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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
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None.

Collection Inventory

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

[miscellaneous]

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

Miscellaneous

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

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