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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
CCCO/An Agency for Military and Draft Counseling Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-073
Abstract
CCCO developed a nationwide network of military and draft counselors and attorneys to assist conscientious objectors. Most active during the Korean and Vietnam Wars, the CCCO promoted such issues as amnesty, repatriation, and counter-recruitment.Operations were suspended in late October 2009. As of 2010, some of their counseling service has been taken over by the GI Rights Hotline.
Dates:
1948-2010
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Episcopal Peace Fellowship Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-118
Overview
The Episcopal Peace Fellowship (EPF), was founded November 1939 as an association of pacifist members of the Protestant Episcopal Church. The organization sought to discover and unite pacifists within the church and to influence its membership regarding Christianity and peace. The EPF has sponsored educational projects (publications, lectures, workshops, conferences), provided counseling and financial support for conscientious objectors, and contributed to pacifist projects in other countries.
Dates:
1936-2009; Majority of material found within 1936 - 2009
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-048
Abstract
The Federal Council of Churches organized its Committee on the Conscientious Objector under its Department of International Justice and Goodwill in 1941. The Committee was interested in all aspects of conscientious objection, especially religious life in Civilian Public Service camps. Among the Committee's projects was the organizing of a program of visitation to CPS camps.
Dates:
1941-1946
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Dwight S. Large and Frances K. Large Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Large, Dwight S. and Frances K. Large
Abstract
Papers of a married couple who worked for legal amnesty for Vietnam War resisters.
Dates:
1969-1976
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-060
Abstract
The Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors was a non-sectarian, free advisory service for conscientious objectors to war and military service. The MBCO was set up to provide counseling and legal aid in metropolitan New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut and established by the United Pacifist Committee in 1940. The group disbanded in 1980.
Dates:
1940-1980
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
A. J. Muste Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-050
Overview
A.J. Muste (1885-1967), was ordained a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, but later (1917), he became a member of the Society of Friends. During World War I, Muste's refusal to abandon his pacifist position led to his forced resignation from the Central Congregational Church in Newtonville, Massachusetts. Muste's involvement as a labor organizer began in 1919 when he led strikes in the textile mills of Lawrence, Massachusetts. He became the director of the Brookwood Labor College in...
Dates:
1920-1967
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
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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- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 2
- Kaufman, Abraham 2
- Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors 2
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 2
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 2
- Tatum, Arlo D. 2
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 2
- Whitney, Norman J. (Norman Jehiel), 1891-1967 2
- Abbott, Mary, pacifist 1
- Altbach, Philip G. 1
- Amdur, Stephen 1
- American Civil Liberties Union Foundation. Project on Amnesty 1
- Ames, Winslow 1
- Amnesty Information and Action Center 1
- Anglican Pacifist Fellowship 1
- Another Mother for Peace (Association) 1
- Aptheker, Herbert, 1915-2003 1
- Avedon, Barbara 1
- Babcock, Caroline L. (Caroline Lexow), 1882- 1
- Barker, Christine Ross 1
- Barr, Allen H. 1
- Bassford, Abraham 1
- Benson, Purnell Handy, 1913- 1
- Berg, Lloyd A. 1
- Big Flats Defense Committee 1
- Black, Elizabeth 1
- Blass, Dorothy 1
- Blaxall, Arthur W. 1
- Blood, Peter, -1946 1
- Boss, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), 1888- 1
- Brethren Service Committee 1
- Brooks, R. Boland 1
- Brown, George Edward, 1920-1999 1
- Brown, John Pairman 1
- Byrns, Elinor 1
- CCCO/An Agency for Military and Draft Counseling 1
- Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 1
- Campus Americans for Democratic Action 1
- Cary, Stephen G. 1
- Clergy and Laity Concerned (U.S.) 1
- College Peace Union 1
- Colton, Kenneth R. 1
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 1
- Congress of Racial Equality 1
- Cook, Cara 1
- Cornell, Julien D., 1910- 1
- Cousins, Norman 1
- Cranston, Alan, 1914-2000 1
- Cutler, Wolcott, 1891-1965 1
- Daljord, Stella Crossley 1
- DeSilver, Harrison 1
- Dunsavage, William 1
- Dworkin, Andrea 1
- Edelman, Marc 1
- Elkinton, J. Passmore (Joseph Passmore), 1887-1971 1
- Episcopal Church 1
- Episcopal Pacifist Fellowship 1
- Episcopal Peace Fellowship 1
- Farnsworth, Douglis 1
- Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Committee on the Conscientious Objector 1
- Feiffer, Jules 1
- First, Curry 1
- Fisher, Charles R. (Charles Robert), 1920- 1
- Frankel, Esther S. (Esther Strum) 1
- Frankel, Morton 1
- Freeman, Harrop A. (Harrop Arthur), 1907-1993 1
- Fromm, Erich, 1900-1980 1
- Fulbright, J. William (James William), 1905-1995 1
- Furnas, Paul J. 1
- Goldwasser, Martin 1
- Gottlieb, Edward P. 1
- Gray, Annie E. 1
- Gulick, Steve 1
- Halpern, Seymour, 1913-1997 1
- Hartke, Vance 1
- Hartman, Grover L. 1
- Hassler, Alfred, 1910- 1
- Hayes, Thomas Lee, 1932- 1
- Holmes, Marian H. 1
- Hook, Charles 1
- Hosman, Glenn B. 1
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 1
- Jack, Homer A. (Homer Alexander), 1916-1993 1
- Jacob, Philip E. 1
- Jones, Dorothy B. 1
- Jordan, John E. (John Edward), 1934- 1
- Karen, Robert 1
- Kearns, Joseph 1
- Kelly, Gail Paradise 1
- Kennan, George F. (George Frost), 1904-2005 1
- Kissinger, Charles C. (Charles Clark) 1
- Koch, Ed, 1924- 1
- Kreig, Florence Ain 1
- Landau, Jon 1
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