Alternative and Underground Press collection (MSS-0037)

The Alternative and Underground Press collection consists of radical, anti-establishment, and counterculture serials and ephemera. The material provides an overview of contemporary American social and political controversies, extremism, and youth counter-culture. It includes publications from groups ranging from the John Birch Society to the Fund for the Republic to the Students for a Democratic Society. Subjects of the materials include education, liberalism, conservatism, white supremacy, anti-communist, consumer protections, pro-communist, civil rights, anarchism, fundamentalism, anti-Semitism, labor, Vietnamese conflict, conservation, anti-fascism, housing rights, LGBTQIA rights, libertarianism, Zionism, Equal Rights Amendment, and emigration and immigration.