Human Rights CollectionAdditional information about the Human Rights CollectionsAdditional information about the collections is available on the Library Guide for Human Rights Archival Collections Contact the Curator Graham StinnettCurator for Human Rights Collections Archives & Special Collections Thomas J. Dodd Research Center University of Connecticut Libraries 405 Babbidge Road Unit 1205 Storrs, CT 06269-1205 Phone: 860-486-2384 Fax: 860-486-4521 Email: graham.stinnett@lib.uconn.edu Human Rights Collection
African National Congress Collection Finding Aid
undated, 1993-1999 Materials collected by University staff in preparation for the UConn-ANC Partnership. African National Congress Oral History Transcripts Collection Finding Aid
2000-2006 Established in 1912, the African National Congress was created to provide a political avenue for the struggle for equality of Blacks in South Africa. Working in exile from 1960 until 1990, members of the ANC established foreign offices to continue the political work necessary to end apartheid in South Africa. The governing party since 1994, the ANC has established its archives at the University of Fort Hare, an historically Black institution. In March 1999, the ANC and the University of Connecticut signed a Memorandum of Understanding establishing a partnership to foster training, assistance and cooperation based on the principle of reciprocal learning and consultation. One of the projects resulting from the collaboration between the University of Connecticut and the ANC was the ANC Oral History Project, which conducted and transcribed 133 oral histories of ANC leaders in South Africa between 2000 and 2006. Blanshard (Rufus A.) Papers (UConn) Finding Aid
1960-2004 Rufus A. Blanshard was an Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Connecticut. He was involved with combating racism at the university during the 1970s and 1980s, and was influential in introducing an alternative classroom curriculum to the University. Materials in the collection are comprised of his personal papers, and include documents related to his civil rights work. Coalition for International Justice (CIJ) Records Finding Aid
1995-2006 Records of the non-governmental organization, Coalition for International Justice (CIJ), which operated from 1995-2006 to support the work of international criminal tribunals and special courts investigating human rights violations in Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia, Cambodia, Sudan, East Timor, and Sierra Leone. The collection also contains documentation from a 2004 survey of over 1200 refugees from Darfur along the border of Chad and Sudan. De Tour (Irena Urdang) Collection of Holocaust Materials Finding Aid
undated, 1981-2011 The collection contains a few personal materials pertaining to her experiences as well as publications, newsletters, invitations and other documents from Holocaust survivor and support organizations in the United States collected by Mrs. DeTour. Dodd (Thomas J.) Papers Finding Aid
1919-1971 The collection illuminates the diverse public life of a self-styled crusader. The collection consists primarily of material from Dodd's Senate years (1959-71) and the Nuremberg war crimes trial before the International Military Tribunal from 1945-46. Farrow (Mia) Collection Finding Aid
2002-2011 The collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, notes, digital photographs, video footage, writings, and speeches pertaining to Ms. Farrows activism and advocacy in Africa, particularly regarding Darfur, Sudan. Ho (Fred) Papers Finding Aid
1892-1996 Collection contains essays, articles, poetry, music, commentaries, critical reviews, speeches, video recordings and musical recordings written, performed and collected by Fred Ho [Asian American Musician, composer, writer and activist]. Impact Visuals Photograph Collection Finding Aid
undated, 1964-2000 [bulk 1983-1999] Photographs, slides and negatives primarily of South Africa and the anti-apartheid movement. Some supporting material on photo cooperatives and the shooting death of Abdul Shariff, one of the photographers represented in the collection. International Rescue Committee, Central America Records Finding Aid
1976-2000 The collection is comprised of materials documenting the immigration of Latin Americans, in to the United States, during the 1980s and 1990s, and the International Rescue Committee's role in assiting that immigration. The collection consists of administrative records, financial records, legal documents, correspondence, notes, photographs, and transcripts. Krayeske (Ken) Papers Finding Aid
1969-2009 The Ken Krayeske Papers consist of administrative records, publications, pamphlets, correspondence, clippings, financial records, fliers, legal documents, audio cassettes, photographs, and posters of Meriden, Connecticut based attorney and activist Ken Krayeske. The collection contains materials from 1969 to 2009, with the bulk of the collection comprised of materials from the 1990s and 2000s. Laurie S. Wiseberg and Harry Scoble Human Rights Internet Collection Finding Aid
undated, 1977- The collection includes thousands of human rights publications from around the world collected from 1977 to the present by Human Rights Internet, a non-governmental organization based out of Ottawa, Canada, founded by Laurie S. Wiseberg and Harry Scoble. The collection includes materials not found in any other libraries in North America, and includes publications in a variety of languages including English, French, Spanish, Dutch, German, Swedish, Chinese and Japanese. Many publications are cataloged and searchable through HOMER, the librarys online public catalog. Marriage Equality and LGBT Activism in Connecticut Oral History Collection Finding Aid
2010-2011 The collection consists of 11 oral histories with leading activists in Connecticut who have been a part of the marriage equality movement as well as been engaged in other forms of LGBT activism in the state and beyond. The interviews were conducted by Valerie Love, Curator for Human Rights and Alternative Press Collections, between July 2010 and April 2011. Six of the eleven interviews have been transcribed and are available. Mikhailov (Georgi) Collection Finding Aid
undated, 1982-1987 Correspondence, newspaper and magazine clippings regarding Georgi Mikhailov?s life, in particular his time spent as a political prisoner in Soviet labor camps in Northeastern Siberia from 1980-1983. The collection also contains photographs and negatives of Mikhailov and the labor camps. Nadel (Adam) Photography Collection Finding Aid
2008-2010 Large scale photography by Pulitzer Prize nominated photojournalist, Adam Nadel, from Vietnam and Cambodia, documenting the contemporary impact of the American war in Viet Nam and the Cambodian genocide. Reeves (Eric) Papers Finding Aid
1994-2011 The collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, notes, photographs, writings, speeches, regarding Eric Reeves advocacy, research and analysis of the humanitarian crisis and genocide in Sudan and Darfur from 1999 onward. The collection also contains documents regarding the court case, Presbyterian Church of Sudan et al. vs. Talisman Energy Inc, Sudan. Romano (U. Roberto [Robin]) Papers Finding Aid
1972-2011 Research files and photography by noted photographer and documentary filmmaker U. Roberto (Robin) Romano, who has documented child labor in Brazil, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Nepal, and Pakistan, migrant farm labor in the United States and Mexico, and the cocoa industry in the Ivory Coast. Access to a portion of the digital images from the collection is available at http://doddcenter.uconn.edu/collections/digital.htm Tambo (Oliver) Papers Finding Aid
undated, 1960-1991 Microfilm copies of manscript collection located at the University of Fort Hare (Alice, South Africa). Papers of anti-apartheid activist Oliver Tambo. Xuma (A. B.) Papers Finding Aid
1917-1960 Microfilm copies of manuscript collection located at the University of Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa). Papers of anti-apartheid activist A. B. Xuma. |
