Marshall Bloom Papers, 1950-1999 (bulk 1962-1969)
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10 records storage boxes, 2 archives boxes, 3 oversize flat boxes
Bloom, Marshall, 1944-1969
Biographical History for: Bloom Papers
Biographical Note Marshall Bloom (AC 1966), journalist, editor and key agent in the development of the alternative press in the United States in the 1960s, was born in 1944 in Denver, Colorado. As a child he was an accomplished student and was active in B'nai B'rith, school newspapers and other organizations. He entered Amherst College in 1962, majoring in American Studies and becoming involved in numerous campus activities, among them FORUM (the student lecture committee) and The Amherst Student. Under Bloom's leadership as Chairman of the Student in 1965, the newspaper dramatically increased its coverage of national issues. At graduation Bloom was awarded the Samuel Bowles Prize for proficiency in journalism. Bloom's affinity for social protest and controversy was evident in the 1966 Commencement ceremony, at which Bloom was one of 19 graduating seniors who walked out to protest the College's decision to award an honorary degree to Robert McNamara, then Secretary of Defense, for his role in the continuing Vietnam War. Bloom's college years saw an awakening of his interest in the civil rights movement. He participated in marches in the South in 1964 and 1965, and was arrested. In 1965 he joined student editors from the Harvard Crimson to found the Southern Courier, an independent newspaper based in Selma that emphasized coverage of civil rights and black Southern life, issues largely ignored by the mainstream (white) Southern press. Bloom worked as staff writer and Montgomery, Alabama bureau chief in the summer of 1965. In his senior year at Amherst he wrote his thesis on the life of southern Jews in Selma, Alabama. After graduating from Amherst Bloom attended the London School of Economics to study sociology for one year. He gained notoriety on both sides of the Atlantic for his involvement in student protests against the School's appointment of Walter Adams, then head of University College of Rhodesia, as its next director. The Socialist Society at LSE, in particular, was harshly critical of his appointment because of his role in promulgating the Rhodesian government's apartheid policy. Bloom, then president of the Graduate Students' Association, organized a meeting to protest this decision on January 31, 1967. LSE administrators banned the meeting on short notice, but it took place anyway; a university porter trying to maintain order in the crowded hall died of a heart attack. For their involvement in this tragic incident, Bloom and another student were suspended. Back in the U.S. in 1967, Bloom returned to journalism. In mid-1967 he was appointed Executive Director of the United States Student Press Association, an organization sponsored by the National Student Association that operated Collegiate Press Service (CPS). In August Bloom attended the Sixth Congress of the Student Press at the University of Minnesota, where his appointment was to be confirmed. However, Bloom had recently courted controversy by denouncing the National Student Association for having accepted funds from the Central Intelligence Agency. Many delegates to the Congress of the Student Press, accordingly, voiced their objection to Bloom's appointment and it was eventually rescinded by USSPA's National Executive Board. While still in Minneapolis, Bloom co-founded, with Raymond Mungo of Boston University, a news organization - at first called Resistance Press Service - whose purpose was to deliver feature stories and news to the "underground" press, student press, radio stations and independent weekly newspapers and magazines as an alternative to established news services such as AP and CPS. The name of the organization was soon changed to Liberation News Service (LNS). LNS achieved initial success and became firmly established after the October 1967 anti-Vietnam War protests at the Pentagon in Washington by reporting on aspects of the antiwar movement that had been ignored or misunderstood by mainstream media. The organization sent out inexpensively produced offset-printed "packets" to its subscribers generally two or three times a week. First based in Washington, D.C., where it received financial assistance from the Institute for Policy Studies, it moved to New York City near Columbia University in 1968. LNS eventually served as many as 400 subscribers throughout North America and Europe. In 1968 an ideological split developed within LNS. Bloom and Mungo, representing one faction, wanted LNS coverage to emphasize the pacifist and cultural aspects of the radical counterculture, while an overtly Marxist political faction, headed by Allen Young and George Cavalletto, felt loyalty to Students for a Democratic Society and sought to run LNS in a more disciplined way to effect political change. On August 11, 1968 Bloom's faction moved from New York City to a farm in Montague, Massachusetts, north of Amherst, taking with them the LNS printing press, office equipment and several thousand dollars. (LNS published from the new location starting with issue #100.) Discovering the "heist," the New York faction traveled to Montague and accused Bloom and others of absconding with LNS funds and property that were rightfully theirs. The encounter became physically violent until the New York faction received a check for $6,000. For a time, the New York and Montague factions continued to produce LNS news packets simultaneously. Within a year, however, the Montague faction ceased publication, and oriented themselves increasingly toward agricultural subsistence and rural communal life. (LNS in Massachusetts seems to have ceased with issue #120, January 1969, while issues from New York City continued to be produced through 1981.) In March 1969 Bloom traveled to California. Among the people he visited was Lisbeth (Liz) Meisner, formerly an editor and administrative coordinator in the LNS office in Washington. Correspondence in the collection indicates that the two discussed plans to marry. Bloom's diaries during 1969 indicate that he was privately quite troubled about many things: debts, civil relationships and the sharing of labor among those on the Montague farm, the viability of the farm as an experiment in living, religious doubts, disagreements with his father, the Vietnam War, and the threat of Selective Service. (In October 1969, Bloom had received a notice from the Selective Service to report for a physical examination; this may have been only his most recent of a series of encounters with the military draft.) On November 1, 1969, Bloom unexpectedly took his life by carbon monoxide poisoning in his parked car on a wooded road in nearby Leverett. Bloom did not leave a suicide note, only a sheet of typewritten instructions that served as his Last Will and Testament. In subsequent years, several writers have pointed to the death of Marshall Bloom as a sign of the "failure" of the radical counterculture, while others simply were saddened by the passing of a talented and very charismatic but increasingly troubled man. 1944July 16: Bloom is born to Sam S. and Lillian Gersh Bloom in Denver, Colorado. His father is the owner of a retail furniture business.1962Graduates from George Washington High School, Denver, Colorado. Fall: Bloom enrolls at Amherst College in the Class of 1966.1963Fall: At Amherst College Bloom founds FORUM, the student lecture committee.Spring: Bloom rushes and joins Phi Gamma Chi fraternity.1964Bloom is jailed for demonstrating in civil rights protests in St. Augustine, Florida.1964-1965In his junior year, Bloom is a member of Sphinx, the College's junior honor society, and serves as Chairman (i.e., Editor in Chief) of The Amherst Student newspaper.1965March: Bloom is arrested in civil rights protests in Montgomery, Alabama.July-September: With several Harvard students, Bloom co-founds The Southern Courier, a newspaper based in Selma, Alabama. 1966Spring: Bloom is awarded the Samuel Bowles Prize at Amherst College June 3: Bloom is graduated from Amherst College with a BA cum laude with honors in American Studies. July-September: Bloom is a staff writer for Pace magazine, a publication of Moral Re-Armament, Inc.September: Bloom enrolls in a one-year Master's program in sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London.1967January 31: As president of the Graduate Students' Association at LSE, Bloom organizes a meeting to protest the appointment of Walter Adams as the School's next director. At the meeting, which the university has banned, a porter employed by the university dies of a heart attack while trying to maintain order. Bloom and another student are suspended. While at LSE, Bloom makes tentative plans to enroll in a Ph.D. program in the sociology of education at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.April: Bloom is appointed General Secretary of the United States Student Press Association (USSPA), with headquarters in Washington, D.C.August: At the Sixth Congress of the Student Press at the University of Minnesota, Bloom's appointment at USSPA is rescinded by the organization's National Executive Board. While still in Minneapolis, Bloom co-founds, with Raymond Mungo, the Liberation News Service (LNS). Fall: LNS is officially established in Washington, D.C. with the incorporation of the New Media Project.1968April: Bloom drives to California with Ray Mungo and two other friends. June: LNS moves its headquarters to New York City. An ideological split develops within LNS. August 11: Bloom's faction moves from New York City to a farm in Montague, Massachusetts, north of Amherst. LNS publishes from the new location starting with issue #100. For a short period, the New York and Massachusetts factions continue to run LNS under the same name. 1969January: The last LNS issue, # 120, is produced from Montague.March: Bloom travels to California. Late October: Bloom receives notice to report for a physical exam as part of the U.S. Selective Service program. Compulsory military enlistment would possibly involve duty in the Vietnam War (1955-1975).November 1: Bloom commits suicide by asphyxiation in his car, Leverett, Massachusetts.
Scope and Contents of the Collection The Marshall Bloom Papers consist of correspondence, diaries, unpublished writings, news clippings, publications, financial records, photographs and other materials that chiefly document Bloom's childhood, education, personal life and work as the founder of Liberation News Service and its larger role in the radical counterculture of the 1960s. In particular, the Papers document Bloom's chairmanship of The Amherst Student in 1965 and his other Amherst College activities. The Papers contain his thesis on Jews in Selma, Alabama, and information about the 1966 Commencement protest against the College's awarding of an honorary degree to Robert McNamara. The Papers document Bloom's controversial role in student protests at the London School of Economics in early 1967. Also included are correspondence and other records of the United States Student Press Association, ca. 1967; and records of Liberation News Service, chiefly 1967-1969, including correspondence, editorial subject files, financial records and issues of LNS mailings to subscribers. There is also a small amount of material relating to the Montague, Massachusetts communal farm that Bloom and others started in 1968. Correspondents include Ray Mungo and James Aronson.
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Liberation News Service (Montague, Mass.)
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Amherst College. Class of 1966. Bloom.
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Series 1: PERSONAL AFFAIRS
Series 1, PERSONAL AFFAIRS, 1962-1991, contains biographical information, posthumous material such as eulogies and retrospective articles about Bloom, a variety of Bloom's personal identification cards, and an address book. This series is organized by material type.
Biographical material 1962-1991
Identification cards 1962-1968
Address book and other loose scraps 1969
Address book n.d.
Ephemera: airline ticket, prayer card, business cards 1969, n.d.
Last will and testament (suicide note); death certificate 1969 Nov 1
Posthumous material: eulogies 1969
Series 2: WRITINGS AND DRAWINGS
Series 2, WRITINGS AND DRAWINGS, 1961-1969, is divided into three sub-series: A. Notes and Manuscripts for Possible Publication, 1965-1969 B. Personal Journals, 1961-1969 C. Plans and Drawings, ca. 1965-1968 Notes and Manuscripts for Possible Publication (sub-series A) consists chiefly of undated and unfinished typescript or manuscript drafts of articles that Bloom hoped to publish. A large amount of this material concerns "Moral Re-Armament," a conservative American youth organization that Bloom followed from 1966 to 1969. This sub-series is organized chronologically. See also Series 8, London School of Economics, sub-series B: Walter Adams Protest, for Bloom's typescript of his recollections of the student protests at the London School of Economics. Personal Journals (sub-series B) are private notes and diaries kept by Bloom from ap-proximately 1961 to 1969. Some were written on loose sheets while others are in note-books. This sub-series includes diary entries written by Bloom very shortly before the end of his life, describing life on the farm in Montague. This sub-series is organized chronologically, with undated journals at the beginning. Plans and Drawings (sub-series C) are two folders of architectural drawings of floor plans and building exteriors. They reflect Bloom's amateur interest in architectural and graphic design. Although most are undated and unidentified, one group appears to be Bloom's ideas for additions to existing residential buildings on the Amherst College campus in an area north of Lessey Street. This sub-series is organized by material type.
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Sub-series A: Notes and Manuscripts for Possible Publication, 1965-1969
Article on university reform for Atlantic Monthly 1965
Report on London School of Economics protest for Collegiate Press Service 1966 Oct
"An Other America?" for Peace News ca. 1967 Apr
Journal of the New Age 1968 Jan., n.d.
Draft of letter to Christian Science Monitor ca. 1968 Sep
Amherst College: drafts and fragments 1969, n.d.
Clippings re: right-wing propaganda and American youth 1966 Jun-Jul
Eisenhower, David (AC 1970) 1968-1969
Moral Re-Armament, Inc.: articles and workshop material 1964-1967
Moral Re-Armament, Inc.: Notes and drafts of article 1966 Jul
Moral Re-Armament, Inc. 1966 Aug, n.d
Moral Re-Armament, Inc. and Mackinac College 1966
Moral Re-Armament, Inc.: brochures, clippings 1965-1967
Porche, Verandah (Linda Jacobs): Draft of letter of recommendation for Marlboro College n.d.
Poems n.d.
"Burger Chef Board Meeting Treatment" n.d.
Miscellaneous drafts and fragments n.d.
Miscellaneous drafts and notes n.d.
Unfinished writings n.d.
"Museum Trips," "A Five-Legged Giraffe Once Said..." [possibly not by Bloom] n.d.
Sub-series B: Personal Journals, 1961-1969
Notebooks (4 items) n.d.
Notebooks (3 items) n.d.
Daily record 1961-1963
Notes 1964-1965
Notes and journals 1966 Summer
Miscellaneous notes 1967-1968
Diary 1968 Aug-Dec
Possible transcript of Bloom writings 1969 Jun, n.d.
Notes n.d.
Last journal kept by Bloom 1969
Last journal kept by Bloom: typed transcript 1969
Sub-series C: Plans and Drawings
Plans and drawings n.d.
Series 3: GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE
Series 3, GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE, 1961-1976, consists of incoming and outgoing cor-respondence, chiefly personal, arranged in loose chronological order. There is also one folder of posthumous family correspondence related to Bloom. Some folders are designated for specific individual correspondents, but generally each folder includes letters to and from a varie-ty of people and is arranged chronologically. Many items are undated, but in some cases an approxi-mate date has been inferred. For correspondence related to Bloom's activity in United States Student Press Associa-tion, see Series 9; for Liberation News Service correspondence, see Series 10, sub-series A.
Outgoing correspondence 1961-1962
Outgoing correspondence 1962-1963
Incoming correspondence to Bloom in Laval, Quebec, Canada 1964 May-Aug
Incoming correspondence to Bloom in Laval, Quebec, Canada, and Amherst 1964 Jun-Aug
Correspondence 1964-1965
Correspondence - Amherst College 1964-1966
Correspondence 1965 Jun-Aug
Correspondence 1965-1966
Correspondence 1965-1967
Correspondence - London 1966-1967
Family correspondence 1966-1967
Incoming correspondence 1966-1967
Incoming correspondence re: student protest at London School of Economics (hate letters) 1967
Mungo, Ray 1967-1969, n.d.
Correspondence 1968 Feb-Mar
Correspondence ca. 1968-1969
Correspondence (mostly outgoing) 1968-1969
Correspondence 1968-1969
Incoming correspondence 1968-1969
Keller, Daniel. See also: folder 26 1969, n.d.
Outgoing correspondence - California 1969
Correspondence re: Selective Service 1969
Meisner, Lisbeth - Berkeley, California - outgoing correspondence [1969?]
Posthumous family correspondence 1969-1976
Series 4: FINANCIAL RECORDS
Series 4, FINANCIAL RECORDS, 1966-1969, contains invoices, bank records and correspond-ence related to Bloom's personal finances and possibly also those of the Montague farm collec-tive-ly. This series is organized chronologically. For financial records of Liberation News Service, see Series 10, sub-series B.
London 1966-1967
Invoices, bank statements, correspondence 1968-1969
Series 5: DENVER CHILDHOOD
Series 5, DENVER CHILDHOOD, 1955-1963, contains approximately 1 linear foot of material documenting Bloom's childhood and school days before attending Amherst College. It includes records of his activity in B'nai B'rith, Boys' State and Junior Red Cross, and of his junior high and high school academics; school newspapers, 1955-1962; yearbooks; and college applications, 1962. This series is organized by material type and within each section chronologically.
Beth Ha Medrosh Hagodol Congregation - graduation 1960
B'nai B'rith - District 2 Convention 1960 Jun
B'nai B'rith - Aleph Zadik Aleph International Convention 1960 Aug
B'nai B'rith - District 2 President's Records 1960-1961
B'nai B'rith - Aleph Zadik Aleph 6 Mirror (newsletter) 1960-1962
B'nai B'rith - District Convention 1961 Jun-Jul
"The Future of the American Jewish Community" - research paper by Bloom presented to B'nai B'rith Youth Organization 1961 Jul 13
B'nai B'rith - Aleph Zadik Aleph 38th International Convention 1961 August
B'nai B'rith and other newsletters featuring contributions by Bloom 1961-1962
B'nai B'rith - District 2 Convention 1962
B'nai B'rith - Rocky Mountain Regional Convention - workbooks 1962, 1963
Colorado Boys' State 1961 Jun
Colorado Junior Red Cross Leadership Camp 1959
School papers - grades 5-8 1955-1957
School papers - Grade 8 1957
School papers - Grade 8 1958
School papers - Grade 9 1958-59
Papers from high school ca. 1959-1961
English papers - George Washington High School 1960-1962
College English class, George Washington High School - Production of "Antigone" 1961-1962
History papers - George Washington High School 1961-1962
Research note cards on United Nations ca. 1960-1962
Yearbooks - high school 1959-1962
School newspapers (Ink Spot; East High Spotlight; Inquirer) 1959-1963
High school newspapers: The Surveyor (loose issues) 1961-1962
High school newspapers: The Surveyor (bound issues) 1961-1962
High school newspapers: The Surveyor (loose issues) 1962-1964
CEEB scores for SAT and AT 1962-1963
Award certificates for forensics 1960-1961
Diploma and ribbons - George Washington High School 1962 Jun
College applications, correspondence re: 1961-1962
Personal essays (possibly for college admission applications n.d.
Series 6: AMHERST COLLEGE
Series 6, AMHERST COLLEGE, 1962-1969 (bulk 1962-1966), is divided into three sub-series: A. Chairmanship of The Amherst Student, 1965 B. Academic Work, 1962-1966 C. Other Activities, 1962-1969 Chairmanship of The Amherst Student (sub-series A) consists chiefly of correspondence and issues of the student newspaper that Bloom chaired from January to December 1965. This sub-series is organized by material type. Academic Work (sub-series B) includes notes and papers related to Bloom's course of study at Amherst, including his American Studies honors thesis entitled "The Attitude of Selma Jews Toward Integration." This sub-series is organized alphabetically by course name. Other Activities (sub-series C) includes documentation of Bloom's various extra-curric-ular activities such as Forum (the College lecture committee), 1963-1965, and the protest at the 1966 Commence-ment exercises at which Amherst awarded an honorary degree to then Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. There are also College publications and other material dating from as late as 1969 that are indicative of Bloom's active interest in the College as an alumnus. This sub-series is organized chronologically.
Sub-series A: Chairmanship of The Amherst Student
Study of Freshman Attitudes 1964
Incoming and outgoing correspondence; notes 1964-1965
Incoming correspondence 1965, n.d.
The Amherst Student - framed tribute to Dean Charles Scott Porter [1965?]
"Mementos" 1965-1966
Issues of The Amherst Student (bound) 1963 Mar-1965 Dec
Issues of The Amherst Student (loose, with gaps) 1962 Jun-1967Sep
Banquet Speech 1965 Dec15
Sub-series B: Academic Work
American Studies 21 1963 Fall
Anthropology 41 n.d.
Economics 24 1964
English 1 1962 Fall
English 2 1962-1963
English 21 n.d.
English 43 1964 Fall
History 1-2 notes 1964
History 1 1962-1963
History 2 1963 Spring
History 49 1964 Fall
History 59 1964 Fall
Hum. 2 1963
Psychology 21 1963
Term papers 1962-1963
Term papers 1964-1966
Senior honors thesis: "A Participant Observation Study of the Attitudes of Selma Jews Towards Integration" 1966 April
Thesis notes 1965-1966
Thesis bibliography 1966
Thesis - Selma survey "Germans" 1965-1966
Thesis - Selma survey "Men" 1965-1966
Thesis - Selma survey "Women" 1965-1966
Thesis - summary 1966 Nov
Sub-series C: Other Activities
Admission letters 1962
Student face book, Class of 1966; Amherst College directory, 1964-1965 1962, 1964
Crossroads Africa, application 1963
Student Lecture Committee 1963-1965
"Project for Integrating the Teams that Amherst Plays" 1964 Oct
Summer 1965 internship proposal 1964-1965
Orientation 1965
Proposal for Amherst Summer High School (for economically underprivileged students) 1965 May-Oct
Commencement - Robert S. McNamara and walkout 1966
Bowles Prize 1966
Amherst Alumni News: Fall 1966, Winter 1967 1966-1967
Senior honors thesis by S.B. Cohen '67: "The Value Theory of Karl Marx" [Restricted - no photocopying without written permission of author] 1967
"Moratorium" 1969
Photograph of Phi Gamma Chi members 1963
Amherst College Olio (yearbook) - 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966 1963-1966
Series 7: SOUTHERN CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVITIES
Series 7, SOUTHERN CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVITIES, 1964-1966, documents Bloom's active participation in civil rights protests in Florida (1964) and Alabama (1965), and his role as co-founder and staff writer for The Southern Courier (1965-1966) a newspaper that reported on civil rights and black culture in the South. This series is organized chronologically; newspapers are stored separately in oversize flat boxes.
St. Augustine (Florida) civil rights demonstrations 1964
Southern Courier 1965 May-Jun
Southern Courier issues 1965 Jul-Aug
Southern Courier issues 1965 Sep-Nov
Southern Courier issues 1965 Nov-1966 Feb
Transcript of Alabama State Senate Education Committee hearing re: ban of Communist speakers 1965 Aug
Slavery indenture: John Halsey, for the hire of a Negro man named Levi from owner George I. Robertson, Huntsville (Alabama?) 1838 Jan. 31
Series 8: LONDON, 1966-1967
Series 8, LONDON, 1966-1967, is divided into three sub-series: A. London School of Economics - Academic Work, 1966-1967 B. London School of Economics - Walter Adams Protest, 1966-1967 C. Other London Material, 1966-1967 London School of Economics - Academic Work (sub-series A) includes course syllabi, notes and papers from Bloom's sociology coursework at LSE. This sub-series is organized by material type. London School of Economics - Walter Adams Protest (sub-series B) consists of extensive British and U.S. press coverage of the protests of January 1967 in which Bloom, as president of the Graduate Students' Association, played a leading role. Also included are the official proceedings of an LSE Board of Discipline convened to investigate the matter, statements by Bloom, records of the Graduate Student Alliance, and undated retrospective writings by Bloom on the protest. This sub-series is organized by material type. Other London Material (sub-series C) includes various newspaper clippings, personal records and ephemera related to Bloom's year in England. This sub-series is organized by material type.
Sub-series A: London School of Economics - Academic Work
Assorted lecture notes 1966-1967
Methods of Sociological Study - Summer Term 1966 Summer
Research project [1966-1967]
Sociology Department [1966-1967]
Miscellaneous writings - sociology [1966-1967]
Theory course [1966-1967]
Race relations seminar [1966-1967]
Academic work - miscellaneous [1966-1967]
Attitude change seminar 1967 Spring
Masters' examination 1967
Sub-series B: London School of Economics - Walter Adams Protest
Graduate Student Association 1966-1967
Graduate Student Association - flyers, press releases 1966-1967
Trial notes; pamphlet by Situationist International 1967 Feb
Radical student alliance 1967
Proceedings of a Board of Discipline... Day 2 1967 Feb. 24
Proceedings (continued) - Days 3 and 4 1967 Feb-Mar
Letter to Denver Post 1967 May
Legal aid 1967 Jun-Jul
Notes ca. 1967
Miscellaneous notes 1967
Beaver (newspaper of LSE Students Union) 1966-1967
Miscellaneous newspapers 1966-1967
Clippings 1966-1967
Clippings, notes, miscellaneous 1967 Jan-Mar
Statements re: protest 1967 Feb
Clippings 1967 Feb
Student protest: clippings from radical press 1967 Mar
Student protest: clippings (feature articles) 1967 Mar
Evening Standard coverage 1967 Mar
Guardian coverage 1967 Mar
Manning Star coverage 1967 Mar
Christian Science Monitor coverage 1967 Mar
London Times coverage 1967 Mar
Express coverage 1967 Mar
Telegraph coverage 1967 Mar
Daily Sketch coverage 1967 Mar
Daily Mirror coverage 1967 Mar
Newspaper clippings 1967 Mar-Apr
Official university communications 1967 Mar
"Amnesty" 1967 Apr-May
Student protest: writings (retrospective) n.d.
Student protest: Bloom response to articles in NLR [New Left Review?] n.d.
Sub-series C: Other London Material
London School of Economics newspaper clippings saved for personal interest 1966-1967
Graham, Billy - crusade in Britain 1967
Stop It Committee 1967 Jun
Personal: appointment book 1966-1967
Miscellaneous ephemera (Europe) [1966-1967]
Notes for speech [to USSPA?] [1967?]
Personal: car 1966-1967
Letter and notes re: interview with John Hamill, Globe Theatre 1967 Jun
Vietnam - peace efforts in London and Paris 1966-1967
Series 9: UNITED STATES STUDENT PRESS ASSOCIATION
Series 9, UNITED STATES STUDENT PRESS ASSOCIATION, 1961-1967 (bulk 1967), consists of correspondence, mailing lists, bulletins and other administrative records and general files of the USSPA for the period before and during Bloom's tenure as General Secretary in 1967. Included are papers related to Bloom's ouster resulting from the Congress of the Student Press held in Minneapolis in July 1967. This series is organized by material type.
Bulletins and other material on Bloom's tenure as General Secretary of USSPA 1967 May-Sep
Correspondence 1966-1967
Correspondence - outgoing 1967 Jul
Correspondence 1967
Bulletins and clippings 1967 Mar-May
Reports 1966-1967
Collegiate Press Service issues 1966 Dec-1967 Oct
Administrative records 1966-1967
Administrative records 1967
Subscription and billing record book 1966
Directory of syndicates and features 1966 Jul
Press association directories ca. 1963-1967
Directory and mailing lists 1966-1967
Membership lists 1960-1967
18th National Student Congress 1965 Sep
Summer seminar for college editors: "Issues in Higher Education" 1966 Summer
College editors conference: "The Generation Gap" 1967 Feb
USSPA Higher Education program 1967 Jul
USSPA conference: Radicals in the Professions 1967 Jul
National Student Association conference 1967 Jul-Aug
6th Congress of the Student Press, Minneapolis 1967 Aug
Education program 1967
College editors conference: Futurism 1967
International student press agencies: International Student Conference - ISPC, ISC (Leiden, Holland) 1964-1967
International student press agencies: International Union of Students conference, Prague 1962-1967
International student press agencies: Argentina 1964-1965
International student press agencies: Australia (NUAUS) 1965-1966
International student press agencies: Bolivia 1963
International student press agencies: Ecuador 1965
International student press agencies: Germany 1964-1967
International student press agencies: Holland 1967
International student press agencies: India 1965-1967
International student press agencies: Indonesia 1965
International student press agencies: Ireland and United Kingdom 1964-1967
International student press agencies: Malaysia 1967
International student press agencies: South Africa (NUSAS) 1963-1966
International student press agencies: South Africa (SANSPA) 1965-1967
Boffa, Robert C.: "Study of the Liability of a State Educational Institution for the Torts of its Student Press" 1961
Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, DC 1964-1967
"Insurgent Newspapers" 1966
Amnesty International materials re: Greece, Congo/Angola, Yugoslavia and Vietnam 1967 May-Aug
Idea for student health press service 1967 Jul
Reader's Digest campus supplement (Campus Courier) 1967 May-Jun
Barnard College: "A Woman's Work" 1967 Jul
Clippings - miscellaneous 1967
Moffett, Howard: Vietnam stories 1967
Campus Coordinating Committee: US college student leaders on the Vietnam war 1967
War Resisters' League - pamphlets ca. 1967
Series 10: LIBERATION NEWS SERVICE
Series 10, LIBERATION NEWS SERVICE, 1967-1999 (bulk 1967-1999), is organized into five sub-series: A. Correspondence, 1967-1969 B. Memoranda and Other Internal Records, 1967-1973 (bulk 1967-1969) C. Subject Files for Stories, 1967-1969 D. Ray Mungo, 1967-1999 (bulk 1967-1969) E. LNS Issues, 1967-1969 Correspondence (sub-series A) contains mainly administrative correspondence, organized in loose chronological order with some folders for specific correspondents (James Aronson, Abbie Hoffman, Ray Mungo and Jerry Rubin). Memoranda and Other Internal Records (sub-series B) contains organizational, financial, marketing and legal records of LNS; materials related to sponsored seminars, conferences and other programs; and notes and news clippings concerning the alternative press in general and LNS in particular. This sub-series documents how LNS was organized and managed, its various activities and programs, and the eventual internal divisions that led to its split. This sub-series is organized by material type. Subject Files for Stories (sub-series C) comprises research material and drafts of articles that LNS staff writers were working on. Files are arranged alphabetically by subject, with a folder of miscellaneous subjects, a folder of AP wire reports and a folder containing one month of compiled mainstream news clippings placed at the end of the series. Subject headings include Columbia University student protests (May 1968), Draft Resistance and Military Desertion, Dick Gregory, Resurrection City (Washington, DC) photographs by Peter Simon, Riots Commission, and Jerry Rubin. The subject headings were created while organizing the Papers and were not assigned by Bloom. This sub-series is organized alphabetically by subject name. Ray Mungo (sub-series C) contains clippings and articles about Bloom's friend and co-founder of LNS, manuscripts of stories written by Mungo for LNS, and two copies of a newsletter Mungo published from his Vermont farm. This sub-series is organized by material type. For Bloom-Mungo correspondence, see Series 3, box 2, folder 16. For letters written by Mungo to Bloom's parents after Bloom's death, see Series 2, box 2, folder 26. LNS Issues (sub-series E) consists of office copies of LNS packets mailed to subscribers arranged chronologically from #1 (December 1967) through #120 (January 1969), with gaps. Also included are unnumbered LNS mailings. For a complete run of LNS issues, see the Marshall Bloom Alternative Press Collection.
Sub-series A: Correspondence
Correspondence - "letters to answer" 1967
Correspondence 1967-1969
Correspondence 1967 Oct-Dec
Aronson, James - incoming and outgoing correspondence 1967-1968
Correspondence and notes ca. 1968
Hoffman, Abbie - outgoing correspondence 1968, n.d.
Correspondence 1968 Jan-Jun
Correspondence re: fundraising 1968 Feb-May
Correspondence 1968 Aug-Sep
Correspondence, incoming, unanswered (mostly inquiries from people interested in joining the farm) 1969
Rubin, Jerry - outgoing correspondence 1969 May, n.d.
Sub-series B: Memoranda and Other Internal Records
Prospectus 1967 Nov
Organization of LNS 1967
Organizational papers 1967 Sep
Organizational meeting - registration forms 1967 Oct 20
Legal documents re: incorporation 1968 Aug
Internal memoranda 1968-1969
Notes on formation of a "Resistance Press Service" [1967 Aug?]
Legal problems 1968-1970
[LNS?] billing records 1968
Financial records 1967-1968
Financial records 1968, n.d.
Staff - possible candidates 1968
Marketing - daily newspapers 1967-1968
First issues and other mementos 1967-1968
Typescript drafts of notes on the LNS split ca. 1968
Newspapers featuring LNS content 1967-1968
Newspapers - Boston University 1966 Nov-Dec
Newspapers - Boston University 1967 Jan-May
Newspapers - Columbia University 1968 Apr-Jun
Newspapers - St. Xavier College 1966 Dec-1967 Feb
Newspapers - University of Colorado, University of Hartford, Haverford College 1965-1967
Newspapers - University of Michigan, University of Oregon 1967
Newspapers - University of Rochester, Yale University 1967
Newspapers - University of Denver 1967 Sep-Oct
Newspapers - San Francisco Express Times, ca. 1968 Jun; The Sun Flower (Richmond, Va.), 1967 Nov 30; The Valley Review: A Four-College Review of Books, n.d.; CAW! (Students for a Democratic Society) issue #2, n.d. 1967-1968, n.d.
Notes and reviews re: current alternative press n.d.
Clippings, etc. about alternative press 1967-1973
Article in East Village Other re: joint press conference of LNS and Underground Press Syndicate 1967 Oct 20
Clippings re: LNS; "Liberated Zone" visa applications 1968
Muckraking seminars 1966-1968
Institute for Policy Studies - Muckraking seminar 1968 Apr
High school newspaper editors conference, Chicago 1968 Aug
"Concerned Honkies": Notes for a statement on behalf of blacks in the District of Columbia n.d.
Fellowship proposal 1967 Oct
"The Seedy Presence Revealed! (?)": Announcement of LNS press conference [1968] Feb 1
Heimann, Hattie (Harriet) 1968
Floor plans [1967?]
"Journal of the New Age" mockups n.d.
LNS issues - offset masters n.d.
Literature on printing and office equipment n.d.
Notes - miscellaneous n.d.
Sub-series C: Subject Files for Stories
American Civil Liberties Union 1968
Airlie House (Warrenton, Virginia) - investigation by William Higgs 1967-1968
Amherst College n.d.
Art - Cieciorka, [Frank] - line art and cartoons n.d.
Baird, Bill 1967 Dec
Books and publications 1966-1967
Chander, Terry - Greek Embassy trial (London) 1967
Central Intelligence Agency funding of World University Service and Foundation for Youth and Student Affairs 1967 Feb
College and University events - miscellaneous 1968, n.d.
Columbia University - student protests (notes and article drafts) 1968 May
Cuba - visit by Students for a Democratic Society to (article by Steve Diamond) n.d.
Davis, Richard H. - letters re: civil rights 1965-1968
Demonstrations - "One Demo Too Many" (demonstration in Washington, DC, 1969 Jan 18-20) 1969
Draft resistance and military desertion 1967-1968
Economics of rural life n.d.
"Green Revolution" 1967, n.d.
Gregory, Dick 1967
Jencks, Christopher - "Limits of the New Left" n.d.
Johnson, Lyndon Baines 1967
Johnson, Lyndon Baines - "Nine Months of the Lamest Lame Duck Ever" by Peter Stafford n.d.
Marijuana 1967
Music reviews n.d.
National Mobilization Committee 1967 Aug
National Student Association 1967
New Theater of Washington, DC 1967 Sep
Peace Corps by Daniel Schechter (includes photos) n.d.
Peace demonstrations - London, Washington 1967
Pentagon peace demonstration - student statements [1967?]
Presidio demonstration n.d.
[Rader?] - arrest and fasting (Bloom's notes on) [1967 Oct?]
Rankin, Jeannette 1967
Resurrection City (D.C.) - photographs by Peter Simon (for article, see LNS issue #85, June 1968) 1968
Riots Commission (National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders) 1967
Rubin, Jerry - court papers re: bugging 1968 Dec
Rubin, Jerry - Yippies in Cincinnati 1969
Smale, Stephen - "Science Grant for War Critic Spurs Furor over Freedom" 1967 Sep 17
Southern social issues 1968
Southern Student Organizing Committee 1967-1968
Stockbridge n.d.
Students for a Democratic Society 1967-1968
Vietnam War 1965-1968
Waskow, Arthur - stories on Students for a Democratic Society, Chicago Convention on New Politics 1967
Stories - miscellaneous 1967-1968
Photographs - miscellaneous 1967-1968
Associated Press wire reports 1968 Jun 22
Press clippings 1967 Dec
Sub-series D: Ray Mungo
News clippings and articles about Ray Mungo 1967-1999
Stories by Ray Mungo n.d.
"The Occasional Drop!" (newsletter of Total Loss Farm, Packer Corners, Vermont) 1968, n.d.
Sub-series E: LNS Issues
#77, 82-85 1968 May-Jun
#86-90 1968 Jun-Jul
#96-98 1968 Jul-Aug
#102-104 1968 Aug-Sep
#109-110 1968 Sep-Oct
#113-115 1968 Oct-Nov
Unnumbered LNS reports and news mailings ca. 1967-1968
Miscellaneous communications with subscribers 1967-1968
Series 11: MONTAGUE FARM
Series 11, MONTAGUE FARM, 1968-1994, consists of legal documents, notes, clippings and newsletters related to the farm in Montague, Massachusetts, where Bloom and his LNS associates moved in 1968. One folder of posthumous material includes news clippings about the farm and a newsletter published by people associated with it. This series is organized by material type. For photographs of the farm, see Series 12.
Deed 1968 Aug 27
Typed note [by Bloom] re: work on the farm n.d.
Miscellaneous 1970-1994
Series 12: PHOTOGRAPHS
Series 12, PHOTOGRAPHS, ca. 1950-1969, contains portrait photographs of Bloom from childhood to adulthood, as well as snapshots of people and places at Montague Farm in 1969. Identified subjects include Verandah Porche and Harvey Wasserman. This series is organized alphabetically.
Bloom, Marshall ca. 1950-1969
Colorado Boys' State 1961
Montague Farm 1968-1969
Oversize pictures: photographs of George Washington High School graduation, 1962, and softball game, n.d.; ink drawing by Cieciorka, n.d. 1962, n.d.
Series 13: MISCELLANEOUS PRINTED MATTER
Series 13, MISCELLANEOUS PRINTED MATTER, ca. 1967-1969, includes a small amount of publications on social and political issues from a variety of sources, possibly acquired by Liberation News Service for editorial use. This series is organized by material type.
Adams-Morgan (Washington, DC) 1967 summer project 1967
Miscellaneous printed matter: proposal for a Southern Freedom Center; announcements of various political action meetings (DC, Chicago); newsletters concerning Peace Corps, Vietnam, women's issues; 1969 Oct issue of "The Rumor" published by Downing's, Inc. [Colorado?] 1967-1969
Series 14: BOOKS
Series 14, BOOKS, is a collection of 54 books from Marshall Bloom's personal collection. They are chiefly paperbacks in American studies, sociology, psychology, history and literature that appear to have been used by Bloom for undergraduate courses at Amherst.
Becoming: Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality,. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1955.
Allport, Gordon W.
Problems in American Civilization: The Americanness of Walt Whitman,. Boston: D.C. Heath and Company, 1960.
Amherst College. American Studies Department (compiler).
Problems in American Civilization: The Turner Thesis Concerning the Role of the Frontier in American History,. Boston: D.C. Heath and Company, 1956.
Problems in American Civilization: Democracy and the Gospel of Wealth,. Boston: D.C. Heath and Company, 1949.
Problems in American Civilization: Slavery as a Cause of the Civil War,. Boston: D.C. Heath and Company, 1963.
Problems in American Civilization: Jackson versus Biddle: the struggle over the Second Bank of the United States,. Boston: D.C. Heath and Company, 1949.
Problems in American Civilization: Reconstruction in the South,. Boston: D.C. Heath and Company, 1952.
Problems in American Civilization: Removal of the Cherokee Nation: manifest destiny of national dishonor,. Boston: D.C. Heath and Company, 1962.
Problems in American Civilization: The Meaning of Jacksonian Democracy,. Boston: D.C. Heath and Company, 1963.
The Century of Total War,. Boston: Beacon Press, 1954.
Aron, Raymond.
Teresa of Avila,. Garden City, NY: Image Books, 1959. Translated by Kathleen Pond. With a preface by Andr Maurois.
Auclair, Marcelle.
Instinct,. Princeton, New Jersey: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1961.
Birney, Robert C. and Richard C. Teevan, eds.
Interpreting Personality Theories,. New York: Harper & Row, 1964.
Bischof, Ledford J.
New Directions in Psychology,. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962.
Brown, Roger and Eugene Galanter and Eckhard H. Hess eds.
Hitler: A Study in Tyranny,. New York: Bantam Books, 1961.
Bullock, Alan.
Hitler: A Study in Tyranny,. New York: Harper & Row, 1964. Revised Edition.
The Mind of the South,. New York: Random House, 1941.
Cash, W.J.
St. Francis of Assisi,. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1923.
Chesterton, G.K.
Early Modern Europe from about 1450 to about 1720,. New York: Oxford University Press, 1960.
Clark, Sir George.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, an annotated text, background and sources, essays and criticism,. New York: Norton, 1961. Edited by Sculley Bradley, Richmond Croom Beatty, and E. Hudson Long.
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne.
The Transformation of the School: Progressivism in American Education 1876-1957,. New York: Random House, 1964.
Cremin, Lawrence A.
Out of Our Past: the forces that shaped modern America,. New York: Harper & Row, 1959.
Degler, Carl N.
Discourse on Method, and Meditations,. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1960 (original 1641) Translated, with an introduction, by Laurence J. Lafleur.
Descartes, Rene.
Democracy in America,. New York: Random House, 1945.
de Tocqueville, Alexis.
Young Man Luther: a study in psychoanalysis and history,. New York: Norton, 1962.
Erikson, Erik H.
The Future of an Illusion,. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1964. Translated by W.D. Robson-Scott. Revised and Edited by James Strachey.
Freud, Sigmund.
Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego,. New York: Bantam Books, 1960.
The Renaissance,. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1940.
Ferguson, Wallace K.
Marx & Engels: Basic Writings on Politics and Philosophy,. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1959.
Feuer, Lewis S. ed.
Beyond the Melting Pot: the Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City., Cambridge, MA: The M.I.T. Press, 1963.
Glazer, Nathan and Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
The Liberal Tradition in America,. New York: Harvest Books, 1955.
Hartz, Louis.
The Response to Industrialism, 1885-1914,. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957.
Hays, Samuel P.
The Reasonable Adventurer,. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1964. Foreword by David Riesman.
Heath, Roy.
The Sun Also Rises., New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924.
Hemingway, Ernest.
Leviathan, Parts I and II,. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1958 (original 1651).
Hobbes, Thomas.
Memory: Facts and Fallacies,. Baltimore, MD: Penguin, 1957.
Hunter, Ian M. L.
Brave New World Revisited,. New York: Bantam Books, 1958.
Huxley, Aldous.
The Blue Book. Copyright 1961 by Robert Welch. (privately printed?)
John Birch Society.
Modern Man in Search of a Soul,. New York: Harvest Books, 1933.
Jung, C.G.
The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-32,. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958.
Leuchtenburg, William E.
The Republic and the School: On the Education of Free Men,. New York: Columbia University, 1962.
Mann, Horace.
The Essential Left: Four Classic Texts on the Principles of Socialism (The Manifesto of the Communist Party; Value Price and Profit; Socialism: Utopian and Scientific; The State and Revolution),. London: Unwin Books, 1961.
Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels and V.I. Lenin. (compilation)
The Brown Decades: a study of the arts of America 1865-1895,. New York: Dover, 1955 (1931 copyright by author).
Mumford, Lewis.
The Kingdom of God in America,. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1937.
Niebuhr, H. Richard.
The Romantic Revolution in America,. New York: Harvest Books, 1954 (original 1927.)
Parrington, Vernon L.
Love in the Ruins., New York: Dell, 1971.
Percy, Walker.
The Essential Lippman: a Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy,. New York: Random House, 1965.
Rossiter, Clinton and James Lare eds.
A Choice not an Echo: the inside story of how American Presidents are chosen,. Alton, IL: Pere Marquette Press, 1964.
Schlafly, Phyllis.
The Age of Jackson,. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1945.
Schlesinger, Arthur M. (Jr.)
Memorials of a Southern Planter,. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. With introduction and notes by Fletcher M. Green.
Smedes, Susan Dabney.
Voices in the Classroom: public schools and public attitudes,. Boston: Beacon Press, 1965.
Schrag, Peter.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court., New York: Modern Library, 1889 (copyright).
Twain, Mark.
Freedom's Ferment: Phases of American Social History from the Colonial Period to the Outbreak of the Civil War., New York: Harper & Row, 1962.
Tyler, Alice Felt.
The Politician,
Welch, Robert.