Part 1 (M92-193): Original Collection, 1967-1991
Physical Description: 3.0 c.f. (3 record center cartons) 
Scope and Content Note: Papers, 1967-1991, containing information on Bettie Eisendrath's involvement with several social action groups related to women's rights, human rights, peace in Central America, and population control and abortions.

Nicaragua

Wisconsin Interfaith Committee and other religious groups - , 1985-1991

MADRE: Women's Peace Network

Quest for Peace - , 1987-1990

Central America

Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador - , 1988

Human Rights

Amnesty International - , 1985-1990

Central America

Milwaukee and Madison groups related to Central America (Wisconsin Coordinating Council, etc.) - 1985-1990

Women's Convoy to Central America

Pledge of Resistance - , 1986-1991

Witness for Peace (including Wisconsin chapter) - , 1983-1990

Neighbor to Neighbor Action Fund and Nicaragua Network - , 1986-1988

Women's Rights

Preparation for the 1985 United Nations Conference on Women - , 1984

“The Road to Nairobi” - United Nations Conference on Women - , 1984-1985

Nicaragua

1985-1990

Women's Rights

United Nations Conference on Women

Central America

Central America: Information Packs by the Congressional Research Service entitled, Central America, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Caribbean Basin Initiative - 1982-1987

Actions by Members of Congress, National and State Government on Central America - mainly Nicaragua - 1987-1990

Women's Rights

1985-1991

Women in Europe - , 1985-1991

Women in Asia, Middle East, and Central America

National Consultation on Economic Justice for Women who are Poor - , 1984

World Development - , 1985

Women's Rights

National Organization for Women material - , 1984-1991

Population Control

Organizations for Population Control (The Population Institute, Negative Population Growth, Inc., Population Communications International, Zero Population Growth) - 1967-1991 (majority , 1985-1990)

Women's Rights

League of Women Voters - , 1979-1989

Women's Campaign Fund, National Women's Political Caucus, National Women's Party - 1979-1990

The Abortion Controversy - , 1968-1991

The Feminist Majority, National Women's Health Network, Sojourner Truth House, International Women's Rights Nation Watch - 1989-1991

Congressional Responses - , 1986-1989

Human Rights

Genocide - , 1970-1985

Church positions and organizations (Sanctuary, Ecumenical Council, etc.) 1979-1986

Anti-Semitism (, early 1980s)

Congressional views - , 1983-1987
Scope and Content Note: Consists of correspondence, bulletins, or statements from those holding state or national office.

Human Rights

South Korea, Iran, Afghanistan ( early 1980s)

Miscellaneous - , 1970-1984

Amnesty International

Adoption Group #106 (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) monthly bulletins - 1982-1986

General

Newsletters

Central America

Wisconsin Interfaith Committee on Central America, U.S. Out of Central America, Wisconsin Coordinating Council on Nicaragua, etc.

Nicaragua

Nicaragua Network, Wisconsin Coordinating Council, etc. - 1983-1987

Central America

El Salvador, Guatemala, etc.

Guatemala, El Salvador

Women's Rights

Abortion Controversy - , 1968-1989

Women's Political Rights, Women's Campaign Fund, League of Women Voters, etc. - 1982-1985

Congressional views on Central America, Women's rights - 1983-1984

Population Control

Miscellaneous

Women's Rights

Miscellaneous

Planned Parenthood

1969-1989

Abortion, Population Explosion - 1961-1971

Miscellaneous

Part 2 (M98-149): Additions, 1950-1996
Physical Description: 2.6 c.f. (2 record center cartons and 2 archives boxes) 
Scope and Content Note: Additions, 1950-1996, mainly reflecting Bettie and Jack Eisendrath's involvement in the Milwaukee Chapter of the World Federalist Association (Mr. Eisendrath was president in the 1950s). Included is correspondence; reports; minutes of meetings; newsletters; speeches; clippings and articles; press releases; training, campaign, and project materials; and conference materials. Also included are files concerning other organizations and causes with which the Eisendraths were associated: Association to Unite the Democracies; Parliamentarians for Global Action, the World Association of World Federalists, and the Coalition for Non-Violence in Schools, among others.

World Federalist Association (WFA)

Correspondence

Congressional

1971-1980

1984-1991

Eisendrath, Bettie, regarding Representation at Women's Conference in Nairobi, 1985-1987

Eisendrath, Bettie, correspondence with R. Rosenwald, regarding Hollywood for SANE, 1989

Eisendrath, Bettie and Jack, 1961-1990

Milwaukee Chapter

1950-1952

1979-1991

General correspondence from WFA National Office, 1976-1991

Specific correspondence between WFA-Milwaukee Chapter and National Office of WFA

Miscellaneous, 1965-1991

Ziedler, Frank and Milwaukee Chapter WFA, 1977-1991

Events, Speakers, Statements, WFA-Milwaukee Chapter, 1965-1991

Global Interdependence, WFA-Milwaukee Chapter, 1977

Meeting Minutes, WFA-Milwaukee Chapter

1975

1976

1977

1978-1979

1980

1981-1985

1986

1987-1989

1990-1991

Milwaukee Foundation, 1990-1991

News Articles, WFA-Milwaukee Chapter, 1968-1990

Newsletters, WFA-Milwaukee Chapter, 1966-1991

Newsletters and Reports from other WFA Chapters

Chicago Region, 1975-1991

Colorado Chapter, 1991

Midwest Region, 1960-1986

Midwest Regional Assembly, 1977-1985

Minnesota Chapter, 1977-1985

Miscellaneous chapters, 1966-1991

Northern California Chapter, 1986-1991

Philadelphia Chapter, 1983-1984

Quincy, Illinois Chapter, (radio spot), 1989

Saint Louis Chapter, 1978-1985

Springfield, Illinois Chapter, 1986-1992

Whitewater Chapter, 1980-1991

“Our Common Future”, WFA-Milwaukee Chapter, 1989-1990

Peace Studies Curricula, J. Eisendrath, 1949-1991

Roberts, Annette, 1983-1988

Statements and Speeches regarding World Federalism from various WFA chapters, 1983-1988

“Stop the War Before it Starts” / “What can we expect from a New World Order?”, B. Eisendrath, 1990

Structure of Organization, By-laws, WFA-Milwaukee Chapter, 1965-1986

“U.S. Strategic Military Policy: A Personal Assessment”, completed by B. Eisendrath, 1982

WFA National Board Meeting, Milwaukee, 1986

World Citizen Movement, Milwaukee, 1960-1977

Annual Reports, WFA, 1988-1989

Arms Reversal Program / WFA Disarmament Campaign, 1978-1983

Articles, newspaper and magazine clippings, 1967-1991

WFA Blue Ribbon Commission Report, 1980

Citizens Committee on Interdependence Education, 1978

Cox, Eric - Articles and Correspondence, 1977-1990

Cousins, Norman, 1986-1991

WFA Delegation to the Soviet Union, 1984-1988

HR 36 Disarmament Treaty, 1986

“Draft Prospectus for an Independent Commission on Strengthening the UN”, 1985

Environmental Structures Project, WFA, 1990-1991

Fundraising Efforts, Norman Cousins Club Donors, 1987-1989

Hoffman, Walter, 1981-1991

Human Rights Statements, WFA, 1991

International Court of Justice, 1986-1990

Media Campaign, WFA, 1985-1990

Meeting Minutes, Agenda, Membership Lists, WFA

1965-1970

1975-1977

1978-1980

1984-1986

1987-1989

1990-1991

Membership Building Task Force, WFA, 1986-1989

Nairobi Conference, 1985-1987

National Program and Operations Report, WFA, 1975

Networking Committee, WFA, 1987-1989

Nuremberg Principles, 1966

Panama Canal, 1977

WFA Philadelphia Convention / Bicentennial Commemoration, 1987

Planet in Every Classroom Project, 1990-1991

Press Releases and Media Advisories, WFA, 1986-1987

Program Committee, WFA, 1985-1986

Publications, video / audio cassettes, 1979-1991

Resolutions, WFA, 1985-1987

Songs, Scripts, WFA, 1985-1991

Structure of Organization, By-laws, WFA, 1990-1991

Suggested Chapter Activities, WFA, 1989-1990

UN and Planet Report, 1982

UN Reform Campaign, WFA

1965-1988

1989-1991

UN Restructuring Strategy, 1987

Youth Movement, WFA, 1973-1991

Other Organizations And Subject Files

Africa, 1990

Association to Unite the Democracies, 1985

Central America and Iran / Contra

Coalition for Non-Violence in Schools, 1991-1996

Common Security through Structures for Peace, 1988

Food Day, 1974-1975

Leadership Training, 1966-1990

Miscellaneous Organizations and Events

National Bipartisan Commission on Central America, Report, 1984

National Conference on the United States and the United Nations, 1989-1990

Parliamentarians for Global Action, 1984-1990

Peace Education, 1974-1977

World Association of World Federalists, 1967-1991

COPE (Coalition of Organizations for a Peaceful Earth), 1987

SUN (Strengthen UN) Task Force, 1984-1986

UN Newsreport No. 5: The 25th UN General Assembly, 1971

World Congress, 1986-1991

World Federalism Education, 1967-1991

Part 3 (M2002-135): Additions, 1940-1996
Physical Description: 2.0 c.f. (2 record center cartons), 90 tape recordings, and 4 photographs 
Scope and Content Note: Additions, 1940-1996, including correspondence and papers documenting Eisendrath’s social and political action activities. Correspondence (1940-1996) to and from Eisendrath and her husband Jack, comment on politics, other current events, and the Eisendraths’ personal and professional activities and interests. Social action materials (circa 1940-1995) contain correspondence, pamphlets, clippings, and materials from many organizations in which Eisendrath was involved, including World Federalists, American Friends Service Committee, The Milwaukee Foundation, State Radio Listeners, and Wisconsin Friends of Public Broadcasting. Also documented are Eisendrath’s interests in women’s issues, cable television, and national and state legislation. The sound recordings include speeches and oral histories by activists and educators in the fields of peace and disarmament, nuclear policy, and civil rights, as well as reminiscences by Bettie and Jack Eisendrath’s families.

Correspondence

Personal, 1940-1996

Non-personal

1942-1994

Social action activities

United World Federalists

General

Committee on Gender Equity

Legislation letters

Legislative contacts

Zeidler, Frank

Quaker / Society of Friends

Women's issues

The Milwaukee Foundation / Adele O'Shaughnessy

State radio listeners

Loewe, Milton

Correspondence and memos

Educational Communications Board hearing material

Bylaws, annual report 1960, minutes, newsletters

Miscellaneous

Wisconsin Friends of Public Broadcasting

WHA and Wisconsin public broadcasting literature

Board of directors

Correspondence

Other

Corporation for Public Broadcasting funding

FM data

“In the Public Interest”

[Television]

“America's Defense Monitor” TV Channel 36

Educational / public television

Cable television

Citizens Right to Know symposia

Co-operatives

Daughters of the American Revolution, Concordia, Kansas chapter

[Organizations]

Eisendrath Christmas cards and newsletters

Date books, 1978-1981, 1983-1989, 1992-1993

Short story by Bettie Eisendrath

State Historical Society, 1957, 1970, 1992

Notes for tape recordings

Photographs of the Eisendraths

Audio recordings
Note: Notations from notes in folder on tape recordings.

Physical Description: 7" reel-to-reel tapes unless otherwise noted 

American economic development in [South?] Africa, Richard Thomas, Antioch College, December 9, 1966

African songs and language, Dr. Jordan

Lecture XXII, Part II, April 27, 1964

Lecture XX

Program 6, World Peace Through Law, Institutions, introduction by Norman Thomas, January 30, 1965

Sane nuclear policy and economics of disarmament, Donald Keyes, November 1963

Milton Mayer, May 22, 1967

Side 1: Aunt Juliette reminiscences, September 1969; Side 2: Eisendrath family
Scope and Content Note: Reminiscences of German-Jewish family in Chicago at turn of 20th century, why father left Germany, etc.

Peace - control of national power, Mendolovitz

Earl Warren, January 5, 1965; Mary Mannes, , February 28, 1965

Discussion on education in underdeveloped areas of world, including Latin America, BBC, May 22, 1967

Education in Latin America, Dr. Ward

Education in Latin America, Dr. Frandizi

Margaret Winter

Productivitets [?] lectures 22 and 28, Mr. Mugambi

Side 1: Tribute to Edith Piaf / contemporary Italian composers; Side 2: Dr. Earle Reynolds

Beth's piano

Side 1: Mrs. E.N. Robertson, June 28, 1977

Gottschalk / In White America

Zeidler and Bridelman

Speech

Police - civil rights / Hebrew language

Barry Commoner

Martin Luther King [Jr.] / The White America / Freedom songs

Council of Federated Organizations and Freedom in Mississippi Part 4

Birmingham (Ku Klux Klan) / Birmingham #4 Mother Day

Birmingham, May 1963: #4 / #5 “Keep Birmingham Southern” / Abernathy / McGee / Poke / 16-year-old girl story / Knives razors / on white students participation / Marg / Julia / boy / girl / Bard President / Martin Luther King [Jr.] / mother

Martin Luther King [Jr.], May 8, 1968, , May 15, 1968

Clear and present danger doctrine, Dr. David Fellman

Side 1: Boycott school, October 10; Side 2: Boycott school, Eugene Feldman, Dick Gregory, , October 21

Side 1: Discourses in dissent, James Silver / 315 (Caste and class); Side 2: Discourses in dissent, Gov. George Wallace

Reminiscences of Edwin Norris Robertson, Sr., M.D., taped by Bettie Mae Eisendrath (his stepdaughter)
Scope and Content Note: Reminiscences of Lincoln, Nebraska childhood in late 19th century, medical residency in Durango, Colorado circa 1904, and career as ophthalmologist / otolarygologist in Concordia, Kansas. Family background and life in Midwest small town. Humanist / individualist. Viennese medical studies in 1920s.

McAllister family - Aunt Winifred Hanson, Eva Mae Robertson / Welch history by Albert Welch [Betty Eisendrath's grandfather on mother's side]
Scope and Content Note: Reminiscences regarding life of a Civil War orphan, raised in orphanage in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Life of homesteader in Cloud County, Kansas at turn of the century. Family life with Lily McAllister Welch and children. Attitudes regarding politics and economy / labor relations. Good regarding sense of Midwest rural life.

Side 1: John Trude giving history of Grandmother Mabel Trude

Allen - harmonica piano / Beth?

Malawi, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee students, December 13, 1964

Side 1: Reminiscences, Robertson, July 25, 1963; Side 2: Reminiscences, Betournay, , July 25, 1963

Reminiscences, Aunt Winnie (Welsh) [Walsh?]

Reminiscences, S. Allen Aldrich, father of Betty Eisendrath
Scope and Content Note: Reminiscences of family life in Rochester, Minnesota, county agent work in northern Minnesota, rural problems, amusing anecdotes, and character descriptions.

Mrs. Annette Roberts, January 6-7, 1966
Scope and Content Note: Reminiscences of Milwaukee in late 19th and 20th century, family background, including some Quakers and Jefferson Davis, also German antecedents. Psychic experiences and meetings with noble leadership, such as George Bernard Shaw, Baroness Von Sattner, and Jane Addams. Opposition to war, leadership roles in women suffrage and WILPF and conviction about world peace though world law.

Bruno Bitker

Bruno Bitker, UWF + 17 organizations, Villa Terrace, Milwaukee, January 9, 1969

Frank Zeidler and Bob Landry, November 12, 1974

Dr. Schumann on Vietnam

Peace through law, Jacob Javits / Saul Mendlovitz, Philip Van Slyck, Elbert Geuss[?], Scarsdale High School Social Studies Department

Chester Graham, June 21, 1966 and , March 13, 1974
Scope and Content Note: Reminiscences of a man who became a Quaker, a conscientious objector and pacifist, a Socialist, a leader in the cooperative movement, who established a couple of folk schools, had radio programs for Farmer's Union in North Dakota. Remarkable memory, remarkable life. Also taught and was director of Immigrant Acculturation School (or similarly named school) in the 1920s.

UN agencies, Dr. Eugene Boardman / Nature Conservancy / John Ludwig, Ingraham / Dr. Alan Watts, September 1963 / Lowell Erickson and UWF, , October 14, 1963

Side 1: Betty Boardman; Side 2: Gottschalk - Cake Walk / Stars and Stripes

Mueller and ITT case, March 16, 1972 / T. Phillipson and Rick--Cable Comm., , February 1972

Kenneth Hanson, Robert Hanson, August 1972

Side 1: Marian Ogden, Spring St., May 18, 1965

Tom Phillipson, Homemaker's program, April 17, 1975 / Cole Porter, Anything Goes Can Can

Mr. and Mrs. Emil Seligman, December 8, 1963

Clem Bonnell, August 24, 1974

Mrs. Aurora Spransy (mother of Celeste Spransy Gass)

Mrs. Preston B. Gass (Emma Butler), mother of Alan Laue Gass, December 26, 1964
Scope and Content Note: Reminiscences of Michigan farm life before 1900, Chicago in the early 20th century, Hawaii in the 1930s, etc.

Grant Haas, March 1966, son of German language newspaper editor in Milwaukee
Scope and Content Note: Reminiscences of family background of mixed militarist-religious (Lutheran) leadership leading to pacifist thinking, and escape from German conscription.

Richard Mahone

Rodney Shaw

Dr. Amiya Chakravarty, secretary to Gandhi and to Tagure [?], Friends Forum, Milwaukee, April 7, 1974
Scope and Content Note: Reminiscing regarding Schweitzer, Pasternak, Martin Luther King, Jr., Nehru, etc., and social movements, ethics, religion, and what one can do.

Chakravarty, January 25, 1966

Swami Chinmayanda, April 7-8, 1965

Side 1: Cable - Ricky Bae, FP2 (erasable); Side 2: Annette and Lois West, cousins of Annette Roberts, 1969 (?)

Dr. Karl Kassowitz
Physical Description: 4 tapes 
Scope and Content Note: Reminiscences of family background, medical (diphtheria test) World War I, escape from Russian prison camp 40 miles north of Vladivostok and walk through China 500-700 miles, travel across U.S., career in Dolomites ag [?], Italians, subsequent pacifist thinking, medical problems in Vienna following WWI.

Dr. Kassowitz, Rudolf and Marketa Morris, Celeste Gass regarding Kathe Kollowitz

Professor Rudolph Morris, July 15

Professor Rudolph Morris - self, August 21, 1967

Professor Rudolph Morris #3 (unfinished)

Professor Rudolph Morris
Note: See typescript in sound recordings folder.

Dr. R.E. Morris, “The Case for Psychology Today,” March 6, 1953
Physical Description: 2 - 5" reels 

Karl F. Miller [?]

Jack Eisendrath

Unidentified
Physical Description: 13 tapes 

Hubert Humphrey memorial service
Physical Description: Cassette tape 

Part 4 (M2003-070): Additions, 1942-2003
Physical Description: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) and 17 photographs 
Scope and Content Note: Additions, 1942-2003, consisting of correspondence, personal writings, news clippings, and files of various social action groups with which she was involved. Of particular interest are materials related to Albert Schweitzer consisting of correspondence to and from Jack Eisendrath, articles and publications about Schweitzer, and news clippings. The photographs are of Eisendrath's family and friends.

Interns in Industry Program, 1947-1954

Koinonia Foundation, 1953-1964, 2003

Laubach Literacy Program, 1965-1966

Milwaukee Peace Education Committee, 1951-1957

Miscellaneous articles, programs, and personal invitations, 1965-2003

Native American affairs, 1956-1957

Personal and family writings and sketches, 1952-1968

Personal correspondence, 1961-2003

Albert Schweitzer

Articles, 1949-1975

Autographs, 1951

Correspondence, 1950-1974

News clippings, 1951-1977

Schweitzer Fellowship Publications, 1974-1985

Photographs of family and friends, 1942-1945