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Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 144 Collections and/or Records:

Atlantic City Conference for Peaceworkers Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Atlantic City Conference for Peaceworkers
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, minutes, and related printed materials.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1945-1946

John Beer Collected Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Beer, John
Abstract

John Beer was a professor of the history of science and chemistry, as well as a Quaker peace and antinuclear activist.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1954-1985

Katherine Devereux Blake Collected Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Blake, Katherine Devereux
Abstract

Katherine Devereux Blake was a suffragist and peace activist through the first half of the twentieth century. She was a member of the Ford Peace Expedition in 1915-1916, served on the national board of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and its international executive board, and was the chief speaker for the Disarmament Caravan, which toured 9,000 miles in 1931.

Dates: 1911-1950

Jack Bollens Collected Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Bollens, Jack
Abstract

Jack Bollens was a conscientious objector who worked in the peace movement in the 1960s and 1970s.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1958-1981

Ellen Starr Brinton Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-051
Abstract

Ellen Starr Brinton (1886-1954), Quaker, feminist and internationalist, served as the first curator of the Jane Addams Peace Collection (later the Swarthmore College Peace Collection) from 1935 until her retirement in 1951.

Dates: 1895-1980; Majority of material found within 1933-1954

Elihu Burritt Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-096
Overview Elihu Burritt was born on December 10, 1810, in New Britain, Connecticut, into a working class family. He attended school briefly, but was largely self-educated. Burritt became a blacksmith to support himself, but he continued to study languages at night. Word of his erudition spread; he became known as the "Learned Blacksmith", and was offered opportunities to speak in public. While writing a lecture on "The Anatomy of the Earth", he was so impressed by the interdependency of its parts that...
Dates: 1840-1965; Majority of material found within 1841-1878

Kay Camp Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-169
Abstract Katherine Lindsley Camp was born in 1918 [1919?], Mt. Kisco New York. She was a graduate of Swarthmore College (Class of 1940). Camp was elected president of the U.S. Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1967, and served as international president, 1974-1980. In addition Camp was founder of the Citizens Bi-Racial Study Group; former president of the Pennsylvania Women's Political Caucus; made unsuccessful bid for Congress in 1972 on the Democratic ticket in...
Dates: 1955-2006

Catholic Association for International Peace Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Catholic Association for International Peace

Catholic Peace Fellowship Collected Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Catholic Peace Fellowship
Overview

The Catholic Peace Fellowship is a body founded in 1964 and still active today that defined itself as "An Educational Service Conducted by Catholic Members of the Fellowship of Reconciliation."

Dates: 1962-

Central American Historical Institute Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-174
Abstract

Primarily reference files on Central America in the 1980s; most material is about El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua; in English and Spanish.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1980-1993