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Jane Wittman Van De Bogart collection, 1958-2001, Date acquired: 00/00/2008, bulk 1960-1997

 

Summary

Creator:
Van De Bogart, Jane (1941-2008)
Extent:
5.02 Linear Feet
9 boxes
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Jane Wittman Van De Bogart collection, USF Libraries - Tampa Special Collections, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

Background

Scope and content:

Printed materials, correspondence, photographs, and slides related to Van De Bogart's travels to and lifelong interest in Cuba.  The collection also includes an official US State Department letter and other documents related to Van De Bogart's efforts to retain her passport.

Biographical / historical:

Jane Wittman Van De Bogart (1941-2008), daughter of Walter and Jeanette Wittman, Paramus, New Jersey.

Jane Wittman Van De Bogart's interest in Cuba began in the early 1960s when she and other students of Antioch College (Ohio) traveled to the country to study its educational system. Over the years, Van De Bogart made four additional trips to Cuba, often in defiance of the U.S. government's travel ban. One such trip, taken in 1964, prompted the U.S. State Department to demand that she turn in her passport.  She fought the revocation of her passport in court and her case wound through the justice system to the United States District Court of Appeals.  The Court of Appeals ultimately affirmed the State Department's revocation of Van De Bogart's passport unless she complied to the Secretary of State's condition to refrain from traveling to restricted areas. Van De Bogart's final trip to Cuba coincided with the first unveiling of the NAMES Project AIDS Quilt in Havana (1997), a cause for which she became an advocate, both in the US and Cuba, after her brother's death in 1986.

In later years, Van De Bogart became an advocate for many causes and was heavily involved in Woodstock, New York's local politics, serving as Councilwoman, member and President of the Woodstock Library Board of Trustees, Assistant to the town assessor, and Secretary to the Town Planning Board.  In addition, she advocated for many causes, including the Caribbean-Latin America Support Project (CLASP), Woodstock Women in Black, Veterans for Peace, Saugerties Committee for Peace and Social Justice, and Quilters for Peace.

Lynd v. Rusk, 389 F.2d 940 (D.C. App. Ct. 1967). Retrieved February 6, 2009, from

Westlaw Campus Research database.

Wind, K. (February 19, 2008). "Community mourns the death of an activist." Retrieved

December 10, 2008 from: http://www.dailyfreeman.com/articles/2008/02/19/regional%20news/19308407.txt

Acquisition information:

Estate of Jane Van De Bogart

Received in 2008 from Margaret Johnston, courtesy of the Van De Bogart estate.

Arrangement:

Organized into the following series. 1) Travel 2) Research Materials 3) Correspondence 4) Oversized Most items within each of the identified series are arranged alphabetically or chronologically.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Terms of access:

None. The contents of the collection may be subject to copyright.  Visit the United States Copyright Office's website at http://www.copyright.gov/ for more information.

Preferred citation:

Jane Wittman Van De Bogart collection, USF Libraries - Tampa Special Collections, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

Location of this collection:
The University of South Florida, Tampa Campus
4202 East Fowler Ave. LIB122
Tampa
FL
33620-5400
USA