Red Emma Kicked out of the University

As of January 2015, a valuable anarchist history resource, The Emma Goldman Papers archive, is being defunded by University of California, Berkeley, and will have to close if alternative funding can’t be found soon. The 34-year-old archive is currently the most comprehensive, organized collection of Goldman-related materials in the world.

The EGP project has published selected documents in several books; it has been planning to digitize the approximately 40,000 items it holds, to make them available to interested researchers worldwide. However, in October, the university administration informed the project’s editor and director, Candace Falk, that it would no longer support the project. Other sources of funding, outside the University have also been dwindling because of economic hard times.

If you would like to help, contact: Candace Falk, The Emma Goldman Papers, University of California, Berkeley, 2241 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94720-6030; cfalk@berkeley.edu.