Radical organizer Michael E. Eisenscher was a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the early 1960's during which time he was active in a host of left wing activities and organizations. In 1963 he was research director for the Wisconsin Student Employees Association, which attempted to combat discriminatory employment practices against the transient student population working in university facilities. In June 1964 he attended the founding convention of the W.E.B. DuBois Club in San Francisco. Following the convention, Eisenscher returned to Madison to serve as projects director for the local chapter and as Wisconsin regional director for the national club. In the summer of 1965 he moved to Milwaukee to assist in organizing that city's club and to act as Midwest regional coordinator. He also joined the staff of the Milwaukee Organizing Committee, which aimed at organizing the local community based on the issues of civil rights, labor unions, peace, and draft counseling. In July 1965 Eisenscher and a number of other leftist organizers were notified that adverse testimony concerning their activities had been made to the Senate Internal Security Sub-committee. During the period described in the collection Eisenscher was also involved in the National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam and the Wisconsin Communist Party, which he served as party secretary in 1968.
