Brown, H. Runham (Herbert Runham), 1879-1949
Person
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
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
Pennsylvania Committee for Total Disarmament Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-030
Abstract
The Pennsylvania Committee for Total Disarmament was active from 1930 to 1936, chiefly in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Through public opinion and personal contacts, PCTD supporters pressured Congress to support total disarmament, including passage of the Frazier Amendment outlawing war. Other objectives of the Committee included a Congressional investigation of the munitions industry, opposition to all preparations and training for war (including ROTC), and support for...
Dates:
1930-1938
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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
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
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- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 3
- Conscientious objection 2
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Pacifism 2
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 2
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Authors, English -- History -- Sources 1
- Charities -- France 1
- Civil disobedience 1
- Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters 1
- International relief -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence 1
- Pacifism -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- Societies, etc. 1
- Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifists -- Great Britain -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements 1
- Peace movements -- Great Britain -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Quaker women -- Great Britain -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Great Britain -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- Social service -- France 1
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
- War relief -- History -- Sources 1
- Weapons industry -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Women and peace 1
- Women and peace -- History -- Sources 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief -- Sources 1
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