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Political refugees -- Central America

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Darlene Nicgorski papers on the Sanctuary Movement

 Collection
Identifier: H-Mss-1011
Abstract Writings, correspondence, newspaper and periodical clippings, legal papers, audio- and videotapes, and graphic materials relating to the life and career of Darlene Nicgorski, a leader in the Sanctuary movement for Central American refugees in the United States in the early 1980s, and a defendant in the Arizona Sanctuary Trial of 1985-1986. The materials focus in particular on her involvement in the Sanctuary Movement, 1981-1987, her defense in the Sanctuary Trial, and her relations with the...
Dates: circa 1968-2011.; Majority of material found within 1980 - 1987

Wells / Hajjar Central America Solidarity Collection

 Collection
Identifier: H-Mss-1084
Abstract The Wells / Hajjar Central America Solidarity Collection represents the grass-roots organizational, operational and public relations efforts of a network of political action groups founded in the late 1970s by former California State University, Fullerton professor of history and art Carol Wells and her husband, Theodore [Ted] Hajjar. Beginning in 1979 and continuing throughout the eighties and early nineties, Wells and Hajjar founded and promoted political action groups such as the...
Dates: 1958 - 1992, undated