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A Quaker Action Group Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-074
Scope and Contents
A Quaker Action Group (AQAG) records in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection include minutes, correspondence (1966-1971), memoranda, financial records, subject files (organizations), research files (topics), project files, newsletters, press releases, statements of Quaker yearly meetings in various cities, clippings, photographs and sound recordings. The files were first processed in 1974, and then again in 1980. In 2004, archival intern, Joe Clark, sorted the papers into the present order,...
Dates:
1965-1973
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Grace Contrino Abrams and Fran Contrino Schmidt Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Schmidt, Fran Contrino and Grace Contrino Abrams
Overview
This small collection of papers details especially the life of Grace Contrino Abrams and her strong interests in teaching and in working against injustice in whatever form. The clippings from newspapers of media coverage, as well as the many Letters to the Editor, show some of her public life, while letters, and reminiscences of sister Fran Contrino Schmidt, fill out her private life. It should be noted that though there were five siblings, Grace and Fran spent much of their time together in...
Dates:
1942-1980
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Irwin Abrams Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Abrams, Irwin
Abstract
Includes biographical and bibliographical information and photocopies of a small portion of Abrams published writings, including material about the Nobel Peace Prize, women Nobel Peace Prize winners, the Quaker peace testimony and the Nobel Peace Prize, Henri La Fontaine, and Carl von Ossietzky.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1948-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Bella Abzug Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Abzug, Bella
Abstract
Includes biographical information; correspondence, 1966-1972; testimony/statements/resolutions, 1970-1980; involvement with New York's 17th Congressional District peace action committee, 1966-1969; notes for speeches including anti-military draft material; miscellaneous peace-related material; reference file about a proposed film"Time of Trial" (1969).
Dates:
Majority of material found within ca. 1966-ca. 1980
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Jane Addams Collection
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-001
Overview
A world-famous social reformer; co-founded the first settlement house in America in 1889; championed many causes on behalf of the urban poor, such as protection of immigrants, child labor laws, industrial safety, juvenile courts, and recognition of labor unions; a leading figure in the movement for international peace; awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.
Dates:
1838-; Majority of material found within 1880-1935
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Agape Foundation Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-237
Abstract
The Agape Foundation was a non-profit public foundation, which raised and distributed funds to groups working for nonviolent social change. From its formation in 1969 by a group of pacifists and anti-war activists in Palo Alto, California, the Agape Foundation provided millions of dollars to nonviolent, grassroots organizations throughout the western United States. It was headquartered in San Francisco. In 2010 the Agape Foundation merged with the Peace Development Fund.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1970-2010
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Ailanthus Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Ailanthus
Abstract
The collection consists primarily of printed material; includes flyers, notes from meetings, newspaper clippings, photographs, banners, legal briefs, publicity materials, and reference files. Also includes a memoir by Robert W. Hillegass about the making of the play "Handy Dandy" by William Gibson which draws heavily on Ailanthus courtroom experience and spirituality.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1979-1992
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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
William Charles Allen Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Allen, William Charles
Overview
William C. Allen was born in 1857 in Chester County, Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Society of Friends. Allen was deeply opposed to war and wrote often about the problems of propaganda, censorship, conscription, imperialism, and the munitions industry. He traveled widely and wrote many articles about his experiences abroad.
Dates:
1895-1937; Majority of material found within 1913-1937
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Alternatives to Violence Project USA Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-271
Abstract
Collection is primarily printed material; includes minutes, by-laws, flyers, manuals, newsletters.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1982-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Swarthmore College Peace Collection 325
- Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College 21
- Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections 3
- Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College 3
- Subject
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 144
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 56
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 55
- Women and peace -- History -- Sources 45
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 44
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 38
- Peace movements -- United States 26
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 25
- Peace movements -- History -- Sources 24
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 18
- Women and peace -- United States -- History -- Sources 18
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 17
- Antinuclear movement -- United States 16
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 16
- World War, 1914-1918 -- United States -- Sources 15
- Youth and peace -- History -- Sources 14
- Neutrality -- United States -- History -- Sources 13
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 13
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 12
- War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 12
- Women and peace 11
- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 10
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 10
- Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 10
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 10
- Peace -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 10
- Peace walks and marches -- History -- Sources 10
- Student movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 10
- Suffragists -- United States -- History -- Sources 10
- Disarmament -- History -- Sources 9
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 9
- Nuclear disarmament -- History -- Sources 9
- Quaker women -- United States -- History -- Sources 9
- World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Sources 9
- Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 8
- Nuclear disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 8
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- Sources 8
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 8
- United States 8
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 8
- Women and peace -- United States 8
- Central America -- Politics and government -- 1979- -- Sources 7
- Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 7
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 7
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 7
- Pacifists -- United States 7
- Peace -- Congresses -- History -- Sources 7
- Quakers -- Social life and customs 7
- Society of Friends -- Peace testimony 7
- Disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 6
- Nuclear arms control -- United States 6
- Nuclear disarmament -- United States 6
- Nuclear nonproliferation -- United States 6
- Peace movements 6
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- Sources 5
- Antinuclear movement -- History -- Sources 5
- Militarism -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
- Peace 5
- Peace -- Study and teaching 5
- Political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 5
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 5
- Society of Friends -- United States 5
- Tax protests and appeals -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Central America 5
- Amnesty -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
- Antinuclear movement 4
- Direct action -- History -- Sources 4
- Disarmament 4
- Endowments -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
- Feminists -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
- Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 4
- Nuclear facilities -- Environmental aspects -- United States 4
- Peace -- History -- Sources 4
- Peace -- Religious aspects 4
- Peace -- Research -- History -- Sources 4
- Peace -- Study and teaching -- United States 4
- Peace movements -- Massachusetts -- History -- Sources 4
- Peace walks and marches 4
- Quakers -- Diaries 4
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania 4
- Students -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 4
- Antinuclear movement -- Great Britain 3
- Central America -- Foreign relations -- United States 3
- Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 3
- Civil rights workers -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Conscientious objection -- United States 3
- Disarmament -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 3
- Education -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Feminism -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Human rights -- Central America -- History -- Sources 3
- Internationalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Latin America -- Politics and government -- 1980- -- Sources 3
- Nonviolence 3
- Nuclear disarmament 3
- Nuclear disarmament -- Great Britain 3
- Nuclear weapons -- Great Britain 3
- Pacifists -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 3
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church -- History -- Sources 3
- Peace -- Study and teaching -- United States -- History -- Sources 3 ∧ less
- Names
- American Friends Service Committee 24
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 20
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 18
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 18
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 13
- Lyttle, Bradford 13
- War Resisters League 13
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section 13
- Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 12
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 11
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 11
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 11
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 10
- Mead, Lucia True Ames, 1856-1936 10
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 10
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 9
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 9
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 8
- Kaufman, Abraham 8
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 8
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 8
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 8
- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 8
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Geneva, Switzerland (International Office) 8
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 7
- Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 7
- Hutchinson, Dorothy H. (Dorothy Hewitt), 1905-1984 7
- Newton, Ray 7
- Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987 7
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 6
- Baer, Gertrude 6
- Forbes, Rose Dabney, 1864-1947 6
- Jack, Homer A. (Homer Alexander), 1916-1993 6
- Lochner, Louis Paul, 1887-1975 6
- McReynolds, David 6
- Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949 6
- American Peace Society 5
- Blake, Katherine Devereux, 1858-1950 5
- Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 5
- Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 1924-2006 5
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 5
- Emergency Peace Campaign (U.S.) 5
- Henry Ford Peace Expedition (1915-1916) 5
- Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 5
- Omaha Action (Project) 5
- Pickus, Robert 5
- Witherspoon, Frances, 1886-1973 5
- Woman's Peace Party 5
- Andrews, Fannie Fern, 1867-1950 4
- Berrigan, Daniel 4
- Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 4
- Brockway, Fenner, 1888-1988 4
- Burritt, Elihu, 1810-1879 4
- Carner, Lucy Perkins, 1886-1983 4
- Civilian Public Service 4
- Dellinger, David T., 1915-2004 4
- Dewey, John, 1859-1952 4
- DiGia, Ralph 4
- Drevet, Camille 4
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 4
- Evans, Edward W. (Edward Wyatt), 1882-1976 4
- Forest, Jim (James H.) 4
- Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.) 4
- Gara, Larry 4
- Gilmore, Robert Wallace, 1921-1988 4
- Golden Rule (Ketch) 4
- Gulick, Sidney Lewis, 1860-1945 4
- Hartmann, George W. (George Wilfried), 1904-1955 4
- Hassler, Alfred, 1910- 4
- Mead, Edwin D. (Edwin Doak), 1849-1937 4
- National Council for Prevention of War (U.S.) 4
- Page, Kirby, 1890-1957 4
- People's Council of America for Democracy and Peace 4
- Randall, Mercedes M. (Mercedes Moritz), 1895-1977 4
- Rankin, Jeannette, 1880-1973 4
- Reynolds, Earle L. 4
- Shelley, Rebecca, 1887-1984 4
- Shivers, Lynne 4
- Spock, Benjamin, 1903-1998 4
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 4
- Trueblood, Benjamin Franklin, 1847-1916 4
- Turn Toward Peace (Organization) 4
- Wales, Julia Grace, 1881- 4
- Walker, Charles C. 4
- Weiss, Cora, 1934- 4
- Women Strike for Peace 4
- World Without War Council 4
- A Quaker Action Group 3
- Affeldt, Allan 3
- American League against War and Fascism 3
- American Union Against Militarism 3
- Angell, Norman, 1874-1967 3
- Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) 3
- Ballantyne, Edith 3
- Berrigan, Philip 3
- Bigelow, Albert, 1906- 3
- Boulding, Elise 3
- Camp, Kay 3
- Cousins, Norman 3
- Davidov, Marv 3 ∧ less
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