National Sanctuary Defense Fund collection, 1984-1996.

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National Sanctuary Defense Fund collection, 1984-1996.

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Records of a national organization which raised funds to provide legal defense for sanctuary workers and refugees from Central America, particularly El Salvador and Guatemala, arrested and indicted during the 1980s for violating federal immigration laws. Board members included Gustav Schultz and Eileen Purcell. Administrators included Thomas Ambrogi, Penny Deleray, and Andrea Lampros. Work with Haitian refugees in the 1990s included a visit by Jean Bertrand Aristide to Berkeley, CA in 1994.

9 boxes; 8 1/2 linear feet.

Graduate Theological Union, Flora Lamson Hewlett Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7637992

Graduate Theological Union, Flora Lamson Hewlett Library

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Lampros, Andrea. (no auth)

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National Sanctuary Defense Fund.

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Ambrogi, Thomas E. (no auth)

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Schultz, Gustav H., 1935-

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Biographical Description Gustav H. Schultz was born 1935 in Foley, Alabama, receiving his education at Concordia Theological Seminary and Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. He served pastorates in Georgia and Illinois before becoming pastor of the University Lutheran Chapel, Berkeley, California in 1969. This period saw a growing movement against participation in the Vietnam Conflict as an immoral, illegal, and undeclared war, and the in...

Aristide, Jean-Bertrand

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Deleray, Penny. (no auth)

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Purcell, Eileen.

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Interviews by Eileen Purcell of religious and lay leaders in the San Francisco Bay Area of California involved in the Sanctuary Movement tracing the beginning during the Vietnam Conflict, 1971-72 and more extensively the movement assisting Central American refugees in the United States, 1982-1987. From the description of The Sanctuary oral history project records, 1971-2007. (Graduate Theological Union). WorldCat record id: 751477303 ...