Victor Aronow Papers Relating to Activism

Victor Aronow, formerly a student at the University of Massachusetts, has been an activist most of his life. This collection of papers is not a collection of Aronow’s personal papers, but those relating to his activism. Much of this material dates from the late 1960’s through the mid-1970s. The scope of this collection is material related to Anti-Draft, the Anti-Vietnam War, Resist and the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) movements with some additional material relating to the Civil Rights movement, Women’s Liberation Movement (Women’s Lib), and the Student Mobilization Movement (SMM). Most of the documents in this collection originate from Western Massachusetts, demonstrating how the issues affected the residents of that area, although some of the documents are from the New England region. Aronow worked several years for the Newton Draft Counseling Center in Newton, Massachusetts (NDCC) and was in contact with anti-draft groups such as the Boston Resistance Group (BRG), the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors (CCCO), Vietnam Summer, and a number of other resistance groups. In addition to Aronow’s manuals, notes and correspondence from the NDCC, this collection includes publications (booklets, newsletters, newspapers) from the various groups, correspondence, newspaper clippings and flyers related to events sponsored by the groups Aronow was affiliated with, as well as some photographs of the events.