Title: Joe Blitman Papers, 1966-1971

ID: RG 30/090

Extent: 0.6 Linear Feet

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These papers reflect Joe Blitman’s participation and interest in student politics and activism, 1967-71, while a student at Oberlin College. Archives staff printed out thirty-six articles that concern or are authored by Blitman from the Oberlin Review, 1969-71, mainly concerning student politics, anti-Vietnam War activism, and film critique. This constitutes the last folder in the collection. In addition to papers, Blitman collected Oberlin anti-war memorabilia, including buttons, badges, and armbands.

Joe Blitman originally organized the papers in a series of folders numbered one through forty-one. The papers were divided into folders by date of content. Folders one through ten contain material from September 1967 to June 1968. Folders eleven through twenty-six contain material from September 1968 to May 1969. Folders twenty-seven through thirty-three contain material from September 1969 to May 1970. Folders thirty-four through thirty-five contain material from September 1970 to May 1971. Additionally, folders thirty-six through forty-one contain miscellaneous publications from 1968-1970.

Joe Blitman’s position as both an activist and a journalist offers a unique vantage point from which to explore the events of 1967-1971 at Oberlin. Deeply involved with anti-war and anti-draft activism and student government, he brings together documentation of insular campus politics and of Oberlin’s leadership in a growing national student-led anti-Vietnam War movement.

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