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Black humane history found in great-grandpa’s attic near a town called Ark

January 15, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Letters and a map document humane & racial justice movements that pointed the way for Martin Luther King Jr. ARK, Virginia––Bus driver Alan Lemon,  59,  hoped to find antiques that might be sold online in 2018 when he and a friend decided to explore the attic of his great grandfather John W. Lemon’s long abandoned […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Animism & Santeria, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Iceland, Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Alan Lemon, Eric H. Hansen, Francis Rowley, Frederick Rivers Barnwell, George Thorndike Angell, John W. Lemon, Merritt Clifton, Richard Carroll, Seymour Carroll, William Alan Swallow

“We face a humane education crisis!” says HSUS historian Unti

April 20, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Orphan cause was foundation of the animal advocacy movement (See also HSUS bails out of humane education; ASPCA & AHA already did.) SEATTLE,  Washington––To see overt cruelty to animals––and humans––today,  one need only go to Facebook or search on the Worldwide Web. No sort of cruelty or misery is far from view,  despite the efforts of […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Culture & Animals, Humane history, Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Bernard Unti, Caroline Earle White, Diana Belais, George Angell, Henry Bergh, Merritt Clifton, William Alan Swallow

How “Quality of Mercy” Swallowed the humane movement (part 2)

December 19, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

1963 history sidestepped controversies that revitalized the cause (See also Quality of Mercy Part 1.) By the end of the era in humane work that William Alan Swallow most thoroughly chronicles in Quality of Mercy (1963),  an era coinciding with the 40-year career of Swallow’s longtime close associate Eric H. Hansen (1903-1965),  most mainstream U.S. […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Religion & philosophy, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Bands of Mercy, Eric H. Hansen, George Thorndyke Angell, Henry Bergh, Merritt Clifton, Richard Avanzino, William Alan Swallow

How “Quality of Mercy” Swallowed the humane movement (part 1)

December 19, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Effects of 1963 rewrite of history are still felt (See also Quality of Mercy, Part 2) Animal Welfare Institute founder Christine Stevens (1918-2002),  introduced as Mrs. Roger Stevens,  and National Humane Education Society founder Anna Briggs (1910-2011),  introduced as Catherine Briggs,  were probably the last people alive who were noted as humane movement leaders by […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal control, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Religion & philosophy, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Anna Briggs, Christine Stevens, Diana Belais, Eric H. Hansen, Merritt Clifton, William Alan Swallow

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