ASRA 2021
Title
ASRA 2021
Creator
Students from the ASRA 2021 cohort
Subject
archival research
Description
This collection contains items added by students from the University of Pittsburgh Library System ASRA 2021 cohort during Spring 2021. They added these items based on their in-depth inquiry into materials from archives and special collections.
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Library System
Date
Spring 2021
Collection Items
Lavender Vision: for the lesbian community
Lavender Vision… is a publication from the 1970’s that seeks to connect other lesbian women to ideas and movements affecting the community. The columns range from personal appeals on the idea of being queer, to more general announcements about the…
DRUM: Wildcat Strike
The Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement was an organization founded in 1968 dedicated to securing the rights of Black autoworkers in Detroit through a Marxist-Leninist framework. This is a pamphlet created by DRUM to inform Dodge Main autoworkers…
First Outline of Nova Europa, 1918: Introduction and Topical Outline, With Index of Subjects
In this first outline of Nova Europa, Masaryk presents his introduction with a topical outline handwritten in Czech, accompanied by an index of subjects, namely nations. This was written as Masaryk was riding the Trans-Siberian railway across Russia…
On Our Backs: Entertainment for the Adventurous Lesbian, Battle Scars
The cover page of Debi Sundahl's, creator of On Our Backs, editorial piece on the history of the publication. This publication spoke of the impact of HIV/AIDS on the lesbian community, both in respect to the health of lesbians and to the opinion of…
Chesterfield Cigarette Advertisement from The Pitt news. vol. 43, no. 24
This cigarette advertisement marketed in January 1950 by the tobacco company Chesterfield uses multiple alluring elements to cause the viewer to consider how consuming these products may affect his or her popularity. To start, Chesterfield employed a…
Spectre
Spectre is a Lesbian publication aimed at defining a radical ideology for the community. Inside are discussions of identity politics that have led the Gay and Lesbian communities to suffer ideological divides, how to talk about racism in the…
DRUM: Challenge
As DRUM gained influence within the Hamtramck assembly plant, both management and the United Auto Workers (UAW) began a crackdown on the organization while denying that there were racist conditions in the plant. This issue of the publication argues…
DRUM: DRUM's Candidate
Hoping to secure their rights through the union, DRUM fielded their own candidate named Don Jackson. DRUM complained about the long line of union leaders who did little for Black workers while pocketing their dues, often UAW lackeys. This issue ends…
DRUM: Hoover Road
This issue tackles a variety of problems, including the false promises of the Hoover Road training plant and the fact that Black welders are denied skill trade classification and top pay due to racism. The alliance of the UAW and the International…
Interview with an Unidentified English Journalist
This is a preserved interview between T.G. Masaryk and an English journalist. Masaryk spells out the reasons why Western Europe should support an independent Czechoslovakia and how an independent Czechoslovakia will solve the Eastern Problem…