The collection consists of newspapers, periodicals and pamphlets of the non-establishment or alternative movements, political, economic and social, of the twentieth century, primarily American. Begun in 1967 when ephemeral campus underground materials were collected by Special Collections Department staff, documentation continued through the 1970s to focus on political and social problems of the decade.
The Alternative Press Collection (APC) includes thousands of national and international newspapers, serials, books, pamphlets, ephemera and artifacts documenting activist themes and organizations from the 1800s to the present. In addition to subject files on alternative organizations, posters, buttons, and ephemera from social movements in the United States, the APC contains manuscript collections, including the personal papers of activists such as Abbie Hoffman, Cal Robertson, Stephen Thornton, and Foster Gunnison; records of social justice organizations such as the Connecticut Civil Liberties Union; and various topical collections including the Poras Collection of Vietnam War Memorabilia and the Meyer Collection of Fat Liberation.
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- Alternative Press archival and manuscript collections
- Inventory of Alternative Press publications. Alternative Press publications can be searched using the UConn Library’s online catalog
- UConn Black Student Sit-In Photographs, 1974
- Please Respond Personally: Commemorating the 1974 Black Student Sit-In
- The Joe Snow Punk Rock Collection
- Resources in the Archives on the Central American Solidarity Movement in the 1980s
- Zine Collections
- Reproductive Rights and Abortion