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Abraham Kaufman Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Kaufman, Abraham
Overview
In October 1928, Kaufman became the first paid employee of the War Resisters League, eventually becoming its Executive Secretary through 1947. He co-founded the Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1942-1997
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Letters of Nonviolence Project Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Letters of Nonviolence Project
Abstract
Includes correspondence (2002-2004) to and from Daniel Berrigan, Kathy Boylan, Mary Dean, Joyce Ellwanger, Lisa Hughes, Carol Gilbert, Elizabeth McAlister, Ardeth Platte, Byron Plumley, and Michael Wisniewski.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 2002-2004
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
David McReynolds Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-134
Abstract
David McReynolds (1929-2018), was an activist with the War Resisters League, the Socialist Party USA and the Democratic Socialists of America. He was an editor of Liberation magazine in the 1950s and a leader of the WRL from the 1950s until his retirement in 1999. McReynolds ran for Congress twice and for President of the U.S. twice, including a run in 2000. McReynolds has attempted to integrate anti-war and pacifist philosophy with Socialist economics. David McReynolds was openly gay and had...
Dates:
1943 - Date
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Pledge of Resistance Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Pledge of Resistance
Abstract
This collection includes: reports of national board meetings, 1985-1992; programs and actions, 1984-1993; information about the national convention, 1986-1991; also includes information about the following POR chapters: Bay Area and Los Angeles, California; Colorado; New Haven, Connecticut; District of Columbia, Washington D.C. area; Mid-Atlantic; Chicago, Illinois; Indiana; Louisville, Kentucky; Baltimore, Maryland; Michigan; Minnesota; Missouri; New Jersey; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1984 - 1993
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
War Resisters League Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-040
Overview
The War Resisters League is a pacifist organization whose members are against all war. Witnessing the establishment of the War Resisters' International in Europe in 1921, and sensing a need for a similar organization in the United States, Dr. Jessie Wallace Hughan established the War Resisters League as an independent organization. The War Resisters League membership pledge, which has remained essentially unchanged since its inception, reads: "The War Resisters League affirms that war is a...
Dates:
1923-1994
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
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- Central America -- Politics and government -- 1979- -- Sources 1
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- Latin America -- Politics and government -- 1980- -- Sources 1
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- Peace -- Societies, etc. 1
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- War Resisters League 3
- DiGia, Ralph 2
- Gottlieb, Edward P. 2
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 2
- Kaufman, Abraham 2
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 2
- McReynolds, David 2
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 2
- Roodenko, Igal 2
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 2
- Witherspoon, Frances, 1886-1973 2
- Aberman, Sidney 1
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 1
- Allen, Steve, 1921-2000 1
- Altbach, Philip G. 1
- Anderson, Jervis 1
- Andresen, Bent, 1908-1991 1
- Barr, Allen H. 1
- Bennett, Scott H. 1
- Berrigan, Daniel 1
- Bohn, Lewis Christian 1
- Boylan, Kathy Shields 1
- Brooks, R. Boland 1
- Brown, H. Runham (Herbert Runham), 1879-1949 1
- Charlotte Citizens for Peace (Port Charlotte, Fla.) 1
- Chomsky, Noam 1
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 1
- Corfman, Rex 1
- Dean, Mary 1
- Deats, Richard L., 1932- 1
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 1
- Duff, Peggy 1
- Dunbar, Olivia Howard, 1873-1953 1
- Early, Frances H. 1
- Eichel, Julius, 1896- 1
- Ellwanger, Joyce 1
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 1
- Finch, Henry Le Roy 1
- Forest, Jim (James H.) 1
- Gara, Larry 1
- Gilbert, Carol, 1947- 1
- Gilmore, Robert, 1941- 1
- Goodman, Paul, 1911-1972 1
- Gottlieb, Sanford 1
- Harrington, Michael, 1928-1989 1
- Hartmann, George W. (George Wilfried), 1904-1955 1
- Hassler, Alfred, 1910-1991 1
- Hedemann, Ed 1
- Hedemann, Grace 1
- Hennacy, Ammon, 1893-1970 1
- Hentoff, Nat 1
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 1
- Hughes, Lisa R. 1
- Jewish Peace Fellowship (U.S.) 1
- Kepler, Roy C. 1
- Keys, Donald 1
- Leland, Wilma Smith, 1903- 1
- Letters of Nonviolence Project 1
- Lyttle, Bradford 1
- McAlister, Elizabeth 1
- Meacham, Stewart 1
- Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors 1
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 1
- Nhất Hạnh, Thích 1
- Olmstead, Frank 1
- Peck, James 1
- Pickus, Robert 1
- Platte, Ardeth 1
- Pledge of Resistance (Organization) 1
- Plumley, Byron L. 1
- Prasad, Devi 1
- Ransom, Frances Rose 1
- Richards, Edward C. M., 1886-1974 1
- Rukuyser, Muriel 1
- Schaum, Winifred W. 1
- Schoenberg, Samuel 1
- Schwartz, Wendy 1
- Socialist Party (U.S.) 1
- Solomonow, Allan 1
- Sweitzer-Beckman, Mike 1
- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 1
- Tatum, Arlo D. 1
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 1
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 1
- U.S. Army School of the Americas 1
- Waskow, Arthur Ocean, 1933- 1
- Wentworth, Lydia G., 1858- 1
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 1
- Wisniewski, Michael 1
- Woodward, Beverly 1
- Young, Michael David, 1953- 1
- Zeidler, Frank P. 1
- Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010 1 ∧ less
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