BRIAN J. COYLE:

Brian J. Coyle was born in Great Falls, Montana (June 25, 1944) and raised in Moorhead, Minnesota. He graduated from Moorhead High School (1961) and received his BA degree from the University of Minnesota-Minneapolis (1967). While attending the University Coyle participated in the Young Democrats and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS); wrote for the Minnesota Daily; helped organize the first Vietnam teach-in; and originated the Free University.

After graduation Coyle taught humanities at Moorhead State University (September 1967-June 1968). He was indicted twice for failure to comply with the draft (1968), but was acquitted both times as a conscientious objector. He returned to Minneapolis and worked at the Twin Cities Draft Information Center (January 1969-December 1971) and helped found the alternative newspaper, Hundred Flowers. Coyle made public his homosexuality in 1971 and became a life-long activist in the gay rights movement.

Coyle was a member of the New American Movement (NAM) (1971-1974), a national organization that attempted to unite the New Left after the collapse of SDS. He worked as the organization's national office coordinator, directed the National Campaign to Impeach Nixon, acted as project coordinator for the Coalition to Stop Funding the War, and coordinated the North Country Peace Campaign. In 1974 Coyle visited Vietnam as a Midwest representative of the Indochina Peace Campaign.

During the mid and late 1970s Coyle worked defending tenants' rights and campaigning for a rent control ordinance; was involved with power line protests in rural Minnesota (1978); and organized Minnesotans Against the Downtown Dome (MADD), a coalition opposed to the construction of a downtown sports stadium (1979-1981). Coyle was also the founder and director of The Progressive Roundtable (1980-1988), a monthly forum focused on local and national progressive issues and personalities.

Coyle ran unsuccessful campaigns for the U.S. Senate (1978), Minneapolis mayor (1979), and 6th ward alderman (1981). In 1983 he won his bid for 6th ward alderman and served three successive terms. While on the city council Coyle's primary interests centered on affordable housing, economic development, civil and human rights, the environment, and transportation.

Coyle was diagnosed as HIV-positive in 1986 and publicly disclosed the fact in April, 1991. He died from AIDS-related complications on August 23, 1991.

Biographical data was taken from the collection.

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Coyle's papers break down into ten different sections, reflecting the major activities that constituted his personal and public lives:

Political Writings, undated and 1965-1980 are composed of papers, articles, and correspondence covering a variety of political and social issues.

New American Movement (NAM), undated and 1971-1974, includes draft political statements and counter statements; internal communications; issues of the New American Movement newspaper and Internal Discussion Bulletin (1972-1974); newspaper and magazine clippings; agendas; minutes; correspondence; and reports. The last section of the NAM papers is composed of correspondence, agendas, position papers, flyers, and newsletters that reflect the political thought, organization, and activities of the Minneapolis NAM chapter (1972-1974).

Rent Control, 1974-1981, contains correspondence, agendas, minutes, notes, ordinances, brochures, flyers, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and booklets, reflecting Coyle's activities as a tenant(s), rights advocate including his work as an organizer, paralegal, and negotiator for the East-West Bank Tenants Union during its rent strike (1977-1978).

Progressive Roundtable (PRT), 1980-1988, includes correspondence, memoranda, notes, agendas, newsletters, bylaws, tax forms, budgets, membership lists, flyers, photographs, newspaper clippings, and brochures documenting the goals, administration, and programs of a monthly speakers' forum. Coyle organized PRT in order to bring progressives together on a regular basis to hear new ideas, discuss strategies for political action, and develop informal networks.

Minneapolis City Council, 1981-1991, is the largest section in the collection, and documents Coyle's election campaigns and his three terms on the Minneapolis city council as sixth ward alderman. The papers related to Coyle's four aldermanic campaigns (1981, 1983, 1985, 1989) include volunteer and contributor lists, schedules, and ward maps used in the "Get Out the Vote" effort, which consisted of door knocking, telephoning, literature drops, and voter registration; calendars; notes and outlines on campaign organization, issues, and strategy; correspondence; questionnaires and answers; voter abstracts; financial records; speeches; and campaign literature from Coyle, his opponents, and other DFL candidates. The papers related to Coyle's activities on the council consist of memoranda, correspondence, notes, resolutions, financial statements, crime reports and statistics, speeches, photographs, newspaper clippings, calendars, newsletters, and flyers.

Gay Organizations and Issues, undated and 1986-1991, contains correspondence, memoranda, notes, resolutions, brochures, a briefing book, photographs, programs, flyers, newsletters, and newspaper clippings that reflect Coyle's life as a gay rights activist and openly gay public official.

AIDS, 1986-1991, includes correspondence, notes, resolutions, ordinances, bills, executive orders, agendas, programs, statistics, reports, obituaries, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, newsletters, brochures, pamphlets, and comic books relating to the fight against the disease and to AIDS related discrimination.

Newspaper Clippings, 1981-1991, relate primarily to the Minneapolis City Council, gay rights, and AIDS.

Personal Papers, 1981-1991, includes correspondence, notes, memoranda, journals, obituaries, newspaper and magazine clippings, and photographs, largely documenting Coyle's own battle against AIDS.

Audio-Visual Materials, include photographs of Coyle's family, friends, and colleagues; two slide shows with accompanying text, one based on Coyle's trip to North Vietnam (1974) and used in presentations he gave after his return, the other a tour of Minneapolis' sixth ward (1987); seven audio tapes (1974, 1977-1978, 1982, 1990) comprising interviews, speeches, and a campaign advertisement; and nine video recordings (1984-1991) related to Coyle's tenure on the Minneapolis city council and the public disclosure of his HIV-positive status, including the series "Private Man, Private Struggle" that aired on KSTP-TV (April 1991), and the KTCA program "Artists and AIDS" (April 24, 1991).

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These records are divided into the following sections:

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Availability:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Brian J. Coyle Papers. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

Accession Information:

Accession number: 14,660; 17,395

Location of Master Files:

Digital masters of the audiovisual material are maintained on the Society's secure digital collections storage servers and are managed and preserved in accordance with archival best practices.

The original audiocassettes, audio reel and videocassettes were disposed after the material was digitally reformatted into MOV and WAV files.

Processing Information:

Processed by: Frank P. Hennessy, September, 1992. Additions by David B. Peterson, June 2021.

Digital audiovisual transferred from the master audiocassettes, audio reel and videocassettes by the Minnesota Historical Society for preservation purposes, (July, 2019).

Box 19 was disposed after all audiovisual material was digitally reformatted (July, 2019).

Catalog ID: 990017287360104294

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The writings are composed of papers, articles, and correspondence covering a variety of political and social issues. They include correspondence between Coyle and Vicky Smith, a woman with Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) who was romantically involved with Coyle (1967-1968); an issue of an underground newspaper he published entitled Notes From the Underground (1968); articles from the underground newspaper Hundred Flowers in which he came out as gay (June 25 and July 22, 1971); miscellaneous writings on the war in Vietnam (1965, 1970, 1975); a pamphlet (1975) Coyle published, in which he attacked the politics of Hubert Humphrey, entitled Hubert Humphrey in '76?; notes for a paper examining the collapse of the New Left, entitled "What Ever Happened to the Movement" (1976); and background material, drafts, and manuscript of a paper entitled "Working Papers for North Country Activists: Public Interest Politics and the Need for Democratic Grass Roots Independent Organization" (1977-1978).

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As NAM's national office coordinator Coyle kept a large file of material documenting the organization's history from its inception in 1971. NAM was started by a group of West Coast radicals as an attempt to provide discipline and organization to the New Left after the decline of SDS in the late 1960s. The collection documents the NAM Planning Conference held in Chicago (October 1971); a "program conference" held in Davenport, Iowa (November 25-29, 1971); the founding convention (June 1972) that adopted a constitution and conducted several workshops; succeeding annual conventions (1973-1974); meetings of the elected national leadership, the National Interim Committee (NIC); local chapter activity; NAM task forces on racism, economics, the workplace, and welfare; and projects such as a national conference on women and socialism (Fall 1972), a nationally coordinated effort against discrimination at AT&T (1972), an internal education program (1972-1973), and the National Campaign to Impeach Nixon (1973-1974).

Papers (1973-1974) from a variety of left-wing political organizations are also included as are a number of articles that debate the idea of a new political party called the Mass Party of the People. The idea of a new party and the possibility of unifying the Left resulted in joint meetings between NAM, the People's Party, the Socialist Party, USA, and the National Interim Committee for a Mass Party of the People. One of the outcomes of these meetings was the idea of a possible merger between NAM and the People's Party.

The last section of the NAM papers is composed of correspondence, agendas, position papers, flyers, and newsletters that reflect the political thought, organization, and activities of the Minneapolis NAM chapter (1972-1974). Among the chapter activities represented are the people's history project which included the Alive and Trucking Theater's production of the play, The People are a River (1972-1973); the Metropolitan Task Force, which fought for community control of development and conducted a successful campaign to block the construction of a downtown dome (1973); the Praxis school, a socialist education project; and the North Country Peace Campaign (NCPC), which served as a clearinghouse for anti-war information and facilitated local organizing efforts and actions against the war.

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Contains correspondence, agendas, minutes, notes, ordinances, brochures, flyers, newspapers clippings, pamphlets, and booklets, reflecting Coyle's activities as a tenants' rights advocate, including his work as an organizer, paralegal, and negotiator for the East-West Bank Tenants Union during its rent strike (1977-1978) (related audio recording is located in this finding aid) ; his participation on the Cedar Riverside Project Area Committee (1981); and his work as a staff member of the Minnesota Tenants Union (1979). The bulk of the papers (1979-1981) relate to Coyle's work with a group he helped found called the Coalition for Affordable Housing (CAH) and primarily document its efforts at passing a comprehensive rent and condominium control ordinance. There is also a large amount of background material related to an earlier attempt to pass a Minneapolis rent control ordinance (1974-1975); various studies of the impact of rent control on available housing (1976, 1978, 1980); mandatory national rent control and a National Conference on Rent Control (November 10-12, 1979); rent control in other cities; and miscellaneous rent control literature.

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This section documents a variety of activities that Coyle was involved with after leaving NAM and before his election to the city council. Topics include the North Country Chautauqua, a series of talks and presentations Coyle originated with Marv Davidov and Karl Voss; his work with the Farmer-Labor Association (FLA) and support of the presidential candidacy of Fred Harris (1976); his participation and arrest in an anti-power line protest in West-Central Minnesota (1978); Coyle's unsuccessful campaigns as an independent candidate for U.S. Senate (1978) (related audio recording located in this finding aid) and for Minneapolis mayor (1979); his work as an organizer for Minnesotans Against the Downtown Dome (MADD), a statewide coalition opposed to legislation that would enable the construction of a domed stadium (1979-1981); his role as an organizer and communications officer for the Citizens Lobby, a coalition formed to fight budget cuts in the early 1980s (1980-1982); and his plans for a grass roots community development consulting firm called "Hired Gums" and a monthly regional magazine entitled Northern Lights (1980). The last group of papers in this section relates to a project involving the FLA and Hartland Data Coop aimed at increasing the membership of the FLA and mobilizing progressives from the state to support FLA and other progressive candidates through the compilation of a computer database (1981).

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Includes correspondence, memoranda, notes, agendas, newsletters, bylaws, tax forms, budgets, membership lists, flyers, photographs, newspaper clippings, and brochures documenting the goals, administration, and programs of a monthly speakers' forum. Coyle organized PRT in order to bring progressives together on a regular basis to hear new ideas, discuss strategies for political action, and develop informal networks. The Roundtable featured both national and local figures including Tom Hayden, Tony Bouza, Hazel Henderson, Robert White, Ronald Dellums, Daniel Ellsberg (audio recordings are located in this finding aid), Morris Udall, and others.

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This section, the largest in the collection, documents Coyle's election campaigns and his three terms on the Minneapolis city council sixth ward alderman.

The papers related to Coyle's four aldermanic campaigns (1981, 1983, 1985, 1989) include volunteer and contributor lists, schedules, and ward maps used in the "Get Out The Vote" effort, which consisted of door knocking, telephoning, literature drops, and voter registration; calendars; notes and outlines on campaign organization, issues, and strategy; correspondence; questionnaires and answers; voter abstracts; financial records; speeches; and campaign literature from Coyle, his opponents, and other DFL candidates.

Coyle ran against incumbent Jackie Slater during his first city council campaign and lost by a narrow margin (1981). The following year he worked on Caucus '82, an effort sponsored by the Minnesota Committee for Gay and Lesbian Rights to mobilize gay and lesbian attendance at precinct caucuses. In early 1983 a city-wide coalition was formed called the Neighborhood Priorities Coalition. The coalition was based on a housing, jobs, and community-based development platform and worked to elect city council candidates. With the support of the Coalition, and the gay and lesbian support he secured during Caucus '82, Coyle won his second race for city council (1983). His next two campaigns (1985 and 1989) successfully stressed themes of job creation, community controlled development, affordable housing, crime prevention, and civil and human rights.

The papers related to Coyle's activities on the council are composed of memoranda, correspondence, notes, resolutions, financial statements, crime reports and statistics, speeches, photographs, newspaper clippings, calendars, newsletters, and flyers.

Coyle served as chair of the city council's transportation and public works committees and as a member of five other standing committees. He was also chosen as city council vice president (1990). The most prominent issues and organizations represented in the papers include the Urban Revitalization Action Program (URAP) (1986-1988); various neighborhood organizations such as the Whittier Alliance, the Phillips Neighborhood Improvement Association (PNIA), and Elliot Park Neighborhood, Inc.; the proposed development of light rail transit (1987-1989); Project for Pride In Living (PPL); the Safety For Everyone Program (SAFE); the homeless and single-room occupancy housing projects; refurbishing the Nicollet Mall (1986-1988); the city's lawsuit with HUD concerning the disposition of Cedar Square West (1987-1988); "Year of the City", a state funding program for the cities of Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Duluth (1988-1989); Mayor Donald Fraser's proposals to amend the city charter (1988); the Neiman-Marcus/BCE Development project (1988); the convention center hotel project (1989); a resolution barring the city from retaining the services of the O'Connor & Hannan law firm due to its representation of the ARENA party in El Salvador (1989); recycling and solid waste disposal, including an ordinance to ban plastic food packaging (1988-1991); the Neighborhood Revitalization Program (1990-1991); the management and proliferation of group homes (1984-1989) and Coyle's proposed moratorium on additional community-based residential facilities (1988-1989); the redevelopment of Franklin Avenue and the American Indian Business Development Corporation (AIBDC) (1978-1988); the passage of a domestic partners ordinance (1983-1991) (video recording of hearing located in box 19); Coyle's support of an ordinance opposed by a large segment of the Gay community that regulated the city's bathhouse and adult bookstores in order to prevent the spread of AIDS (1987-1988); opposition to the Hennepin County garbage incinerator (1987-1988); and the proposed expansion of I-35W (1987-1991).

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The scrapbooks contain photographs, campaign literature, correspondence and newspaper clippings documenting Coyle's U.S. Senate Campaign (1978), aldermanic campaigns (1981, 1983, 1989), and first two terms on the Minneapolis City Council.

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Contains correspondence, memoranda, notes, resolutions, brochures, a briefing book, photographs, programs, flyers, newsletters, and newspaper clippings that reflect Coyle's life as a gay rights activist and openly gay public official. Topics include his breakfast meetings with gay and lesbian activists (1986-1987); the repeal of the state sodomy statute (1987); the Gay and Lesbian Community Action Council (GLCAC); gay athletes and San Francisco’s bid to host the 1996 Olympic games (1988); the Twin Cities Men's Chorus; the annual Gay/Lesbian Festival of Pride; the Northstar Project, a survey conducted by GLCAC to assess the needs of the Twin Cities gay and lesbian community (1990); and international gay/lesbian rights (1990-1991).

Coyle's efforts to make the public aware of a series of 12 to 15 gay murders, to foster cooperation between the police and the gay community, and to encourage Twin Cities homosexuals to launch an anti-violence campaign through the formation of Community United Against Violence (CUAV) are all documented (1984-1990), as is his involvement in the National Conference of Gay/Lesbian Elected and Appointed Officials (1985), including its annual meetings (1985-1990) and a lobbying campaign in Washington D.C. (March 6-7, 1986) attended by ten openly gay elected officials, including Coyle. Other organizations and issues represented include the Human Rights Campaign fund (HRCF), a national gay political action committee; the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force's third annual Creating Change Conference, which was held in Minneapolis (November 9-12, 1990); the National March On Washington (1987), which Coyle helped organize; and Coyle's work calling for a third national march on Washington to be held in 1992 (1990-1991).

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Includes correspondence, notes, resolutions, ordinances, bills, executive orders, agendas, programs, statistics, reports, obituaries, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, newsletters, brochures, pamphlets, and comic books.

Organizations and issues represented include prevention measures and AIDS-related discrimination; state and city funding; educational programs and materials; the Minnesota AIDS Project and its AIDS housing program (1986-1991); the death of farm and gay activist Dick Hanson (July-August, 1987); the International Lesbian & Gay Health Conference & AIDS Forum (July 20-26, 1988; July 18-22, 1990; July 24-28, 1991); Minneapolis Health Department; Hennepin County AIDS Task Force; testimony of Coyle, Mayor Don Fraser, and others before the task force of the National Commission on AIDS (Jan 4, 1990); an AIDS prevention program for gay Latino men designed by the Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC) (February 1990); American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and AIDS (1987; June 30, 1988; July-November 1990); the AIDS Action Council; the Minnesota AIDS Funding Consortium (March-April 1989, June 1, 1990; August 1, 1990); The Aliveness Project; and the NAMES Project AIDS memorial quilt, which was displayed in Minneapolis (July 16-17, 1988).

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The clippings are almost exclusively from local newspapers and deal primarily with topics related to Coyle's tenure on the city council, gay rights, and AIDS. The two bibliographies were generated through computer searches and consist of a printout comprising of citations to all occurrences of Coyle's name in the Star and Tribune: Newspaper of the Twin Cities between January 1986 and February 1989 and a packet of full text printouts from the Star and Tribune: Newspaper of the Twin Cities and The St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch of articles related to issues Coyle was involved with (1988-1990).

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Includes correspondences, notes, memoranda, journals, obituaries, newspaper and magazine clippings, and photographs.

Most of the personal papers are related to Coyle's battle with AIDS (1986-1991), including his daily journal (October 8, 1989-August 22, 1991) which he stated was "for self guidance, dream recording, and expanded creativity." After disclosing his HIV status (April 1991), Coyle released excerpts from the journals (October 1989-July 1990) to Equal Time, which printed them under the title "Coming to Terms: The Coyle Journals" (May 1991). He also released excerpts to the Star and Tribune covering the week during which he publicly revealed his illness (April 21-28, 1991). The original journals and copies of both newspaper articles are included.

Coyle publicly disclosed his HIV-positive status through a personal letter to friends and colleagues (April 22, 1991), an article in Minnesota Monthly (May 1991), and a series of reports on KSTP-TV 10 PM news (April 23, 1991). He was also interviewed on KTCA television's documentary, "Artists and AIDS: Light from a Dark Room" (April 24, 1991) (video recordings located in box 19). A copy of the letter and the article are included, as well as related correspondence, notes, and newspaper clippings.

Hundreds of supportive cards and letters received following the disclosure (April 22-August 1991) are included, together with cards received for his 47th birthday (June 22, 1991) and get-well cards he received after being hospitalized at the beginning of July. There are also a few negative letters and a folder of articles and letters regarding possible alternative medical treatments.

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Location

Internet

West bank tenants union rent strike, [1977-1978]. 1 master audio file (57 minutes, 28 seconds): WAV (290 MB).

Produced by KUOM. With Bill Teska, Bruce Rubenstein, Ann Norton, Brian Coyle, Jack Cann, and others.

Interview with Brian Coyle and St. Paul City Council member Bill Wilson, August 23, 1990. 1 master audio file (58 minutes, 45 seconds): WAV (296 MB).

Minnesota Public Radio.

Interview with North Vietnamese official, 1974. 1 master audio file (2 hours, 33 minutes): WAV (776 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (100 MB).

Note on container: 1st panel - NAM Nat Strategy Hung Tung interview, HT interview working with Kennedy, followed by Xuân Dauh's Aug 19.

Interview with North Vietnamese official

Recording of street noise and a North Korean radio show

Brief discussion about New America Movement

Digital audio

Daniel Ellsberg, November 13, 1982. 1 master audio file (1 hour, 14 minutes): WAV (382 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (49.3 MB).

Digital audio

Brian Coyle for U.S. Senate campaign radio advertisement, 1978. 1 master audio file (58 seconds): WAV (4.9 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (737 MB).

Digital audio

Location

Internet

Video recordings, 1984-1986, 1988-1991.

Coyle's swearing-in and miscellaneous city council issues, 1984-1985. 1 master video file (30 minutes, 42 seconds): MOV (7 GB) and 1 user video file: MP4 (290 MB).

Note on container: Coyle's swearing - in, etc '84/'85, + towing, [Twins] tickets, ramps, porn, [Cedar] CSW, sidewalks, homeless, [Twins] tailgating, murders [gay men], AIDS, prostitution, NBA [getting a team], murders.

Digital video

Out of the neighborhood skillet, into the political fires, 1986. 1 master video file (1 hour, 28 minutes): MOV (39.1 GB).

Minneapolis Television Network (MTN). With Jim Scheibel, Brian Coyle, Kiki Sonnen, Florence Bittner, Roosevelt Bell, Tony Capizzion Panel and Neal Pierce, moderator.

Coyle on homeless, gay murders, and other issues, 1986. 1 master video file (2 hours, 2 minutes): MOV (54.4 GB).

Note on container: Minnesota Issues w/ Arthur Naftalin (HHH Institute) on homeless problem (panel is Mark Andrew, Linda Berglin, and Brian Coyle). City Council Meeting on AFDC; sanitation fees; news reports on gay murders; problem rental property; Talk to Your City interview of Coyle, interview with Fraser and Coyle.

Coyle On housing, drugs, domestic partners, and Earth Day, 1988, 1990. 1 master video file (3 hours, 36 minutes): MOV (95.8 GB).

Whittier village fair, August 20, 1989. 1 master video file (40 minutes, 8 seconds): MOV (26.3 GB).

Minneapolis Television Network (MTN). Comments by Coyle, Sharon Sayles Belton, Karen Clark, and neighborhood residents.

Domestic partners hearing, July 30, 1990. 1 master video file (3 hours, 47 minutes): MOV (100.8 GB).

Conversations with Brian Coyle at Elliot Park's 12th annual All Peoples Gathering, August 11, 1990. 1 master video file (58 minutes, 51 seconds): MOV (26.1 GB).

Minneapolis Television Network (MTN).

Public man, private struggle; Almanac (KTCA-TV) interview; excerpt from Artists and AIDS; and story on Coyle from Gaze TV, April 1991. 1 master video file (2 hours, 53 minutes): MOV (77.1 GB).

Artists and AIDS: Light from a dark room, April 24, 1991. 1 master video file (2 hours): MOV (53.2 GB).

Documentary includes: Perry Tilleraas, the Radical Faeries, Patrick Scully, Aeren Thomas, Susan Boecher and Jack Weatherford. Panel discussion on HIV/AIDS includes: Julie Hladky of the Red Cross, Minneapolis council member Brian J. Coyle, State Epidemiologist Dr. Michael Osterholm, Performing Artist Patrick Scully, Minneapolis Urban League director Grace Arrington, Internal Medicine Dr. Scott Strickland, writer Perry Tilleraas, and Director of Education for the Minnesota AIDS Project Tom Flynn.

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This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics:

AIDS (Disease).

City council members -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.

Coming out (Sexual orientation).

Gays.

Group homes -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.

Homosexuality -- Laws and legislation.

Housing policy -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.

New Left -- United States.

Rent control -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.

Rent strikes -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.

Socialism -- United States.

Street-railroads -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.

Transportation -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.

Unmarried couples -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis -- Legal status, laws, etc.

Urban policy -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.

Urban renewal -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements.

Persons:

Boyte, Harry Chatten, 1945-.

Davidov, Marv.

Fraser, Donald M. (Donald MacKay), 1924-2019.

Hanson, Dick, 1950-1987.

Hayden, Tom.

Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978.

Kinoy, Arthur.

Lerner, Michael, 1943-.

Lynd,Staughton.

Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913- -- Impeachment.

Organizations:

Human Rights Campaign Fund (Washington, D.C.).

Minnesota Aids Project.

Minnesota Committee For Gay and Lesbian Rights.

Minnesota Tenants Union.

New American Movement (Organization). Minneapolis Chapter.

New American Movement (Organization).

Minneapolis (Minn.). City Council.

Alive and Trucking Theater (Minneapolis, Minn.).

American Indian Business Development Corporation (Minneapolis, Minn.).

Coalition for Affordable Housing (Minneapolis, Minn.).

East-West Bank Tenants Union (Minneapolis, Minn.).

Farmer-Labor Association (Minn.).

Gay and Lesbian Association (Minn.).

Heartland Data Coop (Minneapolis, Minn.).

Indochina Peace Campaign (Organization : U.S.).

Neighborhood Transportation Network (Minneapolis, Minn.).

North Country Chautauqua (Minneapolis, Minn.).

Progressive Roundtable (Minneapolis, Minn.).

Twin Cities Men's Chorus (Minneapolis, Minn.).

Citizens Lobby (Saint Paul, Minn.).

About Face Conference (1990: University of Minnesota).

Creating Change Conference (23rd 1990: Minneapolis, Minn.).

National Conference of Gay/Lesbian Elected and Appointed Official.

Document Types:

Audio recordings

Diaries

Photographs

Slides

Video recordings (physical artifacts)

Title:

Hundred flowers.

Places:

Cedar-Riverside Area (Minneapolis, Minn.).

Central Business District (Minneapolis, Minn.).

Nicaragua -- Description and travel -- 1981-.

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