The Todd Gitlin and Nanci Hollander Papers include correspondence and subject files relating to peace and protest groups at Harvard and the University of Michigan. Material on Gitlin's presidency of SDS may be found in the Students for a Democratic Society records, though this collection does include a draft and related correspondence and papers for Uptown: Poor Whites in Chicago (1970), which was based on their involvement with SDS's Jobs or Income Now project.
Much of the correspondence concerns TOCSIN, a disarmament organization at Harvard. This material reveals how Gitlin attempted to gain support for TOCSIN and other peace group projects from faculty, business leaders, congressmen, government officials, and other members of the “establishment.” There is also information on the planning for projects such as the April 1961 demonstration before the Soviet delegation at the United Nations in New York City and the support of H. Stuart Hughes' senatorial campaign, and Turn Toward Peace's Washington Action demonstration on April 16 and 17, 1962.
Prominent correspondents include Cyrus Eaton, Sanford Gottlieb, Jerome Grossman, Hubert H. Humphrey, Jacob K. Javits, Robert Kastenmeier, David Riesman, C. P. Snow, U Thant, and James Wechsler.
The two folders of Nanci Hollander material reflect student activism on the University of Michigan campus, which was primarily directed at racial discrimination. This material mainly concerns the University of Michigan Friends of SNCC, VOICE, and related SDS projects.
