Part 3 (M2002-135, Audio 1705A): Additions, 1940-1996
Physical Description: 2.0 cubic feet (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, minutes, newsletters 1960

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

Photographs of the Eisendraths

Audio recordings

Notes for tape recordings

American Economic Development in Africa, Richard Thomas, Antioch College 1966 December 9

African Songs and Language / Dr. Jordan

Lecture XXII, Part II 1964 April 27

Lecture XX

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

Sane Nuclear Policy, Economics of Disarmament, Donald Keyes 1968 November

Milton Mayer, 1967 May 22

Aunt Juliette reminiscences (side 1); Eisendrath family (side 2), 1959 September
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 Disarmament, Saul Mendolovitz

Earl Warren, 1965 January 5

Mary Marines, 1965 February 28

Discussion on Education in Underdeveloped Areas of the World, including Latin America, BBC 1967 May 22
Note: 10 minutes (side 1)

Education in Latin America / Dr. Ward

Education in Latin America / Dr. Frandizi

Margaret Winter

Productivities lecture #22 and #28 / Mr. Mugambi

Tribute to Edith Piaf, contemporary Italian composers - 194 - (Concerta d'Albatri-gibini-) (side 1); Dr. Earle Reynolds (side 2)

“Beth's Piano”

Mrs. E.N. Robertson (side 1), 1977 June 28

[Gottschalk / In White America]

Zeidler & Bridelman

Speech

Police - Civil rights / Hebrew language

[Barry Commoner]

Martin Luther King Jr., In White America, Freedom songs

#10 Betty Eisendrath [Council of Federated Organization and Freedom in Mississippi Part 4]

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

Birmingham May 1963, "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 circa 1963 May

Martin Luther King Jr., 1968 May 8, 15

Clear and Present Danger Doctrine / Dr. David Fellman

Boycott School (side 1); Boycott school, Eugene Felman, Dick Gregory (side 2) unknown year October 10, 21

Discourses in Dissent / James Silber / 315 (caste and class) (side 1); Discourses in Dissent / Governor George Wallace (side 2)

Reminiscences of Edwin Norris Robertson Sr., M.D. / interview taped by Bettie Mae Eisendrath (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 / otolaryngologist 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 maternal grandfather)
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.

John Trude giving history of grandmother Mabel Trude (side 1)

Allen - Harmonica Piano, Beth?

Malawi, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee students 1964 December 13

Reminiscences Robertson (side 1); Reminiscences Betourney (side 2), 1963 July 25

Reminiscences Aunt Winnie (Welch)

Reminiscences S. Allen Aldrich (Betty Eisendrath's father)
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, 1966 January 6-7
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 1969 January 9

Frank Zeidler and Bob Landry, 1974 November 12

Vietnam / Dr. Schuman

Peace Thru Law, Jacob Javits/Saul Mendolovitz, Philip Van Slyck, Elbert Geuss, Scarsdale High School Social Studies Department

Chester Graham, 1966 June 21, 1974 March 13
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 1963 September-October

Betty Boardman (side 1); Gothschalk - Cakewalk / Star and Stripes (side 2), 1967 May 11

Cable / Ricky Bae, EP2 (erasable) (side 1); Annette and Lois West (side 2) 1969?

Kenneth Hanson, Robert Hanson 1972 August

Marian Ogden, Spring Street (side 1) 1965 May 18

Cole Porter, Anything Goes Can Can / Tom Phillipson, Homemakers Program 1975 April 17

Mr. and Mrs. Emil Seligram, 1963 December 8

Clem Bonnell, 1974 August 27

Mrs. Aurora Spransy (mother of Celeste Spransy Gass)

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

Grant Hass (son of Milwaukee German language newspaper editor), 1966 March
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, Friends Forum, Milwaukee 1974 April 7
Scope and Content Note: Chakravarty was an associate of Mahatma Gandi and Rabindranath Tagore.

Chakravarty, 1966 January 25

Swami Chinmayanda, 1965 April 7-8

Cable - Ricky Bae, EP2 (erasable) (side 1); Annette and Lois West (cousins of Annette Roberts) (side 2) 1969?

Dr. Karl Kassowitz
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 United States, career in Dolomites agriculture(?), Italians, subsequent pacifist thinking, medical problems in Vienna following WWI.

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

Professor Rudolf Morris, 1966-1967?
Scope and Content Note: See typescript in sound recordings folder for some recordings.

"The Case for Psychology Today" / Dr. R.E. Morris, 1953 March 6

Karl F. Miller[?]

Jake Eisendrath

[unidentified]

Herbert Humphrey Memorial Service