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Seattle Women Act for Peace records, 1936-2002
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Seattle Women Act for Peace
- Title
- Seattle Women Act for Peace records
- Dates
- 1936-200219612002
- Quantity
- 10.64 cubic feet
- Collection Number
- 4073
- Summary
- Minutes, correspondence, newsletters, clippings, ephemera, subject series, audiotapes, scrapbooks, and reports of Seattle Women Act for Peace, an affiliate group of Women Strike for Peace that was involved in many areas of peace and justice work
- Repository
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University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu - Access Restrictions
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Open to all users.
- Languages
- English
- Sponsor
- Funding for encoding this finding aid was partially provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities
Historical NoteReturn to Top
Seattle Women Act for Peace (SWAP) is an affiliate group of Women Strike for Peace (WSP). WSP was founded by Bella Abzug and Dagmar Wilson after an international protest against the arms race and atmospheric nuclear testing conducted by the United States and the USSR. On November 1, 1961, women around the world, including 1500 in Washington D.C., were roused to protest out of concern for children's health, which was at great risk due to radiation's effect on milk. SWAP was formed shortly after WSP by a group of peace activists in Seattle, including Rosemary Brodie, Anci Koppel, and Thorun Robel. The slogan often used on SWAP stationery declared "End the Arms Race - Not the Human Race." In their first year, they held a demonstration against nuclear testing during President John F. Kennedy's visit to commemorate the University of Washington's centennial anniversary. After Kennedy signed the 1963 Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty, his motivation to sign was credited partly to WSP and other women's peace organizations. In 1969, SWAP lobbied in Olympia against the proposed antiballistic missile system. Over the decades, SWAP was involved in many areas of peace and justice work, including the campaign for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the 1978 protests at the Trident submarine base, the celebration of the 1989 International Year of the Child, and the 1999 protests against the World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle. SWAP produced a monthly newsletter, edited by Thorun Robel, and launched letter writing campaigns to urge government officials to work for peace. SWAP has also participated in world peace conferences such as the 1973 World Congress for Peace in Moscow.
Biographical Note, Anci Koppel: Anci Koppel cofounded Seattle Women Act for Peace, and remained a vital part of the organization until her death in July of 2000. She was born Anci Rosenfeld in Austria in 1907 and emigrated to the United States in 1931 with her husband Charles Koppel. The Koppels ran a small tobacco and pipe wholesale business, which Anci continued after her husband died in 1954. Koppel's career as a peace activist began in 1938, when she protested against the sale of scrap metal to Japan for fear that it could be used for weaponry. She was arrested in 1978 for climbing the fence at the Bangor Naval Base in protest against Trident submarines. Koppel attended many conferences dedicated to world peace, including the 1962 World Conference Against A and H Bombs in Tokyo, Japan, the 1966 World Conference for Children in Stockholm, Sweden, and the 1977 World Peace Council in Warsaw, Poland. She also traveled to Cuba and Nicaragua. Not only did Koppel travel and protest, she also wrote many letters to elected local and national officials and to local newspaper editors. In 1981, the YMCA of Greater Seattle gave her its Milnor Roberts International Understanding Award. In the 1990s, Koppel became involved in the global movements to support Mumia Abu Jamal, a Pennsylvania journalist convicted of murder, and to oppose the World Trade Organization. On the topic of the WTO protests, Koppel said, "We built a grand coalition that spans the movement for peace, equality and economic justice, one that is powerful enough to make our voices heard by the WTO officials. Now we have to keep things together and make our elected officials stop and listen. They are the ones that have to make the changes. Our work isn't finished." She was a tireless activist until the end of her life, working during her last week to oppose the inclusion of the Trident nuclear submarine in the Seattle Seafair celebration.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
Minutes, correspondence, newsletters, clippings, ephemera, subject series, audiotapes, scrapbooks, and reports of Seattle Women Act for Peace and related organizations.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
Creator's literary rights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
Organized into 4 accessions.
- Accession No. 4073-001, Seattle Women Act For Peace records, 1968-1988
- Accession No. 4073-002, Seattle Women Act For Peace records, 1961-2000
- Accession No. 4073-003, Seattle Women Act For Peace Records, 1965-1996
- Accession No. 4073-004, Seattle Women Act for Peace records, 1992-2001
Separated Materials
Material Described Separately:Seattle Women Act for Peace Photograph Collection (PH Coll 629)
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Accession No. 4073-001: Seattle Women Act For Peace records, 1968-1988Return to Top
Scope and Content: Minutes, 1984-1987; correspondence, mailings, newsletters, clippings, ephemera, subject series kept by Trudy Holzinger, 1968-1988.
Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.
Restrictions on Use: Creator's literary rights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.
Acquisition Info: Bibliographic Source: Women Act for Peace. Seattle, May 2, 1990
Accession No. 4073-002: Seattle Women Act For Peace records, 1936-2000Return to Top
Scope and Content: Accession 4073-2 (7.04 cubic feet, 1936-2000) is mainly comprised of records created by Anci Koppel. It also contains records of two peace organizations to which Anci Koppel belonged. The Abe Keller Peace Education Fund was established by Abe Keller's widow and SWAP member, Rosemary Brodie, in 1998 to provide financial resources for peace education activities in the Puget Sound region. The Northwest Disarmament Coalition is composed of organizations in the Northwest with a common desire for disarmament and the complete elimination of weapons of mass destruction. SWAP was an active member of the Coalition, along with the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Anci Koppel served on the KUOW Community Advisory Board. KUOW, a member of National Public Radio, is licensed by the University of Washington and has been broadcasting since 1952.
Subject files such as "Special Events and Very Special People" and "In Memoriam" are original file headings created by Anci Koppel.
A collection of audiotapes is also included in this accession. The tapes, recorded from 1975 to 1999, cover a wide range of topics. Included are political-educational tapes from various organizations, including Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility (WPSR), and from local lectures and events concerning varying issues, such as SWAP's 1984 International Women's Day celebration, the arms race, nuclear weapons, Iraq and economic sanctions, the Iran Contra affair, Trident submarine protests, pesticides, computers and technology, Holocaust survivors, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and Beijing. Two WSP tapes cover the Star Wars campaign and a talk given by Dr. Daniel Ellsburg regarding the Pentagon Papers at a 1992 WSP meeting. There are audiotapes of two conference proceedings: the 1985 Seattle Conference on Central America and the 1986 Hands Off My Neighbor symposium. There are also memorial tapes for Nghen Thai Bin, Richard Carbray, and Abe Keller. Musical tapes and four tapes of Ronald Reagan's presidential speeches and debates were not retained.
Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.
Restrictions on Use: Literary rights of representatives of the records-creating organization transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.
Acquisition Info: Rosemary Brodie, November 30, 2001
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Administrative Records |
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Box/Folder | Accession | ||
1/1 | 4073-002 | Historical Features |
1963-1969, 1990-1997 |
Biographical Features - Anci Koppel |
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Box/Folder | Accession | ||
1/2 | 4073-002 | Oral History |
1994 |
1/3 | 4073-002 | Miscellaneous |
1981-1983, 1999 |
Box/Folder | Accession | ||
1/4 | 4073-002 | Outgoing Letters of Anci Koppel to Shavahn
Best |
1982-1984 |
General Correspondence |
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Box/Folder | Accession | ||
1/5 | 4073-002 | re: New Yorker Article
by Paul Berman on the Death of Ben Linder in Nicaragua |
1996 |
1/6-24 | 4073-002 | Miscellaneous |
1967-2000, undated |
Box/Folder | Accession | ||
1/25 | 4073-002 | Minutes and Agenda |
1996-1997, 2000 |
Newsletters |
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Box/Folder | Accession | ||
1/26-30 | 4073-002 | Seattle Women Act for Peace (SWAP) |
1978-2000 |
1/31 | 4073-002 | Others |
1970-1994, 2000 |
Speeches and Writings |
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Box/Folder | Accession | ||
1/32 | 4073-002 | Koppel, Rosemarie |
1975 |
1/33-34 | 4073-002 | re: WSP History |
1979-1995 |
1/35 | 4073-002 | Skits |
1989, undated |
1/36-39 | 4073-002 | Miscellaneous |
1955-1998, undated |
Subject Series |
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Box/Folder | Accession | ||
2/1-2 | 4073-002 | Abu-Jamal, Mumia |
1995-1999 |
2/3-6 | 4073-002 | American Peace Delegation to the Soviet
Union |
1966-1969 |
2/7 | 4073-002 | Anglesey, Zoë |
1986 |
2/8 | 4073-002 | Arms Sales and Trade |
1995-1997, undated |
2/9 | 4073-002 | Best, Rick |
1970 |
2/10 | 4073-002 | Buskin, Jean |
1991, 1993 |
2/11 | 4073-002 | Carbray, Richard |
1998 |
2/12 | 4073-002 | Citizen's Train |
1987-1988 |
2/13 | 4073-002 | Cuba |
1975-1983 |
2/14 | 4073-002 | Davis, Angela |
1972 |
2/15-16 | 4073-002 | Disarmament Clearinghouse Comprehensive Test Ban
Treaty Activist Packet |
1994-1998 |
2/17 | 4073-002 | Gala Event |
1996-1997 |
2/18 | 4073-002 | Grassroots Assembly of Women |
1967-1973, undated |
2/19 | 4073-002 | Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action |
1998-1999, undated |
2/20 | 4073-002 | Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action Trident
Campaign |
1994-1999 |
2/21 | 4073-002 | Guatemala - Earthquake |
1976 |
2/22 | 4073-002 | Holzinger, Trudy |
1974-1986, undated |
2/23-24 | 4073-002 | In Memoriam (Obituaries of Friends) |
1977-1998, undated |
2/25 | 4073-002 | International Women's Day |
2000 |
2/26 | 4073-002 | International Year of the Child (IYC) |
1979-1981, undated |
2/27 | 4073-002 | IYC Children's Art Exhibit |
1979-1980, undated |
2/28 | 4073-002 | Kurose, Akiko |
1972, 1992-1998 |
2/29 | 4073-002 | Meeting File |
1995, 2000, undated |
2/30 | 4073-002 | Nicaragua Trip |
1982-1990 |
2/31-32 | 4073-002 | Oral History Class at Seattle Central Community
College |
1979, undated |
2/33 | 4073-002 | Peace and Labor Songs |
1972, 1990, undated |
2/34 | 4073-002 | Robel, Thorun |
1988, 1998 |
2/35 | 4073-002 | Rosenfeld, Ernest |
1936, 1978, 1989 |
2/36 | 4073-002 | Sanger, Margaret |
undated |
2/37 | 4073-002 | Seattle Raging Grannies |
1996, 1999, undated |
2/38 | 4073-002 | Special Events and Very Special People |
1970-1998, undated |
2/39 | 4073-002 | Spock, Dr. Benjamin |
1969 |
2/40 | 4073-002 | Stop Star Wars: A Campaign of WSP |
1987 |
2/41 | 4073-002 | SWAP Book |
1962-1986 |
2/42 | 4073-002 | SWAP Educational Programs |
1997-2000 |
2/43 | 4073-002 | SWAP Poster |
undated |
3/1-4 | 4073-002 | Sweatshop Labor |
1996-1998 |
3/5 | 4073-002 | Sweatshop Labor - Garment 2000 Program |
1993, 1996-1997 |
3/6 | 4073-002 | Trident Protests - May 22nd Coalition |
1978 |
3/7 | 4073-002 | U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Hearings |
1976-1979, undated |
3/8 | 4073-002 | Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade |
1983-1986 |
3/9-10 | 4073-002 | Vietnam |
1968-1994, undated |
3/11 | 4073-002 | Washington State Welfare |
1994-1995 |
3/12-13 | 4073-002 | Women Strike for Peace |
1962-2000, undated |
3/14 | 4073-002 | WSP Billboard Campaign |
1975-1976 |
3/15 | 4073-002 | Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
(WILPF). Seattle |
1989-1995 |
3/16 | 4073-002 | Word of Mouth: Women Reading and Singing for
Peace |
1986, 1988, undated |
3/17-19 | 4073-002 | World Court Project |
1993-1996, undated |
3/20-25 | 4073-002 | World Trade Organization Protest |
1960, 1998-2000 |
Conference and Convention Files |
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Box/Folder | Accession | ||
3/26 | 4073-002 | Asia-Pacific Economic Conference |
1993-1994 |
3/27 | 4073-002 | Canadian Women's Conference with Women from
Indochina |
1969, 1971 |
3/28-29 | 4073-002 | Everywoman's Conference - Beijing and Back (Seattle,
WA) |
1990-1996, undated |
3/30 | 4073-002 | Tashkent Conference of Women of
Asia/Pacific |
1991 |
3/31 | 4073-002 | Test Ban Treaty Conference at United
Nations |
1988-1995 |
3/32 | 4073-002 | WSP Rally and Annual Conference |
1979 |
3/33-35 | 4073-002 | World Conference for Children (Stockholm,
Sweden) |
1966 |
3/36-39, 4/1-3 | 4073-002 | World Conference Against A and H Bombs (Tokyo,
Japan) |
1962 |
4/4-6 | 4073-002 | World Peace Council, Warsaw Conference |
1977 |
4/7-9 | 4073-002 | Miscellaneous |
1976-1995, undated |
Box/Folder | Accession | ||
4/10 | 4073-002 | Activity Sheets |
1989-1999 |
4/11 | 4073-002 | Lists |
1996, 2000, undated |
4/12 | 4073-002 | Resolutions |
1981, 1988, undated |
4/13 | 4073-002 | Legislative Agenda |
1989 |
4/14 | 4073-002 | Police Records |
1984-1987 |
4/15 | 4073-002 | Awards |
1993, 1996 |
4/16-17 | 4073-002 | Reports |
1979-1995 |
4/18-29 | 4073-002 | Publications |
1976-1997, undated |
4/30-31 | 4073-002 | Datebooks |
1984-1998 |
4/32 | 4073-002 | Notebooks |
2000 |
Box | |||
6 | 4073-002 | Address File |
1991-2000 |
6 | 4073-002 | Buttons |
1977, 1983-1985, undated |
Audiotapes |
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Box | Accession | ||
7 | 4073-002 | Cassette Tapes |
1975-1999, undated |
7 | 4073-002 | Reel-to-reel Tapes |
undated |
Box | Accession | ||
8 | 4073-002 | Cloth Bags |
undated |
8 | 4073-002 | Signs and Posters |
1966, 1983, undated |
8 | 4073-002 | Scrapbook re: Amchitka |
1971 |
Ephemera |
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Box/Folder | Accession | ||
4/33 | 4073-002 | SWAP |
1984-2000, undated |
5/1 | 4073-002 | WSP and WILPF |
1979, 1990 |
5/2-3 | 4073-002 | Others |
1982-2000, undated |
5/4 | 4073-002 | Miscellaneous |
1966-1999, undated |
Box/Folder | Accession | ||
5/5-7 | 4073-002 | Clippings |
1961, 1973-2000 |
Abe Keller Peace Education Fund |
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Box/Folder | Accession | ||
5/8 | 4073-002 | Organizational Features |
1998-1999, undated |
5/9 | 4073-002 | General Correspondence |
1998-1999 |
5/10 | 4073-002 | Minutes and Agenda |
1998-2000 |
5/11 | 4073-002 | Budgets |
1999 |
5/12 | 4073-002 | Grant Files |
2000 |
5/13 | 4073-002 | Lists |
1998 |
5/14 | 4073-002 | Ephemera |
2000, undated |
Box/Folder | Accession | ||
5/15 | 4073-002 | KUOW Community Advisory Board |
1981-1985 |
Northwest Disarmament Coalition |
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Box/Folder | Accession | ||
5/16 | 4073-002 | General Correspondence |
1997-2000, undated |
5/17 | 4073-002 | Minutes and Agenda |
1999-2000, undated |
5/18 | 4073-002 | Speeches and Writings |
1998-1999 |
Subject Series |
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Box/Folder | Accession | ||
5/19 | 4073-002 | Tritium |
1998, undated |
Box/Folder | Accession | ||
5/20 | 4073-002 | Press Releases |
1999 |
5/21 | 4073-002 | Lists |
1998-1999, undated |
5/22 | 4073-002 | Ephemera |
1999-2000 |
5/23 | 4073-002 | Clippings |
1998-1999 |
Accession No. 4073-003: Seattle Women Act For Peace Records, 1965-1996Return to Top
Scope and Content: Scrapbooks of clippings and conferences, conference and other reports, publicity, ephemera, including leaflets, mainly from Thorun Robel's activism; 1965-ca. 1996 (bulk ca. 1969-ca. 1985).
Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.
Restrictions on Use: Literary rights of representatives of the records-creating organization transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.
Acquisition Info: Bibliographic Source: Kathleen Robel Donor Database Source: Kathleen Robel
Accession No. 4073-004: Seattle Women Act for Peace records, 1992-2002Return to Top
Scope and Content: Mailing list, correspondence, articles, minutes and agendas, and newsletters of Seattle Women Act for Peace.
Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.
Restrictions on Use: Creator's literary rights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.
Acquisition Info: P. Anna Johnson, 2009-09-24
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Box/Folder | Accession | ||
1/1 | 4073-004 | Newsletters |
1998-2002 |
1/2 | 4073-004 | Mailing List |
1998 |
1/3 | 4073-004 | Meeting Minutes |
1998-2001 |
1/4 | 4073-004 | Agendas |
2000-2001 |
1/5 | 4073-004 | List of Activities |
1992-1999 |
1/6 | 4073-004 | Correspondence, Mailings, and Stationary |
1992-2001 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Nonprofit organizations--Washington (State)--Seattle
- Peace movements--Washington (State)--Seattle
- Peace--Societies, etc
- Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington)
- Women and peace--Washington (State)--Seattle
- Women pacifists--Washington (State)--Seattle--Archives
- Women--Washington (State)--Seattle--Societies and clubs
Personal Names
- Koppel, Anci--Archives
Corporate Names
- Abe Keller Peace Education Fund
- Northwest Disarmament Coalition
- Seattle Women Act for Peace--Archives
- Women Strike for Peace