Lens, Sidney
Person
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
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-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Henry LeRoy Finch Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-195
Abstract
Henry Leroy (Roy) Finch Jr. was a pacifist, conscientious objector to World War II, philosopher and writer.
Dates:
1933-1995
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
A.J. Muste Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-050
Abstract
A.J. Muste (1885-1967), was ordained a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, but later (1917), he became a member of the Society of Friends. During World War I, Muste's refusal to abandon his pacifist position led to his forced resignation from the Central Congregational Church in Newtonville, Massachusetts. Muste's involvement as a labor organizer began in 1919 when he led strikes in the textile mills of Lawrence, Massachusetts. He became the director of the Brookwood Labor College in...
Dates:
1920-1967
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-075
Abstract
The National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam was a conference of groups opposed to the United States' involvement in Vietnam. This groups in1966 and its first major undertaking at that time was to organize a mass rally on April 15, 1967, both in New York City and in San Francisco.
The Mobe's chief aim was to mobilize public opinion against the Vietnamese War and against such other injustices of society as black inequality. It sought to weld a coalition of existing peace...
Dates:
1966-1969
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 2
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 2
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 2
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Ballistic missiles -- United States 1
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights workers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Disarmament -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- Labor leaders -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Liberation (New York, N.Y. : 1956) 1
- Nonviolence -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 1
- Philosophers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Polaris (Missile) 1
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Radicalism -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Radicalism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Students -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Students -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Tax protests and appeals -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Vietnam -- Politics and government -- 1945-1975 -- Sources 1
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- War victims -- Services for -- History -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
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