This week's Hagley Vault post is sourced from our collection of National Association of Manufacturers photographs and audiovisual materials (Accession 1973.418) and documents a November 1962 protest against the trade association.
In the years after World War II, NAM encouraged its membership to participate in the growing military-industrial complex through initiatives like the National Defense Committee. By the 1960s, as public opposition to the Vietnam War and Cold War interventionism grew, anti-war protesters like the ones shown in this photograph criticized this position, and encouraged boycotts of major manufacturers with substantial public contracts with the Department of Defense, like General Electric, DuPont, Kodak, Eveready, Pyrex, and others.
Hagley's digital collection containing this photograph and others from the protest draws from Hagley's National Association of Manufacturers records (Accession 1411) collection and the National Association of Manufacturers photographs and audiovisual materials (Accession 1973.418) collection.
These collections, as well as other related materials in our holdings provide comprehensive documentation of the organization's programs and activities from its founding in 1895 to the present. They have not been digitized in their entirety; this particular digital collection contains a selection of items primarily dating to the 1960s and 1970s. Click here to view it online now.
To learn more about these collections, visit the NAM Project News site.