Title: New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam Records
Inclusive Dates: 1969-1970

Creator:

• New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam

Call Number: Mss 161

Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

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Abstract:

Records of a coalition (1969-1970) of anti-Vietnam War groups involved in organizing marches in Washington, D.C., in 1969 and anti-draft demonstrations in 1970. Included are minutes, fragmentary correspondence and memoranda, reports, form letters, press releases, pamphlets, broadsides, and logistical material on a November 15, 1969, march.

Language: English

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The New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, or New Mobe as it was frequently known, was the last of the series of major national coalitions that organized anti-war actions during the 1960s. The committee was founded at a national convention of activists held at Case Western Reserve University on July 4-5, 1969, in order to plan the November 15 March Against Death. Chairmen of the committee were Dave Dellinger, Douglas Dowd, Terrance Hallinan, Donald Kalish, Sidney Lens; Stewart Meachem, Sidney Peck, and Cora Weiss.

During the spring of 1970 the major actions of the New Mobe occurred during Anti-draft Week, March 16-22 and on April 15. By June of that year differing strategic and political tendencies within the anti-war movement had become sufficiently acrimonious that the members of New Mobe split to form the National Peace Action Coalition and the National Coalition Against War, Racism, and Repression. Although New Mobe itself was never formally dissolved, the unity which it represented within the anti-Vietnam war movement was never again restored.

The records chiefly consist of printed matter and publications issued by the committee and its west coast office including minutes, form letters, press releases, pamphlets and broadsides. Internal administrative files include miscellaneous general reports and proposals, a file of logistical material on the November 1969 march, and information pertaining to New Mobe's Draft Task Force. There is also a very fragmentary group of correspondence and memoranda.

Acquisition Information

Presented by the Committee, New York, New York, 1967-1970. Accession Number: M67-308-1; 69-110; 70-13-1, 18, 40

Processing Information

Processed by Lindsay Nauen, June, 1972 and Carolyn J. Mattern, December, 1979.

	Minutes
Box   1 Folder   1	1969, July 30-31, Steering Committee
Box   1 Folder   1	1969, August 7, Washington Action Committee
Box   1 Folder   1	1969, August 17-18, Steering Committee
Box   1 Folder   1	1969, August 26, 1969, Washington Action Committee
Box   1 Folder   1	1969, September 13, Washington Action Committee
Box   1 Folder   1	1969, September 14, Steering Committee
Box   1 Folder   1	1969, September 23, March Against Death Committee
Box   1 Folder   1	1969, September 27, Steering Committee (call)
Box   1 Folder   1	1969, December 13-14, Steering Committee
Box   1 Folder   1	1970, January 10, 11, Steering Committee (call)
Box   1 Folder   1	1970, February 7, Steering Committee
Box   1 Folder   1	Undated
Box   1 Folder   2	Correspondence, 1969-1970
	Internal Administrative Files
Box   1 Folder   3	General, 1969-1970
Box   1 Folder   4	November 15, 1969, logistics
Box   1 Folder   5	Draft Task Force, 1970
	Publications
Box   1 Folder   6-7	Form letters, press releases, handbills, and pamphlets of New Mobe, 1969-1970
Box   1 Folder   8	Publications of other organizations re New Mobe actions, 1969-1970
Box   1 Folder   9	San Francisco Office, 1969-1970