Roodenko, Igal
Person
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Civil Defense Protest Committee Collected Records
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Civil Defense Protest Committee
Abstract
Collection includes meeting minutes, correspondence, legal documents, pamphlets, publicity materials, and newspaper clippings; the bulk of the collection is from 1955.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1955-1962
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
Igal Roodenko Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-161
Overview
Igal Roodenko was a pacifist, peace and civil rights activist, and advocate of nonviolence. He was a member of the War Resisters League Executive Committee, served on boards of A.J. Muste Memorial Institute and Consortium on Peace Research and Development (COPRED), and was active in Men of All Colors Together.
Dates:
1935-1991
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
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- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Amnesty -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil defense -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil disobedience 1
- Conscientious objection 1
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism 1
- Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- Sources 1
- Printers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
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