Cathy Cockrell Collection of Political Ephemera
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Cathy Cockrell is a writer, editor, journalist, and activist. She worked at Liberation News Service from 1975-1978, and from 1996-2016 at the University of California, Berkeley as a writer and editor in the department of Communications and Public Affairs. The Cathy Cockrell Collection of Political Ephemera (dated 1975-1991) consists of materials collected by Cockrell documenting her participation in a number of national and international protest and solidarity movements from the 1970s through 1980s, including feminist, lesbian, anti-nuclear, anti-Reagan, and international solidarity movements. It includes approximately 50 political leaflets and fliers collected by Cockrell at protests, marches, and rallies. Leaflets and fliers from 1975-1987 are from Cathy's time living in New York City. She relocated to San Francisco in 1987 and leaflets and fliers after that point are reflective of her activism on the west coast. Also included in the collection are three issues of Nicaraguan Perspectives, and a t-shirt made and worn in solidarity with the Nicaraguan liberation movement, the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), and the Sandinista People's Army.
Biographical Note
Cathy Cockrell is a writer, editor, journalist, and activist. She worked as an editor at Liberation News Service from 1975-1978 and as assistant news editor at the San Francisco Sentinel. From 1996-2016 she held positions at the University of California, Berkeley as a writer and editor in the department of Communications and Public Affairs.
Arrangement
This collection has not been arranged by an archivist. The materials are arranged in the order in which they were received from the donor.
Scope and Contents
The Cathy Cockrell Collection of Political Ephemera (dated 1975-1991) consists of materials collected by Cockrell documenting her participation in a number of national and international protest and solidarity movements from the 1970s through 1980s, including feminist, lesbian, anti-nuclear, anti-Reagan, and international solidarity movements. It includes approximately 50 political leaflets and fliers collected by Cockrell at protests, marches, and rallies. Leaflets and fliers from 1975-1987 are from Cathy's time living in New York City. She relocated to San Francisco in 1987 and leaflets and fliers after that point are reflective of her activism on the west coast. Also included in the collection are three issues of Nicaraguan Perspectives, and a t-shirt made and worn in solidarity with the Nicaraguan liberation movement, the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), and the Sandinista People's Army.
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Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use materials in the collection in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; Cathy Cockrell Collection of Political Ephemera; TAM 804; box number; folder number or item identifier; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Cathy Cockrell in August 2021; the accession number associated with this gift is 2021.038.
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Processing Information
At the time of accessioning, materials were rehoused in archival folders and a box, and described on the collection-level with a folder-level inventory.
