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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and records

Special Collections at the Graduate Library houses the Labadie Collection. The Labadie Collection was established in
1911 when Joseph Labadie, a prominent Detroit anarchist, donated his library to the University of Michigan. Although the
Collection was originally concerned mainly with anarchist materials (the field in which it remains strongest), its scope was
later widened considerably to include a great variety of social protest literature together with political views from both the
extreme left and the extreme right. Materials are now collected from all parts of the world. In addition to anarchism, the
Collection's strengths include: civil liberties (with an emphases on racial minorities), socialism, communism, colonialism
and imperialism, American labor history through the 1930s, the IWW, the Spanish Civil War, sexual freedom, women's
liberation, gay liberation, the underground press, and student protest. archival and microform collections.

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Document Custodian: Sally Haines  Last revised: 21 July 2008