MenuInventory of the Bob Sheldon Papers, 1968-1991
Abstract
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.
Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University
- Creator
- Sheldon, Bob.
- Title
- Bob Sheldon Papers, 1968-1991
- Language of Material
- English
- Extent
- 2.1 Linear Feet, 500 Items
- Location
- For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
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.
Administrative Information
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Access Restrictions
Collection is open for research.
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Use Restrictions
The copyright interests in this collection have not been transferred to Duke University. For more information, consult the copyright section of the Regulations and Procedures of the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
Contents of the Collection
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Subjects include industry, medicine, people, education, museums, history, parks, scenery, Old China, and miscellaneous.
Historical 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.
Subject Headings
- 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.
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
This collection is minimally processed: materials may not have been ordered and described beyond their original condition.
Descriptive sources and standards used to create this inventory: DACS, EAD, NCEAD guidelines, and local Style Guide.
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.