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Frieda Langer Lazarus Collected Papers

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Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
CDG-A.Lazarus, Frieda Langer
Repository:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Extent:
0.42 linear ft. (5 linear inches.)
Date:
1943-1946 (bulk)
Creator:
Covington, Hayden Cooper, Reiner, John M., and Lazarus, Frieda Langer
Abstract:
Collection consists of correspondence and printed matter related to Lazarus's involvement as Chair of the War Resisters League's Conscientious Objector Problems Committee, 1943-1946.

Frieda Langer; Frieda Langer Lazarus, 1896-1968; married to Arthur Lazarus; was a pacifist, antiwar activist and advocate for conscientious objectors. She was a founder of the Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors, and a member of the Women's Peace Union and the War Resisters League. Between the World Wars, she worked for disarmament, and was WPU delegate to the World Disarmament Conference in 1932 in Geneva; she was also active in the Workers' Defense League and in the Brooklyn (N.Y.) branch of the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy; she was a delegate to the 1965 Pacem in Terris convocation.

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the papers of Frieda Langer Lazarus.

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War Resisters League Records (DG 040)

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Collection is open for research without restrictions.

Collection Inventory

Frieda Langer Lazarus.
Box CDG-A-Lazarus, Frieda Langer: 1
Biographical information: general/miscellaneous; passport, 1932; death; legal will Yearbook, 1913.
Box CDG-A-Lazarus, Frieda Langer: 1
Yearbook, 1913.
Box CDG-A-Lazarus, Frieda Langer: 1
Possessions.
Box CDG-A-Lazarus, Frieda Langer: 1
Biography (partial mss.) by Harriet Alonso [includes 3 letters to Richard Langer].
Box CDG-A-Lazarus, Frieda Langer: 1
Correspondence: incoming [includes several letters from Norman Thomas].
Box CDG-A-Lazarus, Frieda Langer: 1
Correspondence: outgoing.
Box CDG-A-Lazarus, Frieda Langer: 1
Miscellaneous involvements, etc.
Box CDG-A-Lazarus, Frieda Langer: 1
Frieda Langer Lazarus' Involvement with WRL's Conscientious Objector Problems Committee (as Chair), ca. 1944-1946.
Box CDG-A-Lazarus, Frieda Langer: 1
Scope and Contents

includes correspondence

Meetings, 1944-1945.
Box CDG-A-Lazarus, Frieda Langer: 1
Scope and Contents

includes correspondence

General correspondence, 1944-1946.
Box CDG-A-Lazarus, Frieda Langer: 1
Correspondence to/from/about the Workers Defense League.
Box CDG-A-Lazarus, Frieda Langer: 1
Frieda Langer Lazarus' Involvement with WRL's Conscientious Objector Problems Committee (as Chair), ca. 1944-1946.
Box CDG-A-Lazarus, Frieda Langer: 2
Correspondence to/from/about CPS Camp #148 (Minersville, California), 1945-1946.
Box CDG-A-Lazarus, Frieda Langer: 2
Correspondence, etc. regarding amnesty/pardons for C.O.s.
Box CDG-A-Lazarus, Frieda Langer: 2
Hayden Covington (lawyer for Jehovah's Witnesses C.O.s), 1944-1945.
Box CDG-A-Lazarus, Frieda Langer: 2
Notes regarding C.O. cases, etc.
Box CDG-A-Lazarus, Frieda Langer: 2
Case of C.O. John Reiner, 1943-1944.
Box CDG-A-Lazarus, Frieda Langer: 2
Case of C.O. Robert Currier, 1945.
Box CDG-A-Lazarus, Frieda Langer: 2
Reference: legal status of C.O.s; Selective Service.
Box CDG-A-Lazarus, Frieda Langer: 2
Reference: statements of religious bodies regarding conscientious objection.
Box CDG-A-Lazarus, Frieda Langer: 2
Lazarus and Langer Family: Biographical and Other Information.
Box CDG-A-Lazarus, Frieda Langer: 2
General/miscellaneous.
Box CDG-A-Lazarus, Frieda Langer: 2
Arthur Lazarus.
Box CDG-A-Lazarus, Frieda Langer: 2
L. Friedman (Mr. and Mrs.); letters of condolence regarding Frieda Langer Lazarus' death.
Box CDG-A-Lazarus, Frieda Langer: 2
Richard Lazarus: Biographical and Other Information.
Box CDG-A-Lazarus, Frieda Langer: 2
Passports.
Box CDG-A-Lazarus, Frieda Langer: 2
Letters of condolence regarding Frieda Langer Lazarus' death.
Box CDG-A-Lazarus, Frieda Langer: 2
Research/writing re: conscientious objection: input by Albon Man regarding mss. by R.L. on his experiences as a C.O., (2000, 2005).
Box CDG-A-Lazarus, Frieda Langer: 2
Research/writing re: conscientious objection: mss. by Daniel Dingman regarding his experiences as a C.O.
Box CDG-A-Lazarus, Frieda Langer: 2

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