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American Union Against Militarism Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-004
Overview
In 1915 a group of New York pacifists and near-pacifists organized the "Anti-militarism Committee" to combat the war spirit of the time. Activities included lobbying, publishing, a lecture campaign, and the establishment of a Civil Liberties Bureau. The most notable achievements were the work in the successful effort to avert war with Mexico in 1916 and the encouragement of opposition to peacetime conscription following World War I. The office was raided by the government and American Union...
Dates:
1915 - 1922
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
John M. Swomley, Jr., Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-226
Overview
John M. Swomley, Jr.; minister in the Methodist Church; served as Director of the National Council Against Conscription, editor of Conscription News, and as National Secretary of the Fellowship of Reconciliation; active with the American Friends Service Committee and the American Civil Liberties Union; campaigned against universal military training; author of books on militarism and the Cold War.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1940-2002
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- American Union Against Militarism 1
- American Union Against Militarism. Civil Liberties Bureau 1
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 1
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 1
- Eastman, Crystal, 1881-1928 1
- Forbes, Rose Dabney, 1864-1947 1
- Gale, Zona, 1874-1938 1
- Hallinan, Charles T. 1
- Hull, William I. (William Isaac), 1868-1939 1
- Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 1
- Lynch, Frederick, 1867-1934 1
- Mussey, Henry Raymond, 1875-1940 1
- Nearing, Scott, 1883-1983 1
- Rankin, Belle 1
- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 1
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 1
- Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949 1
- Wald, Lillian D., 1867-1940 1
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