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Summary Information
League Against Nuclear Dangers Records
1973-1994
- League Agains Nuclear Dangers (Stevens Point, Wis.)
Stevens Point Mss BK; PH Stevens Point Mss BK
2.9 c.f. (7 archives boxes and 1 oversize folder) and 24 photographs
UW-Stevens Point Library / Stevens Point Area Research Ctr. (Map)Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Administrative and working files of a grassroots, activist organization founded in 1973 to fight a proposed nuclear power plant in Rudolph, Wis. Active membership was primarily composed of women homemakers, several of whom, especially Gertrude Dixon and Naomi Jacobson, became extremely knowledgeable about nuclear issues in Wisconsin. Included are organization newsletters, press releases, correspondence, reference materials, newspaper clippings, testimony, speeches, flyers, and an article and paper written about the group by Virginia Kemp Fish, a University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point sociology professor. Research and action files pertain to a variety of nuclear issues confronting Wisconsin including actions taken to fight proposed nuclear power plants in the Wisconsin communities of Genoa, Koshkonong, Point Beach, Rudolph, and Tyrone. Two such actions involved a milk radiation contamination study at Point Beach and involvement of the cranberry growers at Rudolph. Materials collected by LAND from other organizations contain a lot of information about other groups working in Wisconsin at the time. Included are materials from Safe Haven, Ltd. (Sheboygan, Wis.), Lake Superior Region Radioactive Waste Project, Stop Project ELF, Wisconsin Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign (Madison, Wis.), and Women of All Red Nations (Sioux Falls, S.D.). Photographs depict various protest efforts including Burma Shave-type road signs near Rudolph, and protest rallies at Madison and possibly at Stevens Point.
English
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