Summary Information

Title: Sweet Family Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1970-1977

Call Number: M90-268

Quantity: 2.4 c.f. (7 archives boxes) and 7 tape recordings

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers of Charles, Jean, and Debra Sweet, a Madison, Wisconsin family active in the peace and social justice movements of the 1960s and 1970s including articles, clippings and tape recordings concerning civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer (particularly her visit to Madison); and letters to Debra Sweet and her parents prompted by Debra’s anti-war comment to President Nixon when he presented her with the Young American Medal for Service in 1970.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-m90268

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