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War Resisters League Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-040
Overview
The War Resisters League is a pacifist organization whose members are against all war. Witnessing the establishment of the War Resisters' International in Europe in 1921, and sensing a need for a similar organization in the United States, Dr. Jessie Wallace Hughan established the War Resisters League as an independent organization. The War Resisters League membership pledge, which has remained essentially unchanged since its inception, reads: "The War Resisters League affirms that war is a...
Dates:
1923-1994
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Norman J. Whitney Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-061
Overview
Norman Jehiel Whitney (1891-1967) was a Quaker teacher, writer and devoted peace worker. From 1919-1957 he helped establish, and directed for many years, the Syracuse Peace Council. He left Syracuse in 1957 to work for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in peace education. Whitney's major peace work was in the area of counseling conscientious objectors to war (COs), particularly those in Civilian Public Service (CPS) camps. In 1941 he helped establish the New York State Board for...
Dates:
1938-1967
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Aberman, Sidney 1
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 1
- American Friends Service Committee 1
- Barr, Allen H. 1
- Brooks, R. Boland 1
- Brown, H. Runham (Herbert Runham), 1879-1949 1
- Cary, Stephen G. 1
- Civilian Public Service 1
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 1
- Corfman, Rex 1
- DiGia, Ralph 1
- Dunbar, Olivia Howard, 1873-1953 1
- Eichel, Julius, 1896- 1
- Finch, Henry Le Roy 1
- Freeman, Harrop A. (Harrop Arthur), 1907-1993 1
- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 1
- Furnas, Paul J. 1
- Gottlieb, Edward P. 1
- Hartmann, George W. (George Wilfried), 1904-1955 1
- Hedemann, Ed 1
- Hedemann, Grace 1
- Hennacy, Ammon, 1893-1970 1
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 1
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 1
- Jacob, Philip E. 1
- Kepler, Roy C. 1
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 1
- McReynolds, David 1
- Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors 1
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 1
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 1
- New York State Board for Civilian Public Service 1
- Olmstead, Frank 1
- Pacifist Research Bureau 1
- Ransom, Frances Rose 1
- Richards, Edward C. M., 1886-1974 1
- Roodenko, Igal 1
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 1
- Schaum, Winifred W. 1
- Schwartz, Wendy (Editor) 1
- Syracuse Peace Council 1
- Vogel, Robert S. 1
- War Resisters League 1
- Wentworth, Lydia G., 1858- 1
- Whitney, Mildred C. 1
- Whitney, Norman J. (Norman Jehiel), 1891-1967 1
- Winchester, Harold P. 1
- Witherspoon, Frances, 1886-1973 1 ∧ less
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