This archive showcases a range of ideas, initiatives, and social movements devoted to people-powered politics and organizing from the 19th through 21st centuries, using primary sources such as alternative press publications.
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This archive showcases a range of ideas, initiatives, and social movements devoted to people-powered politics and organizing from the nineteenth through twenty-first centuries. Ranging beyond a few specific movements, the archive paints a broad picture of the counterculture and many disparate organizations that represent this moment in modern Western history.
Product Family:
Power to the PeopleReading Level: 1301L—+
Product Type: Primary Sources
Content Types: Manuscripts
“The archive highlights equity, diversity, and inclusion in print materials focused on “people-powered” politics and organizing in the U.S. and UK…The collection is highly visual, including an impressive trove of posters from the Pacific Coast Counterculture collection, and a wealth of political pamphlets and ephemera from the 1960s through the 2000s provide a unique look at the imagery and messaging associated with these movements…Recommended for university libraries supporting programs in social history and political science.”