Scope and content
"The Streets Belong to the People", 16 mm. film, videotapes (different versions) and unedited footage of movie film made in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention, August 1968. Also, articles, notes, clippings, leaflets, radical newspapers' tape recordings, movie film and documents related to the production of the film. Includes film, recorded interviews, and records related to the Democratic National Convention; the National Farm Workers and Cesar Chavez; the Starr King Divinity School; members of a Cambridge, Massachusetts commune; an S.D.S. meeting, study class, and rally; a meeting of Ithaca Housing; and the March 1967 confrontation at Willard Straight Hall (Cornell University) over draft card burning. Includes interviews with Jeff Jones, Paul Krassner, Robert Traill Spence Lowell, Jr., Rennie Davis, David Whitley Dellinger, Dick Gregory, Vic Bell, Allen Ginsberg, Ralph David Abernathy, Norman Mailer, Tom Hayden, David Burak, Bruce Dancis, Daniel Berrigan, Jerry Brown, and Eugene McCarthy. Also, Elbert's manuscript notes and correspondence concerning publication of Louisa May Alcott's previously unpublished novella Diana and Persis and Alcott's Work: A Story of Experience.
Self-interview by Sarah Diamant Elbert about the Chicago Seven Conspiracy trial. The film The Streets Belong to the People was entered as evidence for the defense at the trial by Judge Julius Hoffman on December 9, 1969. Sarah Diamant was cross-examined about the film and her purposes in Chicago at the Democratic National Conventioin. When she returned to Ithaca, Oral History Program Director Gould P. Colman asked her to tape record an account of of her testimony at the trial "before memory was sapped by time and corrupted by feedback and other new experience," December 15, 1969 (33 pages).
Dates
- 1968-1976.
Creator
- Elbert, Sarah. (Person)
- Pecot, Marcelle. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Conditions Governing Access
Box 6 closed until processed.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Sarah Elbert (Cornell University Class of 1965) initiated "The Streets Belong to the People" as a part of her study of student radicalism and counterculture. The film crew consisted of herself, Ralph Diamant (filmmaker), James Sheldon (Students for a Democratic Society member), Phyllis Black (Chicago student), Michael Wright (Chicago student and S.D.S. member), Phyllis Cutter, and Susan Schultze.
Extent
5 cubic feet. (5 cubic feet. 6 reels movie film, 6 VHS cassettes, 32 CDs, 4 DVDs, 55 tape recordings.,)
Abstract
Papers of Sarah Elbert (Cornell University Class of 1965), who initiated "The Streets Belong to the People" as a part of her study of student radicalism and counterculture.
SERIES LIST
Series I. Source Files Box 1, Former collection #2964 Box 1
Collection #2914 Former Collection #2964
Series II. Periodicals Box 1, Former collection #2964 Box 1
Collection #2914 Former Collection #2964
Series III. Film Documents Box 1
Series IV. Tape Recordings Box 2
Chicago Democratic Convention, August 25-29, 1968 Student Radicalism Delano, California Interviews
Series V: Transcripts Made from Reel to Reel Recordings Box 2
Series VI. Film (masters, not to be used) Boxes 4 & 5
Series VII. Video Boxes 4 & 5
Series VIII. CDs and DVDs Boxes 5
Physical Description
Film, videotapes, audiotapes, cd, articles, notes, clippings, and leaflets.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- EAD encoding:
- Martin Heggestad, April 2004
- Date modified:
- Marcie Farwell, September 2015
- Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990.
- Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888. (Title of work: Diana and Persis..)
- Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888. (Title of work: Work, a story of experience..)
- Bell, Vic.
- Berrigan, Daniel.
- Brown, Jerry, 1938-
- Burak, David, 1945-
- Chavez, Cesar, 1927-1993.
- Dancis, Bruce.
- Davis, Rennie.
- Dellinger, David W.
- Draft resisters.
- Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997.
- Gregory, Dick.
- Hayden, Tom.
- Interviews.
- Jones, Jeff.
- Krassner, Paul.
- Lowell, Robert Traill Spence, 1917-
- Mailer, Norman.
- McCarthy, Eugene J., 1916-2005.
- Motion pictures (visual works).
- National Farm Workers Association
- Novelists, American.
- Radicalism.
- Starr King Divinity School
- Streets belong to the people.
- Student movements.
- Students -- Political activity.
- Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.)
- Toksvig, Signe, 1891-1983.
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1963-1969
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- April 2004
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Revision Statements
- 12/07/2018: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
- 2007-05-29: converted from EAD 1.0 to EAD 2002
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu