Walkabout Peace and Justice Records
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, financial records, manuscripts, memorabilia, newspaper clippings, periodicals, reference files, photographs, posters, audiocassettes, computer diskettes (3.5"). Correspondents include: Barbara Hirshkowitz.
Dates
- Creation: 1981-1992
Creator
- Walkabout Peace and Justice (Organization) (Organization)
- Hirshkowitz, Barbara (Correspondent, Person)
Language of Materials
Materials are in English.
Limitations on Accessing the Collection
None.
Copyright and Rights Information
None.
Historical
Walkabout Peace and Justice was first organized in 1985 in Davis, California, as an experimental project to provide a source of information for the peace-walking community. The group sponsored walks in support of issues related to peace and social justice; acted as a clearinghouse to provide information about other peace walks, mainly through its journal, Walkabout Peace and Justice. It's most siginficant organizer was Barbara Hirshkowitz, who later became a participant in New Society Publishers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Extent
3.3 Linear Feet (3.3 linear ft.)
Overview
Walkabout Peace and Justice was first organized in 1985 in Davis, California, as an experimental project to provide a source of information for the peace-walking community. The group sponsored walks in support of issues related to peace and social justice; acted as a clearinghouse to provide information about other peace walks, mainly through its journal, Walkabout Peace and Justice. It's most siginficant organizer was Barbara Hirshkowitz, who later became a participant in New Society Publishers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Arrangement
This collection is unprocessed and in the same order in which the donors gave it to the Peace Collection. Individual accessions are listed in chronological order. Accessions not listed below are too small for a folder list.
Acc. 92A-020
Acc. 95A-082
Acc. 99A-039
Acc. 02A-034
Acc. 07A-035
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Barbara Hirskowitz,, 1992-1992, 2002, [Acc. 92A-020, Acc.92A-061, Acc.95A-082, Acc.97A-024, Acc.99A-039, Acc.02A-034] T.L. Hill, 2007 [Acc.07A-035].
Separated Materials
Memorabilia
- Origami Peace Crane on a tax return form
- Walkabout Poster of a globe and roots
- 11 large prints of Nagasaki and Hiroshima on and around 6 August
- 1 large print of the New England Peace Pagoda
- Japanese Banner (says “NA MU MYO HO REN GE KYO” in Japanese letters)
- Purple Saddle Bag with Thai writing
- Button of a Peace Pagoda and the writing “Non-violence world peace” and “NA MU MYO HO REN GE KYO”
Photographs
Legal Status
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Processing Information
Processed by SCPC staff, 2007 to 2008.
Subject
- Walkabout Peace and Justice (Organization) (Organization)
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- 2018: The file list was standardized in Summer 2017 by Min Cheng in preparation for importing into ArchivesSpace. Elisabeth Miller added the notes in Fall 2017.
Find It at the Library
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