Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967
Person
Found in 45 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
Committee for Amnesty for All Objectors to War and Conscription Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Committee for Amnesty...
Overview
On January 12, 1946, the Committee for Amnesty for All Objectors to War and Conscription was established to seek an amnesty for "all objectors to war and conscription," which included men under army court-martial for their stance against war. The Committee's most widely publicized work was the sponsorship of picketing demonstrations at the White House in May and December 1946 calling for amnesty, but the organization also promoted its objectives through lobbying of Congressional and other...
Dates:
1945-1948
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Committee for Nonviolent Action Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-017
Overview
CNVA was one of the first American peace groups to focus on nonviolentdirect action including civil disobedience. Its purpose of organizing imaginative and dramatic protest demonstrations on both land and sea attracted radical pacifists and called the attention of the American public to the atrocities of nuclear warfare. CNVA's first protest action was a vigil held outside the atomic weapons test grounds in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1957. In the second half of its existence CNVA efforts began to...
Dates:
1958-1968
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Committee for Peaceful Alternatives Collected Records
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Committee for Peaceful Alternatives
Dates:
1949-1952
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Committee to End Slave Labor in America Collected Records
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Committee to End Slave Labor in America
Abstract
Includes correspondence, flyers, reports.
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1946
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Consultative Peace Council Collected Records
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Consultative Peace Council
Abstract
Includes correspondence, reports, financial records, administrative files, minutes of meetings, publicity materials, brochures, newspaper clippings. Correspondents include: Devere Allen, Dorothy Detzer, Alfred Hassler, Jessie Wallace Hughan, Abe Kaufman, Frederick J. Libby, A.J. Muste, Ray Newton, Mildred Scott Olmsted, John Swomley, E. Raymond Wilson, and M.R. Zigler.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1930-1969
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Julien D. Cornell Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-010
Abstract
Julien Cornell (1910-1994) practiced law in New York City, with a special interest in civil liberties. During World War II, he handled many cases for conscientious objectors, as well as advising many other COs about their various problems with the legal system. He was considered an expert on legal issues regarding conscientious objection and Civilian Public Service, and was consulted by many lawyers throughout the country for his opinions.
Dates:
1940-1947
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
William Bacon Evans papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1020
Overview
The papers of Quaker William Bacon Evans (1875-1964), a traveler to the Middle East, including Palestine, Syria and Lebanon and to Europe. His letters and journals are complemented by letters to him from a number of prominent people.
Dates:
1787-1963
Fast for Peace Committee Collected Records
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Fast for Peace Committee
Abstract
Includes correspondence, reports, printed materials, photographs, and a scrapbook.
Dates:
1950-1951
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-048
Abstract
The Federal Council of Churches organized its Committee on the Conscientious Objector under its Department of International Justice and Goodwill in 1941. The Committee was interested in all aspects of conscientious objection, especially religious life in Civilian Public Service camps. Among the Committee's projects was the organizing of a program of visitation to CPS camps.
Dates:
1941-1946
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 14
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 9
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 8
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 7
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 7
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 7
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 7
- Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 6
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 5
- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 4
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 3
- Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- Sources 3
- Peace walks and marches -- History -- Sources 3
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 3
- Women and peace -- History -- Sources 3
- Women and peace -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- Sources 2
- Amnesty -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Conscientious objection -- History -- Sources 2
- Disarmament -- History -- Sources 2
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Internationalism -- History -- Sources 2
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 2
- Peace movements -- History -- Sources 2
- Quaker women -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 2
- War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Women and peace 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 2
- African American churches -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources 1
- African Americans -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources 1
- American Literature -- New England 1
- American Poetry -- Women authors 1
- American fiction 1
- American fiction -- Women authors 1
- American periodicals 1
- American poetry 1
- American poetry -- 20th century 1
- Antinuclear movement -- History -- Sources 1
- Atomic bomb -- Testing -- History -- Sources 1
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence 1
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Ballistic missiles -- United States 1
- Biological warfare -- History -- Sources 1
- Chemical warfare -- History -- Sources 1
- Children's literature 1
- Civil defense -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil disobedience 1
- Civil disobedience -- India -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights workers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Clergy -- California -- History -- Sources 1
- Cold War -- Sources 1
- College chaplains -- Ohio -- History -- Sources 1
- Connecticut -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950 -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection 1
- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- Brethren in Christ Church -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- Mennonites -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objectors -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objectors -- United States 1
- Counseling -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Direct action -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Disarmament -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- History -- Sources 1
- Eniwetok Proving Grounds (Marshall Islands) -- History -- Sources 1
- Feminists 1
- Feminists -- Germany -- History -- Sources 1
- Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) -- History -- Sources 1
- Friends Journal -- Archives 1
- Germany 1
- Historic peace churches -- History -- Sources 1
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Sources 1
- Hydrogen bomb -- History -- Sources 1
- India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947 -- Sources 1
- India -- Politics and government -- 1919-1947 -- Sources 1
- International cooperation -- History -- Sources 1
- International organization -- History -- Sources 1
- Jewish refugees -- History -- Sources 1
- Jews -- Europe -- History -- Sources 1
- Journalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 1
- Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- Labor -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Labor leaders -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Lawyers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Lecturers -- United States -- Biography -- Sources 1
- Liberation (New York, N.Y. : 1956) 1
- Literature -- Women authors 1
- Lobbyists -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- Sources 1
- Manuscripts, American 1
- Methodist Church -- Political activity -- History -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
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