Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.)
Organization
Found in 5 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
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
C. Douglas Hostetter Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-260
Abstract
C. Douglas Hostetter (1944 - ), has been an peace activist since the 1960s. He was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam war and performed alternative service for the Mennonite Central Committee in rural Vietnam.Following his work in Vietnam Hostetter worked for the United Methodist Church at the United Nations on international affairs. From the mid 1980s through the end of the decade Hostetter served as the executive secretary of the American Friends Service Committee in their New...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1959-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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
A.J. Muste Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-050
Overview
A.J. Muste (1885-1967), was ordained a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, but later (1917), he became a member of the Society of Friends. During World War I, Muste's refusal to abandon his pacifist position led to his forced resignation from the Central Congregational Church in Newtonville, Massachusetts. Muste's involvement as a labor organizer began in 1919 when he led strikes in the textile mills of Lawrence, Massachusetts. He became the director of the Brookwood Labor College in...
Dates:
1920-1967
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 2
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Ballistic missiles -- United States 1
- Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights workers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Connecticut -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950 -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Educators -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Harrisburg Seven Trial, Harrisburg, Pa., 1972 1
- Journalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Labor leaders -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Lecturers -- United States -- Biography -- Sources 1
- Mennonites -- Missions -- History -- Sources 1
- Mennonites -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 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
- Polaris (Missile) 1
- Reconciliation -- Religious aspects -- Mennonites -- History -- Sources 1
- Socialist parties -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Tax protests and appeals -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Civilian relief 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 1
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- World tomorrow (Periodical) 1
- Young democracy (Periodical) 1
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