Pierce, Katharine C. (Katharine Curtis), 1882-
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Episcopal Peace Fellowship Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-118
Overview
The Episcopal Peace Fellowship (EPF), was founded November 1939 as an association of pacifist members of the Protestant Episcopal Church. The organization sought to discover and unite pacifists within the church and to influence its membership regarding Christianity and peace. The EPF has sponsored educational projects (publications, lectures, workshops, conferences), provided counseling and financial support for conscientious objectors, and contributed to pacifist projects in other...
Dates:
1936-2009; Majority of material found within 1936 - 2009
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Women's Committee to Oppose Conscription Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-068
Overview
This group was originally named the Committee to Oppose the Conscription of Women [WCOC], and then the National Committee to Oppose the Conscription of Women. It was formed in 1942 to protest the Austin-Wadsworth legislative bills and similar measures, which proposed that American women be drated into a civilian workforce for the duration of World War II. When the immediate threat of drafting women had passed, the group changed its name again, this time to the Women's Committee to Oppose...
Dates:
1942-1948
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Military nursing -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Congresses -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Episcopal Church -- History -- Sources 1
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- War -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- Women and the military -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Women and war -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
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