McReynolds, David

Katherine Anne Assante Collected Papers

Collection — Othertype CDG-A

Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Assante, Katherine Anne

Scope and Contents

Includes a copy of Assante's thesis and e-mail interviews with David McReynolds in support of her research. McReynolds was associated with the War Resisters League for many years.

Dates: Majority of material found within 2009-

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice Records

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-135

Overview

The Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice was initated in 1974 to "call for disarmament, a simultaneous shift of economic priorities away from militarism and toward meeting domestic and global human needs, and removal of the causes of war." When the Walk ended on October 18, 1976 at the Pentagon in Washington D.C., walkers had covered 8,000 miles through 34 states.

Dates: 1975-1978

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Ann Morrissett Davidon and William C. Davidon Papers

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-144

Abstract Ann Morrissett Davidon (1925-2004), was a writer, editor, educator, pacifist and peace activist through her entire life. William Cooper Davidon(1927- 2013), was a professor of physics at Haverford College and (retired 1994), pacifist, peace activist. The two were married in 1963 and both continued to be very active in peace, pacifist, anti-Vietnam War, and social justice organizations. They advocated and practiced war-tax resistance. In 1971, William Davidon was named an "unindicted...

Dates: 1949-

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

John D'Emilio Collected Papers

Collection — Othertype CDG-A

Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-D'Emilio, John

Abstract Audiocassettes and typed transcripts of interviews with Bayard Rustin, his friends and co-workers for D'Emilio's book Lost Prophet: the Life and Times of Bayard Rustin. Rustin was an African-American conscientious objector, civil rights worker, pacifist, Quaker. Interviews were between 1992 and 2002. Interviewees include: Bayard Rustin, Charles Bloomstein, Ernest Bromley, Marion Bromley, Stephen Carey, Ralph DiGia, Roy Finch, Caleb Foote, Larry Gara, Norman Hill, Rachelle Horowitz, George...

Dates: Majority of material found within 1992-2002

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

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

David McReynolds Papers

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-134

Abstract David McReynolds (1929-2018), was an activist with the War Resisters League, the Socialist Party USA and the Democratic Socialists of America. He was an editor of Liberation magazine in the 1950s and a leader of the WRL from the 1950s until his retirement in 1999. McReynolds ran for Congress twice and for President of the U.S. twice, including a run in 2000. McReynolds has attempted to integrate anti-war and pacifist philosophy with Socialist economics. David McReynolds was openly gay and...

Dates: 1943-

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

War Resisters League Records

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-040

Overview 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

George Willoughby and Lillian Willoughby Papers

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-236

Overview

George Willoughby (December 9, 1914 - January 5, 2010) and Lillian Willoughby (c. 1916 - January 15, 2009) were Quaker activists who took part in nonviolent protests against war, conducted nonviolence trainings in India and other countries, and advocated for preservation of land in New Jersey and elsewhere.

Dates: 1931-2010

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

WIN Magazine Records

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-077

Overview WIN Magazine was started in January 1966 by the New York Workshop in Nonviolence, a New York City pacifist direct action group which functioned as an affiliate of both the Committee for Nonviolent Action and the War Resisters League. In September 1966 full title of the magazine became WIN Peace and Freedom through Nonviolent Action. WIN solicited articles and poetry promoting many liberal and radical causes including disarmament, draft resistance, war tax refusal, and other pacifist concerns...

Dates: 1968-1984

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Katherine Anne Assante Collected Papers

Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice Records

Ann Morrissett Davidon and William C. Davidon Papers

John D'Emilio Collected Papers

Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) Records

David McReynolds Papers

War Resisters League Records

George Willoughby and Lillian Willoughby Papers

WIN Magazine Records

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