Wise, Stephen Samuel, 1874-1949
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-016
Abstract
Anna M. Jackson and her daughter, Anna M. (Jackson Branson) Theiss, were Quaker activists in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Anna M. Jackson was very involved in reform activities in New York City. She served as Chairman of the Women's Prison Reform Committee, and was also involved in the Women's Municipal League and the Political Study Club. Her daughter, Anna Morris Jackson ("Pansy"), attended Swarthmore College for two years, and in 1909 earned a B.S. in Education from Columbia...
Dates:
1794-1962
Emergency Peace Campaign Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-012
Abstract
Initiated in late 1935 by the American Friends Service Committee and other pacifists; originally planned as a two-year campaign to rally peace, religious, labor, African-American and student groups; aim was to organize a national campaign to promote peace principles in the face of preparation for war in Europe, and to keep the United States out of war; may have been preceded by the Emergency Peace Committee (1931-1933), though this has not been documented. The first EPC office opened in...
Dates:
1936-1937
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
New York Bureau of Legal Advice Records
Collection — Othertype Reel 142.1
Identifier: SCPC-Reel-142.1
Abstract
Holdings in Tamiment Library: about half the records of the New York Bureau of Legal Advice consist of case histories pertaining to selective service exemption, draft evasion, conscientious objector status, military imprisonment, military discharge, desertion, amnesty, civil liberties and deportations. One third of the collection consists of office files, administrative reports and correspondence, including extensive fundraising correspondence. The remainder of the collection is made up of...
Dates:
1917-1919
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Amnesty -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Charities -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- New York (State) -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Legal aid -- New York (State) -- History -- Sources 1
- Neutrality -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Political prisoners -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Prison reformers 1
- Quaker women 1
- Quakers -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- Social reformers 1
- Women and peace 1
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