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Albert Bigelow Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-076
Abstract
Albert S. Bigelow (1906-1993) was an artist, architect, former Navy commander, and Quaker. He served as captain of Golden Rule, a thirty foot ketch which he and colleagues attempted to sail into the Eniwetok Proving Grounds, the U.S. nuclear test site in the Marshall Islands of the Pacific in February 1958. The action was sponsored by the Committee for Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons.
Dates:
1956-1961
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Center on Conscience and War Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-025
Overview
Organization still in existence that was formed to aid conscientious objectors in World War II.
Dates:
1940-2015
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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
Macedonia Cooperative Community Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-071
Overview
The Macedonia Cooperative Community was formed in 1937 northern Georgia by Morris Randolph Mitchell (1895-1976), an educator who later served as the first president of Friends World College. The Macedonia Cooperative Community, which took its name from a nearby Baptist Church, was comprised of families who worked collectively on dairy, agricultural, forestry, and woodworking projects that provided the economic underpinnings of the community. Originally established as an economic cooperative,...
Dates:
1937-1958
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-060
Abstract
The Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors was a non-sectarian, free advisory service for conscientious objectors to war and military service. The MBCO was set up to provide counseling and legal aid in metropolitan New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut and established by the United Pacifist Committee in 1940. The group disbanded in 1980.
Dates:
1940-1980
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Edgar R. Norton Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Norton, Edgar R.
Abstract
Includes correspondence, notes and reminiscences, statement of conscience by Edgar Norton; correspondents include Harrop A. Freeman, Norman J. Whitney.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1945-1949; 1945-1949, 1960
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 -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
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- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 2
- Amnesty -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement 1
- Antinuclear movement -- Nevada -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Atomic bomb -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
- Atomic bomb -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- Atomic bomb -- Testing 1
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- Civil disobedience 1
- Civil disobedience -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights demonstrations 1
- Civil rights demonstrations -- Alabama -- History -- Sources 1
- Collective settlements -- New York (State) -- Rifton -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious Objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
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- Cooperative societies -- Georgia -- History -- Sources 1
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- English 6
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- Civilian Public Service 4
- American Friends Service Committee 2
- Barr, Allen H. 2
- Freeman, Harrop A. (Harrop Arthur), 1907-1993 2
- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 2
- Furnas, Paul J. 2
- Kaufman, Abraham 2
- Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors 2
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 2
- Newton, Ray 2
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 2
- Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987 2
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 1
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 1
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 1
- Benson, Purnell Handy, 1913- 1
- Big Flats Defense Committee 1
- Bigelow, Albert, 1906- 1
- Bigelow, Sylvia 1
- Borkholder, Philip L. 1
- Boss, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), 1888- 1
- Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 1
- Brooks, R. Boland 1
- Butler, Smedley D. (Smedley Darlington), 1881-1940 1
- Byrd, Richard Evelyn, 1888-1957 1
- Cary, Stephen G. 1
- Center on Conscience and War 1
- Clark, Joseph S. 1
- Cornell, Julien D., 1910- 1
- Curry, A. Stauffer (Abram Stauffer), 1913- 1
- DeSilver, Harrison 1
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 1
- Doty, C. LeRoy 1
- Douglas, Paul H. (Paul Howard), 1892-1976 1
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 1
- Dye, Arthur M. 1
- Dyer, Henry W. 1
- Eichelberger, Clark M. (Clark Mell), 1896-1980 1
- Emergency Peace Campaign (U.S.) 1
- Fey, Harold E. (Harold Edward), 1898-1990 1
- Fosdick, Harry Emerson 1
- Frankel, Esther S. (Esther Strum) 1
- Golden Rule (Ketch) 1
- Goldwasser, Martin 1
- Gottlieb, Edward P. 1
- Hershey, Lewis Blaine, 1893-1977 1
- Herter, Christian Archibald, 1895-1966 1
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 1
- Hoover, Warren W. 1
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 1
- Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955 1
- Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 1
- Huntington, William R. 1
- Huston, Ora 1
- Hutterian Brethren 1
- Infield, Henrik F. 1
- Jackson, Elmore, 1910-1989 1
- Jacob, Philip E. 1
- Johnson, Edwin C. (Edwin Carl), 1884-1970 1
- Keeton, Morris T. 1
- La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion), 1855-1925 1
- Langston, Beach, -1979 1
- Lasserre, Henri, 1875-1945 1
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 1
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 1
- MacAdam, Ruth E. 1
- Macedonia Cooperative Community 1
- Meany, George, 1894-1980 1
- Mendenhall, William O. 1
- Milgram, Morris, 1916-1997 1
- Miller, Edward R. 1
- Mitchell, Barbara Jaynes 1
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 1
- National Interreligious Service Board for Conscientious Objectors 1
- National Service Board for Religious Objectors 1
- New York State Board for Civilian Public Service 1
- Newton, David, 1914- 1
- Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971 1
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization) 1
- Norton, Edgar R. (Edgar Richard), 1928- 1
- Pacifist Research Bureau 1
- Page, Kirby, 1890-1957 1
- Palmer, Albert W. (Albert Wentworth), 1879-1954 1
- Rankin, Jeannette, 1880-1973 1
- Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) 1
- Reynolds, Earle L. 1
- Roberts, Elvin 1
- Roberts, Lucille Turpen 1
- Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 1
- Royden, A. Maude (Agnes Maude), 1876-1956 1
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 1
- Sherk, J. Harold 1
- Solt, Guy W. 1
- Syracuse Peace Council 1
- Taft, Charles P. (Charles Phelps), 1897-1983 1
- Tatum, Arlo D. 1
- Tatum, Lyle 1
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 1
- Toney, Raymond J. 1 ∧ less
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