Silk Flowers 2020 Public Art Exhibition — Useful related resources in UConn Archives Special Collections

Activism includes collections emanating from individual, organizational and mass movements for social, cultural and political change. The Alternative Press and Human Rights Collections contain materials ranging from the early 20th century to the present consisting of thousands of newspapers, serials, books, pamphlets, photography, posters, personal papers, ephemera and artifacts documenting activist themes and organizations. Subjects include the Vietnam era, prisons, LGBTQ, child labor, liberation struggles, peace and justice, civil rights, anarchism, student activism, feminism and related unrest among many others.

The Alternative Press Collection in Archives & Special Collections, University of Connecticut Library, is one of the oldest and largest collections of alternative press materials in the United States. The Alternative Press Collection (APC) was founded in the late 1960s out of student participation in activist movements for social, cultural and political change.

This collection contains issues of The Husky Handjob, a campus publication which circulated from February to March of 1969. Produced by Sociology Professor Jack L. Roach

The Political Collections document the careers, interests and activities of individuals and organizations active in representing the interests of Connecticut in the political arena at the local, state and federal level.