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‘Equality, Peace and Compassion in the Archives: A Showcase of Rare Documents’

Thursday, August 17, 2017, By News Staff
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The portrait is found within “Autographs for Freedom,” edited by Julia Griffiths (Auburn, N.Y.: Alden, Beardsley, and Co., 1854), Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries.

On Aug. 18, Syracuse University Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center will hold an open viewing of materials from its collections that document the efforts of people who championed equality, peace, kindness and compassion. The viewing will be held noon to 2 p.m. on the sixth floor of Bird Library.

Highlights of materials that will be on view include a signed statement on religious tolerance by Mary Queen of Scots; an original letter from Frederick Douglass about the Jerry Rescue; letters from migrant workers in the papers of Prudence Wayland-Smith who was a social activist dedicated to migrant reform in central New York; posters from the collection of environmental and social justice activist Kath Buffington; Malcolm X’s handwritten letter to Alex Haley expressing his insights about the possibility of interracial harmony; drafts of Albert Schweitzer’s essays about the dangers of nuclear proliferation; original trial notes from Francis Biddle, Attorney General of the United States under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and member of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg; and much more.

Location: Sixth Floor, Bird Library

Time: Noon to 2 p.m., Friday, Aug. 18

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