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Swomley, John M., 1915-2010

 Person

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

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

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-

Friends Committee on National Legislation Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-047
Abstract

A Quaker lobbying group established in 1943 to bring conscience and spiritual values to the political process in Washington; it grew out of the work of the Friends War Problems Committee in 1940.

Dates: 1943-

National Council Against Conscription Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-052
Overview The National Council Against Conscription had its first official meeting on December 13, 1945 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Nation Council Against Conscription worked to defeat various legislative measures which promoted universal military training and peacetime conscription, by lobbying Congress, public speaking, publishing detailed analyses of proposed legislation, corresponding with magazine and newspaper editors about their coverage of Universal Military Training, and producing...
Dates: 1944-1960

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  • Subject: Peace -- Societies, etc. X

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Subject
Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 3
Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
African Americans -- Civil rights 1
California -- Politics and government 1
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Civil rights -- United States 1
Conscientious objection -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
Conscientious objection -- United States 1
Conscientious objectors -- United States 1
Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Disarmament 1
Disarmament -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
Draft -- United States 1
Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Food supply 1
Illinois -- Politics and government 1
Indians of North America -- Civil rights 1
Lobbying -- California 1
Lobbying -- Illinois 1
Lobbying -- United States 1
Lobbying -- Wisconsin 1
National service -- United States 1
Nonviolence -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
Nonviolence -- United States 1
Pacifism -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
Pacifism -- United States 1
Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Peace -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
Peace -- Societies, etc. 1
Peace movements -- United States 1
Quakers -- Political activity 1
Society of Friends -- Political activity 1
Society of Friends -- Societies, etc. 1
United States -- Armed Forces -- African Americans -- History -- Sources 1
United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century 1
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
United States -- Race relations -- History -- Sources 1
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Religious aspects 1
War -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
War -- Religious aspects 1
War victims -- Services for -- History -- Sources 1
Wisconsin -- Politics and government 1
Women -- Societies and clubs 1
Women and the military -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Religious aspects 1
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