Pollak, Peter; Papers
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Summary Information ...... 3 Historical Note ...... 3 Scope and Contents ...... 4 Arrangement of the Collection ...... 4 Administrative Information ...... 4 Controlled Access Headings ...... 5 Collection Inventory ...... 6
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Summary Information
Repository: M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives Title: Peter Pollak Papers ID: apap368 Date [inclusive]: 1958-1987 Physical Description: 2.9 cubic ft. Physical Location: The materials are located onsite in the department. Language of the English . Material: Abstract: This collection documents political events and issues, predominantly from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, through publications collected by University at Albany graduate student Peter Pollak. Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Identification of specific item, series, box, folder, Peter Pollak Papers, 1958-1987. M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University at Albany, State University of New York (hereafter referred to as the Pollak Papers).
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Historical Note
A native of Gloversville, New York, Peter G. Pollak obtained his bachelor's degree from Oberlin College and later received his master's degree in Education in 1970 from SUNY Albany. He subsequently became a Ph. D student in Education at SUNY Albany. Pollak was active in the civil rights movement and was a VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) anti-poverty volunteer in Atlanta before coming to SUNY Albany.
While in Albany, he continued to be engaged in activism on a community and broader level. He served as managing editor of The Albany Liberator, a weekly newspaper designed to serve the needs of the city's Arbor Hill and South End communities. The publication was owned and published by The Brothers, an area civil rights group. Pollak also was a member of the Albany Region/Capital District chapter of SDS
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Today following a career spent teaching, editing, and in business, he is a self-published author.
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Scope and Contents
The collection includes political newspapers, pamphlets, and flyers collected by Peter Pollak as well as publications that were mailed directly to Pollak. These items document international, national, and local Capital Regional issues. Researchers may be interested in materials from the Capital District chapter of SDS (Students for a Democratic Society).
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Arrangement of the Collection
The collection is organized alphabetically. There are no series.
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Administrative Information
Publication Statement M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives
Revision Description Encoded in EAD by Jodi Boyle 2017
Processing Information The collection was processed by Katie Ryan.
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Access Access to this collection is unrestricted.
Copyright This page may contain links to digital objects. Access to these images and the technical capacity to download them does not imply permission for re-use. Digital objects may be used freely for personal reference use, referred to, or linked to from other web sites.
Researchers do not have permission to publish or disseminate material from these collections without permission from an archivist and/or the copyright holder.
The researcher assumes full responsibility for conforming to the laws of copyright. Some materials in these collections may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) and/or by the copyright or neighboring-rights laws of other nations. More information about U.S. Copyright is provided by the Copyright Office. Additionally, re-use may be restricted by terms of University Libraries gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks.
The Department of Special Collections and Archives is eager to hear from any copyright owners who are not properly identified so that appropriate information may be provided in the future.
Acquisition Information All items in this collection were transferred to the University Libraries, M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives by Peter G. Pollak in 2017.
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Controlled Access Headings
• Social Activists and Public Advocates • Underground press publications--periodicals • Student movements--United States • Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Public opinion. • Students--New York (State)--Political activity. • Pollak, Peter G. • Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.)
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Collection Inventory
Title/Description Instances "ABC's About Vietnam", Undated Box 1 Folder 1
"The Activist Reader", Undated Box 1 Folder 2
"Agrarian Policies", 1966 Box 1 Folder 3
"Akwesasne Notes", 1987 Oversized 1 Folder 1
"The Albany Student Press", 1969 Oversized 1 Folder 2
"The Albany Voice", 1969 Oversized 1 Folder 3
"Ally With Campus Workers", Undated Box 1 Folder 4
"American Civil Liberties Union", 1965 Box 1 Folder 5
"The American Independence Movement Newsletter", 1969 Box 1 Folder 6
"The American People's Historical Society", 1979 Oversized 1 Folder 4
"Americans Before Columbus", 1980 Oversized 1 Folder 5
"Amerikan Education and Profit", Undated Box 1 Folder 7
"Angola: The Struggle for Liberation", 1976 Box 1 Folder 8
"Anti-Draft Resolution", 1966 Box 1 Folder 9
"An Appeal to The American Conscience", 1966 Box 1 Folder 10
"Arms and The Mind", 1959 Box 1 Folder 11
"Attica Did Not Start Here Nor Will It End Here", 1971 Oversized 1 Folder 6
"Bibliography on The War In Vietnam", Undated Oversized 1 Folder 7
"Big Brother as a Holding Company", Undated Box 1 Folder 12
"The Black Man's Share of The 'Great Society'", 1960 Box 1 Folder 13
"The Bond", 1968 Oversized 1 Folder 8
"Brief Summary of Election Results Related To The Peace Issue", Box 1 Folder 14 1966
"Bring The Troops Homes Now Newsletter", 1966 Box 1 Folder 15
"The Buddhists, The War, and The Viet Cong", 1966 Box 1 Folder 16
"A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority", Undated Box 1 Folder 17
"Cambridge Vote on Vietnam", 1967 Box 1 Folder 18
"Capital District SDS Newsletter and Flyers", 1969 Box 1 Folder 19
"Carl Oglesby", 1965 Box 1 Folder 20
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"Challenge: The Revolutionary Newspaper", 1969 Box 1 Folder 21
"Challenge: The Revolutionary Newspaper", 1969 Oversized 1 Folder 9
"The Channeling Memo", 1965 Box 1 Folder 22
"China and The Cold War", 1966 Box 1 Folder 23
"China's War-Making Potential: An Appreciation", 1963 Box 1 Folder 24
"Chinese Aggression: Myth or Menace?", 1965 Box 1 Folder 25
"Chinese Foreign Policy", 1965 Box 1 Folder 26
"Citizen's Alliance", 1978 Oversized 1 Folder 10
"Citizens Amicus Brief in Support of H. Rap Brown's Appeal from Box 1 Folder 27 his Bail Restrictions", 1967
"The Cold War, Revisited and Re-Visioned", 1968 Box 1 Folder 28
"Coming To Canada?", 1966 Box 1 Folder 29
"Comments by Thich Nhat Hanh on Some Frequently asked Box 1 Folder 30 Questions About Vietnam", Undated
"Common Sense", 1967 Box 1 Folder 31
"Conduct Unbecoming Lieutenant on The Peace Line", 1966 Box 1 Folder 32
"Corporate Imperialism for The Poor", 1967 Box 1 Folder 33
"A Correspondent Who Has Reported on Vietnam Since 1962 Sums Box 1 Folder 34 Up-Not a Dove, But No Longer a Hawk", 1966
"Counter-Insurgency and The New Foreign Relations", 1964 Box 1 Folder 35
"The Cultural Revolution In China: A Socialist Analysis", 1966 Box 1 Folder 36
"Democracy In China", 1958 Box 1 Folder 37
"De-Mystify The Establishment Standardized Test", 1979 Box 1 Folder 38
"Detroit: The July Days", 1967 Box 1 Folder 39
"The Development of The Liberation Movement", Undated Box 1 Folder 40
"A Divorce Trial in China", Undated Box 1 Folder 41
"Do You Know These Facts? Do You Support Them?", 1967 Oversized 1 Folder 11
"Draft Board Research", 1968 Box 1 Folder 42
"The Drug Price Scandal", 1967 Box 1 Folder 43
"The Dulocratic Review", Undated Box 1 Folder 44
"Economic Aspects of U.S. Imperialism", 1966 Box 1 Folder 45
"The Effect of Inflation: Wages, Unemployment and Working Box 1 Folder 46 Conditions", 1967
"El Malcrido: The Voice of The Farm Worker", 1969 Box 1 Folder 47 - Page 7- Pollak, Peter; Papers
"Excerpts from The Declaration of Former Resistance Fighters on Box 1 Folder 48 The Present Situation in Southern Vietnam", 1960
"Excerpts of The Port Huron Statement", Undated Box 1 Folder 49
"The Exploitative Nature of The New York State Budget and Tax Box 1 Folder 50 System", 1968
"Factsheet on The New McCarran Act", Undated Box 1 Folder 51
"Fear Neither Criticism Nor Self-Criticism, To Live Outside the Box 1 Folder 52 Law You Must Be Honest!", 1969
"Fire!", 1969 Oversized 1 Folder 12
"Flowers of Liberation", 1982 Box 1 Folder 53
"Focus on Viet-Nam", Undated Box 1 Folder 54
"For a Collective and Anti-Imperialist Struggle Against The Draft", Box 1 Folder 55 Undated
"Forward", Undated Box 1 Folder 56
"Four Kentucky Miners Face Prison Terms", 1967 Box 1 Folder 57
"From Conscience to Consciousness", Undated Box 1 Folder 58
"From Hanoi: Convoys Move by Night to Thwart Bombers", 1965 Box 1 Folder 59
"The Garrison Society", 1966 Box 1 Folder 60
"Geoffrey Reed Conklin", 1966 Box 1 Folder 61
"Germ Warfare Research for Vietnam", 1965 Box 1 Folder 62
"The Great Flint Sit-Down Strike Against G.M. 1936-1937", 1967 Box 1 Folder 63
"The Great South Asian War: U.S. Imperial Strategy in Asia", 1970 Box 1 Folder 64
"The Great Speckled Bira", 1969 Oversized 1 Folder 13
"A 'Green Beret' Blasts The War", 1965 Box 1 Folder 65
"Green Mountain Quarterly", 1975 Box 1 Folder 66
"The Green Piano", 1968 Box 1 Folder 67
"The Guardian", 1968 Oversized 1 Folder 14
"A Guide to Working Class History", Undated Box 1 Folder 68
"The Hana Industrial Complex", 1964 Box 1 Folder 69
"Health Rights News", 1975 Oversized 1 Folder 15
"Hell No! National Black Anti-War Anti-Draft Union", Undated Box 1 Folder 70
"History as Indoctrination: A Critique of Palmer and Colton's Box 1 Folder 71 History", 1971
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"Huey Newton: Huey on Anarchists and Individualists as Related Box 1 Folder 72 to Evolutionary Struggle and The Black Liberation Movement", Undated
"I.F. Stone's Weekly", 1967-1969 Box 1 Folder 73
"In Peaceable Conflict", Undated Box 1 Folder 74
"Indochina Chronicle", 1975-1976 Box 1 Folder 75
"Industrial Worker", 1970-1971 Oversized 1 Folder 16
"Industrial Workers of The World-Correspondence", 1975 Box 1 Folder 76
"Inflation and Food", Undated Box 1 Folder 77
"Information for Participants", Undated Box 1 Folder 78
"Inscape", 1969 Oversized 1 Folder 17
"Intellectuals Must Serve The People", Undated Box 1 Folder 79
"The International Committee of Conscience on Vietnam", 1966 Box 1 Folder 80
"International Socialist Review", 1974 Box 1 Folder 81
"Interviews: The International Bulletin", 1979 Box 1 Folder 82
"Inter-University Committee for Debate on Foreign Policy", Box 1 Folder 83 Undated
"The Irish Rebel", 1969 Oversized 1 Folder 18
"Join An Anti-Automobile Demonstration", Undated Oversized 1 Folder 19
"Join The People Who'll Never Join Today's Military", Undated Box 1 Folder 84
"Just: Newsletter of The Community Legal Rights Foundation, Box 1 Folder 85 Inc.", 1971
"The Kansas Free Press", 1966 Box 1 Folder 86
"The Key to Peace", 1966 Box 1 Folder 87
"The Ku Klux Klan? George Wallace? Or The Freedom Box 1 Folder 88 Movement?", Undated
"Labor and The South: Black Workers Set Against White-Strike Box 1 Folder 89 Broken", 1968
"Learning From Chile: Resources for Teachers and Students", 1973 Box 1 Folder 90
"The Left Under The Counterrevolution", 1972 Box 1 Folder 91
"The Legacy of Slavery and The Roots of Black Nationalism", Box 1 Folder 92 Undated
"Legal Issues of U.S. Position in Vietnam", 1966 Box 1 Folder 93
"The Legality of U.S. Participation in Defense of Vietnam", 1966 Box 1 Folder 94
"Let Us Shape the Future", 1966 Box 1 Folder 95
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"Liberated Guardian", 1970 Oversized 1 Folder 20
"Liberation News Service" (1 of 6), 1968-1969 Oversized 1 Folder 21
"Liberation News Service" (2 of 6), 1968-1969 Oversized 1 Folder 22
"Liberation News Service" (3 of 6), 1968-1969 Oversized 2 Folder 1
"Liberation News Service" (4 of 6), 1968-1969 Oversized 2 Folder 2
"Liberation News Service" (5 of 6), 1968-1969 Oversized 2 Folder 3
"Liberation News Service" (6 of 6), 1968-1969 Oversized 2 Folder 4
"Liberation News Service-Intro Page", Undated Box 1 Folder 96
"Liberation News Service-Letters and Copy", 1967 Box 1 Folder 97
"Liberation News Service-List of Radical Publications and Where Oversized 2 Folder 5 They Are Being Published", Undated
"Liberation U.S.A. Newspaper of The American Liberation Oversized 2 Folder 6 League", Undated
"Long Live The Victory of People's War!", 1965 Box 1 Folder 98
"MDS Newsletter", 1968-1969Undated Box 1 Folder 99
"Mao Tse-Tung: Combat Liberalism", Undated Box 1 Folder 100
"A Marxist Interpretation of Chinese History", Undated Box 1 Folder 101
"The Meaning of Economic Imperialism", Undated Box 1 Folder 102
"Military Conscription in The United States", 1967 Box 1 Folder 103
"Mineral Wealth and Industrial Power: Communist China's Boasts Box 1 Folder 104 Begin to Come True", 1960
"Mini-Truce in Vietnam", 1967 Box 1 Folder 105
"Moon Shot: A Disorientation Handbook", Undated Box 1 Folder 106
"The Morals of Extermination", 1959 Box 1 Folder 107
"Movement", 1968-1969 Oversized 2 Folder 7
"Movement", 1969-1970 Oversized 3 Folder 1
"Movement Fund-Raising Guide", Undated Box 1 Folder 108
"The Mythology of Vietnam", Undated Box 1 Folder 109
"NACLA: Report on The Americas", 1979 Box 1 Folder 110
"NACLA's: Latins America and Empire Report", 1971-1972 Box 1 Folder 111
"National Conference for New Politics", Undated Box 1 Folder 112
"The National Liberation Front", 1960 Box 1 Folder 113
"The New Foundation", 1969 Oversized 3 Folder 2
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"A New Look at U.S. Investments in Latin America", Undated Box 1 Folder 114
"New Schools Exchange Newsletter", 1971 Box 1 Folder 115
"The New South Student", 1968-1969 Box 1 Folder 116
"New Roots: Self-Reliance for The Northeast", 1979 Box 1 Folder 117
"Niagara SDS Regional Conference", Undated Oversized 3 Folder 3
"No More Teacher's Dirty Looks", 19701973 Box 1 Folder 118
"Non-Violence is Not a Total Philosophy", 1967 Box 1 Folder 119
"Notes From The Green Piano", Undated Box 1 Folder 120
"Notes on The Theory of Imperialism", 1966 Box 1 Folder 121
"Of Holy Disobedience", Undated Box 1 Folder 122
"Old Mole", Undated Oversized 3 Folder 4
"Okinawa Demonstration", Undated Box 1 Folder 123
"On The Mechanism of Imperialism: The Case of Brazil", 1964 Box 1 Folder 124
"Pacification in Vietnam", Undated Box 1 Folder 125
"Paper Tiger", 19681970 Box 1 Folder 126
"The Patriot: Peoples News Services", 1970 Oversized 3 Folder 5
"People Against Racism: An Introduction to Who We Are", Undated Box 1 Folder 127
"The Phoenix", 1968 Oversized 3 Folder 6
"Political and Organizing Principles for MDS", 1969 Box 1 Folder 128
"The Polytechnic", 1969 Oversized 3 Folder 7
"Position on Selective Service", Undated Box 1 Folder 129
"Post-Scarcity Anarchy", Undated Box 1 Folder 130
"Poverty Law Report", 1979 Oversized 3 Folder 8
"The Precondition to Desegregation-Black-White Unity", 1967 Box 1 Folder 131
"Preventing The Peace", 1966 Box 1 Folder 132
"Progressive Perspectives", 1967 Box 1 Folder 133
"The Project", 1969 Box 1 Folder 134
"Putting-On The Poverty Program", 1966 Box 1 Folder 135
"Radical America", 1967 Box 1 Folder 136
"Radical America Catalog", 197119731976 Box 1 Folder 137
"Radical America-Correspondence", 1976 Box 2 Folder 1
"The Radical Education Project", Undated Box 2 Folder 2
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"Radical Education Project: Study Guide Series", Undated Box 2 Folder 3
"Radish", 1969-1970 Oversized 3 Folder 9
"Radish", Undated Box 2 Folder 4
"Rain", 1980 Box 2 Folder 5
"RAT Subterranean News", 1968 Oversized 3 Folder 10
"The Rebellion Against The Diem Regime 1957-1958", 1967 Box 2 Folder 6
"Report on The War Crimes Tribunal", 1967 Box 2 Folder 7
"Repression in The City MDS Organizes", 1969 Box 2 Folder 8
"Researching The Governing Class of America", 1969 Box 2 Folder 9
"The Resistance Strategy", 1968 Box 2 Folder 10
"The Responsibility of Intellectuals", 1967 Box 2 Folder 11
"Resolution on Socialism", Undated Box 2 Folder 12
"Revolution and Democracy", 1972 Box 2 Folder 13
"Revolution and U.S. Aggression", 1966 Box 2 Folder 14
"Revolutionary Youth Movement", Undated Oversized 3 Folder 11
"Rights", 1973 Box 2 Folder 15
"Rising Up Angry", 1969-1970Undated Oversized 3 Folder 12
"Salisbury From Hanoi", 1966 Box 2 Folder 16
"San Francisco Express Times", 1969 Oversized 3 Folder 13
"Scarce Resources The Dynamic of American Imperialism", 1965 Box 2 Folder 17
"SDS Bulletins", 1968 Box 2 Folder 18
"The Second Front", 1968 Box 2 Folder 19
"Seeds of Democracy: SCEF Projects In The South", Undated Box 2 Folder 20
"Selective Service System Or, The Manpower Channelers", 1967 Box 2 Folder 21
"The Significance of The State Department White Paper on Box 2 Folder 22 Vietnam", 1965
"Sister: Connecticut's Feminist Publication", 1978 Box 2 Folder 23
"Social Welfare Workers Movement-Correspondence", Undated Box 2 Folder 24
"A Socialist/Feminist View of The Organization of Production", Box 2 Folder 25 1972
"Solidarity", 1969 Oversized 3 Folder 14
"Solidarity With The Peoples of Africa", 1969 Box 2 Folder 26
"Some Facts About Vietnam", 1965 Box 2 Folder 27
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"Something Else!", 1970-1971 Box 2 Folder 28
"South Carolina Black Students Attacked by Cops", 1968 Box 2 Folder 29
"Southern Africa: The Facts, Crisis for American Policy", Undated Box 2 Folder 30
"Speak Out", 1969 Box 2 Folder 31
"Speak Out", 1974-1976 Box 2 Folder 32
"Statement For No War Toys", Undated Box 2 Folder 33
"The Strike News", 1970 Oversized 3 Folder 15
"Students For a Democratic Society-Correspondence", 1968 Box 2 Folder 34
"Students For a Democratic Society-News", 1967 Box 2 Folder 35
"A Study of Domination and Repression: Mexico 1968", 1968 Box 2 Folder 36
"The Sunday Ramparts", 1967 Flat-File 1
"Support Black Revolutionaries", 1966 Box 2 Folder 37
"Support Striking GE Workers U.S. Out of Vietnam Now, No Box 2 Folder 38 Negotiations", Undated
"Suppose They Gave a War and No One Came", 1966 Box 2 Folder 39
"Sweet Fire Amerika Culture of Death", Undated Oversized 3 Folder 16
"Talks At The Yenan Forum on Literature and Art", 1942 Box 2 Folder 40
"The Tangled Asian Web", 1965 Box 2 Folder 41
"Text of Statement on Vietnam War Made In Hanoi Interview by Box 2 Folder 42 Premier Dang", 1967
"Thailand: An American Fortress In Asia", Undated Box 3 Folder 43
"There's a Man Going Round Taking Names", Undated Box 3 Folder 1
"This Is a Campus Organizer", Undated Box 3 Folder 2
"Thoughts On The Movement: Who Does The Movement Move?", Box 3 Folder 3 1967
"Tri-City Free Press", Undated Box 3 Folder 4
"The Trojan Horse", Undated Box 3 Folder 5
"UAW Emergency Unemployed Rally", 1975 Box 3 Folder 6
"The United States In Vietnam", 1965 Box 3 Folder 7
"The University Continental Bank and Apartheid", 1966 Box 3 Folder 8
"An Unnamed Paper", 1968 Box 3 Folder 9
"Up Tight With The Draft?", Undated Box 3 Folder 10
"The Urban Voice", 1969-1970 Oversized 3 Folder 17
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"The U.S. Rebuff To U Thant: The Untold Story", Undated Box 3 Folder 11
"U.S Relations With China", 1949 Box 3 Folder 12
"The U.S. System and Vietnam: A Speech by Carl Oglesby Box 3 Folder 13 Delivered at The Nov/65 March on Washington", 1965
"Veteran Stars and Stripes for Peace", 1967 Oversized 3 Folder 18
"Vietnam Bulletin", 1967 Box 3 Folder 14
"Vietnam Fact Sheet", Undated Box 3 Folder 15
"The Vietnam Lobby", 1965 Box 3 Folder 16
"Vietnam: People's War or Negotiations?", Undated Box 3 Folder 17
"Vietnam Quiz", Undated Box 3 Folder 18
"Vietnam, a Selected Bibliography", Undated Box 3 Folder 19
"Vietnam: Setting The Moral Equation", 1966 Box 3 Folder 20
"Vietnam Study Guide and Annotated Bibliography", Undated Box 3 Folder 21
"Vietnam: A Thousand Years of Struggle", 1969 Box 3 Folder 22
"Visit To a Rural Commune", Undated Box 3 Folder 23
"Vo Ng Uyen Giap: Analysis of The Vietnam War", 1966 Box 3 Folder 24
"The War Blunders On: What Do We Do?", Undated Box 3 Folder 25
"A Web of Power", Undated Box 3 Folder 26
"Welfare Imperialism in Vietnam", 1966 Box 3 Folder 27
"Which Way University Authority? Which Way Student Rights?", Box 3 Folder 28 Undated
"Will Your Child Go To College?", Undated Box 3 Folder 29
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