Boston University cultural life, 1959 - 1963

Material in this subseries dates from the early 1960s through the mid-1980s, and includes Webb’s personal and professional involvement in community and political organizing while at Boston University and during his years in Chicago, D.C., Vermont, and New York. Included are papers of antiwar and protest movements, protest publications and newspapers, records from Webb’s work with Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and material and publications from his professional and policy work in Vermont, including at Goddard College, and working with Senator George McGovern. In the 1970s, Webb founded several policy-oriented groups: Conference on Alternative State and Local Policies (to share alternative policy ideas), Euclid Group (to support candidates for state and local office), and National Center on Policy Alternatives (to develop innovative policy ideas); these records are included below.