Title: Madison Committee to End the War in Vietnam Records
Inclusive Dates: 1965-1971

Creator:

• Madison Committee to End the War in Vietnam (Wis.)

Call Number: Mss 503

Quantity: 1.6 c.f. (4 archives boxes)

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 a Madison, Wisconsin, organization that promoted educational and political activities in opposition to U.S. involvement in the war in Vietnam. Aligned with the National Student Mobilization Committee, MCEWVN formally changed its name to the University of Wisconsin Student Mobilization Committee in 1969. In the collection are administrative, activity, and subject files; publicity; and writings.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00503

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The Madison Committee to End the War in Vietnam (CEWV) was founded in 1965 in response to the United States bombing of Haiphong, North Vietnam. The group's purpose was to initiate, sponsor, and carry out educational and political activities designed to arouse public pressure and action, and thereby ultimately to achieve the withdrawal of the United States from Vietnam. To this end the Committee sponsored local marches, demonstrations, films, talks, and workshops, and participated in national conferences and marches. It became aligned with the national Student Mobilization Committee in 1967 and formally changed its name to the U.W. Student Mobilization Committee in the early fall of 1969.

The records of the Madison CEWV document its involvement in anti-war activities for the years 1965-1971, both on the local and national level. However, the records contain only relatively little material concerning the internal operations of the CEWV. Many of the individual items are undated.

The ADMINISTRATIVE FILES contain scattered minutes of meetings of the executive board and general membership, and membership and mailing lists for the Committee and for Crisis, the organization's newsletter. Worklists consist predominantly of sign-up sheets for various CEWV projects and operations. The financial records, composed of check registers and receipts, are also fragmentary. Included are invoices and bills for orders of anti-war literature to be sold by CEWV. A fairly complete run of correspondence also contains many form letters from other anti-war groups.

The ACTIVITIES series, arranged chronologically, consists of correspondence, reports, leaflets, and clippings documenting local and national conferences and demonstrations organized or attended by CEWV members. The Kennedy confrontation file concerns the visit of Senator Edward M. Kennedy to the University of Wisconsin in October 1966 and the attempt of CEWV members to force him to speak on the issue of the war. The Dow file pertains to the demonstration held to protest the presence of Dow Chemical Company recruiters on campus. The Zwicker Defense Case concerns the refusal of the University to readmit student Robert Zwicker because of his political activity.

The PUBLICITY AND WRITINGS file includes a research file of pamphlets and papers used in preparation of the writings, press releases, and leaflets in this series. The Crisis file contains rough drafts of articles, notes, and miscellaneous materials relating to the preparation of the Committee's newsletter.

SUBJECT FILES are arranged alphabetically and contain information on various groups in which the CEWV took an active interest, including the Madison Mobilization Committee, of which the CEWV was a founding member.

Material from other anti-war groups (including a file concerning Young Socialist Alliance anti-war activities and YSA involvement with the Student Mobilization Committee) has been separated to the Social Action Vertical File. Material received by the CEWV from the national office of Student Mobilization Committee has been integrated into the SMC collection (Mss 339).

Acquisition Information

Presented by the Committee, 1969, 1970, and by Patrick M. Quinn, Madison, 1973, and transferred from the Social Action Vertical File, 1979.

	Series: Administrative Files
Box   1 Folder   1	Constitution and Organizational Papers
Box   1 Folder   2	Minutes, 1966, 1968-1969
Box   1 Folder   3	Membership and Mailing Lists (CEWV, Crisis), 1968, 1969
Box   1 Folder   4	Worklists, Speakers, 1967-1969
Box   1 Folder   5	Financial Records, 1967-1970
Box   1 Folder   6-9	General Correspondence, 1965-1971
	Series: Activities	⇧
Box   2 Folder   1	Kennedy Confrontation, Madison, October 1966
Box   2 Folder   2	National Anti-war Conference, Cleveland, November 1966
Box   2 Folder   3	Madison Anti-war Conference, February 1967
Box   2 Folder   4	SMC Conference, Chicago, May 1967
Box   2 Folder   5	National Conference for New Politics, Chicago, September 1967
Box   2 Folder   6	Dow, Madison, October 1967
Box   2 Folder   7	SMC National Conference, Chicago, January 1968
Box   2 Folder   8	Zwicker Defense Case Petitions, Madison, March 1968
Box   2 Folder   9	International Student-Faculty Strike, Madison, April 1968
Box   2 Folder   10	March, Madison, October 12, 1968
Box   2 Folder   11	Memorial Day March, Madison, May 1969
Box   2 Folder   12	National Anti-war Conference, Cleveland, July 1969
Box   2 Folder   13	Hiroshima-Nagasaki Week, Madison, August 1969
Box   2 Folder   14	Moratorium, Washington, D.C., November 15, 1969
Box   2 Folder   15	Demonstration, Madison, April 18, 1970
Box   2 Folder   16	National Emergency Conference, Cleveland, June 1970
Box   2 Folder   17	Strategy Action Conference, Milwaukee, June 1970
	Series: Publicity and Writings	⇧
Box   3 Folder   1	Writings
Box   3 Folder   2	Crisis
Box   3 Folder   3	Leaflets Distributed, 1965-1971
Box   3 Folder   4	Press Releases, 1966-1971
Box   3 Folder   5	Drafts
Box   3 Folder   6	Research File
	Series: Subject Files	⇧
Box   3 Folder   7	Draft Resistance
Box   3 Folder   8	Fort Hood 3 Defense Committee
Box   3 Folder   9	Freedom Now for Lt. Howe Committee
Box   3 Folder   10	Madison Mobilization Committee
Box   3 Folder   11	SDS
Box   3 Folder   12	Trade Union
	Leaflets from Miscellaneous Anti-war and Other Groups
Box   3 Folder   13	A-L
Box   4 Folder   1	M-Z
Box   4 Folder   2	Series: Clippings	⇧
Box   4 Folder   3	Series: Miscellany	⇧