Correspondence with Van Wyck Brooks, 1955.

Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981

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Roger Nash Baldwin (January 21, 1884 – August 26, 1981) was one of the founders of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). He served as executive director of the ACLU until 1950. Many of the ACLU's original landmark cases took place under his direction, including the Scopes Trial, the Sacco and Vanzetti murder trial, and its challenge to the ban on James Joyce's Ulysses. Baldwin was a well-known pacifist and author. Baldwin was born in Wellesley, Massachusetts, the son of Lucy Cushing (...

Jack, Homer A. (Homer Alexander), 1916-1993

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Homer A. Jack (May 19, 1916 – August 5, 1993) was an American Unitarian Universalist clergyman pacifist and social activist who helped found the Congress of Racial Equality and National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE). Jack was an only child to active socialist and freethinker parents. His grandparents had immigrated from central and eastern Europe to escape oppression and poverty. Like his parents, the child Jack was a radical nature-worshiper who distrusted organized religion. He...

Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961

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Pacifist and worker for social reform, Balch was involved in many humanitarian and civic organizations, including the Boston Women's Trade Union League and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. From the description of Papers, 1915-1947 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007140 Peace leader. President of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, U.S. Section (1928-1933). Received Nobel Peace Prize (1946). ...

Crane, Henry Hitt, 1890-1977

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Methodist clergyman, pastor of the Centre Methodist Church in Malden, Massachusetts, the Elm Park Methodist Church in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Central Methodist Church in Detroit, Michigan. From the description of Henry Hitt Crane papers, 1902-1977 (bulk 1938-1958). (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 80045132 From the description of Henry Hitt Crane papers, 1902-1969 (bulk 1938-1958). (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34418797 ...

Bandung Conference.

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Brooks was one of the fourteen original intellectuals and ministers to co-sign a letter to the statesmen of Asia and Africa at the Bandung Conference in 1955. From the description of Correspondence with Van Wyck Brooks, 1955. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 173352317 ...

Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990

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American writer. From the description of Correspondence with Alfred S. Dashiell, 1931-1940. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 51846130 Carl Zigrosser and Lewis Mumford were life-long friends with shared interests in the arts, society and politics. From the description of Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1925-1971, n.d. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155902319 Sir Patrick Geddes was a Scottish biologist, sociologi...

Eby, Kermit

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Sociologist, educator, labor leader, and minister of the United Brethren Church. Associate professor, University of Chicago, 1948-1950; professor, 1950-1962. From the description of Papers, 1933-1962 (inclusive). (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 52247398 ...

Fairchild, Henry Pratt, 1880-1956

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Epithet: Professor of New York University British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000296.0x000382 ...

Hupp, James R.

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Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973

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Pearl S. Buck was the daughter of American missionary parents, and spent the first seventeen years of her life in China. Her third novel, The Good Earth, won the Pulitzer Prize, and a Nobel Prize for literature followed, citing The Good Earth as well as her biographies of her parents. Critical reception for her works has been mixed since these early successes. A prolific and optimistic author, most of her fiction is set in China, and she displays great affection for the place and her characters....

Harlow, S. Ralph (Samuel Ralph), 1885-1972

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Williams, David Rhys, 1890-1970

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Mayer, Philip.

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Thurman, Howard, 1900-1981

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African American clergyman and author. From the description of Howard Thurman collection, 1924-1981 (bulk 1952-1967). (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70958669 ...