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The copyright and related rights status of this collection have not been evaluated (See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/).

Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions.

Preferred Citation

Bonnie Atwood papers, C0415, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.

Acquisition Information

Donated by Bonnie Atwood in December 2019.

Additional materials donated by Bonnie Atwood in March 2024.

Processing Information

Processing and finding aid completed by Evan Dorman in November 2023. Finding aid published by Amanda Menjivar in November 2023.

Additional processing completed and finding aid updated by Meghan Glasbrenner in July 2024.

Biographical Information

Born in Northern Virginia in 1947, Bonnie Atwood was a student at George Mason College (GMC) in the late 1960s and early 1970s. During that time she was a member of the anti-Vietnam War organization Northern Virginia Resistance, alongside fellow students and GMC professor James Shea. She and David Lusby, another member of NVR, were arrested in 1969 for trespassing after protesting inside Draft Board #39 in Fairfax, Virginia. The American Civil Liberties Union defended them in the case Lusby v. Commonwealth of Virginia. Atwood provided articles to the GMC student newspaper Broadside while enrolled at GMC, and wrote professionally for the Manassas Journal-Messenger afterwards.

Scope and Content

The Bonnie Atwood papers contains material collected by former George Mason College student Bonnie Atwood from the late 1960s to the mid 1990s, with much of it focused on her antiwar activism and the broader protest movements of the 1960s-1970s. It also includes news reports from student, professional, and underground publications, legal documents, and promotional materials produced by Northern Virginia Resistance.

Arrangement

This collection is divided into folders by subject or medium.

Related Material

The Special Collections Research Center holds other collections pertaining to the protest movement against the Vietnam War, including the Francis J. McNamara papers, the Edwin M. Lynch Vietnam War protest collection, and the Eugene McCarthy presidential campaign speech files collection.

The District of Columbia Public Library holds a collection of digitized issues of the Quicksilver Times, a D.C.-area underground newspaper of the Vietnam War era.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• George Mason College
• George Mason University
• Newspapers
• Northern Virginia
• Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States
• Virginia, Northern
• Women political activists