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Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-254
Abstract
Jerome Balter (1921-2016), and Ruth Balter (born 1922), have been peace and social justice activists for many years. They were both active in efforts to desegregate housing and public schools in Rochester, New York from the late 1950s onward. Jerome Balter campaigned several time for local and state political offices as a way to achieve these goals. Both Balters were also active in efforts to oppose the Vietnam War. Ruth Balter was connected with Women Strike for Peace in Rochester. They...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1959-1974
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Baptist Peace Fellowship
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, brochures, program literature, and newsletters.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1940-
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Barton, Harold
Abstract
In the early 1940s National Mental Health Foundation originated in 1944-1945 when Harold Barton and three associates, serving at Byberry State Hospital in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), announced plans for a national campaign to improve the conditions in mental hospitals. The exposure of these conditions through the efforts of men serving in CPS, and their efforts to be a nonviolent presence in mental institutions, began a new movement in mental health care in the U.S. The National Mental...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1944-1949
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Beer, John
Scope and Contents
Collection includes correspondence and notes about Beer's work for peace and social justice including: a typescript account of conscientious objector David Emerson's hearing in 1954 in Danville, Illinois; peace involvements in Delaware, 1960s-1980s, including opposition to the Vietnam War and to nuclear weapons; accounts of Western Quarterly Friends (Quakers) visits to the Pentagon to protest the arms race, 1979-1981, including correspondence with Brig. General Richard T. Boverie; opposition...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1954-1985
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Berger, Victor
Scope and Contents
Speeches by Berger were printed in the Congressional Record and are included in this collection.
Dates:
1919-1926
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Berrigan, Daniel and Philip
Abstract
Collection consists of printed correspondence, leaflets, pamphlets, news clippings, other writings by and about Daniel Berrigan and Philip Berrigan.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1964-
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-277
Abstract
Betty Medsger is an author, teacher, and investigative reporter. She worked for the Washington Post in 1971, and broke the story of the break-in of the FBI field office in Media, Pennsylvania. In 2014 Medsger published a book, The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI, detailing the history of the FBI break-in. With the publication of the book, most of the burglars still alive came forward. One of them was William...
Dates:
Event: Majority of material found within 1971-2014
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Betz-Zall
Abstract
This small collection reflects Betz-Zall’s activism and interests, rooted in the Seattle (Washington) area.
Dates:
1959 - 1972
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-076
Abstract
Albert S. Bigelow (1906-1993) was an artist, architect, former Navy commander, and Quaker. He served as captain of Golden Rule, a thirty foot ketch which he and colleagues attempted to sail into the Eniwetok Proving Grounds, the U.S. nuclear test site in the Marshall Islands of the Pacific in February 1958. The action was sponsored by the Committee for Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons.
Dates:
1956-1961
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Binford, Raymond and Helen
Abstract
Raymond Binford served as President of Guilford College, High Point, North Carolina, for 16 years before taking a leave of absence to become the director of Civilian Public Service Camp #19 (Buck Creek Camp, Marion, North Carolina) during World War II.
Dates:
1941-1946