Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961

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

Anna Melissa Graves Papers

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-015

Abstract

Anna Melissa Graves was a writer, teacher, world traveler, and internationalist. From the 1920s to the 1940s Graves traveled through Africa, Central and South America, China, Europe, and the Middle East. She taught school in many of these places and maintained a voluminous correspondence with the teachers, acquaintances, and former students she met on her travels.

Dates: 1919-1953

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Hannah Clothier Hull Papers

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-016

Abstract Hannah Clothier Hull (1872-1958), was one of the founders of the Woman's Peace Party and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. She served as a national officer of the WILPF for nearly forty years. Hull was also active in other social reform movements. A member of a well-to-do Quaker family, Hannah Clothier graduated from Swarthmore College in 1891. She first worked at a Philadelphia settlement house and then entered the graduate program in social work at Bryn Mawr College....

Dates: 1889-1958

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

George Nasmyth and Florence Nasmyth Papers

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-057

Overview

George W. Nasmyth was educated at Cornell, Berlin, Gottingen, Heidelburg and Zurich. He dedicate his life to the cause of international understanding and peace. In 1919, he attended the Paris Peace Conference, and to organize the first meeting since the outbreak of the war of the World Alliance for Friendship Through the Churches. He died of a typhus infection at the age of 39, on September 20, 1920. Florence Nasmyth was a writer on peace issues.

Dates: 1911-1937

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

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

Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:

Emergency Peace Campaign Records

Emergency Peace Federation Collected Records

Anna Melissa Graves Papers

Hannah Clothier Hull Papers

Edwin D. Mead and Lucia Ames Mead Papers

George Nasmyth and Florence Nasmyth Papers

National Council for Prevention of War Records

Peoples Mandate Committee Records

Mercedes M. Randall Papers

Helene Stöcker Papers

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