Mary Rudge Share the Seed typescript, 1969-1979
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Summary
- Creator:
- Rudge, Mary
- Abstract:
- Mary Rudge was a peace activist and poet. Collection comprises an unpublished typescript Share the Seed: A Farmworkers Anthology, containing a compilation of voices of the Farmworkers Movement, edited by Mary Rudge, dated 1979. There are at least one hundred items, including narratives and interviews, poems, songs, documents, sketches, and photocopied photographs, focusing on farmworkers in California, as well as elsewhere in the United States. The text features corrections and emendations. Signed by Rudge at the end of her foreword to the volume. Velobound in brown vinyl covers. Several pages missed the binding and are thus laid in. Also laid in are several ephemeral pieces from the farmworkers movement.
- Extent:
- 1 Linear Foot (6 items)
- Language:
- Materials in English
- Collection ID:
- RL.11367
Background
- Scope and content:
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Collection comprises an unpublished typescript Share the Seed: A Farmworkers Anthology, containing a compilation of voices of the Farmworkers Movement, edited by Mary Rudge, dated 1979. There are at least one hundred items, including narratives and interviews, poems, songs, documents, sketches, and photocopied photographs, focusing on farmworkers in California, as well as elsewhere in the United States. The text features corrections and emendations. Signed by Rudge at the end of her foreword to the volume. Velobound in brown vinyl covers. Several pages missed the binding and are thus laid in. Also laid in are several ephemeral pieces from the farmworkers movement: a printed Thanksgiving letter from Cesar Chavez, 1969, commemorating the fifth Thanksgiving of the farm workers' struggle; El Malcriado, "The Voice of the Farm Worker" newsletter for November and December, 1969; The Picket Line newsletter, July 18, 1975; and a one-page legal-size handbill promoting an [1969] event sponsored by the UFWOC (United Farm Workers Organizing Committee) Defense Fund Committee.
- Biographical / historical:
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Mary Rudge was a peace activist and poet. She became the first poet laureate of Alameda, California.
- Acquisition information:
- The Mary Rudge Share the Seed Typescript was received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a purchase in 2016.
- Processing information:
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Processed by Alice Poffinberger, January, 2017
Accessions described in this collection guide: 2016-0304
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
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