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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
Muriel Lester Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-Lester, Muriel
Abstract
Muriel Lester and her sister Doris created Kingsley Hall, in 1914 as a community center for the area residents. For 20 years, Muriel made Kingsley Hall the center of her work. In 1934 she became Ambassador-At-Large and later Traveling Secretary for the International Fellowship of Reconciliation [IFOR].
Dates:
1926-1968
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
John Nevin Sayre Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-117
Overview
John Nevin Sayre was a pacifist who spent over 40 years at the helm of the Fellowship of Reconciliation.
Dates:
1885-1982; Majority of material found within 1922-1967
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
United Peace Chest of Philadelphia Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-194
Overview
The United Peace Chest of Philadelphia coordinated and integrated Philadelphia organizations interested in promoting international peace. The name was often shortened to "United Peace Chest." The UPC was founded in 1938, though it was conceptualized in 1936 at a meeting of the Pennsylvania Branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Dates:
1935-1955
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 2
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 2
- Brittain, Vera, 1893-1970 2
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 2
- Gregg, Richard Bartlett, 1885- 2
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 2
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 2
- Page, Kirby, 1890-1957 2
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 2
- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 2
- Trocmé, Magda, 1901-1996 2
- Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971 1
- Adler, Friedrich 1
- Allen, Horatio, 1802-1889 1
- American Civil Liberties Union 1
- American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky 1
- American Friends Service Committee 1
- American League against War and Fascism 1
- Ayusawa, Iwao, 1894-1972 1
- Baer, Gertrude 1
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 1
- Bartlett, Percy W. 1
- Beard, Charles A. (Charles Austin), 1874-1948 1
- Berg, Russel O. 1
- Blaxall, Arthur W. 1
- Bolling, Landrum Rymer 1
- Brainerd, Heloise, 1881-1969 1
- Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 1
- Brockway, Fenner, 1888-1988 1
- Brookwood Labor College (Katonah, N.Y.) 1
- Broun, Heywood, 1888-1939 1
- Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 1
- Burritt, Elihu, 1810-1879 1
- Burton, O. E. (Ormond Edward), 1893-1974 1
- Catchpool, Corder, 1883-1952 1
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 1
- Ceresole, Pierre, 1879-1945 1
- Chandy, K. K., 1908- 1
- Chase, E. Dixwell 1
- Committee on Militarism in Education (U.S.) 1
- Coolidge, A. Sprague 1
- Cranston, Maurice, 1920-1993 1
- Curti, Merle (Merle Eugene), 1897-1996 1
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 1
- Dewey, John, 1859-1952 1
- Drevet, Camille 1
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 1
- Dulles, John Foster 1
- Eastman, E. Philip 1
- Einstein, Albert 1
- Embassies of Reconciliation (Organization) 1
- Emergency Peace Campaign (U.S.) 1
- Engelbrecht, H. C. (Helmuth Carol), 1895-1939 1
- Fey, Harold E. (Harold Edward), 1898-1990 1
- Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 1
- Florence, Lella Secor, 1887-1966 1
- Fry, A. Ruth (Anna Ruth), 1878-1962 1
- Garvey, Marcus, 1887-1940 1
- Goss-Mayr, Hildegard 1
- Grant, Donald, 1889- 1
- Graves, Anna Melissa, 1875-1964 1
- Gray, Philip, 1906- 1
- Harris, Paul, b. 1897 1
- Hassler, Alfred, 1910- 1
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 1
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 1
- Hunt, Dorothy H. 1
- Hutchins, Grace 1
- Inman, Samuel Guy, 1877-1965 1
- International Fellowship of Reconciliation 1
- Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 1
- Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 1
- Kaufman, Abraham 1
- Keep America Out of War Congress 1
- Labor Party of Connecticut 1
- Labour and Socialist International 1
- Lawrence, W. Appleton (William Appleton), 1889-1968 1
- League for Independent Political Action 1
- Lewis, Alfred Baker, 1897- 1
- Mayr, Kaspar, 1891-1963 1
- Mensching, Wilhelm 1
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 1
- Newton, Ray 1
- Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971 1
- Nilsson, Anna T. 1
- Nofrontier News Service 1
- Pacifist Action Committee 1
- Pitter, Přemysl, 1895-1976 1
- Ponsonby, Arthur Ponsonby, Baron, 1871-1946 1
- Randall, Mercedes M. (Mercedes Moritz), 1895-1977 1
- Raven, Charles E. (Charles Earle), 1885-1964 1
- Reynolds, Reginald, 1905-1958 1
- Rochester, Anna, 1880- 1
- Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 1
- Root, Robert Cromwell, 1858- 1
- Rosen, Harry 1
- Roser, Henri, 1899- 1
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 1
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