Collection of Northern California Young Socialists for Jenness and Pulley Ephemera

San Francisco: 1972. A collection of seven ephemeral items, including three typed, mimeographed circular letters, (each 2pp), two flyers, and four sample ballots (each 1pp). A collection of promotional material for the "Choice '72 Presidential Preference Poll," sent by the student activist group "Northern California Young Socialists For Jenness & Pulley" in February, 1972 to local chapters of the group on high school and college campuses in Northern California. The poll was part of a broader strategy to garner student support for the Socialist Worker's Party Candidate in the 1972 Presidential Election. The included four variant editions of a sample ballot each prints a series of "referenda" questions such as "what should be the policy of the United States concerning the War in Southeast Asia?" or "Do you favor passage of Calif. Proposition 9, The Clean Environment Act?" while also asking for the recipient's first choice of presidential candidate. The included flyers and circular letters, meanwhile, guided the on-campus chapters on the broader strategy surrounding the polls, which was to run the polls to the whole student body, thereby stimulating on-campus debate: "The YSJP should use Choice '72 as a focus for publicizing the Jenness and Pulley Campaign on their campus...YSJPers should convince representatives of various campaigns on each campus to endorse and help pressure the student government to put the Choice' 72 ballot on the Spring student government elections ballot...In order to get agreement with the representatives of the Capitalist campaigns certain changes in the ballot were made...the question on Angela Davis was rephrased...We can also encourage BSU's, MECHA's and other student groups representing oppressed nationalities to pressure the student government to add these questions." Overall in very good condition with mild creasing. Item #8691

Price: $150.00