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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
Charlotte Citizens for Peace Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Charlotte Citizens for Peace
Abstract
Correspondence, administrative files, financial records, flyers, newspaper clippings, reference files. Correspondents include Esther S. Frankel and Abraham Kaufman.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1982-1996
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Consultative Peace Council Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Consultative Peace Council
Abstract
Includes correspondence, reports, financial records, administrative files, minutes of meetings, publicity materials, brochures, newspaper clippings. Correspondents include: Devere Allen, Dorothy Detzer, Alfred Hassler, Jessie Wallace Hughan, Abe Kaufman, Frederick J. Libby, A.J. Muste, Ray Newton, Mildred Scott Olmsted, John Swomley, E. Raymond Wilson, and M.R. Zigler.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1930-1969; Majority of material found within 1939-1955
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' International Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-039
Overview
The War Resisters' International was founded at Bilthoven, Netherlands, in 1921 by representative pacifists from that country, Germany, Austria and Great Britain. The War Resisters' International was never more than a coordinating body in its relationship to affiliated groups.
Dates:
1923-1976
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
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- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 3
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 3
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 2
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- Early, Frances H. 2
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- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 2
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 2
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 2
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- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 2
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- Baer, Gertrude 1
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 1
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- Beaton, Grace M. 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
- Brockway, Fenner, 1888-1988 1
- Brooks, R. Boland 1
- Broun, Heywood, 1888-1939 1
- Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 1
- Burritt, Elihu, 1810-1879 1
- Byrns, Elinor 1
- Catchpool, Corder, 1883-1952 1
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 1
- Ceresole, Pierre, 1879-1945 1
- Chase, E. Dixwell 1
- Cleghorn, Sarah Norcliffe, 1876-1959 1
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 1
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- Coolidge, A. Sprague 1
- Corfman, Rex 1
- Cranston, Maurice, 1920-1993 1
- Curti, Merle (Merle Eugene), 1897-1996 1
- Dewey, John, 1859-1952 1
- DiGia, Ralph 1
- Drevet, Camille 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
- Frankel, Esther S. (Esther Strum) 1
- Fry, A. Ruth (Anna Ruth), 1878-1962 1
- Gara, Larry 1
- Garvey, Marcus, 1887-1940 1
- Gottlieb, Edward P. 1
- Grant, Donald, 1889- 1
- Graves, Anna Melissa, 1875-1964 1
- Gray, Philip, 1906- 1
- Gregg, Richard Bartlett, 1885- 1
- Harris, Paul, b. 1897 1
- Hartmann, George W. (George Wilfried), 1904-1955 1
- Hedemann, Ed 1
- Hedemann, Grace 1
- Hennacy, Ammon, 1893-1970 1
- Hughan, Evelyn 1
- Hunt, Dorothy H. 1
- Hutchins, Grace 1
- Inman, Samuel Guy, 1877-1965 1
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