Jack, Homer A. (Homer Alexander), 1916-1993
Person
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
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-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
NGO Committee on Disarmament Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-139
Overview
The NGO Committee on Disarmament was established in June 1973 by a group of international NGOs (non-governmental organizations). The organization had petitioned the New York Bureau of the Conference of NGOs in Consultative Status with the U.N. Economic and Social Council to form a Committee on Disarmament at U.N. headquarters. This new Committee would be parallel to the Special NGO Committee on Disarmament in Geneva, Switzerland.
Dates:
1970-2006
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Josephine Wertheim Pomerance Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-129
Overview
Josephine W. Pomerance was a peace worker best known in the areas of disarmament and United Nations reform. She was an observer at the United Nations, and she wrote, lectured, and consulted on disarmament and arms control subjects. Pomerance also worked with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Dates:
1952-1980
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
SANE, Inc. Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-058
Abstract
Materials from national offices in New York, N.Y., and Washington, D.C., including minutes (1957-1987), correspondence (1957-1987), memoranda, reports, statements, literature, releases, newspaper advertisements, financial records, membership lists, clippings, photos, slides, motion pictures, and sound recordings; material on coalitions in which SANE was involved including Coalition for a New Foreign and Military Policy and National Campaign to Stop the MX (1981-1984) and Arms Control...
Dates:
1957-1987
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
World Conference on Religion and Peace Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-078
Overview
The World Conference on Religion and Peace (WCRP) is an international organization of representatives of the world's major religious traditions who meet to study and act upon global problems affecting peace, justice, and human survival. Five world conferences have been held (Kyoto, 1970; Louvain, 1974; Princeton, 1979; Nairobi, 1984; and Melbourne, 1989) as well as numerous regional assemblies. From 1970-1984, the international headquarters in New York was directed by Homer A. Jack,...
Dates:
1967-1995
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Disarmament -- History -- Sources 4
- Nuclear disarmament -- History -- Sources 3
- African Americans -- Civil rights 1
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Arms control -- History -- Sources 1
- Biological warfare -- History -- Sources 1
- California -- Politics and government 1
- Chemical warfare -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights -- United States 1
- Conscientious objection -- United States 1
- Conscientious objectors -- United States 1
- Disarmament 1
- Disarmament -- Congresses -- History -- Sources 1
- Disarmament -- Economic aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft -- United States 1
- Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Food supply 1
- Human rights -- History -- Sources 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
- MX (Weapons system) -- History -- Sources 1
- National service -- United States 1
- Non-governmental organizations -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence -- United States 1
- Nuclear weapons -- Congresses -- History -- Sources 1
- Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- United States 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 1
- Peace movements -- United States 1
- Quakers -- Political activity 1
- Radiation -- History -- Sources 1
- Radioactive fallout -- History -- Sources 1
- Society of Friends -- Political activity 1
- Society of Friends -- Societies, etc. 1
- United States -- Armed Forces -- Finance -- History -- Sources 1
- United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Religious aspects 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Sources 1
- War -- Economic aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
- War -- Religious aspects 1
- Wisconsin -- Politics and government 1
- Women -- Societies and clubs 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Religious aspects 1 + ∧ less
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