Guide to the Darlene Nicgorski papers on the Sanctuary Movement
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Darlene Nicgorski papers on the Sanctuary
Movement
Dates (inclusive): circa 1968-2011
Dates (bulk): 1980-1987
Collection number: H.Mss.1011
Creator:
Nicgorksi, Darlene, 1943-
Extent:
11.5 Linear feet (8 boxes + 1/2 document case + 6 flat boxes + 1 shoebox + 1
map case drawer).
Respository:
Claremont Colleges. Library. Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd
Library. Claremont, CA 91711
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 order of School Sisters of St.
Francis (SSSF), to which she belonged until the end of 1987.
Physical location: Please consult repository.
Language of materials: English and Spanish.
Administrative Information
Access
This collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
All requests for permission to reproduce or to publish must be submitted in
writing to Special Collections.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Darlene Nicgorski Papers on the Sanctuary Movement
(Collection H.Mss.1011). Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library, Claremont
University Consortium.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Darlene Nicgorski, 13 November 2011.
Processing Information
Collection processed by Michael P. Palmer, May 2012.
Biography
Darlene Nicgorski was born in Wisconsin on 19 November 1943. In 1962 she entered
Mt. Saint Mary College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She left the following year to
enter the Maryknoll Missionary Sisters, but returned home in 1964 at the
suggestion of the order because of severe allergies and asthma. She graduated
from Alverno College, Milwaukee, and entered the School Sisters of St. Francis
(SSSF) in 1966. She made her profession in 1970, and her final profession in
1974. Sister Darlene taught children from kindergarten through fourth grade for
several years, and earned an MS in Education from the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1973. After serving as Director of CADET Child Care
Center, Holly Springs, Mississippi, from 1974 to 1979, in 1980 she became a
social worker at St. Joseph's Manor low income housing project in Omaha,
Nebraska.
Sister Darlene's involvement with the people of Central America began in 1980,
when she answered the call to help members of her congregation in Guatemala to
set up a preschool program in Los Amates, Guatemala. On 1 July 1981, less than
six months after she arrived in Guatemala, her mentor, Father Tulio Maruzzo
(Padre Tulio), was assassinated, and the Franciscan community threatened. Sister
Darlene and the other members of the SSSF community fled, settling in Chiapas,
Mexico, where Bishop Ruiz opened the seminar at San Cristobal de las Casas to
them. During her nine months there, Sister Darlene visited the Guatemalan
refugee camps on the border and assisted the Diocesan Refugee Committee. In
1982, she returned to Guatemala City intending to work at the El Tesoro camp for
Guatemalan refugees being set up with the assistance of her congregation in
Santa Rosa, Copan, Honduras. However, after the kidnap and torture of Sister
Albertina Paz by the Guatemalan military, Sister Darlene, in consultation with
the order, decided the time was not right for her to proceed to El Tesoro, and
she returned to the United States. While visiting her family in Phoenix,
Arizona, Sister Darlene became ill, and during her recuperation she became
involved with the local ecumenical task force, the Valley Religious Task Force
on Central America, which assisted refugees fleeing political unrest and
persecution in Central America to find sanctuary in the United States. The
Sanctuary movement had begun in 1980, when Jim Corbett, Jim Dudley, the Rev.
John Fife, and a handful of other residents of Tucson, Arizona, began--in
violation of United States law--providing legal, financial, and material aid to
Central American refugees; on 24 March 1982, the second anniversary of
Archbishop Oscar Romero's assassination, Fife declared his congregation, the
Southside Presbyterian Church in Tucson, the first public sanctuary in the
United States. At its height, in 1985, the Sanctuary movement had approximately
500 member sites across the United States. In 1983, Sister Darlene was asked by
the Chicago Religious Task Force on Central America to coordinate the movement
of refugees to Sanctuary congregations throughout the country. The Immigration
and Nationalization Service (INS) decided to crack down on the Sanctuary
Movement, and in 1985 initiated two separate criminal prosecutions, one against
two activists in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, the other, considerably larger,
case against activists in Arizona. On 14 January 1985, Sister Darlene's home was
searched, and she and 15 others, including Jim Corbett, the Rev. John Fife, and
Father Ramon Dagoberto Quiñones, were arrested and charged with 71 counts of
conspiracy and encouraging and aiding illegal aliens to enter the United States
"by shielding, harboring and transporting them". The trial, which attracted
considerable national attention, began in Tucson on 22 October 1985, and the
verdict was rendered on 1 May 1986. Sister Darlene was convicted of conspiracy
to violate immigration law and two counts each of transporting and aiding and
abetting the harboring of illegal aliens, and faced a maximum sentence of 25
years in prison. On 1 July 1986, she was given a suspended sentence and five
years' probation.
Much in demand as a spokesman for the Sanctuary movement since her arrest,
between 1985 and 1988 Sister Darlene had over 200 speaking engagements. She also
received many awards, including
Ms magazine's
1986 Woman of the Year, the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern
California's Early Warren Civil Liberties Award for 1986, the Women's Ordination
Conference Prophetic Figure Award for 1987, the American Civil Liberties Union,
Wisconsin Chapter, William Gorham Rice Civil Libertarian of the Year Award in
1987. She was the first Roman Catholic to receive Union Theological Seminary's
Union Medal.
In November 1986, Sister Darlene relocated to WomanCenter in Plainville,
Massachusetts, where she continued to write about her experiences from a
feminist faith perspective. After increasingly questioning the Roman Catholic
Church's attitudes regarding sexuality and women, in 1987, she received papal
dispensation to leave the SSSF.
After leaving the SSSF, Darlene held several part-time positions teaching ESL
(English as a second language) at Roxbury Community College, and Northeastern,
Tufts, and Harvard Universities. From 1989 to 2000, she was employed by Ames
Safety Envelope Company, in Somerville, Massachusetts, initially as Educational
Consultant and finally as Director of Human Resources. In 2001, she and her life
partner, Chris, relocated to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to assist in the care
of the latter's elderly mother. In addition to continuing to teach ESL part
time, in 2002 Darlene joined the staff of Piedmont Health Services, from which
she retired in 2011 as Vice President of Human Resources. She and her partner
now reside in Claremont, California.
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises writings, correspondence, newspaper and periodical
clippings, legal papers, flyers, programs, photographs, audiotapes and videotapes,
graphic materials, and realia 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 three areas: (1) The trial in
Federal District Court in Tucson, Arizona (the “Arizona Sanctuary Trial”), of
Nicgorski and others for conspiracy and encouraging illegal aliens to enter the
United States, their conviction and sentencing, and their unsuccessful appeal to the
9th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1985-1989; (2) Nicgorski’s involvement in the
Sanctuary movement, 1981-1987; and (3) her relations with the order of School
Sisters of St. Francis (SSSF), to which she belonged until the end of 1987.
The materials documenting the trial include relatively few court documents, or
documents relating to the defendants as a group, but focus on Nicgorski and her
defense, prepared and undertaken by Michael Altman. Especially noteworthy are the
original microcassettes and transcripts of Nicgorski’s daily reflections on the
course of the trial; her statements to attorneys and the other defendants, and her
public statements during the trial; and interviews of Nicgorski and several
witnesses by defense counsel Michael Altman. Other significant materials include
post-conviction letters concerning Nicgorski addressed to Judge Carroll for his
consideration when determining her sentence; a large number of letters of support
addressed to Nicgorski; and two extensive collections of clippings from newspapers
and periodicals, one prepared by Nicgorski herself, the other by the Sanctuary
Defense Fund’s media office.
Materials documenting the Sanctuary movement include studies, flyers, pamphlets, and
special issues of periodical publications, that investigate and report on the issues
confronting refugees from Central America, their attempts to escape repression in
their homeland, the movement in the United States to provide asylum and sanctuary
for these refugees, United States government policy on Central America, and the
actions of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Materials of particular
significance include audiotaped interviews in the early 1980s with refugees;
photographs documenting Nicgorski’s work in Central America and with Central
American refugees in Arizona; and extensive records--including some audiotapes and
videotapes--of Nicgorski’s speaking engagements, in particular for the years
1985-1987. Other significant materials include publicity, programs, and liturgies
for prayer and worship services for the movement; the Freedom Train Sanctuary
caravan from Phoenix to Northampton, Massachusetts, in the summer of 1987; posters,
newspaper political cartoons, and other graphics concerning the movement; and
writings by, and correspondence with, others working with Central American refugees,
including Jim Corbett and Mary Malherek, MM.
Materials documenting Nicgorski's relationship with the order of School Sisters of
St. Francis (SSSF) include a substantial number of records relating to the order’s
support for the Sanctuary movement and for Nicgorski during her trial. Among these
records are official letters of support from the order, private letters from
individual members of the order, and a detailed media packet that carefully
summarizes Nicgorski’s life, the circumstances that led Central Americans to seek
refuge in the United States, the Sanctuary movement, and the Roman Catholic Church’s
support for the movement. Materials documenting Nicgorski's personal relationship to
the order include her 1970 and 1974 professions, personal papers, and materials
relating to her 1987 separation from the order.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged into the following 12 series:
- Series 1. Arizona Sanctuary Trial (US v. Aguilar et al.)
- Series 2. Sanctuary movement
- Series 3. Press and periodicals clippings
- Series 4. Writings, speaking engagements, and interviews
- Series 5. School Sisters of St. Francis (SSSF)
- Series 6. Subject files
- Series 7. Photographs and postcards
- Series 8. Graphic materials
- Series 9. Audiotapes and videotapes
- Series 10. Personal
- Series 11. Realia
- Series 12. Awards
Related Materials
Sanctuary Movement Trial papers (MS 362). Special Collections, University of
Arizona Libraries
, 1982-1988, created by A. Bates Butler (attorney for
Phillip Conger), James Brosnahan (attorney for Maria Socorro de Aguilar), Michael
Altman (attorney for Darlene Nicgorski), Peg Hutchison, Arizona American Friends
Service Committee (Jim Corbett), and the Southside Presbyterian Church (John Fife),
consists of attorney files, certified trial transcripts, and materials collected by
the American Friends Service Committee and the Southside Presbyterian Church.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Subject Headings
Asylum, Right of--United States
Christianity and politics
Church and social problems--United States
Church and state--United States
Church work with refugees--Arizona
Church work with refugees--United States
Nicgorksi, Darlene, 1943-
Political refugees--Central America
Sanctuary movement
School Sisters of St. Francis (Milwaukee, Wis.).
Women in church work--United States
Genre and Form of Materials
Clippings
Correspondence
Photographs
Sound recordings
Textiles
Video recordings
Series 1.
Arizona Sanctuary Trial (US v. Aguilar et al.),
[1983-1984] 1985-1989.
Extent:
72 folders
Scope and Contents
This series contains materials documenting the trial in Federal District
Court in Arizona of Nicgorski and others for conspiracy and encouraging
illegal aliens to enter the United States, their conviction and sentencing,
and their unsuccessful appeal to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The
series contains relatively few court documents, or documents relating to the
defendants as a group, but focuses on Nicgorski and her defense, prepared
and undertaken by Michael Altman.
Arrangement
The series is arranged in 5 subseries:
- Subseries 1.1. Trial
- Subseries 1.2. Appeal
- Subseries 1.3. Arizona Sanctuary Defense Fund
- Subseries 1.4. Letters of support
- Subseries 1.5. 10th anniversary
Subseries 1.1.
Trial,
[1983] 1985-1986.
Extent:
40 folders
Scope and Contents
This subseries consists of documents relating to the arrest and trial of
Nicgorski and her co-defendants, and covers the period from January 1985
through July 1986. Although the documents include materials relating to
all defendants, the bulk relates to Nicgorski and her specific defense.
General legal documents include the grand jury indictment; the
government's Bill of Particulars and Discovery Memorandum; the
government's Motion in limino; the search warrant for the home of Wendy
LeWin; and Judge Carroll's sentencings of the defendants. General
planning documents include materials for a July 1985 defense planning
meeting in Lake Tahoe, an August 1985 mock trial, jury selection, and
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. Materials relating
specifically to Nicgorski's defense include lists of potential witnesses
and witness interviews, an interview of Nicgorski herself, the opening
trial statement, and post-conviction sentencing memorandum, all prepared
by Michael Altman, her defense counsel, as well as documents provided by
the School Sisters of St. Francis. Additional materials relating to
Nicgorski alone include permissions for her to travel while awaiting
trial, plea offer correspondence prior to the opening of the trial, and
post-conviction letters concerning her addressed to Judge Carroll for
his consideration when determining her sentence. Materials by Nicgorski
herself include her statements to attorneys and the other defendants and
her public statements during the trial. The records also include
supplementary materials used in the preparation of the defense. These
materials include statements by representatives of both the Immigration
and Naturalization Service and the American Civil Liberties Union on the
Sanctuary movement and United States immigration policy, Nicgorski's
report on Guatemalan refugees in the Phoenix metropolitan area, and her
affidavits on behalf of Nicaraguan seeking political asylum in the
United States. More intimate materials include the lyrics to Woody
Guthrie's "Deportees", sung by Sister Judy Connolly before going into
court, and a note to Nicgorski from one of the trial jurors, written
during the trial, but delivered after sentencing.
Organization
Ordered alphabetically.
Box 1, Folder 2
Defendant support group meeting notes,
1985 September 9-10.
Box 1, Folder 3
Defendants' counsel of record,
1985-1986.
Box 1, Folder 4
Defense planning meeting, Lake Tahoe,
1985 July.
Box 1, Folder 5
Donations for Darlene Nicgorski / Sanctuary Defense
Fund,
circa
1985-1986.
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA),
1985-1987.
Box 1, Folder 6
Replies to inquiries,
1986 February-April.
Box 1, Folder 7
Government's Bill of Particulars and Discovery
Memorandum,
1985 January 10.
Box 1, Folder 8
Government's Motion in limino,
1985 January 10.
Box 1, Folder 9
Guthrie, Woody. Lyrics to "Deportees",
1986 January.
Note by Darlene Nicgorski
"Sung by S[ister] Judy Connolly before going into court, I think
January 14, 1986".
Box 1, Folder 10
Indictment,
1985 January.
Box 1, Folder 11
Juror note to Darlene Nicgorski,
1986 April.
Note
Received after sentencing on 1 July 1986.
Box 5, Folder 2
Jury selection,
1985 April - 1986
April.
Box 1, Folder 12
Mock Trial,
1985 August 17.
Box 1, Folder 13
Nicgorski, Darlene. Interview by Michael Altman,
1985 September 11.
Box 1, Folder 14
Nicgorksi, Darlene. Methods and conditions of release pending
trial,
1985 January 23.
Box 1, Folder 15
Nicgorski, Darlene. Permission to travel while awaiting
trial,
1985 February-March.
Box 1, Folder 16
Nicgorski, Darlene. Statements to attorneys and other
defendants,
1986 February 28 - March 7.
Note
Includes thoughts and readings.
Box 5, Folder 3
Nicgorski, Darlene. Trial statements,
1986 January - 1986 July
1.
Box 1, Folder 17
Opening statement for Darlene Nicgorski by Michael
Altman,
1985 October.
Box 1, Folder 18
Other defendants' pre-sentencing statements,
1986 July 1.
Note
Includes statements by Phil Willis Conger, Rev. John Fife, and Peggy
Hutchinson.
Box 1, Folder 19
Plea offer correspondence,
1985 October.
Box 1, Folder 20
Post-conviction letters to Judge Carroll concerning Darlene
Nicgorski,
1986 May-June.
Box 1, Folder 21
School Sisters of St. Francis (SSSF) documents for Darlene
Nicgorski defense,
1985 October 22.
Box 1, Folder 22
Search warrant for home of Wendy LeWin, Phoenix,
Arizona,
1985 January 12.
Box 1, Folder 23
Sentencing memorandum for Darlene Nicgorski by Michael
Altman,
1986 May-June.
Box 1, Folder 24-25
Sentencings,
1986 July 1-2.
Supplementary materials used in trial,
1983-1986.
Extent:
8 folders
Organization
Ordered alphabetically.
Box 1, Folder 26
Asylum information,
1986.
Box 1, Folder 27
Lawyers Committee for International Human Rights. Arizona
Detention Center Project,
1985 January-February.
Box 1, Folder 28
Nelson, Alan, Commssioner, United States Immigration and
Naturalization Service. The Sanctuary movement: humanitarian
action, political opposition or lawlessness. Commonwealth Club,
San Francisco,
1986 March 27.
Note
With photocopy of a cover letter, dated March 4, 1986, from
Howard Ezell, Western Region Commissioner, to the City Editor of
the
Los Angeles Times,
complaining of the newspaper's coverage of the Sanctuary
movement.
Box 1, Folder 29
Nicgorski, Darlene. Affidavits for applicants for
political asylum,
1983 September - 1985
January.
Scope and Contents
For Valley Religious Task Force on Central America, Central
American Refugee Project.
Box 1, Folder 30
Nicgorski, Darlene.
Guatemala
refugees: A report of the situation in the metropolis of
Phoenix
,
1983 July 5.
Box 1, Folder 31
Parker, Karen. The Geneva Conventions and Central
America,
1985 October.
Box 1, Folder 32
Salvadoran refugees, statement on, by Morton H. Halperin,
Wade J. Henderson, and Carol L. Wolchok, American Civil
Liberties Union, before United States House of Representatives,
Subcommittee on Immigration,
1985 November 7.
Box 1, Folder 33
US v. John Elder. Deposition of a war,
1984 September 14-21.
Box 1, Folder 34
Trial Action Committee,
1985.
Box 1, Folder 35
Unindicted co-conspirators,
1985 January.
Box 1, Folder 36
Witness interviews by Michael Altman,
1985 August 13-21.
Scope and Contents
Interviews with the Rev. Robert Lee, of the First Congregational
Church, Wilmette, Illinois, and Sisters Anna Pirester and Mary
Waddell, both OBVM, of South Phoenix, Arizona.
Box 1, Folder 37
Witnesses for Darlene Nicgorski, list of potential, by
Michael Altman,
1985 September 30.
Subseries 1.2.
Appeal,
1986-1989.
Extent:
19 folders
Scope and Contents
This subseries consists of materials documenting the defendants' appeal
to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals of the District Court's verdict and
judgment. Legal documents include the Renewal of Motion to Dismiss for
Selective Proescution; briefs submitted to the Circuit Court by both the
defendants and the prosecution; and the opinion of the Circuit Court
upholding the judgment of the District Court. Other documents include
memoranda relating to appeal planning; supplementary
materials--including testimony before Congress, government and
non-government reports, and the theoretical underpinnings of the
"religion defense"--used by the defendants' counsel in preparing their
appeal; and correspondence relating to Nicgorski's probation.
Organization
Ordered alphabetically.
Box 1, Folder 38
Appeal planning,
1986 September - 1987
May.
Appellants' opening brief,
1987 October 16 - December 17.
Box 1, Folder 42
Michael Altman's part,
1987 October 16.
Box 1, Folder 43
Appellants' reply brief,
1988 September 30.
Box 1, Folder 44-46
Brief of appellee,
1988 July 28.
Box 1, Folder 47
Ezell, Harold. Statement concerning Rev. John
Fife,
1987 February 19.
Box 1, Folder 48
Nicgorski, Darlene. Probation,
1986 July -
1991.
Box 1, Folder 50
Renewal of Motion to Dismiss for Selective Prosecution and
Impermissible Political Influence,
1987 January 9.
Supplementary materials used in appeal,
1985-1989.
Extent:
6 folders
Organization
Ordered alphabetically.
Box 1, Folder 51
American Baptist Churches v. Edwin Meese III and Alan
Nelson,
1987.
Box 1, Folder 52
Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR). Appendix to
testimony before the United States House of Representatives,
Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights,
1987 February 20.
Box 5, Folder 4
Government infiltration of churches,
1985-1989.
Box 1, Folder 53
Olimpia Lazo-Majazo v. Immigration and Naturalization
Service [selective prosecution]. Opinion,
1987 April 2.
Box 1, Folder 54
Religion defense,
1987 November 16.
Box 1, Folder 55
United States General Accounting Office report on the
treatment of asylum applicants,
1987 January.
Subseries 1.3.
Arizona Sanctuary Defense Fund,
1981-1987 (bulk
1985-1986).
Extent:
28 folders
Scope and Contents
This subseries consists of materials created and collected by the Arizona
Sanctuary Defense Fund, and organization set up to provide financial and
media support for Darlene Nicgorski and the other defendants in the
Arizona Sanctuary Trial. The documents include a letter from the
Internal Revenue Service denying the Fund tax-exempt status; several
incomplete media packets, one of which includes Spanish-language
materials; press releases; and records of an October 1985 benefit art
auction held in Tucson. The majority of the documents in the subseries
derive from the Fund's Sanctuary Media Office. The bulk of these
materials consists of photocopies of newspaper accounts of the trial,
the individual defendants, the Sanctuary movement, and United States
foreign policy in Central America. Additional materials include a an
information binder, Spanish-language materials, and two issues of a
newsletter.
Organization
Ordered alphabetically.
Box 1, Folder 56
Benefit art auction "Sanctuary from Past to Present, A
Historical Tradition". Tucson,
1985 October 19-20.
Box 1, Folder 57
Correspondence with Internal Revenue Service,
1987 January 20.
Box 1, Folder 58-60
Media packet,
1985 October - 1986
May.
Extent:
3 folders
Extent: 3 copies: (1) includes English and
Spanish materials; (2) and (3) are incomplete.
Box 6, Folder 6
Press releases,
1985 October - 1986
July.
Sanctuary Media Office,
1981-1987 (bulk
1985-1986).
Extent:
19 folders
Note
The Arizona Sanctuary Defense Fund Sanctuary Media Office was opened
in 1985 and closed in 1987.
Box 2, Folder 1
Information binder,
1985 Fall.
Press clippings,
1981-1987
(bulk
1985-1986).
Box 2, Folder 2
Sanctuary Trial: An overview,
1985.
Box 2, Folder 3
Spanish-language materials,
1985-1986.
Box 6, Folder 7
Trial News,
1985 October-November.
Subseries 1.4.
Letters of Support,
1982-1986 (bulk
1985-1986).
Extent:
12 folders
Scope and Contents
This subseries consists of letters of support received by Nicgorski from
the date of her arrest in January 1985 through her sentencing in July
1986. The letters from bishops include several from as early as 1982
that antedate Nicgorski's arrest but express support the Sanctuary
movement.
Organization
Ordered alphabetically.
Alphabetic,
1985 - 1986
April.
Box 3, Folder 32
Bishops,
1982-1986 (bulk
1985-1986).
Blue Binder,
1986 May 1 - July 1.
Box 7, Folder 19-20
Binder,
1986 May 1 - July 1.
Box 7, Folder 21
Letters and cards found loose,
1986 May 1 - July 1
Green Binder,
circa 1985 October - 1986
August.
Box 3, Folder 33
Binder,
Circa 1985 October -
1986 July.
Box 3, Folder 34-36
Letters and cards found loose,
1985 October - 1986
August.
Box 7, Folder 22
Red Binder,
1985-1986.
Scope and Contents
Contents almost entirely photocopies.
Subseries 1.5.
10th anniversary,
1996 April.
Extent:
1 folder
Scope and Contents
This subseries consists of a single file, relating to plans for a
celebration of the 10th anniversary of the decision in the Arizona
Sanctuary Trial.
Box 5, Folder 5
10th anniversary,
1996 April.
Series 2.
Sanctuary movement,
1982-1987.
Extent:
88 folders
Scope and Contents
This series contains materials relating to the general Sanctuary movement and
Nicgorski's involvement. The documents include lists of pro-Sanctuary
institutions, cities, and states; statements of support for the Sanctuary
movement; and studies, flyers, pamphlets, and special issues of periodical
publications, investigating and reporting on the issues confronting refugees
from Central America, their attempts to escape repression in their homeland,
United States government policy on Central America, and the actions of the
Immigration and Naturalization Service. The institutions providing support,
many of them religious, include the American Civil Liberties Union Fund, the
Center for Constitutional Rights, the Chicago Religious Task Force on
Central America, the District of Columbia Metropolitan Sanctuary Committee,
the Florida Council of Churches Commission on Refugees and Global Community,
Friends Peace Committee, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, the
National Sanctuary Defense Fund, the Phoenix Sanctuary Committee, and the
Presbyterian Church. A substantial portion of the series consists of records
documenting Nicgorski's speaking engagements, including sermons and
conferences, from 1985 through 1989. Single documents (flyers, programs) of
speaking events are filed in annual folders; more substantial records for
events (flyers, programs, correspondence, and upon occasion the text of
Nicgorski's remarks) are filed in separate folders, ordered chronologically
by the date of the event. The materials also include programs and
correspondence concerning Sanctuary movement conferences and workshops;
publicity, programs, and liturgies for prayer and worship services for the
movement; and the Freedom Train Sanctuary Caravan from Phoenix to
Northampton, Massachusetts, in the summer of 1987. Additional materials
include newspaper political cartoons concerning the movement, a discussion
of the legal and religious issues facing the movement, and a file of
writings by, and other materials about, Jim Corbett, of the Arizona American
Friends Service Committee, one of the founders of the movement.
Organization
Ordered alphabetically.
Address labels and lists,
circa 1984-1986.
Box 2, Folder 4
Address labels,
1984-1986.
Box 2, Folder 5
Address labels. Arizona (Phoenix) Peace and Justice
Organizations,
circa
1985-1986.
Box 2, Folder 6
Address labels. Darlene Nicgorski's Contacts in Arizona,
California, and New Mexico,
circa
1985-1986.
Box 2, Folder 7
Address labels. People United to Serve Humanity
(PUSH),
1984.
Box 6, Folder 8
Address lists,
circa
1985-1986.
Box 2, Folder 8
Address lists. Sanctuary movement,
circa
1985-1986.
Box 2, Folder 9
American Civil Liberties Union Fund. Political Asylum Project.
The Fate of Salvadorans Expelled from the United States,
1984 September 5.
Box 2, Folder 10
Book notices,
circa 1985-1986.
Box 2, Folder 11
Center for Constitutional Rights. Educational
pamphlets,
1985.
Scope and Contents
2 pamphlets: (1)
Havens of Refuge: The sanctuary
movement and the law
(1985), and (2)
If
An Agent Knocks: Federal investigators and your rights
(1985).
Chicago Religious Task Force on Central America,
circa 1982-1987.
Box 2, Folder 13
National Sanctuary
Mailing
,
1984 February.
Box 2, Folder 14
Public Sanctuary for Salvadoran and
Guatemalan Refugees: Organizer's nuts and
bolts
,
circa 1982.
Box 2, Folder 15
Sanctuary: A justice
ministry
,
circa
1983-1986.
Box 2, Folder 16
Sanctuary and the Law: A guide for
congregations
,
circa 1983.
Box 6, Folder 9
Conferences and workshops,
circa 1985-1987.
Box 2, Folder 17
District of Columbia Metropolitan Sanctuary
Committee,
1986.
Box 2, Folder 18
Florida Council of Churches. Commission on Refugees and Global
Community. A Theological Basis for Refugee Work,
circa 1984-1987.
Box 6, Folder 11
Freedom Train Sanctuary Caravan,
1985 June-July.
Box 2, Folder 19
Friends Peace Committee.
Sanctuary for
Refugees from El Salvador and Guatemala: Basic information and
resources
,
1984 March.
Box 2, Folder 20
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service. Central American
Concerns Program. Crises in Central America: Lutherans
respond,
1984 August.
National Sanctuary Defense Fund,
circa 1985-1986.
Box 2, Folder 21
Benefit art exhibition "The Cross is not for Sale". La
Galeria en el Bohio, New York City,
1986 November 7-23.
Nicgorski, Darlene. Speaking engagements,
circa 1985-1990.
Box 2, Folder 22
San Diego,
1985 April-May.
Scope and Contents
Correspondence from Nicgorski's cousin, Joanne Nicgorski, OSF.
Includes photocopies of articles on Sanctuary movement not
related to Nicgorski's San Diego visit.
Box 2, Folder 23
St. Cyril of Alexandria Catholic Church, Tucson, Arizona.
Advent talk,
1985.
Box 2, Folder 24
Presente - Catholics for Peace and Justice. Vocation of
Agitator. 5th Convention. Tucson, Arizona. Keynote
speech,
1986 March 15.
Box 2, Folder 25
Statement to Mayor Goddard and the Phoenix, Arizona, City
Council,
1986 July 22.
Box 6, Folder 15
KINO Institute. Biblical Faith Confronts Todays
Idols,
1986 August.
Box 2, Folder 26
Sanctuary: rising cost of discipleship. National
Conference of Woman and Men Religious. Mundelein College,
Chicago, Illinois,
1986 August 21.
Box 6, Folder 16
Sanctuary celebration "From captivity to covenent".
Washington, DC,
1986 September 26-29.
Box 2, Folder 27
Conference for All Arizona Women,
1987 January 31.
Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Jerome
Hall Forum,
1987 May 4-5.
Box 2, Folder 29
Proceedings,
1987 May 4-5.
Scope and Contents
Includes Nicgorski's reflections.
Box 2, Folder 30
Aquinas Junior College, Milton, Massachusetts. Graduation
address,
1987 May 31.
University Baptist Church, Seattle,
Washington,
1987 June 6-7.
Box 2, Folder 32
Pentecost Sunday sermon,
1987 June 7.
Box 2, Folder 33
Dublin, Ireland. Irish opposition to United States
involvement in Central America,
1987 June 20.
Box 2, Folder 34
St. Thomas the Apostle Church, Palmer, Massachusetts.
Homily,
1987 July 19.
Box 2, Folder 36
National Assembly of Religious Women (NARW). National
Conference, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New
Jersey,
1987 July 24-26.
Box 2, Folder 35
Pax Christi National Assembly, Loyola University,
Chicago, Illinois. The Christian community: prophetic and
reconciling,
1987 August 1.
Box 2, Folder 37
Nicgorski, Darlene. Reclaiming our power as
women-church,
1987 September.
Box 2, Folder 38
How shall we sing God's song in a strange land? Faithful
educating in a pluralistic culture. Toronto, Canada,
1987 October 30 - November
4.
Box 6, Folder 17A
Acompañamiento. Powerpoint,
After 1987
December.
Box 2, Folder 39
Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Theology of Sexuality,
1988 February 17.
Box 2, Folder 40
Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Theological Opportunities Program. Women church: Claiming power,
seeking justice,
1988 May 8.
Box 6, Folder 20
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. English as
a second language class on women's issues,
Circa 1989.
Box 2, Folder 41
Year not determined and notes,
Circa
1985-1987.
Box 2, Folder 42
Phoenix Sanctuary Committee,
1984.
Prayer and worship services for the sanctuary
movement,
1984-1987.
Box 6, Folder 25
Undated and fragments,
Circa
1985-1987.
Box 2, Folder 43
Presbyterian Church.
Exodus,
volume 3, number 3,
1985 Spring.
Box 2, Folder 44
Religious community and sanctuary,
1984-1985.
Box 6, Folder 26
Sanctuary cartoons,
circa 1985-1987,
1997.
Box 6, Folder 27
Sanctuary cities and states,
1985-1986.
Box 6, Folder 28
Sanctuary issues, legal and theological,
circa 1985.
Box 2, Folder 45
Sanctuary movement, statements in support of,
1982-1987.
Note
Mostly from churches.
Box 2, Folder 46
Sanctuary movement. Correspondence,
1985.
Box 2, Folder 47
Sanctuary Perspectives,
1985 January.
Box 2, Folder 48
Sanctuary supporters,
1985.
Box 2, Folder 49
Spanish-language materials,
1983-1986.
Series 3.
Press and periodicals clippings,
1982-2007 (bulk
1985-1987).
Extent:
31 folders
Scope and Contents
This series consists of clippings and photocopies, the great majority from
newspapers, the remainder from periodicals, The bulk of the materials dates
from 1985-1987, and concerns Nicgorski and the Arizona Sanctuary Trial; a
number of clippings from 1987 and 1988 also relate to Nicgorski's decision
to leave the School Sisters of St. Francis. Clippings from later years
usually concern Nicgorski or United States foreign policy. The series also
includes complete issues of a number of periodicals from 1985-1988 that
contain articles relating to Nicgorski, the Arizona Sanctuary Trial, or the
Sanctuary movement.
Organization
Ordered chronologically.
Box 10, Folder 1
"Road to Freedom: the flight from Central America",
Arizona Republic,
Sunday, 1984 August 26.
Box 10, Folder 2
Keith Bagwell, "The leaders of the Sanctuary movement: 'an
unlikely collection of people'",
Scottsdale
Progress/Saturday Magazine
,
1985 March 9.
Box 10, Folder 3
The Register [Cape Cod],
1985 August 29.
Box 10, Folder 4
Andy Zipser, "A Statue without repose: on the eve of the
Sanctuary trial, the movement affirms its human subjects with art",
New Times,
1985 October 16-22.
Box 10, Folder 5
Arizona Daily Star,
Tucson,
Friday, 1986 May 2.
Box 10, Folder 6
Arizona Republic,
Phoenix,
1986 May 2.
Box 10, Folder 7
Tucson Citizen,
1986 May 2.
Box 10, Folder 8
Ross Gelbspan, "An activist recalls the roots of her effort",
Boston Globe,
1987 January 10.
Box 10, Folder 9
Marie Rohde, "The Love conspirator",
Wisconsin, the Milwaukee Journal Magazine,
1987 March 15.
Original Periodicals,
1985-1989.
Box 2, Folder 51
Dimensions,
Maryknoll,
New Catholic
World
,
Pax Christi USA,
Progressive,
1985-1987.
Contents
Dimensions, Winter 1986.
Maryknoll, April 1986, July 1986,
November 1989.
New Catholic World,
March/April 1985.
Pax Christi USA,
Fall 1987.
Progressive, August
1985.
Box 2, Folder 52
St. Anthony Messenger,
Sojourners,
1985-1986.
Contents
St. Anthony Messenger, October 1986.
Sojourners, March 1985, February
1986, June 1986, July 1986.
Series 4.
Writings, speaking engagements, and interviews,
1985-2011.
Extent:
38 folders
Scope and Contents
This series contans documents relating to Nicgorski's writings, speaking
engagements, and interviews. The materials include outlines and proposals
for three books, several articles, book reviews, and a poem. Of particular
importance are the transcripts of Nicgorski's taped daily reflections during
the Arizona Sanctuary Trial (the original microcassettes are in Series 9,
box 15). The series includes records of Nicgorski's speaking engagements,
sermons, classes, and conference appearances from 1990 onwards. Those for
which only a program or announcement survives are filed in an annual folder;
those for which extensive correspondence, programs, or the text of
Nicgorski's remarks exist are filed in separate folders. The materials also
include copies of works by others based on interviews with Nicgorski. These
range from a school paper by Nicgorski's nephew to a research paper by
Barbara Bezdek (the original audiocassettes of the interview are in Series
9, box 15) to books by Ruth and Bud Schultz and Becky Thompson.
Organization
Ordered alphabetically.
Box 7, Folder 12
"Acompañamiento",
Central America
Report
, vol. 6, no. 4,
1986 September-October.
Box 2, Folder 53
"Congressional hearings turned soap." Op Ed piece.
Boston Globe,
1987 July 22.
Box 7, Folder 13
"New joy in being a woman."
National
Catholic Reporter
,
1989 March 17.
Box 2, Folder 54
"Now is the time."
Basta,
1986 December.
Box 2, Folder 55
"Peregrina, no hay camino ..."
1987 August.
Book outlines and proposals,
circa 1986-1987.
Box 2, Folder 56
General,
circa
1986-1987.
Box 7, Folder 14
Consigning to love.
Outline,
1986.
Box 2, Folder 57-59
Restless passion for truth.
Outline,
circa
1986-1987.
Box 2, Folder 60
Sanctuary: comspiracy of love.
Proposal,
circa
1986-1987.
Box 2, Folder 61
Poem, written upon contemplation of leaving the order [School
Sisters of St. Francis],
1987 April 19.
Reflections taped during the Arizona Sanctuary Trial,
1985 October - 1986
February.
Reflections, with transcript of tapes 1-8,
1985 October 18 - 1986
February 28.
Box 2, Folder 62
Binder,
1985 October 18 - 1986
February 28.
Box 5, Folder 19
Photocopies (incomplete),
1985 October 18 - 1986
February 28.
Box 2, Folder 63
Reflections, prepared for the School Sisters of St.
Francis,
1986 January 12.
Note
With transcript of tape.
Box 2, Folder 64
Reflections on week 11,
1986 February.
Speaking engagements and interviews,
1990-2011.
Extent:
11 folders
Organization
Ordered chrocnologically.
Box 2, Folder 65
Bonds of difference workshop. Women: bridges of
diversity,
1990 February 10.
Box 2, Folder 66
Speaking engagements,
1997.
Box 2, Folder 67
Episcopal Divinity School. Theology as public
vocation,
2000 March 20.
Box 2, Folder 68
AlterNet.org. Interview,
2002 December 23.
Box 2, Folder 69
Duke University. Humanitarian challenges at home and abroad
program,
2002-2003.
Box 2, Folder 70
Speaking engagements,
2003.
Box 2, Folder 71
Sermon "la iglesia",
2003 April 6.
Box 2, Folder 72
University of North Carolina. Women's participation in
social movements in Latin America (Sociology 153),
2003 Fall.
Box 2, Folder 73
Duke University. Finding your own path vocational lecture
series,
2003 October.
Box 2, Folder 75
Speaking engagements,
2011.
Box 2, Folder 76
Interview by John Rosinbaum,
2011 September 6.
Box 2, Folder 77
"Where have your feet taken you?" In,
Where my feet have taken me: a collection of short stories by women
and girls living in Orange County, NC
. Department of Human
Rights and Relations, Commission for Women,
2005 March 19.
Box 2, Folder 78
Writings. Untitled, undated, and/or incomplete,
circa 1985-2000.
Writings of others, based on interviews with Darlene
Nicgorski,
1985-2001.
Box 3, Folder 1
Bezdek, Barbara. Religious outlaws: narratives of legality
and the politics of citizen interpretation. Research
paper,
1992-1995.
Box 3, Folder 2
Caspersen, Matthew. The Sanctuary movement: the Central
Americans struggle for freedom. Student paper,
1985 December 18.
Note
The author is Darlene Nicgorski's nephew.
Box 3, Folder 3
D'Elia, Carmen. Human rights: the church's call to sanctuary.
Graduate paper (Harvard Divinity School),
1987 May 7.
Box 3, Folder 4
Gleason, Susan M. The Sanctuary movement: challenging
perspectives on how to understand the relation between political and
religious activity. Honors thesis (Colgate University),
1989 May 17.
Box 3, Folder 5
Michalak, Rita Besnahan. The ethic of care as empowerment:
cases of the Sanctuary movement women. MA thesis (Arizona State
University),
1986 December.
Box 3, Folder 6
Schultz, Karla. The Sanctuary movement in the United States.
Student paper,
1987 May 15.
Box 3, Folder 7
Schultz, Ruth and Bud. Interview of Darlene Nicgorski for
their book,
It did happen
here
,
Before 1989 February.
Thompson, Becky,
2001-2003.
Box 3, Folder 8
"El testigo verdader libra las almas: the Central
American peace movement and antiracism". In Karin Case, Robin
Gorsline, and Jennifer Harvey, eds.,
To
do our first works over: disrupting white supremacy from
within
,
2003.
Box 3, Folder 9
A promise and a way of life: white
antiracist activism
. Extract relating to Darlene
Nicgorski,
2001.
Series 5.
School Sisters of St. Francis (SSSF),
1970-1993.
Extent:
18 folders
Scope and Contents
This series contains materials documenting Nicgorski's relationship with the
order of School Sisters of St. Francis. The order fully supported the
Sanctuary movement and Nicgorski during her trial, and the materials include
a detailed, complete media packet, official letters and memoranda of support
from the order, private letters of support from individual members, an
article by Jim Gittings on the order's support, and various papers
(including courtroom tickets) of Sister Anne Taveirne, the order's official
observer at the trial. The papers also include general documents relating to
the order. Materials documenting Nicgorski's personal relationship to the
order include her 1970 and 1974 professions, personal papers, and materials
relating to her 1987 separation from the order. The series also includes a
large file on Sister Patricia Pechauer, Nicgorski's friend, who was killed
in a traffic accident in April 1986 while attending the trial.
Organization
Ordered alphabetically.
Arizona Sanctuary Trial,
1985-1986.
Box 3, Folder 10
Media materials,
1985-1986.
Box 3, Folder 11
Media packet,
1985 October.
Box 3, Folder 12
Official support for Darlene Nicgorski,
1985-1986.
Box 3, Folder 13
Support for Darlene Nicgorski from individuals,
1985-1986.
General documents,
1974, 1982-1987.
Box 7, Folder 16
Gittings, Jim. "Sanctuary's 1500 conspirators,"
1985.
Box 3, Folder 18
Newsletter,
1986 December.
Box 7, Folder 17
Pechauer, Patricia, SSSF
1981-1986.
Separation from,
1987-1993.
Box 3, Folder 21
Official correspondence,
1987-1993.
Box 3, Folder 22
Personal correspondence,
1987-1989.
Box 3, Folder 23
Sister communicators, list of,
circa 1985.
Box 3, Folder 24
Taveirne, Anne, SSSF. Arizona Sanctuary Trial
observer,
1985-1986.
Series 6.
Subject Files,
circa 1971, 1981-2011 (bulk
1981-1989).
Extent:
43 folders
Scope and Contents
This series consists of materials found scattered throughout the collection
and not assigned by Nicgorski to a particular series. The writings by
Michael Altman, Nicgorski's counsel, relate to the Arizona Sanctuary Trial,
and include an essay on asylum and sanctuary, a history of the trial, and a
letter to the defendants during the trial concerning "women only" time and
space. Other materials relating to Nicgorski's involvement in the Sanctuary
movement include subject files created by her on Displace persons, El
Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico; newpaper clippings relating to the Ixcot
[Excot] and other Guatemalan refugee families Nicgorski assisted; a file on
Padre Tulio Maruzzo, Nicgorski's mentor in Guatemala, who was assassinated
less than six months after her arrival; and correspondence with Sister Mary
Malherek, MM, who introduced Nicgorski to the Sanctuary movement. Other
materials document Nicgorski's contacts in Europe, including the German
theologian Dorothee Sölle. The series also contains several studies of
United States foreign policy; a 1986 bibliography of the Sanctuary movement
by Anna Meyer Byler; a file on Steve Watrous, author of articles on
Nicgorski; and galley proofs of books on the Sanctuary movement by Renn
Golden and Michael McConnell, and by Judith McDaniel. The latter includes a
file of correspondence.
Organization
Ordered alphabetically.
Altman, Michael,
1985-1989.
Extent:
5 folders
Note
Darlene Nicgorski's defense counsel.
Box 3, Folder 42
Arizona Sanctuary Trial history,
circa
1987-1989.
Box 3, Folder 43
Asylum and sanctuary: a reply,
1986.
Box 3, Folder 44
Letter,
1985 November 22.
Box 3, Folder 45
Notes on Mexico and Central America,
1985 May 3-12.
Box 3, Folder 46
Rethinking religion,
1985-1986.
Box 7, Folder 24
Arizona Department of Public Security Training of El Salvador
Military,
1986 July.
Box 7, Folder 25
Berrigan, Daniel. Ten commandments for the long haul,
circa 1985-1987.
Box 4, Folder 2
Bishop, Connie B. Mission, vision, values,
circa 2000-2011.
Box 4, Folder 3
Brown, Robert McAfee,
1985-1986.
Box 4, Folder 4
Byler, Anna Meyer. Sanctuary: a bibliography,
1986 May.
Box 4, Folder 5
Cohan, Deborah, et al. "Ecumenical, municipal and legal
challenges to United States refugee policy."
Harvard Civil Rights / Civil Liberties Law Review, vol. 21,
no. 2,
1986 Summer.
Box 7, Folder 26
Displaced persons,
1985-1986.
Box 7, Folder 27
European contacts,
1985-1986.
Box 4, Folder 8
Golden, Renny. Sanctuary and the women,
circa 1985-1986.
Box 4, Folder 9
Golden, Renny, and McConnell, Michael.
Sanctuary: the new underground railroad. Uncorrected bound
galley proofs,
1986.
Box 4, Folder 10
Gould, Peter. A peasant of El Salvador. Play,
1983.
Box 7, Folder 28
Graphic images,
circa 1985-1990.
Box 4, Folder 12
Guatemala: refugees in Mexico. Calendar,
1989.
Refugee families
1983-1994.
Box 7, Folder 29
Concordia, Kansas,
1983-1987.
Note
First public sanctuary family Nicgorski knew.
Box 4, Folder 14
Ixcot [Excot] family,
1984-1994.
Note
Family helped by Nicgorski. Photographs removed to Series 7.
Photographs and postcards, box 9, folder 4 [Ixcot family].
Box 4, Folder 15
Joel and Maria, and Joel's sister Eva,
1989-1991.
Box 7, Folder 30
Malherek, Sister Mary, MM. Correspondence,
1986-1987.
Note
Introduced Nicgorski to the Sanctuary movement.
Box 4, Folder 16
Martz, Carl. Auschwitz: a question of responsibility,
circa 1971.
Box 4, Folder 17
Maruzzo, Tullio, OFM (Padre Tulio) and the Roman Catholic Church
in Guatemala,
1981-1984.
McDaniel, Judith,
1986-1999.
Box 7, Folder 31
Correspondence and writings,
1986-1999.
Box 4, Folder 18
Sanctuary: a journey. Galley
proofs,
1987 June 20.
Box 4, Folder 19
Meissner, Doris M. U.S. refugee and asylum policy: where we have
been and where we are going. Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy,
1988 March 10.
Box 7, Folder 33
Nicaragua,
circa 1983-1986.
Box 4, Folder 21
Poetry by others,
circa 2009-2011.
Box 4, Folder 22
Religious feminism,
1984-1987.
Box 4, Folder 24
Song lyrics,
circa 1985-1987.
Box 4, Folder 25
United States foreign policy,
circa 1984.
Box 4, Folder 26
Wann, John. 10-3-7,
circa 1986.
Box 7, Folder 34
Watrous, Steve. Article on Darlene Nicgorski,
1986.
Box 4, Folder 27
Writings by unidentified authors,
1986.
Series 7.
Photographs and postcards,
circa 1968-1993 (bulk
1984-1987).
Extent:
2 boxes
1 album + 13 folders.
Scope and Contents
This series contains photographs, postcards, and slides found in the
collection. The materials include a photograph album documenting in
particular Nicgorski's life and work in Central America and Arizona; several
large photographs from Nicgorski's participation in the Irish El Salvador
Support Committee's 1983 and 1987 demonstrations outside the United States
embassy in London; several photographs of Nicgorski with the children of the
Guatemalan refugee Ixcot [Excot] family; postcards from Central America; and
slides used in presentations given by defendants in the Arizona Sanctuary
Trial. The series includes correspondence concerning the return of
photographs (and one of the photographs) belonging to Nicgorski seized by
the Immigration and Naturalization Service during its search of her
apartment in January 1985. The materials also include as small numbers of
identified and unidentified photographs found loose in the collection; the
identified photographs include one of Patricia Pechauer, SSSF, apparently
taken shortly before her death in a traffic accident, in April 1986, during
the Arizona Sanctuary Trial.
Organization
Ordered alphabetically.
Box 9, Folder 2
Irish El Salvador Support Committee demonstration outside the
United States embassy, Dublin,
1983 January 28.
Box 9, Folder 3
Irish El Salvador Support Committee demonstration outside the
United States embassy, Dublin,
1987.
Box 9, Folder 4
Ixcot [Excot] family (Guatemalan refugees) and Darlene
Nicgorski,
circa 1984.
Scope and Contents
Photographs removed from Series 6. Subject Files, box 4, folder 14 [Ixcot
family].
Box 9, Folder 5
Photographs seized by Immigration and Naturalization Service,
correspondence concerning return of,
1991 October - July
1993.
Box 9, Folder 6
Unidentified,
circa 1980-1986.
Box 9, Folder 7
Photographic Negatives,
circa 1982.
Postcards,
circa 1980-1984.
Box 4, Folder 28
Guatemala,
circa
1980-1984.
Box 4, Folder 29
Honduras,
circa
1980-1984.
Box 4, Folder 31
Miscellaneous,
circa
1980-1984.
Box 4, Folder 32
Nicaragua,
circa
1980-1984.
Box 9, Folder 8
Slides,
1974-1986.
Note
Used in presentations by Arizona Sanctuary Trial defendants,
1985-1986.
Series 8.
Graphic materials,
1985-1987.
Extent:
5 folders + 1 volume.
Scope and Contents
This series consists of graphic materials relating primarily to the Sanctuary
movement and Central American refugees. They include posters supporting the
Sanctuary movement; drawings and watercolors of Nicgorski during the Arizona
Sanctuary Trial, and drawings by Nicgorski of other trial participants; a
print by C. R. Neuman portraying Sister Patricia Pechauer, Mohandas Ghandi,
Martin Luther King, Jr., and Dorothy Day; and a small sketchbook containing
drawings by Nicgorski and by children she met while learning Spanish in
Guatemala in 1981.
8.1.
Drawing and watercolors of Arizona Sanctuary Trial,
1985 Fall - 1986
July.
Box 11, Folder 1
Drawings and watercolors of Darlene Nicgorski,
1985 Fall - 1986
July.
Box 11, Folder 2
Drawings of other participants by Darlene,
Nicgorski,
1985 Fall - 1986
July.
8.2.
Posters,
1985-1988.
Extent:
2 folders
Organization
Ordered chronologically.
Box 11, Folder 3
Why Sanctuary, with Mike Farrell and Charles Clements, M.D.
Scottsdale Community College Heart of the Artichoke and the Arizona
Sanctuary Defense Fund,
1985 October 14.
General Physical Description: 1 poster : 17
x 11 inches.
Drawer 1, Folder 1, Item 1
Sanctuary Solidarity with Central America,
1986 September 28.
General Physical Description: 1 poster : 25
x 18.75 inches.
Drawer 1, Folder 1, Item 2
The Cross is not for Sale. La Galeria en le Bohio, New York
City,
1986 November 7-23.
General Physical Description: 1 poster :
29.5 x 14.5 inches.
Box 11, Folder 3
Journey : Central American Migration. Texas Lutheran College,
Krost Symposium,
1987 February 5-6.
General Physical Description: 2 copies of 1
poster : 20 x 16 inches.
Box 11, Folder 3
Ilopango (poem by Judith McDaniel),
copyright 1987.
General Physical Description: 1 poster : 17
x 11 inches. Signed by Judith McDaniel.
Box 11, Folder 3
Sanctuary: Making the political connections. A Reading and
discussion with Judith McDaniel. Office of Women's Programs, The
Women's Center Collective, The University Chaplaincy and the Tufts
Sanctuary,
1988 April 4.
General Physical Description: 1 poster : 17
x 11 inches.
Box 11, Folder 3
Guatemala,
No date.
General Physical Description: 1 poster :
13.5 x 14.75 inches.
Drawer 1, Folder 1, Item 3
Sanctuary. Tucson Ecumenical Council Task Force for Central
America,
No date.
General Physical Description: 1 poster : 17
x 21.75 inches; on mount.
Box 11, Folder 3
Sisters working together for justice,
No date.
General Physical Description: 1 poster : 14
x 11 inches.
Drawer 1, Folder 1, Item 4
Marimba Kanil,
No date.
General Physical Description: 1 poster : 22
x 15.75 inches.
Box 11, Folder 4
8.3.
Print by C. R. "Charlie" Neuman, portraying (top to bottom):
Sister Patricia Pechauer, Mohandas Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and
Dorothy Day,
No date.
Extent:
1 folder
General Physical Description: 1 print : 17 x
11.75 inches. No. 34/100.
Box 14
8.4.
Sketchbook,
circa 1981.
Extent:
1 volume
General Physical Description: 1 volume : 6.25 x
4 inches ; bound in red fabric with a flower motif.
Note by Darlene Nicgorski
"Some [sketches] by me, some by kids I met learning Spanish, 1981".
Series 9.
Audiotapes and videotapes,
circa 1980-1993.
Extent:
1 box
Scope and Contents
This series contains audio cassettes and VHS videos relating to Nicgorski and
the Sanctuary movement.
The audio cassettes include first-hand accounts from the early 1980s by
refugees; several of these originate with the Ixcot [Excot] family, in whose
flight and settlement in the United States Nicgorski played a vital role.
Other cassettes document Nicgorski's speaking engagements, as well as major
Sanctuary conferences, in the years 1985-1987. Of special significance are
Nicgorski's reflections on the Arizona Sanctuary Trial, recorded daily on a
series of microcassette (for transcripts of these reflections, see above,
Series 4, box 2, folder 62). Several cassettes contain interviews given by
Nicgorski; significant among these are interviews (on 3 cassettes) by
Barbara Bezdek. The cassettes also include the memorial service and funeral
liturgy for Nicgorski's friend, Patricia Pechauer, SSSF, who was killed in a
traffic accident while attending the Arizona Sanctuary Trial in April 1986.
A number of cassettes contain music, including peasant masses from Nicaragua
and El Salvador, Spanish-language songs by Cecilia Stanton and Judy
Connolly, SSND.
The videotapes include Nicgorski's appearance on the Phil Donohue Show,
interviews of Nicgorski and her counsel, Michael Altman, on C-SPAN and the
television documentary "Holy Defiance", two Public Broadcasting System
documentaries on the Sanctuary movement, and the 1982 Ana Carrigan and
Bernard Stone film,
Roses in December - the story of
Jean Donovan
, which Nicgorski often used in her
presentations.
Arrangement
Arranged by type, and thereunder ordered, so far as possible,
chronologically.
9.1.
Audio tapes,
circa 1980-1993.
Scope and Contents
Includes 4 unidentified audiocassettes and 2 labeled but empty
audiocassette boxes (1 for microcassette).
Box 15, Box A
Sisters Rosemary Sabina and Maureen McCann, Vowed
like,
1980 November 8.
Box 15, Box B
Mary Jane to Darlene [Nicgorski],
1981 January 11.
Box 15, Box B
"Bonge", Nic[aragua], Darlene Nicgorski's visit
to,
circa
1981-1982.
Box 15, Box B
Guardado, Maria. Interviewed by Darlene Nicgorski upon
arrival in the United States. Tucson, Arizona,
1982 December 31.
Box 15, Box B
Guat[emala?], Ann Marie,
circa 1983.
Box 15, Box B
All things considered. National Public Radio,
1984 April 19.
Box 15, Box A
Ixcot [Excot], Felipe,
1984.
Extent:
3 audiocassettes.
Note
Recorded in Arizona.
Box 15, Box B
Ixcot [Excot], Felipe. Recuerdos de los artesanos del
quiche,
1984.
Box 15, Box B
Tejidos [Weavings],
circa 1984.
Extent:
1 audiocassette.
Note
In Spanish. Of uncertain origin, but could be from the Ixcot [Excot]
family.
Box 15, Box A
Mgta [Margarita]. Interviewed by Mary Malherek,
MM,
1985 January 14.
Extent:
1 audiocassette.
Note
Recording found in Darlene Nicgorski's apartment on 14 January
1985.
Box 15, Box B
Meeting of Arizona Sanctuary Trial defendants. Tucson,
Arizona,
Sunday, 1985 January 27.
Extent:
1 audiocassette.
Note
Missing defendants: Anna, Mary, and Fr. Quiñones.
Box 15, Box A
Ruether, Rosemary. Women in ministry. Newman Center, Arizona
State University, Phoenix,
1985 July 10.
Extent:
2 audiocassettes.
Box 15, Box B
Nicgorski, Darlene. Daily reflections on Arizona Sanctuary
Trial,
1985 October - 1986
April.
General Physical Description: 13 audio
microcassettes: (1) typed; (2) through November 9, typed; (3) typed;
(4) to December 8, 1985, typed; (5) December 8 [1985] - January 4
[1986]; (6); (7a-c) three microcassettes labeled "7"; (8) "3-3";
(10) April 6. Also, two additional microcassettes: (a) "recorded";
(b) Vocation of agitation, March 15 talk.
Box 15, Box B
Held, Margaret, MS, during trial,
1985-1986.
Box 15, Box A
New Ways Ministry, Symposium 2,
1985 November 8-10.
Box 15, Box A
St. Cyril of Alexandria Catholic Church, Tucson, Arizona.
Advent talk,
1985.
Extent:
1 audio microcassette.
Box 15, Box B
University of Arizona forum. Sanctuary - Women's
view,
1986 March.
Extent:
2 audiocassettes.
Scope and Contents
(1) Nicgorski, Naomi; (2) Peggy H[enderson].
Box 15, Box B
Blitt, Connie. Conversation with women Arizona Sanctuary
Trial defendants,
circa 1986 March.
Extent:
1 audiocassette.
Material Specific Details: Dub.
Box 15, Box A
Pechauer, Pat, memorial service, Tucson, Arizona,
1986 April 16.
Extent:
1 audio microcassette.
Box 15, Box A
Funeral liturgy for Pat Pechauer, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin,
1986 April 17.
Extent:
1 audio microcassette.
Box 15, Box B
Nicgorski, Darlene. Interview on 940 AM radio,
1986 May 6.
Box 15, Box A
Monterey, California, Peace march,
1986 October 26.
Extent:
4 audio cassettes.
Scope and Contents
(1) Rev. Charles Litkey, Morse Auditorium; (2) John Stockwell, former
CIA Agent, Morse Auditorium; (3-4) Peace March Rally.
Box 15, Box A
Nicgorski, Darlene, ACLU of Northern California,
1986 December 7.
Box 15, Box A
Nicgorski, Darlene. "Sanctuary movement" talk at Mount St.
Francis,
1987 February 21.
Box 15, Box A
Prophetic Figures, Women's Ordination Conference (WOC) Awards
Dinner,
1987 February 28.
Extent:
2 audiocassettes.
Box 15, Box A
Sanctuary conference, Tallahassee, Florida,
1987 March 6-7.
Extent:
3 audiocassettes.
Scope and Contents
(1a) Rev. John Fife, The call to sanctuary, 3/6/1987; (1b) Darlene
Nicgorski, SSSF, From compassion to solidarity, 3/7/1987; (2)
Darlene Nicgorski, SSSF, workshop Tucson trial and legal defense,
3/7/1987; (3a) Brenda Sanchez, Witness from El Salvador, 3/6/1987 ;
(3b) Geronimo Camposeco, Witness from Guatemale, 3/7/1987.
Box 15, Box A
Nicgorski, Darlene, 1st pres[entation],
1987 March 8.
Box 15, Box A
Sacred Heart School of Theology, Hales Corners, Wisconsin.
John Neumann Summer Institute. Nicgorski, Darlene. Faith-filled
response to the misuse of civil authority,
1987 Summer.
Box 15, Box A
Jane Via, Ardeth Platte, and Darlene Nicgorski. Ecclesial and
civil disobedience, National Association of Religious Women (NARW)
Conference,
1987 July 24-26.
Extent:
1 audiocassette (2 copies).
Box 15, Box B
Pax Christi National Assembly. The Sanctuary movement and the
Peace movement,
1987 August 1.
Catholic Action Conference (CAC),
1987.
Extent:
3 audiocassettes.
Box 15, Box B
Gunzel, Fr. Ray. Human and divine,
1987 Fall.
Box 15, Box B
Hessler, Fr. Church on the move in Mexico,
1987 Fall.
Box 15, Box B
Rohr, Fr. Richard. Social analysis and the
gospel,
1987 November.
Box 15, Box B
Nicgorski, Darlene. Presentation to Dubuque
Franciscans,
1987 Winter.
Box 15, Box A
Wallis, Jim, Pax Christi, Florida,
1989 March 10.
Extent:
5 audiocassettes.
Box 15, Box A
Nicgorski, Darlene. Interview by Barbara Bezdek,
1992 June.
Extent:
3 audio cassettes.
Box 15, Box B
Thomas / Byam V. Nicholas
1993 Febuary 9.
Extent:
1 audiocassette.
General Physical Description: Tape 2 of
4.
Box 15, Box B
"Dar[lene Nicgorski] from Jose",
circa
1981-1987.
Box 15, Box B
Manuel Juan Tuex / Xucax, Guatemalan refugee [? Miguel Juan,
son of Felipe Ixcot/Excot],
circa 1984.
Box 15, Box B
Nicgorski, Sr. Joann[e]. Support for religious
dispensed,
1987.
Extent:
1 audiocassette.
Note
Sent to Nicgorski by her cousin, Joanne Nicgorski, OSF, in 1987.
Box 15, Box B
TS from Los Angeles on
Sisters,
circa
1981-1987.
Box 15, Box A
Voices in Exile, by Claire Schoen,
1985-1986.
Extent:
2 audiocassettes.
Scope and Contents
Four 30-minute programs concerning refugees from El Salvador and
their struggle to remain in the United States: (1) Inside the
volcano; (2) North of the border; (3) The search of asylum; (4)
Sanctuary.
Box 15, Box A
Misa campesina,
circa 1981.
Extent:
1 audiocassette.
Scope and Contents
Peasant mass, believed recorded in Guatemala.
Box 15, Box A
Misa popolar salvadorena,
circa
1980-1987.
Box 15, Box B
Stanton, Cecilia. Sanctuary music / Spanish
songs,
circa
1984-1987.
Extent:
1 audiocassette.
Note
Cecilia Stanton was the wife of Sam Stanton, a lay missioner in
Chile, who lived for a time in Phoenix, Arizona.
Box 15, Box B
Connolly, Judy, SSND. Light one candle / somos un
pueblo,
circa
1985-1986.
Extent:
1 audiocassette.
Note
Recorded after Darlene Nicgorski's indictment, when Nicgorski lived
with Connelly and Dottie Degar.
9.2.
Videotapes,
circa 1982-1989.
Extent:
9 videotapes : VHS.
Box 15
Roses in December - The story of Jean Donovan. By Ana
Carrigan and Bernard Stone,
1982.
Extent:
1 videocassette : VHS.
Box 15
Public Broadcasting System. "Sanctuary". Frontline / "New
Underground Railroad". Matter of Life and Death,
1983 July and September.
Extent:
1 videocassette : VHS.
Box 15
Sanctuary Committee. Newman Center, Arizona State
University,
circa 1985 Fall.
Extent:
1 videocassette : VHS.
Box 15
Nicgorski, Darlene, and defense counsel Michael Altman, on
C-SPAN News. Sanctuary,
1985 November 12.
Extent:
1 videocassette : VHS.
Box 15
Nicgorski, Darlene. On Phil Donohue show,
circa 1986 Spring.
Extent:
1 videocassette : VHS.
Box 15
Holy Defiance,
circa 1986
Extent:
1 videocassette : VHS.
Scope and Contents
5-part series on San Francisco television channel. Interview with
Nicgorski and defense counsel Michael Altman.
Box 15
A Sanctuary church,
circa
1983-1987.
Extent:
1 videocassette : VHS.
Box 15
Who Is My Neighbor,
1988 November 15.
Extent:
1 videocassette : VHS.
Box 15
The Journey and the sojourner. Darlene Nicgorski, Sanctuary /
[most of] Ted Keating, Legal aspects,
circa
1986-1989.
Extent:
1 videocassette : VHS.
Series 10.
Personal,
1969-2011.
Extent:
10 folders
Scope and Contents
This series consists of materials of a personal nature found in the
collection. The materials include Nicgorski's passports from 1981-1994; her
1969 teaching contract with Alverno College; several letters from 1987-1999
found loose in the collection; a newspaper article by her brother, John
Nicgorski; correspondence from her cousin, Joanne Nicgorski, OSF; newspaper
articles and notes and writings concerning Nicgorski's retirement; and a
photocopy of a notebook, "Theology of social justice".
Organization
Ordered alphabetically.
Box 3, Folder 25
Alverno College contract,
1969.
Box 3, Folder 26
Autobiographical accounts,
1985-2011.
Box 3, Folder 27
Correspondence,
1987-1999.
Box 3, Folder 28
Foothold into re-entry. Returned missioners' worshop,
1985 January 10-19.
Box 3, Folder 37
Nicgorski, Joanne, OSF,
1986.
Note
Darlene Nicgorski's cousin.
Box 7, Folder 23
Nicgorski, John. "An insider's view",
1985.
Note
Darlene Nicgorski's brother.
Box 3, Folder 39
Newspaper and internet articles on,
2011 August.
Box 3, Folder 40
Writings and notes on,
2009-2011.
Box 3, Folder 41
Theology of social justice. Notebook,
No date.
Series 11.
Realia,
circa 1981-1989.
Extent:
3 boxes
Scope and Contents
This series comprises non-documentary materials found in the collection,
including buttons and t-shirts from Nicgorski's sanctuary and refugee
support activities; blouses, ribands, and a skirt from Guatemala; and two
painted wood crosses.
Box 13
Armband,
circa 1981-1987.
Box 13
Bandanas,
Ccrca 1981-1987.
General Physical Description: 4 bandanas tied
together.
Box 14
Buttons from sanctuary/refugee support activities,
circa 1981-1989.
General Physical Description: 27 buttons (some
duplicates).
Box 14
Crosses,
circa 1981-1989.
General Physical Description: 2 crosses : 10 x
6 inches and 5.75 x 3.5 inches ; wood, enamel paint.
Box 12
T-shirts from sanctuary/refugee support activities,
circa 1985-1989.
Extent:
1 box
General Physical Description: 8
t-shirts.
Box 13
Textiles from Guatemala,
circa 1981-1985.
Extent:
1 box
General Physical Description: 3 blouses + 1
skirt + 5 woven ribands.
Series 12.
Awards,
1986-1987, 1996 (bulk
1986-1987).
Extent:
15 folders + 1 box + 1 item.
Scope and Contents
This series comprises a number of awards and recognitions Nicgorski received
in 1986-1987 (and one in 1997), from such organizations as the Arizona Civil
Liberties Union, the American Civil Liberties Unions of Northern California,
Southern California, and Wisconsin, the Women's Ordination Conference, and
Union Theological Seminary; and from
Ms
magazine. The bulk of the material consists of correspondence, certificates,
and programs, but includes a ceremonial key to the city of Santa Cruz,
California, a ceramic plate (Women's Ordination Conference), and a brass and
wood plaque (American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin).
Organization
Ordered chronologically.
Box 4, Folder 33
WITI-TV (Milwaukee, Wisconsin). Jefferson Award,
1986 March.
Box 4, Folder 34
Arizona Civil Liberties Union,
1986 May 10.
Box 4, Folder 35
American Civil Liberties Union of Southern
California,
1986 June 8.
Box 11, Folder 5
Detroit, Michigan, City Council. Testimonial Resolution.
Sanctuary Workers,
1986 June 8.
Box 4, Folder 36
Arizona State University. Coalition for World Peace,
1986 September 22.
City of Santa Cruz, California,
1986 October 27.
Extent:
1 folder + 1 key.
Box 4, Folder 37
Certificate,
1986 October 27.
Box 14
Key to the city,
1986 October 27.
American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California. Earl
Warren Civil Liberties Award,
1986 December 7.
Box 11, Folder 5
Certificate,
1986 December 7.
Box 4, Folder 38
Correspondence and program,
1986.
Box 16
American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin Foundation. Civil
Libertarian of the Year. Plaque,
1986.
General Physical Description: 1 plaque : wood
and brass ; 14 x 10 inches. Inscription: "Sister Darlene Nicgorski /
Sister Patricia Pechauer (in memory)".
Ms. magazine. 1986 Woman of the
Year,
1987 January 12.
Box 7, Folder 35
Correspondence and program
1986-1987.
Box 7, Folder 36
Sun Chronicle, Phoenix,
1987 January 13.
Box 4, Folder 39
Wisconsin Civil Liberties Union Foundation. 1986 Libertarian of
the Year,
1987 January 17.
Women's Ordination Conference (WOC). Prophetic Figure
Award,
1986-1987.
Extent:
1 folder + 1 ceramic plate.
Box 16
Ceramic plate,
1986.
General Physical Description: 1 ceramic
plate : 11 inches diameter. Signed on reverse: "Dolly Domerieau,
'87".
Box 4, Folder 40
Program and certificate,
1987 February 28.
Union Theological Seminary, New York City. Union
Medal,
1987 April 24.
Box 11, Folder 5
Certificate,
1987 April 24.
Box 4, Folder 41
Medal, program, and correspondence,
1987.
Box 4, Folder 42
Cambridge, Massachusetts. Peace and Justice Award,
1996.