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Clearing House for Nigeria/Biafra Information Records
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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
The Clearing House for Nigeria/Biafra Information was established to provide information about the Nigeria/Biafra War. The organization was headquartered in New York, New York and was in operation from October 1968 to February 1970. The CHNBI collected information, issued information packets and a news bulletin, promoted civilian relief and a cease-fire, and an arms embargo. Because the organization was Catholic-based, they were particularly interested in finding newsclippings and other material on Catholic relief efforts and opinions. This has resulted in a rich gathering of information from Ireland and Great Britain, especially.
This collection contains the files maintained by the Clearinghouse on the Nigerian and Biafra civil war and humanitarian relief for civilians.
This collection remained in the order in which it was donated until it was processed by the Swarthmore College Peace Collection archivist. The collection had thousands of newsclippings and news articles stored in old binder pages with plastic covers. Many were folded up under the plastic so could not be read without removing the covers. In the end, it was decided to remove all the plastic, and whenever possible, sort the loose clippings and articles by country and by newspaper. The articles from foreign countries are mostly in no order within their respective folders. The U.S. articles are in year order, but are mostly not in order by month or day.
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is the official repository for these papers/records.
Most of this collection was microfilmed by the University of Chicago on 14 microfilm reels.
Gift of Hollis Ann Chenery, 1981 [acc. 81A-120].
For the catalog record for this collection and to find materials on similar topics, search the library's online catalog.
Collection processed and new finding aid created by Anne M. Yoder, Archivist, February 2016.
Items removed: Photographs (8" x 10") Audio visual recordings
Organization
Subject
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- Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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The collection is open for research use.
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All or part of this collection is stored off-site. Contact Swarthmore College Peace Collection staff at peacecollection@swarthmore.edu at least two weeks in advance of visit to request boxes.
- Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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None.
Collection Inventory
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