Alternative/Underground Press Publications

The Browne Popular Culture Library's Alternative and Underground Press Collection contains more than 250 radical, anti-establishment, and counterculture periodicals (nearly 2,000 individual issues), dating from 1950 to 1989; individual titles include Alternatives Journal, Berkeley Barb, The Black Panther, Gay, Los Angeles Free Press, The Militant, and New Left Notes. These primary research materials are excellent resources for examining the social and cultural history of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. A finding aid is available from the Browne Popular Culture Library which provides detailed information about holdings and a subject and title index.

The Browne Popular Culture Library and Jerome Library contain additional materials documenting the underground press movement (including 147 reels of Underground Newspaper Microfilm Collection, which are part of the Jerome Library Microforms Collection). Please contact the Browne Popular Culture Library for additional information.