Frederick Allan Whitehead papers
Overview
This collection consists of activist publications from the 1960s and 1970s, including from the Stevens Institute of Hoboken, New Jersey, and from the Students for a Democratic Society, maintained by Fred Whitehead from when he was a student at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas and Columbia University in New York.
Dates
- Creation: 1963 - 1970
Creator
- Whitehead, Fred (Compiler, Person)
- Stevens Institute of Technology (Organization)
- Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.) (Organization)
- Columbia University (Organization)
- Columbia-Barnard SDS (Organization)
Language of Materials
Most of the collection is in English; a few items are in French.
Conditions Governing Access
No access restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Spencer Library staff may determine use restrictions dependent on the physical condition of manuscript materials.
Literary rights are retained by the donor.
Biography of Frederick Allan Whitehead
Fred Whitehead was born in Pratt, Kansas in 1944 and graduated from the University of Kansas in 1965 with a B.A. in English. He was a member of Campus Americans for Action and was selected as Danforth fellow for 1965. He did his graduate work at Columbia University from 1967-1972 while holding a part-time teaching position at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. As a graduate student, he became involved in the draft resistance movement and other activist causes of the 1960s-1970s.
Extent
4 Linear Feet (8 document cases + 4 volumes, 1 oversize box, 1 oversize folder)
Scope and Contents
The papers contain a variety of activist publications, including periodicals, pamphlets, ephemera, clippings, and correspondence, emanating from radical organizations of the period.
The collection is divided into three major file sequences as they had been maintained by Whitehead: the Stevens Institute, miscellaneous files, and Students for a Democratic Society. Some duplication is inevitable in a collection so arranged, but this arrangement provides the user an overall view of the types of publications that the various organizations circulated during the period of student unrest in the late sixties. Individual publications of some significance have been annotated in the inventory that follows. Oversize materials have been physically separated from the rest of the collection and are described at the end of each series.
Topics specifically include race, class, social unrest and warfare in the United States, the Vietnam war, events and U.S. relations with countries in South America and with China, and liberal radicalism in higher education.
Physical Location
RH MS 162
Physical Location
RH MS Q18
Physical Location
RH MS B42
Physical Location
RH MS R7
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift, Frederick Allan Whitehead, 1975.
Source
- Whitehead, Fred (Donor, Person)
- Title
- Guide to the Frederick Allan Whitehead Collection
- Subtitle
- Frederick Allan Whitehead papers
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by pg, 1975. Finding aid encoded by mg, 2004. Finding aid revised by mwh, 2017.
- Date
- 2004
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Finding aid written in English.
- Finding aid permalink
- http://hdl.handle.net/10407/2866894222
- Preferred citation
-
Frederick Allan Whitehead papers, Kansas Collection, RH MS 162, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas
Repository Details
Part of the University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library Repository