Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968
Person
Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:
Post-War World Council Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-062
Overview
Founded in 1942 to continue the efforts begun by Keep America Out of War Congress; December 1941 KAOWC dissolved and reorganized as Provisional Committee Toward a Democratic Peace; February 1942 a more permanent group organized; ceased activities December 1967.
Dates:
1942-1967
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
SANE, Inc. Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-058
Abstract
Materials from national offices in New York, N.Y., and Washington, D.C., including minutes (1957-1987), correspondence (1957-1987), memoranda, reports, statements, literature, releases, newspaper advertisements, financial records, membership lists, clippings, photos, slides, motion pictures, and sound recordings; material on coalitions in which SANE was involved including Coalition for a New Foreign and Military Policy and National Campaign to Stop the MX (1981-1984) and Arms Control...
Dates:
1957-1987
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Norman Thomas Collected Papers
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Thomas, Norman
Abstract
Norman Mattoon Thomas (1884-1961) was an American Presbyterian minister who achieved fame as a pacifist and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America.
Dates:
1909-1946
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Turn Toward Peace Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Turn Toward Peace
Overview
Turn Toward Peace was founded in 1961 as a cooperative national effort of about 60 peace and liberal internationalist organizations; Norman Thomas was Chairman of TTP, and Robert Gilmore was the Executive Director. There eventually were offices in several large cities and 38 national organizations were affiliated with the organization. But by 1963, serious discord divided TTP and several years later a group split off to became the World Without War Council; some regional offices retained the...
Dates:
1961-1970
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Young People's Peace Conference transcript
Collection — Othertype SC-222
Identifier: SFHL-SC-222
Abstract
Contains the transcript of the Young People's Peace Conference sponsored by the Joint Peace Committee of New York Quakers in 1933. Chief speakers were Frederick J. Libby, Paul Harris, Jr., Edmund B. Chaffee, Alden G. Alley, Sidney E. Goldstein, and Norman Thomas.
Dates:
1933
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- Chemical warfare -- History -- Sources 2
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Militarism -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- History -- Sources 2
- Pacifists -- United States 2
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- American poetry 1
- American poetry -- 20th century 1
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