CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE RECORDS, 1926-1968, 7.0 feet.

Records of a membership organization (administered as an independent branch of the Social Action Department of the National Catholic Welfare Conference) concerned with "educating all Catholics as to their obligations of justice and charity in the cause of international peace." Included are correspondence, minutes, publications, reports, speeches, and other records documenting the annual conferences and other activities of the Association's committees, subcommittees, officers, and secretariat.
[Connect to Catholic Association for International Peace Inventory]

 

CHIAPAS (MEXICO) AND CENTRAL AMERICA COLLECTION, 1980s-, bulk 1980s-2000s, 7.0 feet + 15.5 GB (unprocessed).

Photography and writings by independent photographer Richard G. Flamer regarding the poor, refuges, and the Catholic Worker Movement in Chiapas, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. Subjects include Maya Indians, prominent leaders, landscapes, and the development of a Catholic Worker community center and farm in San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas.
[Connect to Chiapas and Central America Inventory]

 

CULLEN, MICHAEL D., PAPERS, 1942, 1953-[ongoing], 5.0 feet.

Papers of a religious educator who co-founded Milwaukee's Casa Maria Catholic Worker House of Hospitality (1966) and destroyed draft records in the "Milwaukee Fourteen" anti-war action in 1968, for which he served 9 months in federal prison before being deported to Ireland. (He was readmitted to the United States in 1991.) Included are correspondence, legal records (including case files from the office of his attorney, James Shellow), manuscripts, photographs, press clippings, publications, and audiotape recordings, largely relating to Cullen's social ministry, anti-war activism, and imprisonment. Correspondents include Daniel and Philip Berrigan, Dorothy Day, James Groppi, and Albion Ross.
[Connect to Michael Cullen Inventory]

 

DAY, DOROTHY-CATHOLIC WORKER COLLECTION, 1933-[ongoing], 218.3 feet (48.0 feet unprocessed).

Records of a faith-based, grassroots movement for peace and social justice through nonviolent direct action, founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in New York City in 1933 and represented today by more than one hundred loosely affiliated "houses of hospitality" (including several in Australia, Canada, Europe, and Mexico) in which the poor and homeless are welcomed as guests. The records document the efforts of Catholic Worker volunteers to "live out" the Gospel message, interpreted as pacifist, personalist, and profoundly radical. The collection includes the personal papers of Day, Maurin, and others involved in the movement; records of the New York City and other Catholic Worker communities; photographs; audio and video tapes of interviews, talks, television programs, and peace demonstrations; and a wide variety of publications.
[Connect to Dorothy Day-Catholic Worker Inventory]

 

IN THE SPOTLIGHT DIGITAL IMAGE COLLECTION

A-Z Index: All Things Lincoln (Feb. 2009), Catholic Ladder Pictorial Catechisms (Jan. 2009), Celebrating Marquette's Presidents (Sept. 2011), Exploration & Discovery: Stamps (Dec. 2008), Holy Rosary Mission - Red Cloud Indian School 1000th Image (Mar. 2010), Marquette's Study Abroad Pioneer (May 2009), Mother Theresa: Discovering God in the Poorest of the Poor (Oct. 2009), New in the M Club Hall of Fame (Nov. 2011), Over Hill and Dale: Cross Country at Marquette (Sept. 2009), Presidential Campaign Visits (Oct. 2008), Television Girl: Hildegarde! (Mar. 2009), The Civil Defense Projects: Dorothy Day (Apr. 2009), Van Vechten's Portrait Archives: 250 Subjects and Growing (Nov.-Dec. 2009), World War I at Marquette (Nov. 2008), Zablocki: Wisconsin's Mr. Democrat (Jan.-Feb. 2010).
[Connect to In the Spotlight Collection]

JACK COOK PAPERS, 1957-2020, 1.7 feet.

Papers of an author, Catholic Worker, and Vietnam War draft resister, best known for his prison memoir Rags of Time: A Season in Prison, including correspondence and writings. Correspondents include Richard Drinnon and Elizabeth McAlister; there are two letters from Dorothy Day.
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JUSTICE AND PEACE CENTER (MILWAUKEE) RECORDS, 1971-1983, 1.7 feet.

Records of an advocacy and research organization, founded by the Capuchins in 1971 and later supported by nine religious communities, including general administrative records, minutes of staff and board meetings, newsletters and other publications, and subject files. The center closed in 1982.
[Connect to Justice and Peace Center (Milwaukee) Inventory] 
 
 
KELLY, KATHY, PAPERS, 1977-[ongoing], 1.8 feet.

Correspondence, subject files, writings, and other records of a Chicago-based peace activist who cofounded Voices in the Wilderness/Voices for Creative Nonviolence in 1996, and has anchored its leadership team from the beginning. Kelly has spent much of her life promoting nonviolent initiatives for peace
and justice in war zones, for which she has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
[Connect to Kathy Kelly Inventory]

 

MILWAUKEE PLEDGE OF RESISTANCE RECORDS, 1981-2004, 5.4 feet.

Records of a peace organization (originally part of a national network) formed in opposition to the United States government's support of the "Contras" in Nicaragua. Included are correspondence, minutes, publications, reports, press releases and other records documenting the group's nonviolent resistance to US military intervention in Latin America, the Middle East, and elsewhere. James M. Barrett, formerly professor of Biology at Marquette University, served for many years as coordinator and editor of its newsletter.
[Connect to Milwaukee Pledge of Resistance Inventory]

 

MULLANEY, REV. ANTONY, MILWAUKEE FOURTEEN COLLECTION, 1968-1970, 0.3 foot.

Files of a member of the “Milwaukee Fourteen” concerning his involvement in this Vietnam War protest action in Milwaukee, the trial, and his subsequent imprisonment. Newspaper clippings, statements, and notes on prison conditions are included.
[Connect to Antony Mullaney Inventory]

PEACE PRISONERS ORAL HISTORY COLLECTION, 2004-2008, 4.2 feet + 4.2 GB.

Audio recordings and transcripts of more than 140 interviews conducted by Rosalie Riegle that were edited and published in her books Crossing the Line: Nonviolent Resisters Speak Out for Peace (2013) and Doing Time for Peace: Resistance, Family and Community (2012), along with related correspondence.
[Connect to Peace Prisoners Oral History Collection inventory]

 

PEACE VIDEOS COLLECTION, ca. 2000-[ongoing], 0.2 foot.

Documentaries on faith-based peace activism, selected to complement holdings in the Dorothy Day-Catholic Worker Collection and other collections.
[Connect to Peace Videos Inventory]

VOICES IN THE WILDERNESS RECORDS, 1996-2005, 3.4 feet.

Records of a Chicago based campaign, initiated by a small number of peace activists, including Kathy Kelly, who remained a coordinator until the end. It utilized the means of nonviolent direct action, such as civil disobedience and fasting, to oppose economic sanctions and war against Iraq. The group organized over seventy delegations to Iraq which brought donations of medicine and toys to children in hospitals in open violation of the US/UN sanctions and US law. The Treasury Department responded by imposing a $20,000 fine. Refusing to pay the penalty as a matter of principle, Voices in the Wilderness closed its doors in the summer of 2005, reorganizing under the name Voices for Creative Nonviolence.
[Connect to Voices in the Wilderness Inventory

 

WINCHESTER, HAROLD P., PAPERS, 1942-1998, 0.3 foot.

Papers of a conscientious objector during World War II concerning his experiences in Civilian Public Service camps in New Hampshire, including correspondence and drafts of a thesis (apparently not completed).
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ZABELKA, REV. GEORGE, PAPERS, 1943-1992, 0.3 foot.

Writings and limited correspondence of a diocesan priest from Michigan (1915-1992) who served as chaplain for the men who dropped the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and later underwent a conversion to total pacifism, after which he engaged in lengthy peace walks and spoke widely on the imperative of gospel nonviolence.
[Connect to George Zabelka Inventory]

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