Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961

Committee for Amnesty for All Objectors to War and Conscription Collected Records

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Committee for Amnesty...

Overview On January 12, 1946, the Committee for Amnesty for All Objectors to War and Conscription was established to seek an amnesty for "all objectors to war and conscription," which included men under army court-martial for their stance against war. The Committee's most widely publicized work was the sponsorship of picketing demonstrations at the White House in May and December 1946 calling for amnesty, but the organization also promoted its objectives through lobbying of Congressional and other...

Dates: 1945-1948

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana Papers

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-011

Abstract

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana was a writer and pacifist who taught comparative literature at Columbia University from 1912 until 1917. Dana lost his teaching post as an opponent of American participation in World War I. Dana continued to advocate civil liberties and the rights of conscientious objectors.

Dates: 1914-1950

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

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

Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:

Committee for Amnesty for All Objectors to War and Conscription Collected Records

Committee for Peaceful Alternatives Collected Records

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana Papers

Dorothy Detzer Papers

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

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