Rev. M.E.N. Lindsay collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn610154
• English
• 1937
• a: Height: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) | Width: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) b: Height: 1.875 inches (4.763 cm) | Width: 1.875 inches (4.763 cm) c: Height: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Width: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Ribbon and box accompanying the typewriter used by Reverend M.E.N. Lindsay to compose the sermon that he delivered on November 21, 1937 to his parishioners at the South Britain Congregational Church, as part of his protest of the planned camp of the German American Bund in Southbury, Connecticut. The Bund, an American Nazi organization, were planning to set up a training camp to indoctrinate Nazi values in young people. The group had established at least 20 training camps in rural areas throughout the country and had 25,000 active members. With a camp already established in nearby Waterbury...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn90002
• English
• 1937-1938
• box 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The M.E.N. Lindsay papers consist largely of correspondence that he received in the aftermath of the publicity that was generated by the anti-Nazi protest in Southbury, Connecticut in November 1937. While most of the correspondence originated from either Connecticut or New York, letters received from as far away as Tennessee, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and California showed that the story of the Southbury protest had been picked up by newspaper wire services and published around the country. Some correspondents simply sent letters or postcards expressing either their support or opposition to the a...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn97472
• English
• 1937
• a: Height: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm) | Width: 8.500 inches (21.59 cm) | Depth: 6.125 inches (15.558 cm) b: Diameter: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) c: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Width: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) d: Diameter: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) e: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Width: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) f: Height: 9.125 inches (23.178 cm) | Width: 11.375 inches (28.893 cm) | Depth: 4.375 inches (11.113 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Typewriter used by Reverend M.E.N. Lindsay to compose the sermon that he delivered on November 21, 1937 to his parishioners at the South Britain Congregational Church, as part of his protest of the planned camp of the German American Bund in Southbury, Connecticut. The Bund, an American Nazi organization, were planning to set up a training camp to indoctrinate Nazi values in young people. The group had established at least 20 training camps in rural areas throughout the country and had 25,000 active members. With a camp already established in nearby Waterbury, the Bund purchased 178 acres i...