Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:
League for Non-Violent Civil Disobedience against Military Segregation Collected Records
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-League for Non-Violent Civil Disobedience...
Dates:
1947-1951
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Liberty Defense Union Collected Records
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Liberty Defense Union
Dates:
1918-1919
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Martin Luther King, Jr. School of Social Change Collected Records
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Martin Luther King, Jr. School of Social Change
Dates:
1964-1968
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Tracy D. Mygatt and Frances Witherspoon Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-089
Overview
Tracy Dickinson Mygatt (1885-1973) and Frances May Witherspoon (1886-1973) were prolific writers and absolute pacifists who worked together in movements for women's rights, world peace, civil liberties, and civil rights. Both women authored plays, articles, poems, sermons, and stories, individually and in collaboration. They were founders of the War Resisters League and later served as honorary chairs. Frances Witherspoon was a co-founder and Executive Secretary of the New York Bureau of...
Dates:
1835-1973; Majority of material found within 1911-1974
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
National Committee against Repressive Legislation Collected Records
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-National Committee against Repressive Legislation
Dates:
1964-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee Collected Records
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee
Dates:
1958-; Majority of material found within 1958-1970
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
New York Bureau of Legal Advice Records
Collection — Othertype Reel 142.1
Identifier: SCPC-Reel-142.1
Abstract
Holdings in Tamiment Library: about half the records of the New York Bureau of Legal Advice consist of case histories pertaining to selective service exemption, draft evasion, conscientious objector status, military imprisonment, military discharge, desertion, amnesty, civil liberties and deportations. One third of the collection consists of office files, administrative reports and correspondence, including extensive fundraising correspondence. The remainder of the collection is made up of...
Dates:
1917-1919
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Allen S. Olmsted II Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-095
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the Allen S. Olmsted papers is correspondence (1898-1977). Most of these are carbon copies of letters dictated by Olmsted and filed in subject transfer files at his law offices in Philadelphia and Media (Pennsylvania) [note: there are also many letters from Allen Olmsted in the papers of his wife, Mildred Scott Olmsted (DG 082)]. Correspondents include Brent Dow Allinson, Gertrude Baer, Emily Greene Balch, Roger Nash Baldwin, Witter Brynner, Joseph S. Clark, Sophia H. Dulles,...
Dates:
1898-1986
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Murray Polner Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-113
Overview
Polner was an author and editor of books and periodicals on social history, public policy, and Jewish concerns. This collection chiefly relates to his research on Vietnam veterans for his book No Victory Parades and on the question of amnesty for When Can I Come Home? The collection also include audiotapes of oral histories of American Jews who were conscientious objectors or who resisted serving in the military during World War II or the Korean War. There is additional material from...
Dates:
1963-1988
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
A. Philip Randolph Collected Papers
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Randolph, A. Philip
Dates:
1926-1969; Majority of material found within 1926-1948
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
