Stuart Gedal Columbia University 1968 Strike Collection, 1957-2003 [Bulk Dates: 1966-1975]

Series IV: Weatherman, 1969-1976, 2003

This series contains publications, fliers, and documents from the primary off-campus grouping of SDS, the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM). The more militant group within RYM, to which former Columbia activists belonged, was nicknamed "Weatherman", after a song by Bob Dylan. Quickly – from July to December 1969 – Weatherman evolved from small groups of very visible street fighters spread across the country into a clandestine organization. The renamed Weather Underground Organization (WUO) carried out bombings well into the mid-1970s. Their targets included corporate headquarters and city, state and federal government offices, including the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. The series contains a compendium of "communiques" written by WUO and publicized by both mainstream media as well as the surviving "underground" or "alternative" press on the occasion of their major actions.

Materials includes a copy of Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism - Political Statement of the Weather Underground

Materials were re-housed from individual sleeves in binders and the original order provided by Gedal was maintained as closely as possible.