Weiss, Cora, 1934-
Person
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Committee of Liaison with Families of Servicemen Detained in North Vietnam Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-227
Abstract
The Committee of Liaison with Families of Servicemen Detained in North Vietnam was founded in 1969. Cora Weiss was the co-chair and director of the organization from 1969-1972. The Committee organized the exchange of letters and packages between families of prisoners of war in Vietnam and the POWs. The Committee played a significant role in providing information to the U.S. public about the POW situation and in the public debates about this issue. Other supporters and activists with the...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1969-1973
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Fair Lawn Committee for Peace in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Fair Lawn Committee for Peace-Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia
Abstract
The Fair Lawn community in New Jersey founded the Committee for Peace in Vietnam on March 1, 1967. The organization began building local support for alternative solutions to the conflict in Vietnam. The organization's membership grew to 200+ families in the six years that followed. On October 26, 1973, the group announced its plans to disband.
Dates:
1967-1973
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Friendshipment-Bach Mai Hospital Relief Fund Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-228
Abstract
Following the end of the Vietnam Conflict in 1975, this group of Americans organized to help rebuild Vietnam through "people-to-people aid to Vietnam." The coalition involved approximately 36 religious, political, and community organizations.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1975-1978
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Hague Appeal for Peace Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-211
Abstract
The Hague Appeal for Peace is an organization with a global campaign to create a "culture of peace" through the following means: by strengthening humanitarian and human rights laws and institutions, by advancing the prevention, peaceful resolution, and transformation of conflicts, by abolishing nuclear weapons and develop disarmament campaigns, and identifying the root causes of war. More than 800 organizations--human rights, environmental, gender, disarmament-- have endorsed the HAP...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1997-2007
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
People's Coalition for Peace and Justice Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-084
Abstract
The People's Coalition for Peace and Justice included various peace, anti-poverty, and labor groups. These groups worked together to confront the related issues of war in Southeast Asia and racism, sexism, poverty, and repression in the United States. The People's Coalition for Peace and Justice was founded in 1970 as National Coalition Against War, Racism, and Repression and organized several specific campaigns including People's Peace Treaty, Citizen's Action Pledge, and Nixon Eviction...
Dates:
1970-1974
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Cora Weiss Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-222
Abstract
Cora Weiss is a peace and social justice leader and activist. She is a supporter of the United Nations, an early member of Women Strike for Peace, a leader in the anti-Vietnam war movement in the United States. In the 1970s Weiss was the director of the Riverside Church (New York, NY) Disarmament Program. Weiss was also active with SANE, SANE/Freeze, Peace Action, and The Hague Appeal for Peace. Weiss became president of the International Peace Bureau in 2000. She has always been active in...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1960-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 2
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- Amnesty -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement 1
- Antinuclear movement -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- United States 1
- Disarmament -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Economic assistance, American -- Vietnam -- History -- Sources 1
- Human rights movements -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Congresses -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements 1
- Peace movements -- Congresses -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- New Jersey -- Fair Lawn -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- United States 1
- Peaceful change (International relations) -- History -- Sources 1
- Political persecution -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Political prisoners -- Vietnam -- History -- Sources 1
- Prisoners of war -- Vietnam -- History -- Sources 1
- Social justice -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Civilian relief 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Missing in action -- History -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Peace -- Congresses -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Prisoners and prisons -- History -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- New Jersey -- Fair Lawn -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- War crimes -- Vietnam -- History -- Sources 1
- Women and peace 1
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