Records, 1985-1991.

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Records, 1985-1991.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173701719

Records of the support group for the Resistance Conspiracy Six (Alan Berkman, Tim Blunk, Marilyn Buck, Linda Evans, Susan Rosenberg, and Laura Whitehorn), all long-time political activists who were charged with conspiracy in connection with the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Capitol, a protest of the invasion of Grenada. Although the government admitted it had no evidence linking these specific people to the bombing, the six were convicted and sentenced to prison terms. The records document the case, the legal tactics used by the prosecution, the individuals involved, and their philosophy. It also documents the revolutionary network, especially the women's and radical lesbian component of it. Included is correspondence, position papers, statements, flyers, programs, photographs, posters, original artwork, stickers, press kits, clippings, petitions, interviews with the six, and statements by other political prisoners.

2.4 c.f.,8 videorecordings, and7 tape recordings.

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6925967

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Berkman, Alan.

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Evans, Linda, 1947-

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Rosenberg, Susan (Susan Lisa), 1955-

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Susan Rosenberg was born in New York City in 1955, the daughter of Emanuel and Bella Rosenberg, both of whom were progressive leftists. Her father was a dentist who practiced in Spanish Harlem and her mother was a theatrical producer; they regularly took their only child to rallys in support of the civil rights movement and to demonstrations againt the war in Vietnam. Rosenberg grew up on the Upper West Side and attended the very liberal Walden School from grade school through high ...

Blunk, Timothy.

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Resistance Conspiracy Six.

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Buck, Marilyn, 1947-2010

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Whitehorn, Laura

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