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Tracy D. Mygatt and Frances Witherspoon Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-089
Overview
Tracy Dickinson Mygatt (1885-1973) and Frances May Witherspoon (1886-1973) were prolific writers and absolute pacifists who worked together in movements for women's rights, world peace, civil liberties, and civil rights. Both women authored plays, articles, poems, sermons, and stories, individually and in collaboration. They were founders of the War Resisters League and later served as honorary chairs. Frances Witherspoon was a co-founder and Executive Secretary of the New York Bureau of Legal...
Dates:
1835-1973; Majority of material found within 1911-1974
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Sydney Dix Strong Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-036
Overview
Sydney Dix Strong (1860-1938) was an outspoken pacifist and strong supporter of disarmament, war resistance, and organized labor. He was the pastor for churches in Ohio and Illinois and did settlement work in Chicago. For his peace stance made him unpopular during WWI and in Oct. 1917 he was expelled from membership in the Municipal League of Seattle because of a speech he had given before the National Council of Congregational Churches, in which he praised the I.W.W. (International Workers of...
Dates:
1890-1938
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 1
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- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 1
- Bowie, Walter Russell, 1882-1969 1
- Campaign for World Government (Organization) 1
- Carner, Lucy Perkins, 1886-1983 1
- Casanova, Margaret 1
- Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments (1932-1934) (Geneva, Switzerland) 1
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 1
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- Gladden, Washington, 1836-1918 1
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- Jones, Paul, 1880-1941 1
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- Kuenzli, Alfred E. (Alfred Eugene), 1923- 1
- Layer, Frances Evans 1
- Leo, Ernest 1
- Lloyd, Georgia, 1913- 1
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 1
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 1
- New York Bureau of Legal Advice 1
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 1
- Strong, Sydney, 1860-1938 1
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