Circuit Riders, Inc. publications and research files, 1928-1975.

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Circuit Riders, Inc. publications and research files, 1928-1975.

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Collection comprises research files, publications, sound recordings and photographs collected by Myers G. Lowman in his capacity as executive secretary of Circuit Riders, Inc. Research files concern organizations suspected of involvement in communist or subversive activities, as well as conservative and radical persons and organizations. Publications include pamphlets from anti-communist and pro-communist organizations, including radical and international publishers. Sound recordings contain lectures, sermons, speeches, rally rhetoric, radio programs, and interviews by sympathizers as well as opposition groups. Organizations and individuals respresented in the collection include the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Friends Service Committee, the Civil Service, DuBois Clubs, the Episcopal Church, Students for a Democratic Society, and Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.

12.5 linear ft. (9 containers)

University of Oregon Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 8143150

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Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.)

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Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) is a radical student group that descended from the Intercollegiate Socialist Society (ISS) which was founded in 1905. The ISS changed its name in 1921 to the League for Industrial Democracy (LID), a social-democratic educational and organizational group. Its student branch, the Student League for Industrial Democracy (SLID), merged with National Student League in 1935 to form American Student Union (ASU) but soon split over ASUs alleged communist affiliati...

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)

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Lowman, Myers G.

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Executive secretary, Circuit Riders, Inc. From the description of Myers G. Lowman papers, 1920-1966. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754869202 ...

W.E.B. Du Bois Clubs of America

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Episcopal Church

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In 1982, the General Convention of the Church deleted the words "Protestant" and "in the United States of America" from the official title of the Church, making it the Episcopal Church. From the description of Records of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America, Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, 1823-1975 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702152635 ...

American friends service committee

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Quaker organization formed to promote peace and reconciliation through its social service and relief programs. From the description of American Friends Service Committee records, 1933-1988 (bulk 1933-1938). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983753 The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) was organized in June 1917 as an outgrowth of and coordination point for the anti-war and relief activities of various bodies of the Religious Society of Friends in the United States. A ...

American Civil Liberties Union

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Founded in 1920 in New York City by Roger Baldwin and others; the ACLU was an outgrowth of the American Union Against Militarism's National Civil Liberties Bureau, which in 1920 changed its name to the American Civil Liberties Union. From the description of Collection, 1917- (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 42740878 The Southern Women's Rights Project (SWRP) located in Richmond is affiliated with the American Civil Liberties Union. The project deal...

Circuit Riders, Inc.

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Circuit Riders, Inc. was an organization that formed within the Methodist Church in Cincinnati, Ohio in the mid-20th century with the pupose of spreading the gospel of Christ and opposing all "anti-American" teachings within the church. A specific early goal was to remove the Methodist Federation for Social Action from the national church organization. During the late 1950s and 1960s, the focus of the organization expanded to include the investigation of socialist and communist infiltration into...

Civil Service Assembly of the United States and Canada

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