Palmer, Albert W. (Albert Wentworth), 1879-1954
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Churchmen's Committee for a Christian Peace Collected Records
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Churchmen's Committee for a Christian Peace
Dates:
1941-1942
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
