Title: DETROIT COMMITTEE TO END THE WAR IN VIETNAM COLLECTION Genre: Papers Date : 1965-69 Size: 1 linear foot ID#: 425 OCLC: ©Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs HEFA.01c.update |
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Scope & Contents
The papers of the Detroit Committee to End the War in Vietnam (CEWV) were placed in the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs in December of 1970 by Helen Schiff and were open for research in September of 1984.
The Detroit CEWV was one of a number of local Committees to End the War in Vietnam which were founded after the sustained bombing of North Vietnam began in February of 1965. These committees were not affiliated with any national political party, they were non-exclusionary, almost all demanded the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam, and they were action oriented. The work of the Committees was coordinated by the National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam which was founded in August of 1965.
In Detroit,the CEWV sponsored a number of local demonstrations and events including teach ins, debates, speakers, and films at Wayne State University and throughout the city. The Committee also worked with other anti-war groups in Detroit in sponsoring events and running peace candidates. Finally, the Committee built for and participated in a number of national demonstrations, including the April, 1967 March on New York City, and the October, 1967 March on Washington, D.C.
The papers of the Detroit Committee to End the War in Vietnam document the organization's work in building an anti-war movement in Detroit by sponsoring local events and participating in national demonstrations.
Dearborn Referendum
GI Anti-war Organizing
Factionalism in the Anti-war Movement
Socialist Workers Party
Fort Hood Three
David Dellinger
A. J. Muste
Robert Greenblatt
Sidney Peck
Nick Medvecky
Evelyn Sell
2 manuscript boxes
Series I, General Office Files, 1965-1969, Boxes 1-2:
Correspondence, leaflets, newsletters, clippings, notes, and other material used by the Detroit Committee to End the War in Vietnam in building an anti-war movement in Detroit. Included in this series is information on local and national demonstrations, the Dearborn Referendum, the activities of the Socialist Workers Party in the movement, anti-war activities among GIs, and anti-war organizations throughout the country. Box 1 is arranged chronologically by the date of an event; Box 2 contains newsletters and leaflets of anti-war organizations and is arranged alphabetically by the name of the organizations.
Series I
General Office Files, 1965-1969
Boxes 1-2
Box 1
1. Wayne State University Selective Service Protest, May-Jun 1966
2. International Days of Protest, 6-9 Aug 1966
3. Dearborn Vietnam Referendum, Nov 1966
4-6. November 1966 Mobilization
7. November 1966 Mobilization, Newspaper Clippings
8-9. November 1966 Mobilization, Teach-In
10. Student Strike Conference, Dec 1966
11-16. Vietnam Week, Apr 1967
17. Vietnam Week, Apr 1967, Name Lists
18. Vietnam Week, Apr 1967, Newspaper Clippings
19-20. Vietnam Week, Apr 1967, War Crimes Tribunal
21. National Anti-War Conference, May 1967
22-25. March on Washington, Oct 1967
26. March on Washington, Oct 1967, Newspaper Clippings
27. Ten Days of Protest, Apr 1968
28. April 5, 1969, Action of GIs and Civilians Against the War
Box 2
1. Committee to End the War in Vietnam, Madison, 1966-68
2. Committee to End the War in Vietnam, Minnesota, 1967
3-7. Committee to End the War in Vietnam, National, 1965-66
8. Freedom Now for Lt. Howe Committee, 1966
9. Miscellaneous
10. Mobilization Committee, Minnesota, 1968
11. Mobilization Committee, National, 1966-68
12. Mobilization Committee, Student, 1967-68
13. National Conference for New Politics, 1966
14. Socialist Workers Party, 1966-68
15. The Squeak, 1966
16. Stop the War Committee, Denver, 1966
17. Students Against the War in Vietnam, 1967
18. Twin Cities Workers League, 1967
19. U.S. Committee to Aid the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam, 1967
20. Vietnam Day Committee, 1966
21. W.E.B. Dubois Club, 1966
22-23. Women for Peace, Detroit, 1966-68
24. Women Strike for Peace
25. Young Peoples' Socialist League
Index
(correspondence is indicated by an asterisk)
Afro-American Unity Movement, 1:5
*Anderson, John, 1:11-12, 1:15, 1:21
*Arnoni, M. S., 1:8-9
*Aronson, James, 1:8-9
*Becker, Norma, 1:2
*Bevel, James, 1:13-14, 1:21
*Bond, Julian, 1:8
Breakthrough, 1:4-5, 1:7, 1:9, 1:25
*Camejo, Peter, 1:8
Campus Organizing, 1:10, 1:12, 1:27
Cavanagh, Jerome, 2:14
*Cleveland, Clyde, 1:13
Congress on Racial Equality (CORE), 1:7-9
*Conyers, John, 1:8
Cuba, 2:25
*Dannenberg, Linda, 1:2
Dearborn Referendum, 1:3
*Dellinger, David, 1:2, 1:6, 1:8, 1:14, 1:27, 2:11
Dingell, John, 1:3
Dow Chemical Co., 1:10, 1:20, 2:7
Fort Hood Three, 1:4, 1:6-8, 1:10, 1:25, 2:21
*Fulbright, J. W., 1:8
*Geary, Maurice, 1:28
General Motors Corp., 1:27
GI Organizing, 1:28, 2:8. See also Fort Hood Three
Government Repression, 2:11
*Greenblatt, Robert, 1:5-6, 1:11, 1:24, 1:27, 2:11
House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), 2:3, 2:5, 2:7, 2:11, 2:16
Hubbard, Orville, 1:3
*Jenness, Doug, 1:8-9
Keast, William R., 1:1
*Keast, William R., 1:9
*Kirsch, Evelyn, 1:8-9
*Kirsch, Irving, 1:4-5
*Kurshan, Nancy, 1:22-23
*Levenson, Joan, 1:11
*Lipman, Carol, 1:11, 1:19
Lobsinger, Donald, 1:5, 1:7. See also Breakthrough
*Lynd, Staughton, 1:8
*Mazey, Ernest, 1:4
Mazey, Ernest, 1:7
McCormick, James, 1:1, 1:7
McKissick, Floyd, 1:7-9
*Medvecky, Nick, 1:4, 1:6
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, 1:6
*Mora, Joe, 1:8
*Morse, Wayne, 1:8
*Muste, A. J., 1:2, 1:8, 1:11
Muste, A. J., 1:6, 1:14
Native Americans, 1:13
New Detroit, 2:14
*Oglesby, Carl, 1:8
*Peck, Sidney, 1:6, 1:11-12, 1:21-22
*Penn, Olga, 2:22
Rusk, Dean, 1:12
*Seigle, Larry, 1:8
*Sell, Evelyn, 1:13-14, 1:22-24
Socialist Workers Party, 1:10-11, 2:14
Students for a Democratic Society, 1:10, 1:22
*Sweezy, Paul, 1:8
War Crimes Tribunal, 1:14, 1:19-20
Wayne State University, 1:1, 1:7-9, 1:13-14, 1:19, 1:24, 1:28