Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974
Person
Found in 3 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
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
Norman J. Whitney Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-061
Overview
Norman Jehiel Whitney (1891-1967) was a Quaker teacher, writer and devoted peace worker. From 1919-1957 he helped establish, and directed for many years, the Syracuse Peace Council. He left Syracuse in 1957 to work for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in peace education. Whitney's major peace work was in the area of counseling conscientious objectors to war (COs), particularly those in Civilian Public Service (CPS) camps. In 1941 he helped establish the New York State Board for...
Dates:
1938-1967
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Conscientious objection 1
- Disarmament -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism 1
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Research -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 1
- Peace -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- 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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