Sara R. Ehrmann papers, 1845-1993 1924-1988.

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Sara R. Ehrmann papers, 1845-1993 1924-1988.

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The collection documents capital punishment in the United States in the twentieth century, the activities of the American League to Abolish Capital Punishment and the Massachusetts Council for the Abolition of the Death Penalty, and Sara Ehrmann's work opposing capital punishment. It includes case files of prisoners (mainly those condemned to death), material related to the American League and Massachusetts Council, files documenting capital punishment in each state, and collected published and unpublished material on capital punishment and related subjects. The collection also includes a limited amount of biographical information about Sara Ehrmann.

43.80 cubic ft. (48 boxes)

Northeastern University, Snell Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7634081

Northeastern University, Snell Library

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Friends of Framingham Reformatory.

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The Friends of Framingham, Inc. (FOF) was formed in 1948 in support of Miriam Van Waters and the progressive methods she had implemented as Superintendent of the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Framingham, with emphasis on rehabilitation of women prisoners rather than on punishment. Van Waters had served with distinction and to the satisfaction of six Commissioners of Corrections from 1932 to 1948. Eliot McDowell became Commissioner in February 1948; Van Waters...

Ehrmann, Sara R., 1895-1993

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Executive director of the American League to Abolish Capital Punishment. From the description of Correspondence with Johan Thorsten Sellin, 1955-1970. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 236167293 Sara R. Ehrmann was a Boston-area civic leader best known for her work as an opponent of capital punishment. Ehrmann's career as a capital punishment abolitionist began in 1925 when her husband Herbert B. Ehrmann became an associate counsel for Sacco and Vanze...

American League to Abolish Capital Punishment

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United Prison Association of Massachusetts

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Ehrmann, Herbert B. (Herbert Brutus), 1891-

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Herbert Brutus Ehrmann, 1891-1970: Lawyer, author. Member, War Labor Policies Bd., 1918-1919; director, Industrial Relations Div. U.S. Shipping Bd., 1919. Junior counsel for Sacco and Vanzetti, 1926-1927. Pres., American Jewish Committee, 1959-1961. Author: The Untried Case (1933 and 1960); The Case That Will Not Die (1969); Under This Roof (1940); The Criminal Courts of Cleveland (1921, with Reginald Haber Smith). From the description of Papers of Herbert Brutus Ehrmann, 1906-1970 (...

Massachusetts Council for the Abolition of the Death Penalty.

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