Political participation.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Other terms: Citizen participation, Community action, Community involvement, Community participation, Mass political behavior, Political activity, Political behavior
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Amnesty International, NMU Chapter records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-332
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of correspondence, meeting minutes, program and speaker flyers, news clippings, and miscellaneous materials of the Northern Michigan University chapter of Amnesty International, an international human rights organization primarily concerned with freeing political prisoners through letter writing campaigns. The collection also contains correspondence, news clippings, notes, and petitions relating to the release of John Pierce, an NMU student jailed in Peru in 1981.
Dates:
1980 - 1987
Citizens to Save Little Presque Isle and Wetmore Landing records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-096
Scope and Contents Note
This collection documents the activities of the Citizens to Save Little Presque Isle and Wetmore Landing. Led by Dr. Donald Snitgen, Professor of Biology at Northern Michigan University, the group successfully prevented the Michigan Department of Natural Resources from allowing the construction of campgrounds and other commercial activities in the area. The collection contains correspondence, position papers, taskforce records, "In Memory of the Lorax," chronology, newspaper clippings,...
Dates:
1986-1993
Citizens to Save the Superior Shoreline records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-011
Scope and Contents note
This collection contains correspondence, newsletters, new releases and articles, reports, membership lists, meeting minutes, and environmental reference materials of Reference files. The bulk of the collection includes correspondence, reports, and newsletters. Also included are newsletters, correspondence, occasional meeting minutes, bylaws, and miscellaneous materials of the group which was involved in general Lake Superior Basin issues. There is also scattered correspondence (1969-1989) of...
Dates:
1967-1996
Delta Kappa Gamma Society, Delta Chapter records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-079
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the long history of the Delta Kappa Gamma, Delta Chapter, Society. DKG is a professional organization of women educators. Members must have at least five years experience in education. The national society began in 1929 and the Delta Chapter was established at the Northland Hotel in Marquette in 1939. The officers include president, vice president, recording secretary, corresponding secretary, treasurer, and historian. The society works on legislation,...
Dates:
1938 - 2000
Dominic J. Jacobetti papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-078
Scope and Contents note
The Dominic Jacobetti Collection documents his position as Representative from Marquette County and the Upper Peninsula, including his activities on the House Appropriations Committee and several other committees on which he served. His position as Representative encompassed at various times the 108th, 109th, and 110th Districts. The records cover the years 1954 to 1994 and include a wealth of materials pertaining to the following:Ø Upper Peninsula local governments,...
Dates:
1954-1994; Majority of material found within 1975 - 1994
K.I. Sawyer Support Group records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-062
Scope and Contents note
This collection contains the personal files of Ellwood Mattson pertaining to his role as chairperson of both the K.I. Sawyer Support Group (KISSG) and the K.I. Sawyer Base Conversion Authority. The bulk of the collection, ranging in date from 1990 to 1993, consists of correspondence that documents the group’s effort to save the base. Remaining material includes copies of the laws, studies, reports produced on both sides of the issue, and a sparse amount of administrative records. A large...
Dates:
1990 - 1993
Marquette Ambassadors Club records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-028
Scope and Contents note
This collection contains a photocopied scrapbook and photographs of the Marquette Ambassadors Club from 1964-1969. The photographs depict the club members at various meetings and events. The scrapbook documents their visit to Lansing, Michigan and meetings with then-Governor Romney, Dominic Jacobetti, and various business representatives. Letters in the scrapbook are addressed to President Nixon.
Dates:
1964-1969
Julia K. Tibbitts papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-145
Scope and Contents note
The collection is composed primarily of research materials collected by Julia K. Tibbitts for use in her case against the expansion of the Upper Peninsula Generating Company’s power plant in Marquette, Michigan. The materials include court documents highlighting the accomplishments of Superior Public Rights, Inc. and their fight to protect the environment, correspondence, newspaper articles, research documents, maps, blueprints, and legal reference documents. The court documents are nearly...
Dates:
1964-1979; Majority of material found within 1973 - 1979
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