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Flora Haas papers
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Identifier: M132
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Flora Haas was a local activist who advocated for the rights of prisoners and worked against the death penalty. She wrote numerous articles regarding the death penalty, human experimentation in prisons, and prison daycare for newspapers such as The Boston Globe, Boston Phoenix, Black Weekly, The Arlington Advocate, Sister Courage, and State and Mind. Haas was the editor and creator of The Outlook, which focused on criminal justice opinions in the commonwealth. The Outlook focused on issues...
Sara R. Ehrmann papers
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Identifier: M039
Overview
Sara R. Ehrmann (1895-1993) was a Boston-area civic leader best known for her work as an opponent of capital punishment. Ehrmann's career as a capital punishment abolitionist began in 1925 when her husband Herbert B. Ehrmann became an associate counsel for Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian immigrant anarchists convicted of murder and condemned to death. Sara Ehrmann was a key leader of the Massachusetts Council for the Abolition of the Death Penalty (1928-1969) and the American League to Abolish...
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- American League to Abolish Capital Punishment 1
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- Arsenault, Henry P., 1927- 1
- Bedau, Hugo Adam 1
- Bonomi, Dominick L. 1
- Capital Punishment Information Services 1
- Chapin, Kenneth R., 1937- 1
- Chessman, Caryl, 1921-1960 1
- Citizens Against Legalized Murder 1
- Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938 1
- Ehrmann, Herbert Brutus, 1891-1970 1
- Ehrmann, Sara R. 1
- Ehrmann, Sara R., 1895-1993 1
- Facente, Antonio, 1946-1979 1
- Haas, Flora 1
- Kerrigan, John J., 1919- 1
- Lawes, Lewis, 1884?-1947 1
- Lee, Edward H., 1916- 1
- MCI-Framingham (Correctional facility) 1
- Massachusetts Citizens Against the Death Penalty 1
- Massachusetts Citizens Against the Death Penalty Fund 1
- Massachusetts Correctional Association 1
- Massachusetts Correctional Council 1
- Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Bridgewater 1
- Massachusetts Council for the Abolition of the Death Penalty 1
- Neal, Don J., 1920?-1955 1
- Norfolk Lifers Group 1
- Pierce, Vivian 1
- Sacco, Nicola, 1891-1927 1
- Tracy, Charles E. 1
- United Prison Association of Massachusetts 1
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