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Brockway, Fenner, 1888-1988

 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

A. Fenner Brockway Collected Papers

 Collection — Othertype CDG-B
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-Brockway, A. Fenner

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

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

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

Helene Stöcker Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-035
Overview

Dr. Helene Stöcker (1869-1943) was one of the first woman students to enter a German University. In the 1920s she helped found Germany's first woman suffrage organization, and later the Bund für Mutterschutz (Protection of Motherhood). Dr. Stöcker immigrated to the United States in 1941 under the sponsorship of friends and colleagues in the peace movement.

Dates: 1897-1994; Majority of material found within 1913-1943

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Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Women and peace -- History -- Sources 2
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Connecticut -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950 -- Sources 1
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Conscientious objection -- History -- Sources 1
Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Conscientious objectors -- Great Britain 1
Disarmament -- History -- Sources 1
Disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Draft resisters -- History -- Sources 1
Feminists 1
Feminists -- Germany -- History -- Sources 1
Germany 1
Internationalists -- History -- Sources 1
Journalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Lecturers -- United States -- Biography -- Sources 1
Lobbyists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Pacifism -- History -- Sources 1
Pacifism -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
Pacifists 1
Pacifists -- Germany -- History -- Sources 1
Peace -- History -- Sources 1
Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
Peace movements -- History -- Sources 1
Peace movements -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
Periodical editors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Peru -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Quakers -- History -- Sources 1
Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Socialist parties -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Socialists -- Great Britain 1
Suffragists 1
Suffragists -- Germany -- History -- Sources 1
Weapons industry -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Women -- Political activity 1
Women -- Political activity -- Germany -- History -- Sources 1
Women and peace 1
Women and peace -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Women journalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Women pacifists -- History -- Sources 1
Women political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Women social reformers 1
Women social reformers -- Germany -- History -- Sources 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief -- Sources 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Conscientious objectors -- Great Britain 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
World tomorrow (Periodical) 1
Young democracy (Periodical) 1
Youth and peace -- History -- Sources 1
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