Summary Information

Title: Wisconsin Alliance. Madison Chapter: Records
Inclusive Dates: 1968-1977

Creator:

• Wisconsin Alliance (Madison Chapter)

Call Number: Mss 474; PH Mss 474; PH Mss 474 (5)

Quantity: 5.1 c.f., (13 archives boxes and 1 oversize folder), 27 photographs, and 6 posters

Repository:

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

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Records of the Wisconsin Alliance, a socialist organization founded in Madison in 1968 that worked to create and sustain a grass-roots worker-small farmer-student alliance. The Alliance supported activities in areas such as Native American treaty rights, educational reform, environmental activism, welfare rights, electoral politics, and national and local strikes including Farah, General Motors, farm workers, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Teaching Assistants Association. The bulk of these records document the Madison chapter but other chapters existed in the Fox Valley, Milwaukee, Green Bay, and Racine-Kenosha. Included is general correspondence; policy documents; minutes, committee reports, meeting notes, and conference notes at the state and local levels; public activities consisting of press releases, campaign papers, leaflets, broadsides, and news clippings; records of related organizations including the Wisconsin Youth for Democratic Education (WYDE) and Teachers for Peaceful Alternatives (TPA); records of the Civil Action, Research and Education Project (CAREP), the precursor of Wisconsin Alliance; and research files. The photographs depict demonstrations in the Madison area in which the Wisconsin Alliance participated, and other activities.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00474

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