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Swomley, John M., 1915-2010

 Person

Found in 6 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

Consultative Peace Council Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Consultative Peace Council
Abstract

Includes correspondence, reports, financial records, administrative files, minutes of meetings, publicity materials, brochures, newspaper clippings. Correspondents include: Devere Allen, Dorothy Detzer, Alfred Hassler, Jessie Wallace Hughan, Abe Kaufman, Frederick J. Libby, A.J. Muste, Ray Newton, Mildred Scott Olmsted, John Swomley, E. Raymond Wilson, and M.R. Zigler.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1930-1969

Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-013
Abstract

The Fellowship of Reconciliation in the U.S. was founded in 1915 by Christian pacifists. The organization, whose members are now drawn from many religious groups, seeks to apply principles of peace and social justice and non-violent social change to issues such as disarmament, conscription, race relations, economic justice, and civil liberties.

Dates: 1915-

Friends Committee on National Legislation Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-047
Abstract

A Quaker lobbying group established in 1943 to bring conscience and spiritual values to the political process in Washington; it grew out of the work of the Friends War Problems Committee in 1940.

Dates: 1943-

David McReynolds Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-134
Abstract David McReynolds (1929-2018), was an activist with the War Resisters League, the Socialist Party USA and the Democratic Socialists of America. He was an editor of Liberation magazine in the 1950s and a leader of the WRL from the 1950s until his retirement in 1999. McReynolds ran for Congress twice and for President of the U.S. twice, including a run in 2000. McReynolds has attempted to integrate anti-war and pacifist philosophy with Socialist economics. David McReynolds was openly gay and...
Dates: 1943-

Lawrence Scott Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-090
Overview

Lawrence Scott was a construction engineer, Baptist clergyman, and Quaker activist. He worked as an activist against the testing of nuclear weapons and biological weapons research. He was the supervisor for the Friends Mississippi Project, project director of the Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick in Maryland, executive secretary of the Peace Action Center and a founder of A Quaker Action Group.

Dates: 1955-1965

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  • Subject: Peace movements -- United States X

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Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 2
Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
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African American churches -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources 1
African Americans -- Civil rights 1
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- Sources 1
African Americans -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources 1
Antinuclear movement -- History -- Sources 1
Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Biological warfare -- History -- Sources 1
California -- Politics and government 1
Chemical warfare -- History -- Sources 1
Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Civil rights -- United States 1
Connecticut -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950 -- Sources 1
Conscientious objection -- History -- Sources 1
Conscientious objection -- United States 1
Conscientious objectors -- United States 1
Disarmament 1
Disarmament -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
Draft -- United States 1
Draft resisters -- History -- Sources 1
Eniwetok Proving Grounds (Marshall Islands) -- History -- Sources 1
Food supply 1
Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) -- History -- Sources 1
Illinois -- Politics and government 1
Indians of North America -- Civil rights 1
Journalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Lecturers -- United States -- Biography -- Sources 1
Lobbying -- California 1
Lobbying -- Illinois 1
Lobbying -- United States 1
Lobbying -- Wisconsin 1
National service -- United States 1
Nonviolence -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
Nonviolence -- United States 1
Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- History -- Sources 1
Pacifism -- History -- Sources 1
Pacifism -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
Pacifism -- United States 1
Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Peace -- History -- Sources 1
Peace -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
Peace -- Societies, etc. 1
Peace movements -- History -- Sources 1
Peace movements -- United States 1
Periodical editors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Quakers -- Political activity 1
Race relations -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources 1
Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 1
Socialist parties -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Society of Friends -- Political activity 1
Society of Friends -- Societies, etc. 1
United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century 1
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Religious aspects 1
War -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
War -- Religious aspects 1
War victims -- Services for -- History -- Sources 1
Wisconsin -- Politics and government 1
Women -- Societies and clubs 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Religious aspects 1
World tomorrow (Periodical) 1
Young democracy (Periodical) 1
Youth and peace -- History -- Sources 1
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