War Resisters' International
Organization
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
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
Archives of War Resisters' International, 1921-1974 : [microform]
Collection — Othertype Microfiche 2.1-2.103
Identifier: SCPC-Microfiche-2.1-2.103
Dates:
1977
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Ann Morrissett Davidon and William C. Davidon Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-144
Abstract
Ann Morrissett Davidon (1925-2004), was a writer, editor, educator, pacifist and peace activist through her entire life. William Cooper Davidon(1927- 2013), was a professor of physics at Haverford College and (retired 1994), pacifist, peace activist. The two were married in 1963 and both continued to be very active in peace, pacifist, anti-Vietnam War, and social justice organizations. They advocated and practiced war-tax resistance. In 1971, William Davidon was named an "unindicted...
Dates:
1949-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
A. Ruth Fry Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-046
Abstract
[Anna] Ruth Fry was an activist and a writer born into a prominent Quaker family in England. From 1914-1924, she served as general secretary of the Friends Relief Commission, which provided help for refugees and others ravaged by World War I. Fry wrote about her experiences in A Quaker Adventure (1926). She was also the first chairman of the Russian Famine Relief Fund in 1921. Fry went on to write numerous books, pamphlets and tracts, on a variety of Quaker and peace topics. She died on...
Dates:
1905-1957
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
War Resisters' International, 1971
File — Box 11
War Resisters' International Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-039
Abstract
The War Resisters' International was founded at Bilthoven, Netherlands, in 1921 by representative pacifists from that country, Germany, Austria and Great Britain. The War Resisters' International was never more than a coordinating body in its relationship to affiliated groups.
Dates:
1923-1976
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Archival Object 1
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- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Authors, English -- History -- Sources 1
- Charities -- France 1
- Connecticut -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950 -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection 1
- Conscientious objection -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objectors -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters 1
- Draft resisters -- History -- Sources 1
- Educators -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Harrisburg Seven Trial, Harrisburg, Pa., 1972 1
- International relief -- History -- Sources 1
- Journalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Lecturers -- United States -- Biography -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence 1
- Nonviolence -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Pacifism 1
- Pacifism -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- Societies, etc. 1
- Pacifists -- Great Britain -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements 1
- Peace movements -- Great Britain -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- Pennsylvania -- Main Line -- History -- Sources 1
- Periodical editors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Physicists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Quaker women -- Great Britain -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Great Britain -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Social service -- France 1
- Socialist parties -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
- War relief -- History -- Sources 1
- War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Women and peace 1
- Women and peace -- History -- Sources 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief -- Sources 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- Society of Friends -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- World tomorrow (Periodical) 1
- Young democracy (Periodical) 1
- Youth and peace -- History -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
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