Newton, Ray

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

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Center on Conscience and War Records

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-025

Abstract

Organization still in existence that was formed to aid conscientious objectors in World War II.

Dates: 1940-2015

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

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

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

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

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

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

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

National Council Against Conscription Records

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-052

Abstract 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

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

National Council for Prevention of War Records

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-023

Abstract

The National Council for Prevention of War (NCPW) was directed by J. Frederick Libby for many years; it lobbied Congress and created educational peace material, among other activities and campaigns.

Dates: 1921-1975

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Peace Association of Friends in America Records

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-027

Abstract

The Peace Association of Friends in America was organized in 1867 by Orthodox Friends in the New York, Baltimore, North Carolina, Ohio, Indiana, Western and Iowa Yearly Meetings in reaction to the Civil War, with its mission being to convince Friends and others that war was unchristian, inhumane and unnecessary.

Dates: 1868-1944

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

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

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Devere Allen Papers

Center on Conscience and War Records

Committee on Militarism in Education Records

Consultative Peace Council Collected Records

Emergency Peace Campaign Records

National Council Against Conscription Records

National Council for Prevention of War Records

Peace Association of Friends in America Records

Pennsylvania Committee for Total Disarmament Records

E. Raymond Wilson Papers

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