Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961

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

Peoples Mandate Committee Records

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-109

Overview Peoples Mandate to Governments to End War was an international campaign begun on September 6, 1935, by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom to express such overwhelming opposition to war that governments would not dare resort to it as a means of solving disputes between nations. By the end of the decade the Peoples Mandate became an independent organization, headed by Mabel Vernon, and focused on peace and connections between women and women's organizations in the...

Dates: 1935-1975; Majority of material found within 1935-1956

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Mercedes M. Randall Papers

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-110

Overview

Mercedes M. Randall was an early, and lifelong, member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. She held many positions of responsibility in the organization, including chairmanship of the National Education Committee, and presidency of the Manhattan Branch. Randall was the first biographer of Nobel Peace Prize winner, Emily Greene Balch.

Dates: 1914-1977

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Helene Stöcker Papers

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-035

Overview

Dr. Helene Stöcker (1869-1943) was one of the first woman students to enter a German University. In the 1920s she helped found Germany's first woman suffrage organization, and later the Bund für Mutterschutz (Protection of Motherhood). Dr. Stöcker immigrated to the United States in 1941 under the sponsorship of friends and colleagues in the peace movement.

Dates: 1897-1994; Majority of material found within 1913-1943

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

The papers of Emily Greene Balch : [microform] / editor, Martha P. Shane

Collection — Othertype Reels 129.1-129.26

Identifier: SCPC-Reels-129.1-129.26

Dates: 1875-1961

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Lydia G. Wentworth Papers

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-041

Overview Lydia G. Wentworth, was a writer and ardent peace advocate who lived most of her life in Brookline, Massachusetts. Despite illness which confined her to bed for over thirty years, she carried on a prolific correspondence and contributed hundreds of articles to newspapers and magazines. Wentworth was on the advisory committee of the Women's Peace Society, and was a member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the Association to Abolish...

Dates: 1902-1947; Majority of material found within 1918-1947

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Women's Committee to Oppose Conscription Records

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-068

Overview This group was originally named the Committee to Oppose the Conscription of Women [WCOC], and then the National Committee to Oppose the Conscription of Women. It was formed in 1942 to protest the Austin-Wadsworth legislative bills and similar measures, which proposed that American women be drated into a civilian workforce for the duration of World War II. When the immediate threat of drafting women had passed, the group changed its name again, this time to the Women's Committee to Oppose...

Dates: 1942-1948

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-043

Abstract Includes minutes, resolutions and general historical records; anniversary celebrations, committee minutes, literature and releases; office files from the legislative office, the finance and the executive director; includes miscellaneous records from branches, including New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, among others; a large correspondence file includes general office correspondence as well as that of the National Organizational Secretary, the Washington Legislative Secretary, and...

Dates: 1915-

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:

National Council for Prevention of War Records

Peoples Mandate Committee Records

Mercedes M. Randall Papers

Helene Stöcker Papers

The papers of Emily Greene Balch : [microform] / editor, Martha P. Shane

Lydia G. Wentworth Papers

Women's Committee to Oppose Conscription Records

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

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