Peacemaker Movement Collected Records
Scope and Contents
This material was gathered over the years through mailings or from various peoples' archival collections. Some of the Peacemakers' records, including correspondence and material from its tax refusal campaign, are in related collections (Bromley, Nelson, Swann).
Dates
- Creation: 1948-1980
Creator
- Peacemaker Movement (Organization)
- Nelson, Juanita (Correspondent, Person)
- Nelson, Wallace F. (Correspondent, Person)
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 (Correspondent, Person)
- Bromley, Ernest (Person)
- Bromley, Marion, -1996 (Person)
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 (Person)
- Swann, Marjorie (Person)
Language of Materials
Materials are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
None.
Conditions Governing Use
None.
Biographical / Historical
The Peacemaker Movement, often simply called "Peacemakers," emerged from a call for a conference in Chicago following Mahatma Gandhi's death. The founders of Peacemakers were pacifists seeking to rally others to the ideals of nonviolence, based on a spiritual philosophy of life as an effective social technique. Local organizations were called "cells" and were considered the basis of the movement. In later years, its aim was to resist conscription and refuse war tax payment to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.
Extent
2.5 linear ft. (30 linear in.)
Abstract
A group working on nonviolence from the late 1940s through the 1970s, particularly as it was expressed through tax refusal.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Unknown.
Legal Status
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Processing Information
Processed by Anne M. Yoder, Archivist, November 2011; added to May 2016.
Subject
- Peacemaker Movement (Organization)
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
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