sheldonbob Inventory of the Bob Sheldon Papers, 1968-1991 Processed by: Meghan Lyon; machine-readable finding aid created by: Meghan Lyon David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library Duke University Durham, N.C., USA

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 Machine-readable finding aid derived from XML authoring program. Date of source: March 2011Processed by Meghan Lyon, March 2011; finding aid encoded by Meghan Lyon, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, March 2011 Description is in English Finding aid was prepared using DACS and local Style Guide Inventory of the Bob Sheldon Papers, 1968-1991 David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library Duke University Durham, North Carolina 27708-0185 USA

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 Descriptive Summary David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University Sheldon, Bob. Bob Sheldon Papers, 1968-1991 Material in English 2.1 Linear Feet 500 Items For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog. Political activist; nurse; owner of Internationalist Book Store in Chapel Hill, N.C. Sheldon was murdered in the store on February 21, 1991. Drafts of Sheldon's speeches, articles, diary and notes; news clippings; printed materials; and transcripts of trials and FBI files. Materials relate chiefly to his political activism as a draft resister in 1968; a visit to China in the 1970s, including slides; work with the Communist Workers Party in the 1970s and the Green Party in the 1980s; union organizing at Cone Mills Textile plant in the 1970s; and various Palestine issues in the 1980s. Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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 Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Bob Sheldon Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

 Provenance

The Bob Sheldon Papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library as a gift in 1993 and 2011.

 Processing Information

Processed by Meghan Lyon, March 2011

Encoded by Meghan Lyon, March 2011

Accession(s) described in this finding aid: 2011-0027

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 Biographical Note

Political activist; nurse; owner of Internationalist Book Store in Chapel Hill, N.C. Sheldon was originally from Colorado, and moved to Chapel Hill in the late 1970s. He opened the Internationalist Book Store as a reading room in 1981, and moved it to a storefront in 1984. The store provided a space for activists as well as a dissemination point for Marxist and other political literature. With the launch of the Gulf War in 1991, Sheldon was interviewed on local television stations as Internationalist Book Store volunteers organized opposition to the war. Shortly afterward, Sheldon was murdered in the store on February 21, 1991. His murder remains unsolved.

 Collection Overview

Drafts of Sheldon's speeches, articles, diary and notes; news clippings; printed materials; and transcripts of trials and FBI files. Materials relate chiefly to his political activism as a draft resister in 1968; a visit to China in the 1970s, including slides; work with the Communist Workers Party in the 1970s and the Green Party in the 1980s; union organizing at Cone Mills Textile plant in the 1970s; and various Palestine issues in the 1980s.

 Subject Headings

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Sheldon, Bob. Internationalist Book Store (Chapel Hill, N.C.) Cone Mills Corporation. Communist Workers Party (U.S.) Political activists--Papers of. Booksellers and bookselling. Draft resisters--United States. Radicalism--United States. Social change--United States. Green Party. Textile industry--North Carolina. Textile workers--Labor unions. Industries--North Carolina. Chapel Hill (N.C.) North Carolina--Politics and government. China--Politics and government--1949- Palestine--Politics and government--1948- Diaries. Slides. Contents of Collection Bob Sheldon Papers, 1968-1991 (2 boxes) Political Activism in the U.S. 1Internationalist Books Resource Center: articles and management, 1982-1984 Annotations on articles and events of political activism, undated Publications and correspondence about the Green Party and political issues, 1986-1988 FBI files, 1969-1986 Anti-war protest/arrest, 1969 Cone Mills Union organizing, 1978(2 folders) Civil Suit: RCA Plant Strike, 1974 Warren County Public Health, undated(2 folders) Mayday arrest and status reports, 1982-1985 American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit, 1989-1990 Middle East 1Iranian Revolution: "The Need for Revolutionary Support of Iranian People's Struggle," undated Miscellaneous articles on Middle Eastern conflict, 1987-1990 Resource articles and manuscripts on Palestine, 1987-1989(3 folders) Clippings on the Middle East, 1988 Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) clippings and notes, 1982 and undated China 1Revolutionary Communist Party notes and China diary, undated Notes on Chinese history, 1979 China trip, 1975-1976 Public Health in China talk, 1976 Miscellaneous 1Miscellaneous writings, undated Miscellaneous speeches and writings, 1988 and undated Bob Sheldon's bar mitzvah, and miscellaneous notes and photographs, undated Newspaper and magazine articles about Bob Sheldon's death, 1991 Slides 2Public Health in China talk (March 1976 trip to China)

Subjects include industry, medicine, people, education, museums, history, parks, scenery, Old China, and miscellaneous.