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American Civil Liberties Union Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American Civil Liberties Union
Overview
The ACLU grew out of the American Union Against Militarism, which was founded in 1916 and dissolved in 1922.
Dates:
1917
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
American Civil Liberties Union: National Committee on Conscientious Objectors Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-022
Overview
The roots of the NCCO began shortly after conscription in WWII was instituted. Little is known about the New York Office of the NCCO. It was headquartered at 31 Union Square West in New York City (NY) where the ACLU had its offices, and was likely set up in 1940, under the chairmanship of Norman Angell, and stayed in existence through 1945. In Washington (DC), the Temporary Committee for Legal Aid to Conscientious Objectors was formed in 1940. R. Boland Brooks had gone to NSBRO (National...
Dates:
1940-1946
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Gerhard Elston Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-165
Overview
Gerhard Elston served as an officer or staff member in many peace and international organizations including as Executive Director for Amnesty Internationl USA (1978-1981), board member of Clergy and Laity Concerned, Bread for the World, American Christians for the Abolition of Torture, and the American Civil Liberties Union. He died suddenly in 1992 at the age of 68.
Dates:
1849-1992
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Joint Amnesty Committee Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Joint Amnesty Committee
Dates:
1922-1923
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Allen S. Olmsted II Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-095
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the Allen S. Olmsted papers is correspondence (1898-1977). Most of these are carbon copies of letters dictated by Olmsted and filed in subject transfer files at his law offices in Philadelphia and Media (Pennsylvania) [note: there are also many letters from Allen Olmsted in the papers of his wife, Mildred Scott Olmsted (DG 082)]. Correspondents include Brent Dow Allinson, Gertrude Baer, Emily Greene Balch, Roger Nash Baldwin, Witter Brynner, Joseph S. Clark, Sophia H. Dulles,...
Dates:
1898-1986
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
John Nevin Sayre Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-117
Overview
John Nevin Sayre was a pacifist who spent over 40 years at the helm of the Fellowship of Reconciliation.
Dates:
1885-1982; Majority of material found within 1922-1967
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Russell Stetler Papers
Collection
Identifier: HCS-003-110
Overview
These documents created and collected by Russell Stetler pertain to the early role of Haverford students in opposing the war in Vietnam, Haverford’s support of Stetler’s right to dissent when his scholarship from the Philadelphia Board of Education was threatened because of his antiwar activities, Stetler’s correspondence with the English philosopher and peace activist Bertrand Russell, and Stetler’s essay on the Vietnam war that was ultimately published in a pamphlet by the Bertrand Russell...
Dates:
1962-2022; Majority of material found within 1963-1965
L. Hollingsworth Wood papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1175
Overview
Primarily correspondence related to Wood's activities in areas of peace, civil rights, African American education, and Quaker education. Wood was founding member of American Civil Liberties Union, American Friends Service Committee, and National Urban League. He was president of the Urban League for 26 years; elected in 1917 to Fisk University Board of Trustees; and a member of Haverford College Board of Managers. Correspondents include Jane Addams, Roger N. Baldwin, W. E. B. DuBois, Rufus...
Dates:
1903-1953
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- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 4
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- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 2
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- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 2
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- Angell, Norman, 1874-1967 1
- Asian Studies Association 1
- Ayusawa, Iwao, 1894-1972 1
- Baer, Gertrude 1
- Bartlett, Percy W. 1
- Blaxall, Arthur W. 1
- Borton, Hugh 1
- Boss, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), 1888- 1
- Bread for the World (Organization) 1
- Brittain, Vera, 1893-1970 1
- Brooks, R. Boland 1
- Brookwood Labor College (Katonah, N.Y.) 1
- Burton, O. E. (Ormond Edward), 1893-1974 1
- Butcher, Agnes Young, 1921-2005 1
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- Chandy, K. K., 1908- 1
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- Cornell, Julien D., 1910- 1
- Davidon, William C. 1
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- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 1
- Eastman, E. Philip 1
- Elston, Gerhard 1
- Embassies of Reconciliation (Organization) 1
- Evans, Edward W. (Edward Wyatt), 1882-1976 1
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 1
- Fisk University 1
- Friends Ambulance Unit 1
- Friends World Conference 1
- Goss-Mayr, Hildegard 1
- Happy Grove School (Hectors River, Jamaica) 1
- Harkness, Georgia Elma, 1891-1974 1
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- Hill, Lewis K. 1
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 1
- Hutchinson, Dorothy H. (Dorothy Hewitt), 1905-1984 1
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- Joint Amnesty Committee 1
- Joint Peace Committee of Providence and Chester Monthly Meetings (Society of Friends : Media, Pa.) 1
- Kaufman, Abraham 1
- Lape, Esther Everett, 1881-1981 1
- Lawrence, W. Appleton (William Appleton), 1889-1968 1
- Lester, Muriel, 1883-1968 1
- Longstreth, Walter C. 1
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- May 2nd Movement 1
- Mayr, Kaspar, 1891-1963 1
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- National Urban League 1
- New York Colored Mission 1
- Olmstead, Frank 1
- Olmsted, Allen S. (Allen Seymour), 1888-1977 1
- Page, Kirby, 1890-1957 1
- Pennsylvania Committee for Political Prisoners 1
- Philadelphia Peace Council (1925-approximately 1932) 1
- Philadelphia Peace Council (1937-ca. 1943) 1
- Philadelphia Young Friends' Association 1
- Phillips, Randolph Godfrey 1
- Pitter, Přemysl, 1895-1976 1
- Planetary Initiative for the World We Choose 1
- Reeves, George B., 1905- 1
- Roser, Henri, 1899- 1
- Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970 1
- Sayre, Francis Bowes, 1885-1972 1
- Schomer, Howard, 1915- 1
- Schuchardt, Irmgard 1
- Sekiya, Paul M. 1
- Siegmund-Schultze, Friedrich, 1885-1969 1
- Simon, Emily Parker 1
- Smiley, Glenn E. 1
- Smith, Earl Martin, 1895- 1
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