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Holly Metz Collected Papers

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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.

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Call Number:
CDG-A.Metz, Holly
Repository:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Extent:
0.71 linear ft. (8.5 linear in.)
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of item], in the Holly Metz Collected Papers (CDG-A), Swarthmore College Peace Collection.
Date:
1983-1991 (inclusive) and 1983-1985 (bulk)
Creator:
Metz, Holly, Bourgeois, Roy, 1938-, and Woodson, Helen Dery
Abstract:
Papers of a freelance writer and book author about law, culture, and social issues.

A freelance writer since 1985, Holly Metz has written about law, culture, and social issues for a broad range of newspapers, journals, and magazines. For nine years she was a contributing writer for The Progressive and the American Bar Association publication Student Lawyer. Metz has been recognized with a Barbara Deming Award for her writing on women war resisters and a Dick Goldensohn Fund Award for her Progressive magazine investigation into parental use of psychiatric commitment to control or punish rebellious teenagers. Her examination of the use of the "necessity defense" by both left- and right-wing protestors, published in Student Lawyer and Z magazine, was included in the 4th edition of Before the Law: An Introduction to the Legal Process. She was delighted to have one of her articles for The Progressive included in Democracy in Print: The Best of the Progressive Magazine, 1909-2009, alongside the works of Eugene Debs, Howard Zinn, Molly Ivins, and Bill Moyers. In 2013, her book, Killing the Poormaster: A Saga of Poverty, Corruption, and Murder in the Great Depression received the Book of the Year Award from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities and the McCormick Prize from the New Jersey Historical Commission. [notes from http://www.hollymetz.net/]

This small collection of material was produced and gathered by Metz for a book on 20th century war resisters.

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

Gift of Holly Metz, July 2012 [acc. 2012-047], September 2015 [acc. 2015-054], March 2017 [acc. 2017-024]

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

Processed, and finding aid created, by Anne Yoder, Archivist, in 2014, 2016, and 2017.

  1. Photos removed to the Photograph Collection
  2. Pin removed to the Button/Pin/Ribbon Collection
  3. Stamp removed to the Stamp/Sticker/Seal/Envelope Collection
  4. Audiocassettes removed to the Audiovisual Collection

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Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Access Restrictions

Yes. Restrictions apply to all transcriptions and other material related to interviews taken from others (donor has retained the rights to this information, and there are no releases from interviewees)

Copyright may have been transferred to the Swarthmore College Peace Collection or may have been retained by the creators/authors (or their descendants), in this collection, as stipulated by United States copyright law. Please contact the SCPC Curator for further information.
Use Restrictions

Yes. Restrictions apply to all transcriptions and other material related to interviews taken from others (donor has retained the rights to this information, and there are no releases from interviewees)

Collection Inventory

Miscellaneous correspondence, 1981-1998.
Box 1
Correspondence: letters from Paul Bloom, 1983 (December) – 1984 (April).
Box 1
Correspondence: letters from Paul Bloom, 1984 (May-December).
Box 1
Correspondence: letters to Paul Bloom, 1983 (December) – 1984 (April).
Box 1
Correspondence: letters (2) from Brooke L. Williams [feminist writer], 1984.
Box 1
Correspondence: letters from Mikhail Zlatkovsky, 1978-1994.
Box 1
Information about Mikhail Zlatkovsky, cartoons drawn, correspondence about Mikhail Zlatkovsky, etc.
Box 1
Notes: miscellaneous.
Box 1
Correspondence and notes re: Canada and pipeline of healthcare for children.
Box 1
Notes re: homeless unions, etc.
Box 1
Lemkin, Raphael: notes.
Box 1
Notes re: war resisters.
Box 1
Anderson, Laurie: interview, article written.
Box 2
Atkinson, Conrad (British artist): correspondence.
Box 2
Barry, Todd (CCNV): correspondence and transcript of interview.
Box 2
Bourgeois, Father Roy: correspondence.
Box 2
Brandywine Peace Community: miscellaneous.
Box 2
Community for Creative Nonviolence: correspondence and transcript of interview "Apple Pie Five" (Mitch Snyder and Carol Fennelly).
Box 2
Conscientious objectors (former) in the military: correspondence, etc. [chapter from book].
Box 2
Disarmament Now/Peacemakers, Madison (WI): correspondence, etc.
Box 2
"Endeavor" staff correspondence; writings re: magazine and re: execution of Bobby West.
Box 2
Eschelman, William: transcript of interview.
Box 2
Greenham Common: manuscripts and notes, etc.
Box 2
Hamburger, Jay: correspondence, transcript of interview.
Box 2
Lambert, Tim (Catholic Worker): interview, 1986.
Box 2
Mark, Mary Ellen: interview and notes, 1981.
Box 2
Meiselas, Susan: interview, article written, etc.
Box 2
Miller, Rich and the Kindred Community: correspondence, etc.
Box 3
Minnesota Women's Camp: miscellaneous.
Box 3
Neel, Alice (artist): article written, interview notes.
Box 3
Nestle, Joan: interview, article written, 1988.
Box 3
Rogers, Joe (NMHC Director): notes re: interview (?).
Box 3
Stern, Lee: correspondence, transcript of interview.
Box 3
Stoudt, Thelma: correspondence, etc.
Box 3
Ukeles, Mierle Laderman: interview, article(s) written.
Box 3
Ventimiglia, Linda: correspondence.
Box 3
Weaver, Robert: correspondence, transcript of interview.
Box 3
West, November Belford: correspondence; notes from interview [re: death row].
Box 3
West, Robert: correspondence (Editor, Endeavor).
Box 3
Women of Faith: correspondence, etc.
Box 3
Women's (Day of Disarmament) Action, New London, Connecticut: correspondence, etc.
Box 3
Woodson, Helen: correspondence, etc.
Box 3
Speaking engagement "Problems in the Conservation of Grassroots Art", 1990.
Box 4
Writings: articles and editorials published, 1981-1989.
Box 4
Writings: articles and editorials published, 1990-1994.
Box 4
Writings: articles and editorials published, 1995-2005, undated.
Box 4
Writings: article written "Homeless Not Helpless" [includes correspondence, etc.].
Box 4
Writings: article written "Labor History Rocks Small Town" [includes interview transcripts, etc.].
Box 4
Writings: mss.: "A Conversation Within" [2 versions], 1985.
Box 4
Writings: draft articles and notes re: abortion.
Box 4
Writings: draft of article re: AIDS.
Box 4
Writings: draft of article re: apartheid.
Box 4
Writings: mss. article and letters re: civil disobedience case at Pleasantown-Livermore Judicial District Cour, 1984.
Box 4
Writings and efforts (?) re: film on repatriation of Native American items.
Box 4
Writings: mss. re: women war resisters, approximately 1984.
Box 4
Writings: mss. "War Resistance: A Conversation Within", 1985.
Box 4
Writings: book reviews written.
Box 5
Writings: bound excerpts from "Who Was That Masked Woman?", approximately 1984.
Box 5
Writings: reviews and correspondence re: book co-written "How to Commit Suicide in South Africa".
Box 5
Writings: draft, etc., of book co-written "How to Commit Suicide in South Africa".
Box 5
Writings: draft, etc., of book co-written "How to Commit Suicide in South Africa".
Box 5
Writings: draft of book "Yellow-bellies" (p. 1-79).
Box 5
Writings: draft of book "Yellow-bellies" (p. 80-146).
Box 5
Writings: draft of book "Yellow-bellies" (p. 147-192).
Box 5
Writings: draft of book re: conscientious objection (p. 1-220).
Box 5
Writings: draft of book re: war resistance (p. 1-83).
Box 6
Writings: draft of book re: war resistance (p. 84-153).
Box 6
Writings: draft of book re: war resistance (p. 189-268).
Box 6
Writings: draft of book re: war resistance – earlier draft of Chapter 3 re: women's encampment.
Box 6
Writings: draft of book re: war resistance – misc. pages; notes.
Box 6
Reference material: homeless unions, etc.
Box 6
Reference material: mentally ill homeless people.
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Reference material: death of Dr. Neil Aggett in South Africa, 1982.
Box 6
Reference material: religious resistance.
Box 6
Reference material: miscellaneous.
Box 6

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