Summary Information

Title: Robin Knowlton Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1983-1987

Creator:

• Knowlton, Robin

Call Number: M95-064

Quantity: 2.1 c.f. (2 record center cartons and 1 oversize folder), 5 tape recordings, 48 photographs, 24 negatives, 54 transparencies, and 1 videorecording

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 California-based peace activist Robin Willis Knowlton, who served as a volunteer publicist for several groups and actions opposing nuclear weapons as well as government policy towards Central America, particularly Nicaragua. The papers document Knowlton's involvement with and the activities of Fast for Life (Oakland, 1983); Port Chicago and the Peace Navy (San Francisco Bay, 1983); the Pledge of Resistance campaign and the Emergency Response Network (San Francisco, 1984-1985); the Veterans Fast for Life (1986) and Veterans Peace Action Team; and the lobbying campaign against Contra funding which involved Senator Pete Wilson’s office (1986-1987).

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-m95064