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Jerome Balter and Ruth Balter Papers

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Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
DG.254
Repository:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Extent:
3.3 linear ft. (3.3 linear feet.)
Preferred Citation:
Cite as: [Identification of item], in the Jerome Balter and Ruth Balter Papers (DG 254), Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Date:
1959-1974 (bulk)
Creator:
Balter, Jerome, 1921- and Balter, Ruth, 1922-
Abstract:
Jerome Balter (1921-2016), and Ruth Balter (born 1922), have been peace and social justice activists for many years. They were both active in efforts to desegregate housing and public schools in Rochester, New York from the late 1950s onward. Jerome Balter campaigned several time for local and state political offices as a way to achieve these goals. Both Balters were also active in efforts to oppose the Vietnam War. Ruth Balter was connected with Women Strike for Peace in Rochester. They both currently live in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where Ruth is active with the Granny Peace Brigade, working on issues of social justice and against the war in Afghanistan.

Jerome Balter and Ruth Balter have been peace and social justice activists for many years. They were both active in efforts to desegregate housing and public schools in Rochester, New York from the late 1950s onward. Jerome Balter campaigned several time for local and state political offices as a way to achieve these goals. Both Balters were also active in efforts to oppose the Vietnam War. Ruth Balter was connected with Women Strike for Peace in Rochester. They both currently live in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where Ruth is active with the Granny Peace Brigade, working on issues of social justice and against the war in Afghanistan. Jerome Balter became a public interest lawyer who was active on environmental and social justice issues for many years in Philadelphia. He died on July 16, 2016.

This collection contains primary and reference resources concerning the activism of the donors in the school desegregation, civil rights, and anti-war movements of the 1960s and 1970s in Rochester, New York. It also contains materials concerning the political campaigns for local and state office by Jerome Balter.

This collection is unprocessed.

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

Gift of Jerome Balter and Ruth Balter, October 2013 [Acc. 2013-068].

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

This collection is unprocessed and has been minimally organized by SCPC staff, November 2013-January 2014.

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Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research without restrictions.

Copyright to the resources created by Jerome Balter and Ruth Balter 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

Archival Resource Key. School Integration, 1962-1963.
Box DG 254: 1
Archival Resource Key. Citizen's Committee on School Integration, 1962-1966.
Box DG 254: 1
Archival Resource Key. Schools, 1964-1966.
Box DG 254: 1
Archival Resource Key. Schools, 1967-1969.
Box DG 254: 1
Archival Resource Key. School Desegregation, 1970-1971.
Box DG 254: 1
Archival Resource Key. Schools and Racial Desegregation newspaper clippings, 1962-1963.
Box DG 254: 1
Archival Resource Key. Education Integration newspaper clippings, 1965-1969.
Box DG 254: 1
Archival Resource Key. Education newspaper clippings, 1967.
Box DG 254: 1
Archival Resource Key. Schools, 1954 and undated.
Box DG 254: 2
Archival Resource Key. School Budget Crisis, 1968.
Box DG 254: 2
Archival Resource Key. School Board Budget, 1968.
Box DG 254: 2
Archival Resource Key. Jerome Balter to the Board of Education, 1963-1968.
Box DG 254: 2
Archival Resource Key. School Lunch Program Education Committee.
Box DG 254: 2
Archival Resource Key. Rochester Free School and Priest Statement.
Box DG 254: 2
Archival Resource Key. Freedom Integration God Honor Today (FIGHT) - Kodak, 1960s-1970s.
Box DG 254: 2
Archival Resource Key. Reference Material.
Box DG 254: 2
Archival Resource Key. Sue for Peace.
Box DG 254: 3
Archival Resource Key. Rochester Women Strike for Peace.
Box DG 254: 3
Archival Resource Key. People's Coalition for Peace and Justice, Rochester.
Box DG 254: 3
Archival Resource Key. Peace and Freedom Party, Rochester.
Box DG 254: 3
Archival Resource Key. Rochester Mobilization for Peace, Activities and Parade.
Box DG 254: 3
Archival Resource Key. Peace- Amnesty, 1973.
Box DG 254: 3
Archival Resource Key. Peace Rally, Saturday, 9 May 1970.
Box DG 254: 3
Archival Resource Key. Rochester Peace Rally, 1972.
Box DG 254: 3
Archival Resource Key. Inaugural Peace Rally and Associated Events, 20 Jan 1973.
Box DG 254: 3
Archival Resource Key. Jerome Balter- Peace Work, 1970-1974.
Box DG 254: 3
Archival Resource Key. Miscellaneous Rochester Peace and Justice, 1970s.
Box DG 254: 3
Archival Resource Key. Rochester Civil Rights- Bl. Reval, 1965-1967.
Box DG 254: 3
Archival Resource Key. Peace and Civil Rights Actions, Rochester, 1972.
Box DG 254: 3
Archival Resource Key. Jerome Balter, Miscellaneous Political Activism, 1970-1972.
Box DG 254: 3
Archival Resource Key. Rochester Voters for Peace, 1965-1973.
Box DG 254: 4
Archival Resource Key. Voters for Peace, 1966.
Box DG 254: 4
Archival Resource Key. New Politics Convention / Voters for Peace, 1968.
Box DG 254: 4
Archival Resource Key. Annual Meeting PREP VFP, April 1968.
Box DG 254: 4
Archival Resource Key. Peace, 1967.
Box DG 254: 4
Archival Resource Key. Rochester Candlelight Procession for a Lasting Peace, Saturday, 23 December 1972.
Box DG 254: 4
Archival Resource Key. Citizens' Movement for Adequate Housing.
Box DG 254: 4
Archival Resource Key. Rochester Resistance, 1968.
Box DG 254: 4
Archival Resource Key. Rochester Telephone Tax Refusal.
Box DG 254: 4
Archival Resource Key. Miscellaneous Vietnam War, 1960s.
Box DG 254: 4
Archival Resource Key. Rochester Interfaith Service.
Box DG 254: 4
Archival Resource Key. Liberal Party, 1964-1968.
Box DG 254: 5
Archival Resource Key. P.A.B. Liberal Party, 1965.
Box DG 254: 5
Archival Resource Key. Liberal Party newspaper clippings, 1965.
Box DG 254: 5
Archival Resource Key. Liberal Party, 1966.
Box DG 254: 5
Archival Resource Key. Jerome Balter-Liberal Party Candidate, 1966.
Box DG 254: 5
Archival Resource Key. Liberal Party, 1967.
Box DG 254: 5
Archival Resource Key. Nixon Rochester Visit, 1971.
Box DG 254: 5
Archival Resource Key. Rochester Nixon Impeachment.
Box DG 254: 5
Archival Resource Key. Committee to Impeach the President [Nixon], 1973.
Box DG 254: 5
Archival Resource Key. Rochester Miscellaneous Reform Organizations.
Box DG 254: 5
Archival Resource Key. Independent Policy Forum.
Box DG 254: 5
Archival Resource Key. Jerome Balter- 510 Cederwood Terrace, Rochester.
Box DG 254: 5
Scope and Contents

[miscellaneous]

Archival Resource Key. Jerome Balter Politics and Campaigns, 1960s-1970s.
Box DG 254: 6
Archival Resource Key. Election Campaign- 2nd Assembly, 1964.
Box DG 254: 6
Archival Resource Key. Jerome Balter Campaign, 1964.
Box DG 254: 6
Archival Resource Key. Election Camps, Peace Politics, 1966.
Box DG 254: 6
Archival Resource Key. Rochester Political Campaigns, 1966.
Box DG 254: 6
Archival Resource Key. Elections- Papers and Pamphlets, 1966.
Box DG 254: 6
Archival Resource Key. Elections- Correspondence, 1966.
Box DG 254: 6
Archival Resource Key. Elections- Newspaper clippings, 1966.
Box DG 254: 6
Archival Resource Key. Jerome Balter Campaign, 1967-onward.
Box DG 254: 6
Archival Resource Key. Eugene McCarthy- Presidential Campaign, 1968.
Box DG 254: 6
Archival Resource Key. Attica Defense.
Box DG 254: 7
Archival Resource Key. Attica Defense newspaper clippings.
Box DG 254: 7
Archival Resource Key. Metro Act, RAWP (Resource Allocation Working Party?) Attica, Chicago, 1974.
Box DG 254: 7
Archival Resource Key. Metro Act.
Box DG 254: 7
Archival Resource Key. Monroe Human Relations Commission.
Box DG 254: 7
Archival Resource Key. Monroe Communications Incorporated Board of Directors, Rochester Patriot.
Box DG 254: 7
Archival Resource Key. Tom Mahany.
Box DG 254: 7
Archival Resource Key. Howard Levy Case Reference.
Box DG 254: 7
Archival Resource Key. National Council of Jewish Women.
Box DG 254: 7
Archival Resource Key. B'nai B'rith, 1967-1968.
Box DG 254: 7
Archival Resource Key. Jerome Balter Writings, 1972.
Box DG 254: 8
Archival Resource Key. Jerome Balter Writings.
Box DG 254: 8
Archival Resource Key. Jerome Balters Writings.
Box DG 254: 8
Scope and Contents

Miscellaneous

Archival Resource Key. Rochester Democrat and Patriot.
Box DG 254: 8
Archival Resource Key. Correspondence to and from Jerome Balter.
Box DG 254: 8
Archival Resource Key. Jerome Balter Correspondence, 1969.
Box DG 254: 8
Archival Resource Key. Jerome Balter Correspondence.
Box DG 254: 8
Archival Resource Key. Jerome Balter Correspondence, Letters for Ed, Papers, 1967.
Box DG 254: 8
Archival Resource Key. Dr. Spock Correspondence, 1968.
Box DG 254: 8
Archival Resource Key. Miscellaneous.
Box DG 254: 8

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