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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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Jessie Wallace Hughan Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-251
Abstract
Jessie Wallace Hughan (December 25, 1875 – April 10, 1955) was an American educator, social activist, and a radical pacifist. During her college days she was one of four co-founders of Alpha Omicron Pi, a national sorority for university women. She also was a founder and the first Secretary of the War Resisters League, established in 1923. For over two decades, she was a perennial candidate for political office on the ticket of the Socialist Party of America in her home state of New York.
Dates:
1870-1998
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Abraham Kaufman Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Kaufman, Abraham
Overview
In October 1928, Kaufman became the first paid employee of the War Resisters League, eventually becoming its Executive Secretary through 1947. He co-founded the Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1942-1997
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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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- Barr, Allen H. 1
- Beard, Charles A. (Charles Austin), 1874-1948 1
- Bennett, Scott H. 1
- Berg, Russel O. 1
- Bohn, Lewis Christian 1
- Bolling, Landrum Rymer 1
- Brainerd, Heloise, 1881-1969 1
- Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 1
- Brittain, Vera, 1893-1970 1
- Brooks, R. Boland 1
- Broun, Heywood, 1888-1939 1
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- Brown, H. Runham (Herbert Runham), 1879-1949 1
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- Cleghorn, Sarah Norcliffe, 1876-1959 1
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- Corfman, Rex 1
- Cranston, Maurice, 1920-1993 1
- Cunard, Nancy, 1896-1965 1
- Curti, Merle (Merle Eugene), 1897-1996 1
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 1
- Dewey, John, 1859-1952 1
- DiGia, Ralph 1
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 1
- Dulles, John Foster 1
- Dunbar, Olivia Howard, 1873-1953 1
- Durant, Ariel 1
- Eichel, Julius, 1896- 1
- Einstein, Albert 1
- Emergency Peace Campaign (U.S.) 1
- Engelbrecht, H. C. (Helmuth Carol), 1895-1939 1
- Fey, Harold E. (Harold Edward), 1898-1990 1
- Finch, Margaret Rockwell, 1921- 1
- Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 1
- Florence, Lella Secor, 1887-1966 1
- Freeman, Harrop A. (Harrop Arthur), 1907-1993 1
- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 1
- Fry, A. Ruth (Anna Ruth), 1878-1962 1
- Furnas, Paul J. 1
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