DAVID MORRIS COLLECTION
1952-1970
(predominantly 1964-1969)

East Tennessee State University
Archives of Appalachia
Box 70295
Johnson City, Tennessee 37614

E-mail: archvies@etsu.edu
Telephone: (423) 439-4338

INTRODUCTION

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Provenance: The David Morris Collection was donated to the Archives of Appalachia on April 2, 1988 by George Stevenson, then professor of history at Emory & Henry College in Emory, Virginia. Materials earlier were given to Stevenson by Morris.

Access: The collection is open for research.

Processing Information: Processing of the collection was completed in December 1995 by William Drumright.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

David Morris attended Tusculum College and Milligan College in the late 1960s, a period characterized by nationwide protest against, among other targets, the Vietnam War, the Selective Service system, poverty in America, the American university system, and racial injustice. Morris later transferred to Emory & Henry, where he enrolled in a seminar course taught by Professor George Stevenson on American radicalism.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The David Morris Collection contains correspondence, memos, notes, publications, posters, and pamphlets describing protest movements throughout the United States, South America, and Europe during the mid to late 1960s. Most of the papers were created by such organizations as the Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC), a predominantly white organization that encouraged and coordinated student activism on southern campuses from 1964 to 1969; Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), a radical political organization founded during the 1960s; and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a civil rights organization established in 1960 and disbanded in 1969. The papers date from 1952 to 1970. The bulk of the material covers the period 1964 to 1969.

Organization: The collection is divided into three series: Series I, Vietnam War Protest, 1952-1969; Series II, Domestic Protest, 1959-1969; and Series III, Newspapers and Newsclippings, 1952-1970. The first series covers protests against the military draft and the Vietnam War. Series II consists of documents related to other protest movements. Series III consists of left-wing and mainstream newspapers and newsclippings covering various subjects relating to anti-war and domestic protest movements. A Subject Index to the collection follows the Box and Folder list.

Important people and subjects covered in the collection are:

Appalachian Region, Southern
Carmichael, Stokely
Civil rights movement--United States
Democratic National Convention (1968 : Chicago, Ill.)
Dow Chemical Company
Draft--United States
Fulbright, J. William (James William), 1905-
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
McCarthy, Eugene J., 1916-
Milligan College
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913---Inauguration, 1969
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-
Southern Student Organizing Committee (Nashville, Tenn.)
Student movements--Appalachian Region, Southern
Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.)
University of Tennessee (Knoxville campus)
Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Protest movements
Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919-

SERIES DESCRIPTION

Series I, VIETNAM WAR PROTEST, 1952, 1964-1969, Boxes 1-2.

Series I consists of notes, pamphlets, posters, and publications reflecting protest against the military draft and the Vietnam War. The bulk of this series covers the years of President Lyndon B. Johnson's administration, 1964-1969. The files are arranged alphabetically by subject and/or document type, and then chronologically.

Series II focuses on domestic protest groups and/or domestic protest topics. Topics covered include: civil rights, student rights and Vietnam War protests. Included are correspondence, pamphlets and publications, and miscellaneous notes. The series is divided into three subseries: II-A, Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC), 1962-69; II-B, University Protest, 1959, 1964-66; and II-C, Other Domestic Protest Movements, 1964-69.

Subseries II-A, SOUTHERN STUDENT ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (SSOC), 1962-1969, Boxes 2-3.

Subseries II-A contains material related to the SSOC. The series includes a number of SSOC publications on different topics including Latin American and European protest movements. The files are arranged alphabetically by subject or document type.

Subseries II-B contains publications describing student protest against university officials and the university bureaucracy during the 1960s. The files are arranged alphabetically by subject. Oversize newspapers and newsclippings have been removed and placed in oversize folder #1.

Subseries II-C, OTHER DOMESTIC PROTEST MOVEMENTS, 1964-1969, Boxes 4-6.

Subseries II-C contains material describing other protest movements. Included are civil rights, labor relations, and economic justice movements. Domestic literature on non-American topics is contained in this subseries. The files are arranged alphabetically by subject or title of publication.

These boxes and folders contain left-wing and mainstream publications and clippings which the donor maintained in separate files. The material in boxes 7 and 8 is arranged alphabetically by title of publication, except for Vet Report, which because of its smaller size has been placed first in Box 8. Materials in the oversize folders are arranged chronologically.

BOX AND FOLDER LIST

Series I, VIETNAM WAR PROTEST, 1952, 1964-1969, Boxes 1-2.

Box 1

1. Draft protest and resistance, 1952, 1964-66
2. Draft protest and resistance, 1967-68
3. Draft protest and resistance, undated
4. Hemispheric conference to end the Vietnam War, undated
5. Literature protesting Vietnam War, 1965-66
6. Literature protesting Vietnam War, 1967
7. Literature protesting Vietnam War, 1968-69
8. Literature protesting Vietnam War, undated

Box 2

1. New University Thought: 1968
2. Student strike against the war, 1968
3. WIN Magazine, 1967-69

Series II, DOMESTIC PROTEST, 1959-1969, Boxes 2-6.

Subseries II-A, SOUTHERN STUDENT ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (SSOC), 1962-1969, Boxes 2-3.

Box 2

4. Agenda, 1968 and undated
5. Appalachian Student Press, 1968-69 and undated
6. Conference Reports, 1966-68 and undated
7. Constitution of the Southern Student Organizing Committee, 1968
8. Executive Committee Meetings: Meeting Announcements and Reports, 1968-69
9. Financial Reports, 1967-69
10. High schools, 1968-69 and undated
11. Mailing list, undated
12. Membership mailings, 1966-67
13. Miscellaneous SSOC-produced documents, 1968-69 and undated
14. Neighborhood Service Center: Project Status Report, 1968
15. The New Rebel: Newsletter of the Southern Student Organizing Committee, 1968
16. Non-SSOC Newsletters and Documents, 1969 and undated
17. New South Student, 1966-69
18. Newsletter of the Southern Student Organizing Committee, 1966
19. Pamphlets, 1968 and undated
20. Projects, Proposals, Programs and Conferences, 1967-68 and undated
21. Prospectus and Goals of Organization, 1966-69 and undated
22. Publicity Handbook, undated
23. Staff Newsletter, 1968
24. Worklist Mailings, 1968
25. Workshops, undated

Box 3

1. Publications, 1962-66
2. Publications, 1967
3. Publications, 1968
4. Publications, 1969 and undated
5. Publications, undated
6. University of Tennessee, 1968-69
7. University of Tennessee, undated

Subseries II-B, UNIVERSITY PROTEST, 1959, 1964-1969, Box 4.

Box 4

1. College Freshman Week, 1959, 1968 and undated
2. Milligan College, 1967-68 and undated
3. Miscellaneous College Newspapers, 1967-69 and undated
4. New University Conference, 1968-69
5. Student Rights, 1965-68 and undated
6. University Christian Movement, 1966-68
7. University system: Criticism of and protest against, 1964-67
8. University system: Criticism of and protest against, 1968-69
9. University system: Criticism of and protest against, undated

Oversize Folder #1 UT Daily Beacon, 1968-69
Oversize Folder #2 Loose clippings, 1969 and undated

Subseries II-C, OTHER DOMESTIC PROTEST MOVEMENTS, 1964-1969, Boxes 4-6.

Box 4

10. Appalachian Lookout, 1969
11. "Cloverfork Newsletter, 1967-69, undated
12. Commission on Youth Service Projects, 1969
13. Dissent, 1969
14. Domestic problems and protest, 1964-69 and undated

Box 5

1. Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1968 and undated
2. Image, 1967
3. Independent Socialist Bulletin, 1969
4. Labor movements, 1965-68 and undated
5. Latin America, 1964-68 and undated
6. Liberation News Service, undated
7. Literature and film catalogs, 1967-69 and undated
8. McCarthy campaign, 1968
9. National Student Association, 1967-68 and undated
10. Nixon Inauguration protest, 1968-69
11. Our Generation, 1968
12. Political issues, 1963, 1967-68 and undated
13. Poor People's Campaign, 1968
14. Racial issues, 1965, 1967-68 and undated
15. Radical Education Project, 1960, 1963-68 and undated

Box 6

1. Ramparts, 1969
2. Researching institutions, 1967-68 and undated
3. Rohrer, Richard, correspondence, 1967-68 and undated
4. Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), literature, 1964-68
5. SDS literature, 1969-70 and undated
6. Student Non-Violatent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), publications, 1967
7. University of Georgia "Red and Black" newspaper, 1969
8. Vocations for Social Change, 1968-69
9. Washington Citizenship Seminar, 1968-69

Series III, NEWSPAPERS AND NEWSCLIPPINGS, 1952-1970, Boxes 7-8, Oversize Folders 3-4.

Box 7

1. Aware, March 1970
2. Guardian, February 1968-April 1969

Box 8

1. Viet Report, January 1966-January 1968
2. The Movement, September 1967-December 1969
3. The Roanoke Times, June 7, 1970

Oversize Folders 3 and 4 Loose Newsclippings, 1952, 1967-69

INDEX OF THE DAVID MORRIS COLLECTION
* The notation following the index item refers to the box and folder location of the item within the the collection.

Abernathy, Ralph: 6-1, 9
Academic Freedom: 3-4
African-Americans, education: 3-4
Appalachian Volunteers: 2-17
Appalachian Region, Southern: 2-5; 3-4; 4-10; 5-1

Appalachian Region, Southern: Student Protest: 2-5
Black Mountain College: 3-2
Black power: 3-1, 2
Burlage, Rob: 3-4
Carmichael, Stokely: 3-1, 2; 6-9; 7; 8; OF-1

Castro, Fidel: 2-3; 3-4
Cleaver, Eldridge: 4-13; 5-4; 6-4
Confederate battle flag: 2-13
Council of the Southern Mountains: 3-1
Cuba: 3-4

Culp, Delos: OF-1
Cumberland Plateau: 3-1
Debray, Regis: 3-2
DeGaulle, Charles: 1-5, 7
Dellinger, David: 3-1, 4

Democratic Convention of 1968: 5-13
Dixiecrats: 3-1
Dow Chemical Company: 1-7; 2-12, 14; 3-2; OF-1
Duke University: 2-16
East Tennessee College: 2-5

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East Tennessee State University: 2-5
Eastland, James: 6-2
Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Clarity: 2-15
Free University Movement: 3-1
Freedom Party, University of Florida: 2-17

Fuentes, Carlos: 3-1
Fulbright, J. William: 1-5 thru 1-7; 5-1; OF-3
Grape Boycott: 5-5
Gregory, Dick: 2-3, 4; 3-5; 6-7; OF-1, 2, 3
Guevara, Che: 2-3; 3-2, 4; 6-7; 7; OF-1

Hayden, Tom: 3-1
Hershey, Lewis: 1-1 thru 1-3; OF-1
Humphrey, Hubert: 3-5; OF-2, 3
Imperialism: 3-1, 4
Johnson, Lyndon Baines: 1-3; 1-5 thru 1-8; 2-1 thru 2-3; 2-7; 3-1 thru 3-4; 5-1, 10, 13; 6-2, 7, 8; 7-8; OF-1, 2, 3

Kayser-Roth Textile Mill: 2-13; 5-5
Kennedy, John: 1-5; 3-1; 5-1, 13; 6-3
Kennedy, Robert: 1-7; OF-3
King, Martin Luther, Jr.: 1-6; 3-1; 6-1, 2, 9; OF-1
Latin America: 3-1, 4

Levi-Strauss: 3-5
Levy, Howard: 3-2
Lodge, Henry Cabot: 1-5
McCarthy, Eugene: 5-1, 9; 6-7; 7; OF-1, 3
McClellan, John: 6-2

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Memphis, Tennessee garbage strike (1968): 5-5
Migrant Workers: 2-16
Military draft: 2-13, 16; 3-2, 4
Milligan College: 2-5; 4-1, 2
Mississippi: 2-16, 17; 3-3

Modern Language Association: 2-15
National Student Association: 4-5; 5-10; OF-1
Negro Colleges: 3-1, See also African-Americans, education.
Neighborhood Service Center, Kingsport, Tennessee: 2-20
New University Conference: 2-15; OF-1

Nixon Inauguration of 1969: 3-5; 5-11
Nixon, Richard: 4-13; 7
Non-violence: 3-1
"Post Office Press Conference," (audio tape): 3-4
Poverty: 3-4

Prisons: 3-4
Race riots: OF-1; 6-9; 8
Racism: 3-1, 3
Racism in universities: 2-15
ROTC: 3-4

Savio, Mario: 3-4
South Vietnam National Front for Liberation: 3-2
South, economic conditions: 3-4
Southern Folk Festival: 2-18
Southern Labor Action Movement (SLAM): 2-15

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Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC): 2; 3; OF-1, 2, 3
Southern Student Organizing Committee-Constitution: 2-7; 3-3
Southern Student Organizing Committee-Goals: 2-21
Southern Student Organizing Committee-Membership mailing: 2-12
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC): 6-9; OF-1

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS): 3-1; 6-7, 8; OF-1, 3
Toynbee, Arwold J.: 3-1
University education, critique: 3-1
University of Florida: 2-17
University of Tennessee: 2-5; 3-5, 6; OF-1, 2, 3

University reform: 3-2
Vietnam-History: 2-16
Vietnam War: 1-4 thru 1-8; 3-1, 4
Wallace, George: 3-3; 5-1, 13; 6-2; OF-3
War on Poverty: 3-4

Whittle, Chris: 3-5; OF-2, 3
Women's Liberation Movement: 3-4
Worker displacement: 3-1
Zinn, Howard: 3-2

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