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Another Mother for Peace Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-102
Abstract
Another Mother for Peace was a women's peace group born from the antipathy to the war in Vietnam, based in Los Angeles, California. The stated purpose of this non-partison, non-profit organization was "to educate women to take an active role in eliminating war as a means of solving disputes between nations, people and ideologies." AMP closed its offices in January 1986.
Dates:
1964-1978; Majority of material found within 1964-1978
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Henry Joel Cadbury Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-081
Abstract
Henry J. Cadbury (1883-1974) was a distinguished Biblical scholar, teacher, and a member of the Society of Friends. Cadbury was one of the founders of the American Friends Service Committee. He served as its chairman from both 1928 to 1934 and again from 1944 to 1960. Cadbury supervised famine relief both in the United States and in Europe.
Dates:
1917-1974
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Student Peace Union Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-065
Overview
The Student Peace Union was founded at the University of Chicago in 1959. It was an intercollegiate student group whose members believed that neither war nor the threat of war could any longer be successfully used to settle international disputes.
Dates:
1959-1967
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Women's Peace Society Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-106
Overview
Women's Peace Society was not interested in using political or economic means to end what it termed "war-madness". Rather, its members chose educational methods such as handing out literature, participating in demonstrations, speaking at public events, and holding school contests. In August 1921, it sponsored a conference at Niagara Falls where it cooperated with Canadian peace women in starting the Women's Peace Union of the Western Hemisphere. The Women's Peace Union chose to work politically...
Dates:
1914-1933; Majority of material found within 1914-1933
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Young Friends of North America Committee on Conscription Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-083
Abstract
The Young Friends of North America, an open fellowship of Friends between the ages of 18 and 30, established a Committee on Conscription in the fall of 1968 to facilitate communication among Friends who were involved with draft resistance. The Committee, chaired by C.O. Peter Blood, collected information from members of the Religious Society of Friends who had refused to cooperate with conscription since the 1940s, as well as Friends who were currently imprisoned for draft resistance. Besides...
Dates:
1968-1971
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Blood, Peter, -1946 1
- Brown, George Edward, 1920-1999 1
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- Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 1
- Campus Americans for Democratic Action 1
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- Cranston, Alan, 1914-2000 1
- Daljord, Stella Crossley 1
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- Edelman, Marc 1
- Feiffer, Jules 1
- Fulbright, J. William (James William), 1905-1995 1
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- Halpern, Seymour, 1913-1997 1
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- Hassler, Alfred, 1910- 1
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- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 1
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- Kissinger, Charles C. (Charles Clark) 1
- Koch, Ed, 1924- 1
- Kreig, Florence Ain 1
- Mackaye, Jessie Hardy 1
- McGovern, George S. (George Stanley), 1922- 1
- Ment, Robert F. 1
- Morse, Wayne L. (Wayne Lyman), 1900-1974 1
- Proxmire, William 1
- Reed, Donna, 1921-1986 1
- Rees, Thomas M., 1925- 1
- Seeger, Daniel A. 1
- Silver, James 1
- Sobel, Roslyn 1
- Student Peace Union (U.S.) 1
- Suffet, Stephen L. 1
- Thomas, Margaret Loring 1
- Villard, Fanny Garrison, 1844-1928 1
- Winsor, Mary, 1869-1956 1
- Wold, Emma, 1871-1950 1
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