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Society for Social Responsibility in Science. Society for Social Responsibility in Science papers, 1948-1976.

Title: Society for Social Responsibility in Science papers, 1948-1976.

The collection provides an in-depth look at the founding, history, activities and correspondence of the Society for Social Responsibility in Science. Included are minutes of council and annual meetings from the year before its inception in 1949 and until its culmination in ca. 1976. There is extensive correspondence of officers, especially Victor Paschkis, Franklin Miller and Otto Theodor (Ted) Benfey, but also of other officers, such as Herbert Jehle, Theodore Hetzel, Truman Kirkpatrick, Jane Oesterling and Edward Ramberg, often discussing what the core or nature of the organization should be. Probably the most stellar correspondent who also became a member of SSRS is Albert Einstein writing in 1950 on his involvement with atomic weapons as theoretical, rather than practical, and his decision not to be involved in war work. Other important scientists or others who were correspondents are: Emily Greene Balch, Hans Bethe, Max Born, Anton Carlson, Aldous Huxley, Kathleen Lonsdale, Samuel Marble, A.J. Muste, Shigeru Oae, Priyadaranjan Ray, Dorothy Thompson, Gilbert White and Norman Whitney. One of the primary topics, not only in the correspondence, but across the various efforts of the organization was how to attract and keep members. Toward this end, SSRS published a monthly newsletter, and all the extant copies of the SSRS newsletter from 1949 to 1974 have been assembled here.

ArchivalResource: 14 boxes (7 linear feet.).

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Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986. Papers, 1955-1965.

Title: Papers, 1955-1965.

Chiefly materials from the Vigil at Fort Detrick, Frederick, Maryland, protesting the U.S. Army biological weapons research and testing center, including correspondence, memos, statements by members of the vigil, financial records, newsletters, bound notebooks, press releases, clippings, and photos; together with materials relating to Scott's work as supervisor of the Friends Mississippi Project to rebuild fire-bombed churches of black congregations in Mississippi, including reports by Scott, scattered correspondence, financial records, news items, and fused glass and bell fragments; and papers relating to his activities against nuclear weapons and chemical and biological warfare with Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (later Committee for Nonviolent Action), Nevada Project, Washington Prayer Vigil, Pacific Project which sponsored the voyage of the Golden Rule to Eniwetok Proving Grounds, European Project which focused on nuclear testing by British and Soviet governments, and Peace Action Center. Correspondents include Robert Anthony, Lawrence S. Apsey, Albert Bigelow, Lucy P. Carner, Helen H. Corson, Alfred Hassler, Francis Heisler, Homer A. Jack, Jeannette Jamison, Bradford Lyttle, Gertrude Malz, Lawrence McK. Miller, A.J. Muste, Tracy D. Mygatt, Mildred Scott Olmsted, Theodore W. Olson, Victor Paschkis, Stephen D. Pfeiffer, Robert Pickus, Walton A. Raitt, Bayard Rustin, Emily Parker Simon, Annalee Stewart, John M. Swomley, Norman Thomas, Charles C. Walker, George Willoughby, and Wilmer J. Young.

ArchivalResource: 7.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20438839 View

Society for Social Responsibility in Science. Collection, 1949-1976.

Title: Collection, 1949-1976.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29401482 View

Society for Social Responsibility in Science (ACT). Letters, 1954-1962, to Lewis Mumford.

Title: Letters, 1954-1962, to Lewis Mumford.

Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from Herbert Jehle, Editor of Newsletter, Victor Paschkis, Chairman, Educ. Div., and Betty Polster, Editor of Newsletter, SSRS.

ArchivalResource: 3 items (3 l.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155876186 View