Charles Fisher papers, 1964-1971.

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Charles Fisher papers, 1964-1971.

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Includes correspondence, meeting notes, newspaper clippings, research papers. Documents detail Charles Fisher's work with the Congress of Racial Equality in the San Francisco Bay area, primarily its direct action against the Bank of America due to employment discrimination ca. 1964; and the Boston Draft Resistance Group, between 1964 and 1971. They include his unpublished manuscript Midwives to History: the Sociology of a Radical Anti-War Organizing Group which analyzes the BDRG; collection also includes another unpublished, untitled manuscript about the history of the BDRG by Thomas W. Newman.

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Swarthmore College, Peace Collection, SCPC

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Swarthmore College, Peace Collection, SCPC

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Congress of Racial Equality

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Downtown CORE (Congress of Racial Equality), a chapter of the CORE national organization, was formed in March 1963 and remained active until the end 1966. Based on Manhattan's Lower East Side, it was one of nearly a dozen New York City local chapters organized in the early 1960s. Its founders included Rita and Michael Schwerner (the latter one of the group of three civil rights workers murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi in 1964), and its members included radical pacifist Igal Rodenko, anarchi...

Boston Draft Resistance Group

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The Boston Draft Resistance Group (BDRG) was established on April 25, 1967 by members of the Harvard We Won't Go group. The BDRG had grassroots support due to its campus and community organizing. It was heavily influenced by Vietnam Summer and Students for a Democratic Society. The BDRG offered draft resistance counseling services; its mission was to use draft resistance as a way to organize opposition to the Vietnam War. It made special efforts to reach out to Boston's working class. ...

Fisher, Charles, 1938-

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Charles S. Fisher; b. 1938, Chicago, Ill.; educated at the University of Chicago (B.S., M.S.); received Ph.D. in mathematics from University of California, Berkeley where he was involved in the civil rights and free speech movements and opposed the Vietnam War; taught sociology at Brandeis University for 30 years beginning in 1967; was involved in several important radical peace groups in the late 1960s and early 1970s, including the Boston Draft Resistance Group (BDRG) where he was a draft coun...