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Consultative Peace Council Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Consultative Peace Council
Abstract
Includes correspondence, reports, financial records, administrative files, minutes of meetings, publicity materials, brochures, newspaper clippings. Correspondents include: Devere Allen, Dorothy Detzer, Alfred Hassler, Jessie Wallace Hughan, Abe Kaufman, Frederick J. Libby, A.J. Muste, Ray Newton, Mildred Scott Olmsted, John Swomley, E. Raymond Wilson, and M.R. Zigler.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1930-1969; Majority of material found within 1939-1955
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Courage to Resist Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Courage to Resist
Abstract
Printouts of emails from Courage to Resist to group lists.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 2007-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-013
Abstract
The Fellowship of Reconciliation in the U.S. was founded in 1915 by Christian pacifists. The organization, whose members are now drawn from many religious groups, seeks to apply principles of peace and social justice and non-violent social change to issues such as disarmament, conscription, race relations, economic justice, and civil liberties.
Dates:
1915-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Bradford Lyttle Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-079
Overview
Bradford Lyttle is a long time leading peace activist involved in the promotion of nonviolence for social change and the elimination of war and nuclear weapons. Lyttle was the organizer of the San Francisco to Moscow walk in the 1960-1961, to highlight the message of disarmament and nonviolent resistance and bringing together U.S. and Soviet citizens together during the height of the Cold War. He went on to organize and participate in other marches and protests, including the Quebec - ...
Dates:
1954-
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
Pennsylvania Committee for Total Disarmament Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-030
Overview
The Pennsylvania Committee for Total Disarmament was active from 1930 to 1936, chiefly in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Through public opinion and personal contacts, PCTD supporters pressured Congress to support total disarmament, including passage of the Frazier Amendment outlawing war. Other objectives of the Committee included a Congressional investigation of the munitions industry, opposition to all preparations and training for war (including ROTC), and support for conscientious...
Dates:
1930-1938
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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- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 6
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 4
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 2
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil disobedience 1
- Conscientious objection 1
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Direct action -- History -- Sources 1
- Disarmament -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- Dissenters -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism 1
- Pacifism -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 1
- Peace movements -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Prisoners' writings, American 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Selective conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
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- United States -- Armed Forces -- Political activity -- History -- Sources 1
- United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
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- Names
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 3
- McReynolds, David 3
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 3
- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 3
- Brown, H. Runham (Herbert Runham), 1879-1949 2
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 2
- Deats, Richard L., 1932- 2
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 2
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 2
- DiGia, Ralph 2
- Forest, Jim (James H.) 2
- Gottlieb, Edward P. 2
- Hassler, Alfred, 1910-1991 2
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 2
- Kaufman, Abraham 2
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 2
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 2
- Lyttle, Bradford 2
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 2
- Newton, Ray 2
- Nhất Hạnh, Thích 2
- Pickus, Robert 2
- Roodenko, Igal 2
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 2
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 2
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 2
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 2
- War Resisters League 2
- Waskow, Arthur Ocean, 1933- 2
- Wentworth, Lydia G., 1858- 2
- Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987 2
- Witherspoon, Frances, 1886-1973 2
- Aberman, Sidney 1
- Acts for Peace (Organization) 1
- Allen, Steve, 1921-2000 1
- Allinson, Brent D. (Brent Dow) 1
- Altbach, Philip G. 1
- American Friends Service Committee 1
- Anti-War Mobilization Mass Meeting (1940 : Washington, D.C.) 1
- Arvio, Raymond Paavo 1
- Babcock, Caroline L. (Caroline Lexow), 1882- 1
- Barr, Allen H. 1
- Beaver, Gilbert A., -1952 1
- Becker, Jo 1
- Berrigan, Daniel 1
- Boehmer, Peter J. 1
- Brick, Allan 1
- Brockway, Fenner, 1888-1988 1
- Brooks, R. Boland 1
- Byrns, Elinor 1
- Carner, Lucy Perkins, 1886-1983 1
- Chomsky, Noam 1
- Church Peace Mission (U.S.) 1
- Civilian Public Service 1
- Clergymen's Emergency Committee for Vietnam 1
- Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments (1932-1934) (Geneva, Switzerland) 1
- Consultative Peace Council (U.S.) 1
- Cope, Eliza M. 1
- Corfman, Rex 1
- Cornell, Thomas C. (Thomas Charles), 1934- 1
- Courage to Resist (Organization) 1
- Cox, Lucy A. 1
- Curry, A. Stauffer (Abram Stauffer), 1913- 1
- Dai Dong (Organization) 1
- Dellinger, David T., 1915-2004 1
- Drexel, Constance 1
- Drinan, Robert F. 1
- Duff, Peggy 1
- Dulles, Sophia H. 1
- Dunbar, Olivia Howard, 1873-1953 1
- Eichel, Julius, 1896- 1
- Enzer, Erica 1
- Evans, Edward W. (Edward Wyatt), 1882-1976 1
- Eves, William 1
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 1
- Finch, Henry Le Roy 1
- Food for China (Project) 1
- Frazier, Lynn J. (Lynn Joseph), 1874-1947 1
- Freeman, Harrop A. (Harrop Arthur), 1907-1993 1
- Gara, Larry 1
- Gilmore, Robert, 1941- 1
- Gloor, Michele 1
- Goodman, Paul, 1911-1972 1
- Gordon, Lindley V. 1
- Gottlieb, Sanford 1
- Gregg, Richard Bartlett, 1885- 1
- Gregonis, Peter 1
- Harrington, Michael, 1928-1989 1
- Hartmann, George W. (George Wilfried), 1904-1955 1
- Harvey, William Brinton, 1862- 1
- Hassler, Alfred, 1910- 1
- Hedemann, Ed 1
- Hedemann, Grace 1
- Heidbrink, John 1
- Hennacy, Ammon, 1893-1970 1
- Hentoff, Nat 1
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 1
- Hoopes, Darlington, b. 1896 1
- Hostetter, C. Douglas, 1944- 1
- Houser, George M. 1 ∧ less
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