Thursday, February 15, 1979
University Daily Kansan
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Library collects extremist papers
Staff Renorter
By DOUG HITCHCOCK
Aspiring radicals in search of fire power can find recipes for bombs and instructions for subatage in "The Anarchist's Cookbook," just one part of the Wilcox Collection of Extremist Literature at the KU Kenneth Spencer Research Library.
Larry Wilcox, original owner of the Library collection, said, "There's something to learn from that."
Wilcox began accumulating left-wing and right-wing political literature in 1980. In 1985 the University bought his collection for $23 million, and he spent the present selling price is more than $150,000.
About five or six times a year. Wilcox comes to Lawrence from his Kansas City, Mo., to deliver new materials for the collection.
About one-half of the newspapers and one-fourth of the books in the collection are not catalogued. This is because of a lack of equipment for the incoming materials, library information aid.
NEVERTHELESS, boxes of pamphlets, booklets, racks of books and cassette recordings of speeches by right-wing leaders are available for study in the library.
Wilcox said, "Up until 1972, I collected
equally from right-wing, and left-wing
right-wing then, I've concentrated on
right-wing making
While Wilcox was a KU student from 1963 to 1965, he was involved with the leftist movement. He was a member of the Student Peace Union and founder of KU's Student Peace Union and editor of an underground newspaper called the Kansas Free Press, which he printed in his
However, he became disillusioned with the new left by 1968, he said.
Wilcox said that there also were many other left-wing collections with materials
However, "There are only a few rightful collections and mine is one of the few."
"RIGHT-WING LITERATURE is much more interesting and informative. One might say that the right is where the action is, nowadays."
Right-wing literature about groups like the John Birch Society and Ku Klux Klan and publications as reactionary as the Christian Advocate are part of the collec-
After he graduated from KU in 1985, Wixx went through a period of illness. Wixx went through a period of illness. The leftist
movement. He also worked on the Wilcox collection, accumulating most of the material on the radical student movement during that time.
Today, Wilcox said, "Leftium is rapidly becoming the establishment view in the United States and the literature reflects this. A lot of cultural, entertainment and media news read like the underground press I find it baring and stereotyped."
Included in the collection of leftist literature are "Steal This Book," by Abbie Hoffman, copies of the Berkeley (Calif.) Barb, a campus underground newspaper started in the 80s, and "Soul on Ice" by Eldridge Cleaver.
Although Wilcox has many contacts in both the left and right-wing movements, a
lot of the material he receives comes from strangers.
AN ELDERLY Communist Party member in Kansas City once gave him her entire collection of literature about the party.
A conservative Catholic woman from Minnesota donated materials about the Rhode Island case.
A few years ago, the owner of a right-wing bookstore that was going out of business Wixen one copy of everything he wanted to buy in books and pamphlets filled his car, he said.
To keep track of extremist literature, Wilcox published two books, Guide to the American Left and Guide to the American Right. Both are comprehensive listings of most of the publications in the Wilcox collection.
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