Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987
Person
Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
Abraham Kaufman Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Kaufman, Abraham
Abstract
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
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
Peace Action Center Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-093
Abstract
The Peace Action Center began in 1961 as a continuation of the vigil at Fort Detrick, Md. Peace activists had sponsored a continuous vigil as early as 1959 seeking the abandonment of biological weapons and appealed for the conversion of the fort into a world health center. The Peace Action Center included cooperative living quarters for the staff of religious pacifists, mostly Quakers. PAC staff including Lawrence Scott, director, and Jack L. Bagley, Sarah Bishop, Florence Y. Carpenter,...
Dates:
1959-1965
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Bayard Rustin Collected Papers
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Rustin, Bayard
Dates:
1947-1987
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Lawrence Scott Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-090
Abstract
Lawrence Scott was a construction engineer, Baptist clergyman, and Quaker activist. He worked as an activist against the testing of nuclear weapons and biological weapons research. He was the supervisor for the Friends Mississippi Project, project director of the Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick in Maryland, executive secretary of the Peace Action Center and a founder of A Quaker Action Group.
Dates:
1955-1965
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
World Without War Council-Midwest Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-128
Scope and Contents
Most of this collection was created by WWWC-Midwest leader, Robert Woito and includes organizational files and reference informational files.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1961-2005
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 8
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 6
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 4
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- Sources 3
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 3
- African Americans -- History -- Sources 2
- African Americans -- Segregation -- History -- Sources 2
- Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Segregation -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- African American Quakers 1
- African American churches -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources 1
- African American civil rights workers -- History -- Sources 1
- African American gay men -- History -- Sources 1
- African American pacifists -- History -- Sources 1
- African American soldiers -- History -- Sources 1
- African Americans -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- History -- Sources 1
- Atomic bomb -- Testing -- History -- Sources 1
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Biological warfare -- History -- Sources 1
- Chemical warfare -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil defense -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil disobedience 1
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights workers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conflict management -- United States -- 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 resisters -- History -- Sources 1
- Eniwetok Proving Grounds (Marshall Islands) -- History -- Sources 1
- Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) -- History -- Sources 1
- Hydrogen bomb -- History -- Sources 1
- Indians of North America 1
- Indians of North America -- Government relations 1
- Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Peace -- History -- Sources 1
- Journalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Kinzua Dam (Pa.) 1
- Lecturers -- United States -- Biography -- Sources 1
- Montgomery (Ala.) -- Race relations -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism 1
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 1
- Peace -- Study and teaching -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- Sources 1
- Periodical editors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Quaker church buildings 1
- Race relations -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources 1
- Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 1
- Seneca Indians 1
- Socialist parties -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Society of Friends -- Indian affairs 1
- United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Peace -- History -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- War victims -- Services for -- History -- Sources 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- 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
- correspondence 1
- diaries 1
- family papers 1
- manuscripts (documents) 1
- photographs 1
- portraits 1 + ∧ less
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