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HENRY SCHWARZSCHILD MEMORIAL COLLECTION, (APAP-337), 1926-2013
Descriptive Summary |
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| Title: | Henry Schwarzschild Memorial Collection |
| Date: | 1926-2013, Undated |
| Physical Characteristics: | 2.0 cubic ft. |
| Abstract: | The Henry Schwarzschild Memorial Collection contains papers, journal articles and other written materials about the death penalty. Lansing, Michigan attorney and death penalty opponent Eugene G. Wanger donated this collection in memory of Henry Schwarzschild (1925-1996), longtime director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Capital Punishment Project, and head of the New York office of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty at the time of his death. |
| Storage: | The materials are located onsite in the department. |
| Language: | The materials in the collection are in English. |
| Repository: | M. E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, University at Albany, SUNY |
Biographical Sketch
Lansing, Michigan attorney and death penalty opponent Eugene G. Wanger donated this collection in memory of Henry Schwarzschild (1925-1996), a civil rights advocate, longtime director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Capital Punishment Project, and head of the New York office of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty at the time of his death. Wanger, a delegate to Michigan’s Constitutional Convention of 1961, authored the section of the state constitution which bans capital punishment. He also served on the board of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty and was a co-founder of the Michigan Committee Against Capital Punishment in 1972.
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Scope and Content Information
The collection contains papers, journal articles and other written materials about the death penalty. There are a number of topical articles written by Eugene G. Wanger, copies of Wanger's legislative testimony, illustrations, materials from death penalty abolitionist organizations, and photographs of Henry Schwarzschild.
More than 120 books and government documents also donated by Wanger were transferred to the book division of Special Collections to be catalogued. Please see the following annotated bibliography that Wanger created for the complete list:
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Arrangement of the Collection
The collection is organized alphabetically. There are no series.
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Restrictions
Access
Access to this record group is unrestricted.
Copyright
The researcher assumes full responsibility for conforming with the laws of copyright. Whenever possible, the M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives will provide information about copyright owners and other restrictions, but the legal determination ultimately rests with the researcher. Requests for permission to publish material from this collection should be discussed with the Head of Special Collections and Archives.
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Related Material
More than 120 books and government documents donated by Eugene G. Wanger were transferred to the book division of Special Collections to be catalogued.
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Subject Headings
Persons
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Genres and Forms
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Identification of specific item, series, box, folder, Henry Schwarzschild Memorial Collection, 1981-2005. M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University at Albany, State University of New York (hereafter referred to as the Schwarzschild Memorial Collection).
Acquisition Information
Eugene G. Wanger donated all the materials in this collection in 2013 to the M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives.
Finding Aid Information
Created by: Jodi Boyle
Date: © 2013 By the University at Albany, SUNY. All rights
reserved.
Revision history:
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| 1 | 1 | American Bar Association, Evaluating Fairness and Accuracy in State Death Penalty Systems, 2006 | |||||||||
| 3 | American Bar Association Town Meeting, "The Crisis in Death Penalty Representation", 1996 | ||||||||||
| 4 | American Journal of Orthopsychiatry with Special Section on Capital Punishment, 1975 | ||||||||||
| 5 | The American Judicature Society, Undated | ||||||||||
| 6 | Bedau, Hugo Adam, "The Case Against the Death Penalty", 1973 1977 1984 1992 ca. 1997 | ||||||||||
| 7 | Bedau, Hugo Adam and Michael L. Radelet, "Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases", 1987 | ||||||||||
| 8 | Bookman's Weekly, Special on Crime, Law and Mystery, 1990 | ||||||||||
| 9 | Brochure to Boycott Florida Because of Death Penalty, Undated | ||||||||||
| 10 | Brooks, Rev. George W., Disarming the State's Lethal Weapon, 2002 | ||||||||||
| 11 | Brown, Rev. S. "Capital Punishments, A Sermon Delivered in the Presbyterian Church, Zanesville. O.", 1997 | ||||||||||
| 12 | Bureau of Justice Statistics Bulletin, 1993 1996-1997 | ||||||||||
| 13 | Campaign to End the Death Penalty, 2002 | ||||||||||
| 14 | Canadian House of Commons Debates on Capital Punishment, 1987 | ||||||||||
| 15 | Clippings About Capital Punishment, 1977 1985 1997 Undated | ||||||||||
| 16 | Congressional Bills About the Death Penalty, 1974 1980 | ||||||||||
| 17 | Congressional Record, 1974 | ||||||||||
| 18 | Copies of Photographs of Henry Schwarzschild, 1987 1994 | ||||||||||
| 19 | Copy of Get Well Card Sent to Schwarzschild from Participants in Cooley Law School Symposium, 1996 | ||||||||||
| 20 | "A Culture of Life and the Penalty of Death," A Statement of the United State Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2005 | ||||||||||
| 21 | Cushing, Robert Renny and Susan Sheffer, Dignity Denied: The Experiences of Murder Victims' Family Members Who Oppose the Death Penalty, 2002 | ||||||||||
| 22 | Death Penalty and Related Issues, A Selected Bibliography, Undated | ||||||||||
| 23 | Death Penalty Focus, 2001 2010 | ||||||||||
| 24 | Death Penalty Information Center, 1993-1994 | ||||||||||
| 25 | Death Penalty Information Center, 1997-1999 2002 2005 2009 | ||||||||||
| 26 | Death Penalty Information Center, "Understanding Capital Punishment", 2003 | ||||||||||
| 27 | "The Death Penalty: The Religious Community Calls for Abolition", 1988 | ||||||||||
| 28 | Department of Criminal Justice, California State University, Long Beach, "Death Penalty Issues," Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 1989 | ||||||||||
| 29 | Don't Kill for Me Postcard, Used by Canadian Anti-Death Penalty Supporters, ca. 1987 | ||||||||||
| 30 | Duncan, Rev. James, "A Discourse Upon War, and Capital Punishments", 1997 | ||||||||||
| 31 | Equal Justice USA, 2000 | ||||||||||
| 32 | Fact Sheets About Capital Punishment, Undated | ||||||||||
| 33 | Fagal, William, Three Hours to Live, 1967 | ||||||||||
| 34 | General Writings About the Death Penalty by Eugene G. Wanger, 1975 1997 2002 2009 | ||||||||||
| 35 | Gunterman, Joe and Trevor Thomas, This Life We Take: A Case Against the Death Penalty, 1987 | ||||||||||
| 36 | Holmes, Kirby, "Michigan Should Reinstate the Death Penalty for First Degree Murder", 1978 | ||||||||||
| 37 | Lighting the Torch of Conscience, Undated | ||||||||||
| 38 | Lincoln, James H. "The Everlasting Controversy: Michigan and the Death Penalty", 1987 | ||||||||||
| 39 | Materials About Efforts to Stop Execution of William R. Jones, Missouri, 2002 | ||||||||||
| 40 | Michigan and the Death Penalty, 1974-2004 Undated | ||||||||||
| 41 | Michigan and the Death Penalty, Articles and Op-Ed by Eugene G. Wanger, 1974 1993 2002 | ||||||||||
| 42 | Moratorium 2000, 1998 Undated | ||||||||||
| 43 | Murder Victims' Families for Human Rights, 2006-2011 | ||||||||||
| 44 | National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, The Abolitionist's Directory, 1985 1987 1990 1992 | ||||||||||
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| 2 | 1 | National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, General Organizing Materials, 1990-1992 1995 1997 Undated | |||||||||
| 2 | National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, Lifelines, 1997 2002 2009-2011 | ||||||||||
| 3 | National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, National Conferences, 1981 1988-1991 1995-1996 2001-2002 | ||||||||||
| 4 | National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, National Conferences, 2003-2005 2009-2011 | ||||||||||
| 5 | National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, Regional Conferences, 1986 1992 | ||||||||||
| 6 | "National Council on Crime and Delinquency, "Capital Punishment in the United States," Crime & Delinquency, 1980 | ||||||||||
| 7 | Oklahoma Execution Moratorium Petition, ca. 2000 | ||||||||||
| 8 | Olivera, Nancy, "Writing Wrongs: How to Shift Public Opinion on the Death Penalty with Letters to the Editor, 2009-2010 | ||||||||||
| 9 | People of Faith Against the Death Penalty, 1999 | ||||||||||
| 10 | Postcards Depicting Death Penalty Related Images, 1987-1997 Undated | ||||||||||
| 11 | Quaife, M. M., "Capital Punishment in New York", 1926 | ||||||||||
| 12 | Radzinowica, Leon, "Sir James Fitzjames Stephen", 1957 | ||||||||||
| 13 | Rally to Stop the Death Penalty Outside the U.S. Supreme Court, 1996 | ||||||||||
| 14 | Report of the Standing Committee on the Judiciary on the Subject of Abolishing Capital Punishment, 1997 | ||||||||||
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| 3 | 1 | Robbins, Tim Dead Man Walking, 2005 | |||||||||
| 2 | Satirical Pictures, Undated | ||||||||||
| 3 | The Southern Center for Human Rights, Frederick Douglass Awards Dinner, 2002 | ||||||||||
| 4 | Streib, Victor, "Death Penalty for Juveniles", 1985 | ||||||||||
| 5 | Streib, Victor, "The Juvenile Death Penalty Today", 1991 | ||||||||||
| 6 | Strouse, Evelyn, "The Death Penalty: Issues in the Debate," Public Affairs Pamphlet No. 648, 1987 | ||||||||||
| 7 | Testimony of Eugene G. Wanger About Capital Punishment, 1975 1994 1999 2004-2005 | ||||||||||
| 8 | Thomas, Trevor This Life We Take, 1970 | ||||||||||
| 9 | Twelve Angry Jurors, A Review and a Comment, 2000 | ||||||||||
| 10 | Uniform Crime Reports for the United States, 1972 | ||||||||||
| 11 | Van Ness, Daniel W. "A Call to Dialogue on Capital Punishment", 1985 | ||||||||||
| 12 | Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, 2002 | ||||||||||
| 13 | Wanger, Eugene G. "Historical Reflections on Michigan's Abolition on the Death Penalty," Thomas M. Cooley Law Review, 1996 | ||||||||||
| Oversized | |||||||||||
| 1 | Wanger, Eugene G. "Legislative Testimony Against Capital Punishment, 1962-2005, Together with Information Leaflets and Several Other Anti-Death penalty Writings", 2013 | ||||||||||
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| 3 | 14 | Wanger, Eugene G., ed. "Letters on the Penalty of Death", 1975 | |||||||||
| 15 | Wanger, Eugene G., "National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty: A 30th Anniversary History", 2006 | ||||||||||
| 16 | Wanger, Eugene G. Reasons for Reviving Capital Punishment in Michigan and Why They Are Wrong, 1989 | ||||||||||
| 17 | Wanger, Eugene G., Satirical Pictures, 1989 Undated | ||||||||||
| 18 | Wanger, Eugene G., "Why We Should Reject Capital Punishment", 1978 | ||||||||||
| 19 | Washington Research Project, "The Case Against Capital Punishment", 1971 | ||||||||||
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| 1 | Weekly World News Photographs of Ted Bundy Following His Execution, 1989 | ||||||||||
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| 3 | 20 | The Western Missouri Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, 2002 | |||||||||
| 21 | Whitman, Claudia and Lawson Strickland, Capital Defense Handbook for Defendants and Their Families, 2005 | ||||||||||
| 22 | Why Kill People Who Kill People to Show that Killing People is Wrong?, 1985 | ||||||||||
| 23-24 | World Coalition Against the Death Penalty (1-2 of 3), 2009-2012 | ||||||||||
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| 4 | 1 | World Coalition Against the Death Penalty (3 of 3), 2009-2012 | |||||||||
| 2 | Zehr, Howard, "Death as a Penalty: A Biblical Perspective", 1990 | ||||||||||
| 3 | Zehr, Howard, "Death as a Penalty: A Moral, Practical and Theological Discussion", Undated | ||||||||||
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