Ethics into action: Henry Spira and the animal rights movement, c1974-1998

Component identifier:

Series 7

Content Summary:

Extensive source materials relating to Singer's biography of American animal rights activist Henry Spira, published in 1998, and the video/documentary 'Henry - One man's way'.

They include documents relating to Spira's activities (which appear to be copies of Spira's own alphabetical subject files on various campaigns and issues, including American Museum of Natural History, Cosmetics testing, McDonalds, Revlon, etc) and Writings 1975-1996; book outline and partial revisions of text of Ethics into action, with responses, reviews, and letters relating to the published book; and an

There are also papers for the 1996 video documentary, 'Henry - One man's way', including the film proposal, Singer interview transcript 1992 and log of tapes 1996, correspondence with directors, transcript of Animal Rights Coalition meeting 1 June 1991, Spira's campaign publicity, copy of his Strategies for activists: from the campaign files of Henry Spira 1996, and other publications and background papers. See also file 'Animal experimentation, US/International' (Series 13/13) which includes an exchange of letters between Spira and Singer 1980-81 regarding Spira's campaign against animal testing.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers were donated by Professor Singer in 1999 under the Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme [Cultural Gifts Program]

Names:

Peter Singer

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