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Frieda Langer Lazarus 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.Lazarus, Frieda Langer
Repository:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Extent:
0.42 linear ft. (5 linear inches.)
Language Note:
Materials are in English.
Date:
1943-1946 (bulk)
Creator:
Covington, Hayden Cooper, Reiner, John M., and Lazarus, Frieda Langer
Abstract:

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.

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.

War Resisters League Records (DG 040)

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Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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Collection is open for research without restrictions.

Collection Inventory

Archival Resource Key. Frieda Langer Lazarus.
Box CDG-A-Lazarus, Frieda Langer: 1
Archival Resource Key. Biographical information: general/miscellaneous; passport, 1932; death; legal will Yearbook, 1913.
Box CDG-A-Lazarus, Frieda Langer: 1
Archival Resource Key. Yearbook, 1913.
Box CDG-A-Lazarus, Frieda Langer: 1
Archival Resource Key. Possessions.
Box CDG-A-Lazarus, Frieda Langer: 1
Archival Resource Key. Biography (partial mss.) by Harriet Alonso [includes 3 letters to Richard Langer].
Box CDG-A-Lazarus, Frieda Langer: 1
Archival Resource Key. Correspondence: incoming [includes several letters from Norman Thomas].
Box CDG-A-Lazarus, Frieda Langer: 1
Archival Resource Key. Correspondence: outgoing.
Box CDG-A-Lazarus, Frieda Langer: 1
Archival Resource Key. Miscellaneous involvements, etc.
Box CDG-A-Lazarus, Frieda Langer: 1
Archival Resource Key. 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

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

includes correspondence

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