Mary Bye Papers
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the papers relating to Mary Bye's political activity. It includes correspondence, notes, clippings, and other files concerning peace and justice issues. Includes material on Daniel Berrigan, Robert Whittington Eaton, the Plowshares Eight, Vietnamese conflict, Continental Walk for Disarmament, corporate divestiture, Central American refugees, and many other issues. Correspondents include Noam Chomsky, Alexander Calder, Theodore Friend, Kai Yutah Clouds, Fr. Paul Kabat, and others.
Dates
- Creation: 1966-[on-going]
Creator
- Bye, Mary, 1913- (Person)
- Chomsky, Noam (Contributor, Person)
- Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976 (Contributor, Person)
- Friend, Theodore (Contributor, Person)
- Clouds, Kai Yutah, 1948-1980 (Contributor, Person)
- Kabat, Paul (Contributor, Person)
- Eaton, Robert Whittington (Contributor, Person)
- Berrigan, Daniel (Contributor, Person)
- Bye, Mary, 1913- (Contributor, Person)
- Plowshares Eight (Group) (Contributor, Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce items in this collection beyond the bounds of Fair Use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder or their heirs/assigns. See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-RUU/1.0/.
Biographical / Historical
Mary Du Bois was born on April 25, 1913. She graduated from Swarthmore College in 1936 and married Ranulph de Bayeux. They had five children, Dennis Latham (b. May 31, 1942), Barbara Downman (b. April 7, 1944), Richard Edwin (b. March 12, 1951; d. May 10, 1951), Stephen Gerard (b. June 18, 1952), and Catherine Maitland (b. 1955).
She is an active member of Doylestown Monthly Meeting and Bucks Quarterly Meeting, serving on several committees, including the Quarterly Meeting's Peace and Service Committee. In addition to her political involvement through the Meeting, she individually was active in the peace movement and other social causes. She protested several issues, leading to her arrest at the Pentagon in 1969 and at Harrisburg in 1972. She also protested by not paying her taxes.
One of the most important things she did as a political activist was to open her home as a forum where people such as Father Daniel Berrigan could speak to the community and peace walkers could spend the night.
Extent
1.5 linear ft. (3 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Mary (Du Bois) Bye, Quaker peace and social activist and member of Doylestown Monthly Meeting of Friends in Pennsylvania, was born in 1913. This collection consists of the papers relating to Mary Bye's political activity. It includes correspondence, notes, clippings, and other files concerning peace and justice issues.
Arrangement
The collection is divided into two series:
- Correspondence
- Miscellaneous
Physical Location
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donor: Mary Bye, 1991, 1994
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was given to the Swarthmore College Peace Collection by Mary Bye. It was transferred to Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College in 1991.
Processing Information
This collection was given to the Swarthmore College Peace Collection by Mary Bye. It was transferred to Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College in 1991. Periodicals were retained by the Peace Collection. Mary Bye's original subject designations have been retained, and they have been put into alphabetical order. Form letters and solicitations from various organizations were returned to the donor or discarded.
Note: This is an open collection, with additional unprocessed accessions arriving at indeterminate intervals.
Subject
- Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice (Organization)
- Title
- An Inventory of the Mary Bye Papers, 1966-[ongoing]
- Author
- FHL staff
- Date
- 1991
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
- Sponsor
- Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries
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