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Summary Information
Polish American Congress. Wisconsin Division: Records 1948-2003
- Polish American Congress. Wisconsin Division
Milwaukee Mss 72; Audio 2035A; PH 6548
6.4 cubic feet (17 archives boxes), 0.3 cubic feet of photographs (1 archives box and 1 oversize folder), and 8 tape recordings
UW-Milwaukee Libraries, Archives / Milwaukee Area Research Ctr. (Map)
Records of the Wisconsin Division of the Polish American Congress (Kongres Polonii Amerykanskiej) established as an umbrella organization in 1944 to promote the welfare of Polish-Americans, to work on behalf of Poland, and to fight communism. The collection includes by-laws and constitution, membership and administrative records (including minutes of annual meetings), publications, general correspondence, subject files documenting the group's interests such as defamation of Polish Americans, Pope John Paul II, the Milwaukee Kopernik and Millennium Committees, Polish ethnicity, and U.S. foreign policy. The collection also includes photographs documenting ethnic advocacy and education; and audio recordings of meetings. Polish, English
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mil00072
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