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Evelyn Alloy Collected Papers

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Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore 19081-1399

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Swarthmore College Peace Collection. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
CDG-A.Alloy, Evelyn
Repository:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Extent:
0.417 linear ft. (5 in. - 1 box)
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of item] in the Evelyn Alloy Collected Papers (CDG-A), Swarthmore College Peace Collection.
Date:
1961-2009 (inclusive)
Creator:
Alloy, Evelyn
Abstract:
This collection documents Alloy's activism for many peace and justice issues, including civil rights.

Evelyn Alloy (born circa 1917) was active in the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), Women Strike for Peace (WSP), and the US-China People's Friendship Association. Alloy is the author of Working Women's Music.

In November 2011, Alloy took part in the Occupy Philadelphia demonstrations at the age of 95. Alloy has been active in local civil rights and peace activities for many years.

This collection includes correspondence and material that help to document Alloy's interests and activism.

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is the official repository for these papers.

Gift of Evelyn Alloy, 2009-2011 [acc. 09-017, 10-080, 10-083, 10-090, 11-013, 11-016, 11-059]

Processed by Anne M. Yoder, Archivist, January 2012.

For the catalog record for this collection, and to find materials on similar topics, search the library's online catalog.

Working Women's Music: The Songs and Struggles of Women in the Cotton Mills, Textile Plants, and Needle Trades, Complete with Music for Singing and Playing by Evelyn Alloy and Martha Rogers

    Photographs
  1. Evelyn Alloy holding Stephen Alloy (son), with Paul Robeson, 1958
  2. Evelyn Alloy with Linus Pauling and Emile Mazey, 1961
  3. Six women at a "City protest[ing?] Dem. Party refusing to participate in Freedom Party"
  4. Demonstration against the Vietnam War

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Publisher
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research use.

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law
Use Restrictions

None.

Collection Inventory

Biographical information.
Box 1
Correspondence: general.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

[includes 1967 letter from Philip Berrigan]

Correspondence with Otto Nathan, 1965-1983.
Box 1
Correspondence with Ava Pauling, 1962-1965.
Box 1
Correspondence re: issues and Letters to the Editor written.
Box 1
Activism.
Box 1
Book reviews.
Box 1
Writings.
Box 1
Reference material: Teaching nuclear issues.
Box 1
Reference material: Alternative Revenue Service packet, 1991.
Box 1

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