Newton, Ray
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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
Peace Association of Friends in America Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-027
Overview
The Peace Association of Friends in America was organized in 1867 by Orthodox Friends in the New York, Baltimore, North Carolina, Ohio, Indiana, Western and Iowa Yearly Meetings in reaction to the Civil War, with its mission being to convince Friends and others that war was unchristian, inhumane and unnecessary.
Dates:
1868-1944
Pennsylvania Committee for Total Disarmament Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-030
Overview
The Pennsylvania Committee for Total Disarmament was active from 1930 to 1936, chiefly in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Through public opinion and personal contacts, PCTD supporters pressured Congress to support total disarmament, including passage of the Frazier Amendment outlawing war. Other objectives of the Committee included a Congressional investigation of the munitions industry, opposition to all preparations and training for war (including ROTC), and support for...
Dates:
1930-1938
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- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Messenger of peace (Richmond, IN : 1870) 1
- Messenger of peace (Richmond, IN : 1900) 1
- Pacifism -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Weapons industry -- United States -- History -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
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