Thursday, September 13, 2012

New Resource: The Homophile Movement: Papers of Donald Stewart Lucas

We now have access to a new Archives Unbound collection, The Homophile Movement: Papers of Donald Stewart Lucas.  This collection documents the activist and professional activities of Donald S. Lucas. The vast majority of the collection dates from 1953 to 1969. The Lucas collection contains an abundance of material relating to the early homosexual civil rights movement (the homophile movement) and the San Francisco manifestation of President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty.  The collection includes: correspondence, meeting minutes, constitutions and by-laws, newsletters, manuscripts, financial documents, reports, statistics, legal decisions, surveys, counseling records, funding proposals, and subject files.  to access this new archive, just visit the library's research pages

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