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Joseph Miller Papers

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Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
DG.193
Repository:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Extent:
7 linear ft. (7 boxes)
Language Note:
Materials are in English.
Preferred Citation:
Cite as: [Identification of item], in the Joseph Miller Papers (DG 193), Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Date:
1960-1980 (inclusive)
Creator:
Miller, Joseph, 1912-1997
Abstract:
Joseph Miller was a mortgage banker; founder and president of Barco, Inc. He was an activist for peace and social justice causes such as welfare rights, including the Philadelphia Urban Finance Corporation and the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy.

Joseph Miller was a mortgage banker; founder and president of Barco, Inc. He was educated at Temple University and St. Joseph's College in Philadelphia. Miller was married to fellow activist, Eleanor Miller who died in 1977. Joseph Miller was an activist for peace and social justice causes such as welfare rights, racial justice, the environment, world peace, the homeless, and women's rights. He was the founder of the Philadelphia People's Bail Fund and the Philadelphia Urban Finance Corporation. Miller served as the treasurer of the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy and was the co-chairman of the Philadelphia Housing Task Force. Joseph Miller died in 1997.

Includes biographical material, correspondence and reference files about U.S. and Philadelphia-area peace and social justice movements of the 1960s and 1970s, including the Philadelphia People's Bail Fund and the Philadelphia Urban Finance Corporation.

This collection is unprocessed and remains in the order in which is was donated.

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

Gift of David Miller, 1997 [Acc. 97A-044].

This collection is unprocessed; a finding aid was prepared by Chloe Lucchesi-Malone, July 2009; and was updated by Wendy E. Chmielewski, November 2019.

Items removed: Memorablia

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Publisher
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Access Restrictions

None.

Copyright to the Joseph Miller Papers has been transferred to the Swarthmore College Peace Collection. Copyright to all other materials is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Use Restrictions

None.

Collection Inventory

Biographical Information: Joseph Miller, 1912-1997.
Box DG 193: 1
Peace and Justice Fund, 1971.
Box DG 193: 1
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
Box DG 193: 1
Work-Study Time Sheets.
Box DG 193: 1
South Africa.
Box DG 193: 1
Scope and Contents

[2 folders]

The Bishop Desmond Tutu: Southern African Refugee Scholarship Fund.
Box DG 193: 1
Miscellaneous.
Box DG 193: 1
Scope and Contents

[7 folders]

Offender Aid and Restoration.
Box DG 193: 1
Shapp-Kline Campaign.
Box DG 193: 1
Getting it Together- Offender Aid and Restoration.
Box DG 193: 1
Bail Fund.
Box DG 193: 1
"OOOPS!"- Arthur Kanegis and Ned Bobkoff.
Box DG 193: 2
Sun Oil: Cash Disbursements, 1987.
Box DG 193: 2
Joe Miller- Peace Museum.
Box DG 193: 2
Interorganization Meetings, Timelines, etc.
Box DG 193: 2
Willbet, 1974.
Box DG 193: 2
Miscellaneous.
Box DG 193: 2
Scope and Contents

[23 folders]

Constitution.
Box DG 193: 3
Board of Directors- Columbia.
Box DG 193: 3
Columbia School- Licenses.
Box DG 193: 3
Cuba.
Box DG 193: 3
Board of Directors, 1980 (January 8).
Box DG 193: 3
Columbia School Incorporated, Delaware Incorporation Pages, Important Papers.
Box DG 193: 3
Ida M. Brodsky.
Box DG 193: 3
Philadelphia Urban Finance Corporation.
Box DG 193: 3
SANE.
Box DG 193: 3
Scope and Contents

[2 folders]

Philadelphia Urban Finance Corporation Proposal: Philadelphia Foundation.
Box DG 193: 3
Miscellaneous.
Box DG 193: 3
Scope and Contents

[8 folders]

SANE.
Box DG 193: 4
Scope and Contents

[7 folders]

Philadelphia: SANE, (May 26).
Box DG 193: 4
Plain Talk.
Box DG 193: 4
Philadelphia- Freeze.
Box DG 193: 4
SANE- Freeze.
Box DG 193: 4
Joe Miller- Taxes.
Box DG 193: 4
Robert Rosamond: Impeach President.
Box DG 193: 4
Tenants Rental Assistance Corporation (TRAC) City of Philadelphia.
Box DG 193: 4
Nazi Criminals in United States.
Box DG 193: 4
Martin Luther King.
Box DG 193: 4
New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam.
Box DG 193: 4
McGovern.
Box DG 193: 4
Dialogue with the Cuban People.
Box DG 193: 4
Whitman Park.
Box DG 193: 4
Bail Fund.
Box DG 193: 4
Democratic National Convention, 1972.
Box DG 193: 4
National Committee to Abolish the House Committee on Un- American Activities.
Box DG 193: 4
National Coalition against War, Racism and Repression.
Box DG 193: 4
New Democratic Coalition.
Box DG 193: 4
Miscellaneous.
Box DG 193: 4
Delancey Association.
Box DG 193: 5
Philadelphia Police Abuse.
Box DG 193: 5
Joe Miller- Letters.
Box DG 193: 5
Board Names.
Box DG 193: 5
Foundation.
Box DG 193: 5
German Nazi War Criminals.
Box DG 193: 5
Philadelphia Urban Finance Corporation, 1987 (March).
Box DG 193: 5
Philadelphia Urban Finance Corporation, 1987 (April).
Box DG 193: 5
Philadelphia Urban Finance Corporation Project.
Box DG 193: 5
Rima Miller.
Box DG 193: 5
Miscellaneous.
Box DG 193: 5
Scope and Contents

[19 folders]

Martin Luther King.
Box DG 193: 6
Miscellaneous.
Box DG 193: 6
Scope and Contents

[5 folders]

"The United States towards the Third World".
Box DG 193: 7
Philadelphia People's Bail Fund bank account, etc.
Box DG 193: 7
Philadelphia People's Bail Fund.
Box DG 193: 7
Untitled, August 27th.
Box DG 193: 7
National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee.
Box DG 193: 7

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