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Civic Activism

 Subject
Subject Source: Cclanarrow

Found in 123 Collections and/or Records:

Independent American Party records, 1975-1993

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1708 Series 2
Scope and Contents

Organization and platform materials, including constitution and bylaws, proposed platform and addenda, committee papers, delegate rules, statements of support and membership, and resolutions. Also includes delegate, member and candidate materials (delegate and officer lists, committee listings, articles and clippings, and campaign flyers), agendas and minutes, financial papers, and correspondence.

Dates: 1975-1993

Interview with Joseph Anderson

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346220]
Identifier: MSS 2868
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Anderson was interviewed by Edith S. Hibbs in 1937 as part of a Federal Writer's Project assignment for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Anderson was freed from slavery when he was 14. He was married twice and worked on a police force and as a "stevedore."

Dates: 1937

Marjorie Jones interview with Sarah Gudger

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346782]
Identifier: MSS 2919
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Gudger was interviewed by Marjorie Jones in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Gudger was 121 at the time of the interview, and the incidents she refers to seem to make that age possible. She talks of how she was poorly treated, worked very hard, and lacked adequate food and clothing. She saw family members sold. Gudger never...
Dates: 1937

Marjorie Jones interview with W. L. Bost

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230345891]
Identifier: MSS 2883
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Bost was interviewed by Marjorie Jones in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Bost gives a detailed description of the slave trade and quotes the "speculator" (auctioneer). He also talks about "paddyrollers" (slave catchers), whippings, and scare tactics of the Ku Klux Klan. "I know folks think the books tell the truth, but they...
Dates: 1937

Travis Jordan interview with Hector Hamilton

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346840]
Identifier: MSS 2921
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Hamilton was interviewed by Travis Jordan in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Hamilton called the time before the Civil War the "good ole days." He said that the Yankees ransacked the plantation and tried to take diamond earrings from the master's wife. Hamilton had a "fighting gander" named General Lee that ran the soldiers off...
Dates: 1937

Travis Jordan interview with Ida Adkins

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346246]
Identifier: MSS 2866
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Adkins was interviewed by Travis Jordan on June 1, 1937 as part of a Federal Writer's Project assignment for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Adkins says that she was 8 years old in 1865 when the Yankees arrived. She tells about Union soldiers trying to steal from her master's farm. She adds that the Federal soldiers threatened her, and that she got bees to attack them.

Dates: 1937 June 1

Ladies' Democratic Society of Spanish Fork records

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232533585]
Identifier: MSS 7841
Scope and Contents

Contains one ledger book that contains the constitution of the society, a roll of the ladies who attended, and minutes of each meeting.

Dates: 1894-1896

League of Women Voters of Utah records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 6881
Scope and Contents

Collection includes newsletters and a pamphlet from various times between 1986 and 1992. The materials discuss state legislative sessions, contacting representatives, fundraising, and goals of the league.

Dates: 1986-1992

Richard P. Lindsay papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197227657456]
Identifier: MSS 6908
Abstract

A collection of personal papers from Richard P. Lindsay.

Dates: 1968-1996

Cornelia Sorenson Lund papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 276
Abstract

Legislation, reports by the Salt Lake City Women's Chamber of Commerce including records of their activities, correspondence, radio programs, and newspaper clippings, relating to the smoke abatement campaign in Salt Lake City. The collection also contains a historical sketch of the Salt Lake City Women's Chamber of Commerce, and minutes of the Utah Smokeless Fuel Cooperative Association. The collection contains materials which span from 1848-1962.

Dates: 1848-1962