Lawrence Felix Kramer papers, 1966-1980,-1966-1972 (bulk)
Collection Number: 37-7-2151

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Lawrence Felix Kramer papers, 1966-1980,-1966-1972 (bulk)
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
37-7-2151
Abstract:
Collection consists of documents, correspondence and publications generated by leftist political groups active in the Ithaca, New York area from 1966 to 1972.
Creator:
Kramer, Lawrence Felix, 1949-
Quanitities:
5.4 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Lawrence Kramer was a member of the Class of 1970 at Cornell University.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Collection consists of documents, correspondence and publications generated by leftist political groups active in the Ithaca, New York area from 1966 to 1972. Also, material concerning political events and disturbances, such as the takeover of Willard Straight Hall, Cornell University, April 1969; the Cornell draft resistance, and the involvement of Bruce Dancis and Daniel Berrigan (1966-1968); the Cornell Trojan Horse incident, January 1967; and anti-Vietnam War protests. Also, documentation of the activities and internal evolution of organizations including The Office and the Glad Day Press (1966-1971); the national and campus branch of Students for a Democratic Society (1967-1969); the Cornell Draft Resistance (1967-1968); National Caucus of Labor Committees, and its publications, Solidarity, New Solidarity, Crisis, and Campaigner; the Socialist Labor Committee (1971-1972), including its national publications, Crisis, Quantum, and Perspectives; the Socialist Labor Committee in Ithaca, New York, and its publications, The Eleventh Hour and ILR Voice; the Socialist Workers' Party; the Worker-Student Alliance and their publication, New Left Notes;; the Young Socialist Alliance; the New Left; the Ithaca Labor Committee; the Independent Socialists; the Independent Radical Coalition; the Cornell Mobilization Direct Action Project; National Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam; New American Movement; Progressive Labor Party; The Resistance, Ithaca, New York; and the Ithaca Neighborhood Center.
Also, materials on the Revolutionary Youth Movement and Revolutionary Youth Movement II, and their publications Fire and Liberated Guardian; and Students for a Constructive Foreign Policy, Cornell University. Printed material includes magazines, newsletters, pamphlets, brochures and leaflets, and internal documents such as position papers, proposals and drafts of documents. Other material includes published and unpublished commentaries and articles, as well as political journals, meeting notes, correspondence and notes of Lawrence Kramer; government files obtained through requests under the Freedom of Information Act; clippings and editorial material concerning left groups and events; lists of signers of public petitions; university disciplinary citations; buttons and other memorabilia. Some material has been annotated by Kramer and Peter Agree (Cornell University Class of 1969).
There is also information on early left-wing activities of Lyndon LaRouche, then using the alias Lyn Marcus.
Restrictions on Use:

Donor retains literary rights to the notes, drafts, and published materials written by him contained in the collection.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

Lawrence Felix Kramer, Collector. Papers, #37-7-2151. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Agree, Peter.
Berrigan, Daniel.
Dancis, Bruce.
LaRouche, Lyndon H.
Cornell Draft Resistance
Cornell Mobilization Direct Action Project
Cornell University -- : Societies, etc.
Cornell University -- : Strikes.
Cornell University -- : Students.
Glad Day Press
Independent Radical Coalition
Independent Socialists
Ithaca Labor Committee
Ithaca Neighborhood Center
National Caucus of Labor Committees
National Caucus of Labor Committees (Title of work: Campaigner..)
National Caucus of Labor Committees (Title of work: Crisis..)
National Caucus of Labor Committees (Title of work: New solidarity..)
National Caucus of Labor Committees (Title of work: Solidarity..)
National Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam
New American Movement (Organization)
New Left
Progressive Labor Party
Revolutionary Youth Movement (Title of work: Fire..)
Revolutionary Youth Movement (Title of work: Liberated Guardian..)
Revolutionary Youth Movement II
Socialist Labor Committee
Socialist Labor Committee (Title of work: Crisis..)
Socialist Labor Committee (Title of work: Perspectives..)
Socialist Labor Committee (Title of work: Quantum..)
Socialist Labor Committee (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Socialist Workers\' Party
Students for a Constructive Foreign Policy (Cornell University)
Students for a Democratic Society
Students for a Democratic Society (Cornell University)
Office (Organization)
Resistance (Ithaca, N.Y.) (Organization)
Worker-Student Alliance
Young Socialist Alliance
Young Socialist Alliance (Title of work: New left notes..)
Subjects:
Straight takeover, 1969.
Young adults -- Political activity.
Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements.
Underground press.
Underground newspapers.
College Students -- Political activity.
Student strikes.
Student movements.
Socialism.
Social history -- bib0.
Social history -- 1960-1970.
Radicalism.
Draft resisters.
Hippies.
Freedom of information.

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Scope and Contents
All the material in the collection may not be covered by this guide.
Series I. Organizations and Publications
The Ithaca Labor Committee, the Socialist Labor Committee, the National Caucus of Labor Committees
1968-1972
Scope and Contents
Note: in both SLC and NCLC files, there is sometimes a fine line between internal and public documents.
Box 1 Folder 1
Ithaca LC internal
1968-1971-03
Scope and Contents
3 documents
Box 1 Folder 2
Ithaca LC public
1969-1971-03
Scope and Contents
4 periodicals including The May Student Strike and Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the New Priorities Movement
Box 1 Folder 3
NCLC, Fraser faction internal
1970-1971
Scope and Contents
29 documents.
Box 1 Folder 4
NCLC, Fraser faction replies to NCLC
1970-1971
Scope and Contents
21 documents
Box 1 Folder 5
NCLC, Fraser faction public, documents
1970-1971
Box 1 Folder 6
SLC internal
1971
Scope and Contents
67 documents + 9 documents reporting on French left.
Box 1 Folder 7
SLC internal
1972
Scope and Contents
38 documents
Box 1 Folder 8
SLC public
1971
Scope and Contents
40 documents
Box 1 Folder 9
SLC public
1972
Scope and Contents
30 documents. (Note: Ithaca SLC internal and public, including The Eleventh Hour and the !LR Voice, are filed as part of 6-9.)
Box 1 Folder 10
SLC Crisis national newspaper
1971-1972
Scope and Contents
3 issues (I expect to locate and provide a complete set of the approx. 20 issues.)
Box 1 Folder 11
SLC Quantum newspaper
1972
Scope and Contents
South Dakota spinoff, 3 issues (complete)
Box 1 Folder 12
SLC Perspectives national magazine
1971-1972
Scope and Contents
3 issues (complete)
Box 1 Folder 13
NCLC and SLC study group outlines, critiques, and bibliographies
1969-1971
Scope and Contents
24 documents, and Lawrence Kramer critique of Cornell Human Development course.
Box 1 Folder 14
NCLC internal
1968-1969
Scope and Contents
13 documents, and two earlier Marcus articles from 1954 and 1961.
Box 1 Folder 15
NCLC national Conference internal
1970-12-29-1971-01-02
Scope and Contents
30 documents
Box 1 Folder 16
NCLC internal and Marcusite faction
1970-1971
Scope and Contents
70 documents, and 10 issues of an internal discussion bullet.
Box 1 Folder 17
NCLC public
1968-1969
Scope and Contents
75 documents, and 10 periodicals.
Box 1 Folder 18
NCLC: Lyndon LaRouche (nom de plume Lyn Marcus) book
1970
Scope and Contents
3 chapters in draft plus 10-page Jitter to Lawrence Kramer replying to criticisms.
Box 1 Folder 19
NCLC public
1970-1971
Scope and Contents
40 documents and 3 periodicals.
Box 1 Folder 20
NCLC post - public
1971
Scope and Contents
7 documents
Box 1 Folder 21
NCLC non - SLC critiques
1968-1976
Scope and Contents
20 documents, including letters of resignation from former SLC members who returned to the NCLC.
Box Unknown
Students for a Democratic Society and its factions and split offs; National Caucus of Labor Committees periodicals
1966-1975
Box 2 Folder 1
SDS national internal
1966-1969
Scope and Contents
14 documents
Box 2 Folder 2
SDS national conference, Ann Arbor
1968-12
Scope and Contents
12 documents
Box 2 Folder 3
SDS final national convention, Chicago, internal
1969-06
Scope and Contents
26 documents and newsclips
Box 2 Folder 4
SOS national public
1966-1969
Scope and Contents
17 documents and newsclips.
Box 2 Folder 5
SDS national public documents on Cuba
1969
Scope and Contents
4 documents
Box 2 Folder 6
SDS NYC region, CAW arts magazine
1968
Scope and Contents
3 issues
Box 2 Folder 7
SDS, critiques of SDS by LC, Chicago Revolutionary Socialists
1969
Scope and Contents
10 documents
Box 2 Folder 8
SDS RYM
1969-1970
Scope and Contents
3 issues of Fire Magazine (faction's successor to New Left Notes) 2 issues of Liberated Guardian.
Box 2 Folder 9
SDS RYM II
1969
Scope and Contents
6 documents and 7 periodicals.
Box 2 Folder 10
SDS New Left Notes
1969
Scope and Contents
7 issues - published by WSA faction
Box 2 Folder 11
PL magazine
1967-1970
Scope and Contents
5 issues
Box 2 Folder 12
Challenge/Desafio newspaper
1968-1970
Scope and Contents
Several issues
Box 2 Folder 13
PL, WSA and front groups
1968-1971
Scope and Contents
23 documents including critiques of PL.
Box 2 Folder 14
NCLC Solidarity, New Solidarity, Philadelphia Crisis newspapers
1968-1975
Scope and Contents
100 issues
Box 2 Folder 15
NCLC Campaigner magazine
1969-1972
Scope and Contents
14 issues
Cornell events and antiwar groups, Students for a Democratic Society National and Cornell Draft Resistance, Lawrence Kramer Selective Service files. Periodicals from Cornell, Ithaca, and the Glad Day Press
Box 3 Folder 1
National antiwar and antidraft petitions
1967-1968
Scope and Contents
4 documents
Box 3 Folder 2
National antiwar and left groups, miscellaneous
1968-1972
Scope and Contents
16 documents
Box 3 Folder 3
People's Park, Berkeley
Spring
Scope and Contents
4 documents, 13 pages research notes, Lawrence Kramer paper.
Box 3 Folder 4
Draft resistance, national public and internal
1967-1969
Scope and Contents
25 documents
Box 3 Folder 5
National Mobilization to End the War
1967
Scope and Contents
3 internal (including contact list) and 4 public documents
Box 3 Folder 6
War Resisters League descriptive materials
1968-05
Scope and Contents
2 documents
Box 3 Folder 7
Liberation News Service descriptive & PR materials
1968-06
Scope and Contents
6 documents and letter from Ray Mungo
Box 3 Folder 8
National Lawyers Guild descriptive & PR materials
1968-05
Scope and Contents
8 documents and letter
Box 3 Folder 9
Cornell draft resistance
1966-12-1967-04
Scope and Contents
5 documents and clips.
Box 3 Folder 10
Cornell draft resistance
1967-05-1969
Scope and Contents
24 documents and 2 issues of Son of Cornell
Box 3 Folder 11
Cornell draft resistance: Bruce Dancis
1966-1968
Scope and Contents
4 documents and clips
Box 3 Folder 12
Daniel. Berrigan draft resistance (
1967-1968
Scope and Contents
Cornell United Religious Work Fast for Peace, 8 documents and clips.
Box 3 Folder 13
Lawrence Kramer draft resistance
1967-1971
Scope and Contents
39 documents and Cornell disciplinary actions and clips.
Box 3 Folder 14
Lawrence Kramer correspondence from Selective Service System
1967-1971
Scope and Contents
27 documents
Box 3 Folder 15
Lawrence Kramer correspondence to Selective Service System
1967-1971
Scope and Contents
26 documents
Box 3 Folder 16
Lawrence Kramer American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit
1968
Scope and Contents
8 letters and clips
Box 3 Folder 17
Lawrence Kramer draft resistance
1967
Scope and Contents
Letters from Robert Kennedy (original) and J.W. Fullbright (copy).
Box 3 Folder 18
Lawrence Kramer miscellaneous political writing
1963-1972
Scope and Contents
23 documents
Box 3 Folder 19
Lawrence Kramer chronological notebooks on study groups, internal meetings
1969-1972
Scope and Contents
4 documents 10/69-1/71, 12/29/69-8/71 (LC, SLC), 8/17/71-2/13/72, 3/25/72-6/15/72 (end of SLC)
Box 3 Folder 20
Lawrence Kramer public meetings notes
1967-1971
Scope and Contents
Four groups of documents
Box 3 Folder 21
Cornell leftists' and SDSers' Cornell Daily Sun columns
1966-1971
Box 3 Folder 22
Cornell food boycott
1966-11
Scope and Contents
I am not yet convinced that the proctor is a Horse's Ass ... I am convinced - button controversy - 2 documents, clips and buttons
Box 3 Folder 23
Cornell Trojan Horse riot
1967-01
Scope and Contents
Magazine, leaflet, Lawrence Kramer draft article and clips.
Box 3 Folder 24
Cornell drugs on campus
1967-1971
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous counterculture - 6 documents and clips.
Box 3 Folder 25
Cornell National Student Conference on Vietnam
1967-02
Scope and Contents
2 documents and registration list and clips.
Box 3 Folder 26
Cornell Soul of Blackness Week
1967-02
Scope and Contents
One document and clips.
Box 3 Folder 27
Cornell Union of Students election
Spring
Scope and Contents
7 documents and clips.
Box 3 Folder 28
Cornell participation in April 15 and October 21 national demonstrations
1967
Scope and Contents
8 issues of Mobilizer, 9 documents and clips.
Box 3 Folder 29
Cornell MDAP (Mobilization Direct Action Project)
Summer
Scope and Contents
Newman K. Perry 12 demonstration and arrest, NY Stock Exchange, H. Rap Brown, Committee of Concerned Honkies, Abbie Hoffman in Ithaca, 27 documents.
Box 3 Folder 30
Cornell and South Africa
1968-1969
Scope and Contents
One document and clip.
Box 3 Folder 31
Cornell Barton Hall Marine recruiters sit-in
1967-11
Scope and Contents
7 documents including disciplinary citation with lists of participants.
Box 3 Folder 32
Ithaca Neighborhood Center descriptive & PR material
1968-01
Scope and Contents
Previously Ithaca Neighborhood College, 12 documents + 4 letters.
Box 3 Folder 33
President Perkins Day at Cornell
1968-02
Scope and Contents
2 documents and clips.
Box 3 Folder 34
Cornell administration communications about draft, SOS
1967-1969
Scope and Contents
Two documents
Box 3 Folder 35
Ithaca antiwar and antidraft petitions
1966-1969
Scope and Contents
Nine documents
Box 3 Folder 36
Ithaca antiwar and left groups miscellaneous
1966-1971
Scope and Contents
20 documents
Box 3 Folder 37
Cornell Students for a Constructive Foreign Policy
1966-1967
Scope and Contents
3 documents and Genesis, 3 issues.
Box 3 Folder 38
Cornell SDS internal
1968
Scope and Contents
17 documents
Box 3 Folder 39
Cornell SDS internal
1969
Scope and Contents
12 documents
Box 3 Folder 40
Cornell SDS public
1968
Scope and Contents
17 documents
Box 3 Folder 41
Cornell SDS public
1969-01-1969-06
Scope and Contents
46 documents
Box 3 Folder 42
Cornell SDS post-split internal and public
1969
Scope and Contents
Includes IRC, 42 documents
Box 3 Folder 43
Cornell anti-SDS groups
1969
Scope and Contents
6 documents
Box 3 Folder 44
Cornell Crisis
1969-04
Scope and Contents
8 SDS responses, 14 university statements and press releases.
Box 3 Folder 45
Niagara Regional SDS
1968-1969
Scope and Contents
4 issues (complete) of Notes from the Green Piano, brochures from Buffalo SDS, Niagara Liberation Front, Seattle Liberation Front ( where Niagara Reg. organizers later went), documents (?)
Box 3 Folder 46
Argument
1966-1967
Scope and Contents
Left Opinion, 7 issues
Box 3 Folder 47
New Patriot
1967-1968
Scope and Contents
Antiwar, 6 issues
Box 3 Folder 48
Dateline Ithaca
1968-1980
Scope and Contents
Local Politics, 15 issues
Box 3 Folder 49
The First Issue
1968-1969
Scope and Contents
SDS Magazine, 6 issues
Box 3 Folder 50
Scimitar
1968
Scope and Contents
Ithaca Underground Tabloid, 4 issues
Box 3 Folder 51
Talking Black
1969
Scope and Contents
Black Students Magazine, 2 issues
Box 3 Folder 52
Tompkins Chemung Bulletin
1970
Scope and Contents
Local Politics, 3 issues
Box 3 Folder 53
Volunteers
1970
Scope and Contents
Successor to First Issue, 3 issues (complete)
Box 3 Folder 54
Tiohero
1971
Scope and Contents
Successor to Volunteers, 2 issues
Box 3 Folder 55
Research exposes
1968-1970
Scope and Contents
Manchild in the Corporate State (Cornell), Who Rules Columbia ? , How Harvard Rules, Mexico 1968 and University-Military Complexes (North American Committee on Latin America, Dependency in the !970's (Africa Research Group).
Box 3 Folder 56
The Office and the Glad Day Press internal
1966-1969
Scope and Contents
2 documents
Box 3 Folder 57
The Glad Day Press publications
1966-1971
Scope and Contents
43 pamphlets and documents
New Left Notes and other left publications
Box 4 Folder 1
New Left Notes
1966-1969
Scope and Contents
64 issues
Box 4 Folder 2
Anti- Vietnam war clips
1966-1967
Box 4 Folder 3
A.J. Muste
1964-1966
Scope and Contents
9 documents
Box 4 Folder 4
Liberation and Win
1969-1974
Scope and Contents
4 issues; 1 issue
Box 4 Folder 5
Leviathan
1969-1970
Scope and Contents
7 issues
Box 4 Folder 6
Reprints
1966-1970
Scope and Contents
From Radical Education Press (Michigan), New England Free Press (Massachusetts), Southern Students Organizing Committee (Tennessee), others - 18 pamphlets and documents.
Box 4 Folder 7
The Movement
1966-1970
Scope and Contents
15 issues
Box 4 Folder 8
Miscellaneous underground newspapers
1967-1970
Scope and Contents
4 issues
Box 4 Folder 9
Radical Teacher & Radicals in the Professions Newsletter
date unknown
Scope and Contents
And RIP Speech - 1 issue and 3 issues.
Box 4 Folder 10
Issues in Radical Therapy
1973-1974
Scope and Contents
2 issues
Box 4 Folder 11
Viet Report
1968
Scope and Contents
2 issues
Box 4 Folder 12
Daily World, Communist Party
1970
Scope and Contents
2 issues and 2 documents
Box 4 Folder 13
Spartacist, Spartacist League
1965-1971
Scope and Contents
7 issues and 14 documents
Box 4 Folder 14
Bulletin, Workers League
1969
Scope and Contents
5 issues and 1 document
Box 4 Folder 15
International Socialist, IS
1969
Scope and Contents
3 issues and 10 documents
Box 4 Folder 16
Workers World, Youth Against War & Fascism
1968-1969
Scope and Contents
4 issues and 4 documents
Box 4 Folder 17
SWP & YSA
1968
Scope and Contents
7 documents
Box 4 Folder 18
New American Movement
1972-1974
Scope and Contents
5 issues
Box 4 Folder 19
Situationists, Surrealists, Reichians
1968-1973
Scope and Contents
8 documents
Box 4 Folder 20
Miscellaneous left newspapers
1967-1974
Scope and Contents
9 issues
Box 4 Folder 21
Counterculture: hippies, yippies, anarchists
1967
Scope and Contents
16 documents and clips.
Series II. Lawrence Kramer Freedom of Information Act Files and Buttons
Scope and Contents
Duplicates & material to be copied and returned to files
Box 5 Folder 1
Duplicates
date unknown
Scope and Contents
From Cornell SDS, national SDS, NCLC, Ithaca LC, SLC, approx. 200 documents and publications.
Box 5 Folder 2
Lawrence Kramer Freedom of Information Correspondence
1975
Scope and Contents
9 letters to government; correspondence from Freedom of Information Act officers, Clarence Kelly and other high officials: 9 from Justice Dept., 3 from State Dept., 8 from FBI, 10 from CIA (check #'s).
Box 5 Folder 3
FBI documents released
1975-07-16
Scope and Contents
125 pages
Box 5 Folder 4
Documents released after appeals and reviews
1976-04-26-1978-01-27
Scope and Contents
Documents from Bruce Dancis FOIA requests. 13 pages; 29 pages; 24 pages and Dancis letter.
Box 5 Folder 5
To Copy
date unknown
Scope and Contents
5 documents to return to Box 3, folder 29; 12 documents to return to Box 3 folder 13; other miscellaneous.
Box 5 Folder 6
Buttons
1967-1970
Scope and Contents
Cornell and Left buttons
Box 5 Folder 6
1. "Larry Kramer Cornell" button
1970
Scope and Contents
Freshman Button
Box 5 Folder 6
2. "I am not yet convinced that the proctor is a horse's ass"
1967
Box 5 Folder 6
3. "I am convinced"
1967
Box 5 Folder 6
4. "I am from CAL color me Red" (Cornell Aeronautics Lab or Berkeley?)
date unknown
Box 5 Folder 6
5. "Fast for Peace" (paper) - from CURW fast
1967
Box 5 Folder 6
6. Dove (paper) - from CURW fast
1967
Box 5 Folder 6
7. "End the War in Vietnam"
date unknown
Box 5 Folder 6
8. "I am a Nervous Nellie"
date unknown
Box 5 Folder 6
9. "Lynd not Lyndon"
date unknown
Box 5 Folder 6
10. "End the War in Vietnam Now!"
date unknown
Scope and Contents
Columbia Indep. Committee on Vietnam
Box 5 Folder 6
11. "SICK of the WAR? SAY SO!"
date unknown
Box 5 Folder 6
12. "Withdraw from Vietnam"
date unknown
Box 5 Folder 6
13. "END university complicity/Build Vietnam Week April 8-15"
date unknown
Box 5 Folder 6
14. "Abolish the draft"
1966
Box 5 Folder 6
15. "Oct. 16 The Resistance"
1967-10-16
Box 5 Folder 6
16. "Dec. 4 The Resistance"
1967-12-04
Box 5 Folder 6
17. Greek letter Omega (Resistance logo)
1967
Box 5 Folder 6
18. "HELL NO The Resistance"
1967
Box 5 Folder 6
19. "April 3 The Resistance"
1968-04-03
Box 5 Folder 6
20. "Dr. Spock Brought Me Up"
1967
Box 5 Folder 6
21. "Girls say Yes to boys who say NO/Draft Resisters Peace-Chick Support Squad"
date unknown
Box 5 Folder 6
22. "Support Our Boys in Canada" (homemade anonymous)
date unknown
Box 5 Folder 6
23. "FIGHT for Socialism/PLP"
date unknown
Box 5 Folder 6
24. "Nixon-Humphrey-Wallace/November 5/STRIKE 3"
date unknown
Box 5 Folder 6
25. "Enero" Cuban Flag (Cuba)
1968
Box 5 Folder 6
26. "Cuba Territorio Libre de America" (Cuba)
1968