ELWYN B. ROBINSON DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
CHESTER FRITZ LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA
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KATE RICHARDS O'HARE PAPERS

COLLECTION: OGL #220 (addition)

DATES: 1917-1985; Bulk Dates 1917-1922

SIZE: .25 linear feet

INTRODUCTION

ACQUISITION: This addition to the Kate Richards O'Hare Papers was deposited in the Orin G. Libby Manuscript Collection on February 24, 1986 (Acc.#86-1433). Most of the material was copied from originals in National Archives in Washington, D.C..

ACCESS: Open for inspection under the rules and regulations of the Department of Special Collections.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

This addition to the Kate Richards O'Hare Papers consists of photocopied material relating to her trial and imprisonment. Material outlining her activities in the years immediately following her release is also included. Attorney's files from 1917-1922 , O'Hare's address to the Court and the sentence of the Court are included. Copies of Federal Bureau of Investigation reports from 1921 and minutes of a conference of the Attorney General regarding commutation of sentences are included. Two secondary source materials are included: a 1985 article about the life of O'Hare from an issue of the International Socialist Review, and a photocopy of a 1917 book entitled The Truth about the O'Hare Case, written by W.E. Zeuch

BOX AND FOLDER INVENTORY

Box 1
Folder

  1. W.E. Zeuch, The Truth about the O'Hare Case, 1917
  2. United States vs. O'Hare, includes O'Hare's address to the Court and sentence of the Court
  3. Federal Bureau of Investigation reports, 1921
  4. Speeches: Kate O'Hare, Bill Haywood, 1920
  5. Letters from prison, Kate O'Hare, 1920
  6. Minutes from a conference of the Attorney General regarding commutation, Washington, D.C., May 14, 1920
  7. United States vs. O'Hare, Indictments, July 1917
  8. United States vs. O'Hare, Attorney's Files, August-December 1917
  9. United States vs. O'Hare, Attorney's Files, 1918
  10. United States vs. O'Hare, Attorney's Files, 1919
  11. United States vs. O'Hare, Attorney's Files, 1920
  12. United States vs. O'Hare, Attorney's Files, 1921
  13. United States vs. O'Hare, Attorney's Files, 1922
  14. Erling Sannes, "Kate Richards O'Hare: Pioneer Socialist and Agitator," International Socialist Review, December 1985
 Original Donation  First Addition: 1917-1985 (bulk dates 1917-1922)

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