to researchers and activists in this way. Now, with these
new documents added, the Library has perhaps the country's most
comprehensive collection of materials on this section of the U.S.
left.

The Library, located in Los Angeles, offers unique and accessible
collections and community programs, and is devoted to engaging people
across generations in using history to advance social justice. For
full information go to http://www.socallib.org/

So, if you are engaged in a research project, or are just interested
in looking at primary source materials from the late '60s radical
movements and one strand of the left that grew out of them, check out
the Mike Conan Collection. I also urge your support for the Southern
California Library and similar institutions, which are so important
for preserving records of radical movements and providing continuity
from one generation of activists and scholars to the next.

Last, if you haven't checked out http://www.revolutionintheair.com in
awhile, consider taking a look. There's at least one new review of
the book posted in 2006, plus an extensive bibliography, a chronology
of events 1954-1992 and other items.

Peace,

Max

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