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Holly Metz 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.

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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

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

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