David M. Henderson papers, 1964-1999 and undated

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Summary

Creator:
Henderson, David Martin
Abstract:
David Martin Henderson graduated from Duke University in 1968. While based in Durham, North Carolina, he served as a newspaper editor and a long-time local, state-wide and national political activist. The David Martin Henderson Papers spans 1964-1989 and consists of correspondence and subject files containing letters, newspapers, clippings, pamphlets, broadsides, and internal organizational documents, all pertaining to Henderson's activities as a student radical at Duke University and a community organizer in Durham, N.C. Subjects covered by his papers include anti-war movements, Black Power, communism, G.I. rights, labor, Leninism, Marxism, women's liberation, Students for a Democratic Society and other affiliations.
Extent:
4.3 Linear Feet
Approximately 2,625 Items
Language:
Material in English and Spanish.
Collection ID:
RL.00529

Background

Scope and content:

The David Martin Henderson Papers span the years 1964 to 1999, and contain organizational papers, correspondence, pamphlets, leaflets and broadsides concerning student organizations at Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill, and Harvard; personal correspondence between Henderson and family members (restricted); and printed material and correspondence concerning a number of other organizations, parties, and conferences, among them the North American Congress on Latin America (1967-1974), the Progressive Labor Party (1973-1976), and other organizations advocating communism and opposing U.S. foreign policy in Latin America and elsewhere. Much of the material was circulated by the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and its affiliates at Duke, the Student Liberation Front and its successor, Praxis. The collection concerns such topics as student governance and political action; race relations at Duke and in Durham; the Reserve Officers Training Corps; labor unions and city and campus workers; the movement to end the war in Vietnam; and socialist and communist organizations active at the time. Printed material includes items concerning the Southern Students Organizing Committee; two copies of the Socialist Worker, the newspaper of the North Carolina Socialist Union for which Henderson was an editor; typed and mimeographed papers of the North Carolina Socialist Union which was succeeded in Durham by the Progressive Workers Committee; the first issue of Proletarian Cause and draft articles for that publication. Authors including Tom Hayden and Stokeley Carmichael are represented in the papers along with several administrators of University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Biographical / historical:

Originally from Texas, David Martin Henderson graduated from Duke University in 1968. As a political activist and newspaper editor, Henderson became involved in radical and activist organizations at Duke and in the city of Durham, NC; and was also active on a national scale in several organizations, political parties, and conferences.

Acquisition information:
The David M. Henderson Papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a gift from 1972-2018.
Processing information:

Processed by Caroline Muglia, March 2010

Encoded by Caroline Muglia and Carrie Mills, April 2010 and May 2011

Accessions 72-60, 89-030, and all other accessions from 1972-2018 were merged into one collection, described in this finding aid.

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[Identification of item], David M. Henderson Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.