Brazil’s Popular Groups Collection

Brazil’s Popular Groups is a collection of materials issued by socio-political, religious, labor and minority grass roots organizations in Brazil. Compiled by the Library of Congress. Available in microfilm format only.

Brown owns the following microfilm sets from this collection:

The collection makes accessible to researchers a body of primary materials, mostly non-commercially produced and difficult to acquire and obtain, which is basic to the study of grass-roots political and social movements in Brazil.

It was initially conceived as a means of documenting popular movements which grew during the period of Brazilian military rule (1964 – 1984) and after the inauguration of Brazil’s New Republic in 1985.

The documentation includes newsletters, reports, posters, collections of clippings, brochures, resolutions of congresses, educational manuals, independent news services, catalogs of publications and handouts. Geographically, all states of Brazil are represented in the collection.

The collection is arranged by subject, with fourteen broad topical groups:

  • Agrarian Reform and Land Issues
  • Children and Youth
  • Education and Communication
  • Environment and Ecology
  • Ethnic Groups: Blacks
  • Ethnic Groups: Indians
  • Ethnic Groups: Others
  • Homosexual and Bisexual
  • Human and Civil Rights
  • Labor and Laboring Classes
  • Political Parties and Issues
  • Religious Organizations, Ecumenical Groups and Movements
  • Urban Activism
  • Women and Feminists

Within each subject group, pamphlets are followed by serials arranged alphabetically by title. Three indexes, by author, title and publisher, are provided for pamphlets, serials and posters.