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Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961

 Person

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Devere Allen Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-053
Abstract

Author, editor, journalist and lecturer; advocate of internationalist pacifism; influential member of the Socialist Party in the 1930s; genealogist; recorder of Rhode Island history and lore; named Harold Devere Allen.

Dates: 1809-1978; Majority of material found within 1910-1955
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

American Conference for Democracy and Terms of Peace Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American Conference for Democracy
Overview

The People's Council of America for Democracy and Peace grew out of the First American Conference for Democracy and Terms of Peace, held in New York, May 1917. It was organized to work for an early and liberal peace at the end of the World War. It favored world organizations and disapproved of conscription.

Dates: 1917-1919
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

American Union Against Militarism Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-004
Overview In 1915 a group of New York pacifists and near-pacifists organized the "Anti-militarism Committee" to combat the war spirit of the time. Activities included lobbying, publishing, a lecture campaign, and the establishment of a Civil Liberties Bureau. The most notable achievements were the work in the successful effort to avert war with Mexico in 1916 and the encouragement of opposition to peacetime conscription following World War I. The office was raided by the government and American Union...
Dates: 1915 - 1922
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Ellen Starr Brinton Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-051
Abstract

Ellen Starr Brinton (1886-1954), Quaker, feminist and internationalist, served as the first curator of the Jane Addams Peace Collection (later the Swarthmore College Peace Collection) from 1935 until her retirement in 1951.

Dates: 1895-1980; Majority of material found within 1933-1954
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Committee for Peaceful Alternatives Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Committee for Peaceful Alternatives
Dates: 1949-1952
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Dorothy Detzer Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-086
Abstract

Dorothy Detzer was a peace activist, writer, and lobbyist. She served as the National Executive Secretary of the U.S. Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1924-1946.. Detzer influenced a Congressional investigation of the munitions industry, 1934-1936, and later wrote the book Appointment on the Hill, 1948, describing her two decades in Washington, D.C.

Dates: 1913-1981
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Emergency Peace Campaign Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-012
Abstract Initiated in late 1935 by the American Friends Service Committee and other pacifists; originally planned as a two-year campaign to rally peace, religious, labor, African-American and student groups; aim was to organize a national campaign to promote peace principles in the face of preparation for war in Europe, and to keep the United States out of war; may have been preceded by the Emergency Peace Committee (1931-1933), though this has not been documented. The first EPC office opened in...
Dates: 1936-1937
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Emergency Peace Federation Collected Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Emergency Peace Federation
Overview

The Emergency Peace Federation was organized to oppose U.S. drift into the the first world war. In July 1917 the Federation merged with the People's Council of America for Democracy and Peace.

Dates: 1914-1917
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Edwin D. Mead and Lucia Ames Mead Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-021
Overview Edwin D. Mead (1849-1937), and Lucia Ames Mead (1856-1936), were both leading pacifists, writers, and social reformers of the U.S. and international peace movement. Edwin Mead directed the work of the World Peace Foundation and participated in many international peace congresses. He was an American delegate to the International Peace Bureau. Mead helped found the School Peace League and was a prominent member of the American Peace League. Lucia Ames Mead was a leading member of many feminist...
Dates: 1876-1938
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

National Council for Prevention of War Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-023
Abstract

The National Council for Prevention of War (NCPW) was directed by J. Frederick Libby for many years; it lobbied Congress and created educational peace material, among other activities and campaigns.

Dates: 1921-1975
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

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Neutrality -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
Women and peace -- History -- Sources 3
Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 2
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World War, 1914-1918 -- United States -- Sources 2
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Children's literature -- Awards -- History -- Sources 1
Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Cold War -- Sources 1
Connecticut -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950 -- Sources 1
Conscientious objection -- History -- Sources 1
Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Cuba -- Foreign relations -- United States 1
Disarmament -- History -- Sources 1
Disarmament -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Draft resisters -- History -- Sources 1
Feminists -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
Internationalists -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
Jews -- Czechoslovakia -- History -- Sources 1
Journalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
Lecturers -- United States -- Biography -- Sources 1
Literary prizes -- History -- Sources 1
Lobbyists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Mexico -- Foreign relations -- United States 1
Militarism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Pacifism -- History -- Sources 1
Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Pacifists -- Czechoslovakia -- History -- Sources 1
Peace -- Congresses -- History -- Sources 1
Peace -- History -- Sources 1
Peace movements -- History -- Sources 1
Periodical editors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Quaker women -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
Quakers -- History -- Sources 1
Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Socialist parties -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
United States 1
United States -- Foreign relations -- Cuba 1
United States -- Foreign relations -- Mexico 1
Women -- Societies and clubs 1
Women -- United States -- Societies and clubs -- History -- Sources 1
Women and peace -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Women journalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief -- Sources 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Sources 1
World tomorrow (Periodical) 1
Young democracy (Periodical) 1
Youth and peace -- History -- Sources 1
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