Montgomery County Citizens Concerned About Central America records, 1984-1991.

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Montgomery County Citizens Concerned About Central America records, 1984-1991.

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Includes correspondence, summaries of meetings, petitions, program planning documents, photographs. Includes group's grassroots lobbying to influence Congress (notably Lawrence Coughlin) and local leaders. Correspondents include Sylvia Metzler.

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Swarthmore College, Peace Collection, SCPC

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Swarthmore College, Peace Collection, SCPC

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Metzler, Sylvia

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Montgomery County Citizens Concerned About Central America (Montgomery County, Pa.)

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Montgomery County Citizens Concerned About Central America (MCCACA); founded Sept. 1984 in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; joined a nationwide effort to educate and mobilize citizens to challenge the United States government's foreign policy stance and actions in Central America; focused on the fight against federal funding for the Contras (anti-guerilla forces in Nicaragua); ceased operations around 1993. Longtime leaders included Sylvia Metzler, Judith Palmer and Jerilyn Bowen. Fr...