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Allen, Devere, 1891-1955

 Person

Found in 10 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

Committee on Militarism in Education Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-009
Abstract Includes minutes of the executive committee, annual reports, correspondence (1925-1940), financial records, form letters, articles and manuscripts, pamphlets, CME periodicals and other publications, photographs, and newspaper clippings. Subject files provide state-by-state coverage of the U.S. Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC), Citizens Military Training Corps (CMTC) and Civilian Conservation Corps, and congressional anti-conscription campaigns. Correspondents include Devere Allen,...
Dates: 1925-1940

Consultative Peace Council Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
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

Emergency Peace Campaign Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-012
Abstract Initiated in late 1935 by the American Friends Service Committee and other pacifists; originally planned as a two-year campaign to rally peace, religious, labor, African-American and student groups; aim was to organize a national campaign to promote peace principles in the face of preparation for war in Europe, and to keep the United States out of war; may have been preceded by the Emergency Peace Committee (1931-1933), though this has not been documented. The first EPC office opened in...
Dates: 1936-1937

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-

John Nevin Sayre Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-117
Abstract

John Nevin Sayre was a pacifist who spent over 40 years at the helm of the Fellowship of Reconciliation.

Dates: 1885-1982; Majority of material found within 1922-1967

Sydney Dix Strong Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-036
Abstract Sydney Dix Strong (1860-1938) was an outspoken pacifist and strong supporter of disarmament, war resistance, and organized labor. He was the pastor for churches in Ohio and Illinois and did settlement work in Chicago. For his peace stance made him unpopular during WWI and in Oct. 1917 he was expelled from membership in the Municipal League of Seattle because of a speech he had given before the National Council of Congregational Churches, in which he praised the I.W.W. (International Workers...
Dates: 1890-1938

War Resisters League Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-040
Abstract 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: 1923-2013

E. Raymond Wilson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-070
Abstract E. Raymond Wilson (1896-1987), a Quaker peace lobbyist, helped found the Friends Committee on National Legislation in 1943 and served as its Executive Secretary until 1962. He also helped organize the Committee on Militarism in Education in 1925. From 1931 to 1943, he served as Field and Education Secretary of the Peace Section of the American Friends Service Committee. He was the author of two books. The papers of E. Raymond Wilson contain personal and professional correspondence,...
Dates: 1914-1987

Young Democracy Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Young Democracy
Dates: 1918-1924

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Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 6
Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 3
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Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Youth and peace -- History -- Sources 2
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Civil disobedience 1
Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Congregational churches -- Clergy -- History -- Sources 1
Connecticut -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950 -- Sources 1
Conscientious objection 1
Conscientious objection -- History -- Sources 1
Disarmament -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
Draft 1
Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Draft resisters -- History -- Sources 1
Flags -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Journalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Lecturers -- United States -- Biography -- Sources 1
Lobbyists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Militarism 1
Militarism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Military education 1
Military education -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Militia 1
Neutrality -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Nonviolence -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
Pacifism 1
Pacifism -- History -- Sources 1
Pacifism -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
Peace -- History -- Sources 1
Peace -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- Sources 1
Peace -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
Peace -- Societies, etc. 1
Peace movements -- History -- Sources 1
Periodical editors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Socialism and youth -- History -- Sources 1
Socialist parties -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Society of Friends -- Political activity -- History -- Sources 1
United States 1
United States -- Militia -- History -- Sources 1
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
War victims -- Services for -- 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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