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Sara R. Ehrmann papers
Collection
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...
Dates:
1845-1993 (bulk 1924-1988)
The Coalition to Take Back the Night records
Collection
Identifier: M142
Overview
In 1978 a group of women from Boston area community organizations gathered to organize demonstrations opposing acts of intimidation and violence against women. The group modeled itself after an international protest movement known as Reclaim the Night, which began in Belgium in 1976 when women attending the International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women walked through the streets carrying candles to protest the continuation of violence against women. Protesters in San Francisco held the first...
Dates:
1978-1991
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- American League to Abolish Capital Punishment 1
- Anti-Capital Punishment League 1
- 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
- Kerrigan, John J., 1919- 1
- Lawes, Lewis, 1884?-1947 1
- Lee, Edward H., 1916- 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 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
- Take Back the Night (Organization) 1
- The Coalition to Take Back the Night (Boston, Mass.) 1
- Tracy, Charles E. 1
- United Prison Association of Massachusetts 1
- Van Waters, Miriam 1
- Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 1888-1927 1 ∧ less
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