David Koven

Born in Brownsville, Brooklyn, USA 1918; railroad worker, sailor and electrician; painter and photographer; in his youth a member of the Young Communist League; broke with communism and became a pacifist in 1936; turned to anarchism during the Spanish Civil War, when he got involved with the anarchist Vanguard Group; with Audrey Goodfriend one of the founders of Why? (1942-1947), continued as Resistance (1947-1954); moved to San Francisco in the late 1940s, where he became active in Kenneth Rexroth's anarchist group; editor of The Needle in 1956; in 1958 with Audrey Goodfriend and three other families cofounder of the libertarian Walden School in Berkeley which still exists; one of the founders of and contributors to Pacific Radio Station and one of the most active members of the Vietnam Day Committee. Content

Correspondence with anarchists and artists 1940-1960, 1977-1997, including Diva Agostinelli, Paul Avrich, Bob D'Attilio, Howard Ehrlich, Bob Parr, Vernon Richards, Philip Sansom, Nicolas Walter, Colin Ward and David Wieck; subscription list and cash book of The Needle, with an announcement and some other documents. Processing information

List made by Cees Smit en Amanda Elsinghorst in 1999

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