so there is this small pamphlet here produced by the student nonviolent coordinating committee, snic. and these black panthers are from the 60s and go up into the early 70s. this is a manuscript collection that we acquired from a woman named phyllis johnson. she was a very conservative person who lived in california. she was a member of the minute women of the united states. the minute women called themselves a nonpartisan organization united to combat communism, socialism, fascism or collectiveism in america. this is one of the newer parts of the wilcox collection that we've acquired. these are zenes which are do it yourself publications that people create around a issue or a part of their lives. they might talk about their feeling about different issues like bullying. the advantage of a zene is you can produce one yourself just by cutting and pasting images and then xeroxing the sheets, stapling them together. you could do ten or 20, pass them around among your friends. we have probably about 1500. sometimes we face criticism for collecting the materials that we do, the more extreme

but snic was an organization that started many years ago and was in a state of chaos. and the black panther party was brand-new, had been in existence for about a year. it was very exciting and engaging and filled with very positive, energized young men and women. it was great. >> professor joseph, you talked about the organization of the civil rights movement at the time, the different organizations that were out there. how did white america view these different organizations that we've already talked about as well as dr. king's movement? >> well, by 1968 there's going to be what some people call a white backlash against the movement, and this is this idea that there was that one time real broad based support for civil rights struggles and racial equality. generally white people, when we look at everything from polling data and the state of the nation at the time were increasingly at unease with this idea of civil rights. by the time we see urban rebellions, what critics called race riots and what the president, the kerner commission calls civil disorders that start i