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Walk for Peace Collected Records

 Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Walk for Peace
Dates: 1958

Washington Peace Center Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-252
Abstract The Washington Peace Center was formed in 1963 upon the dissolution of the Peace Action Center of Washington, D.C. The organization seeks to educate the public on peace issues through youth programs, conscientious objector/draft counseling, film screenings, speakers, workshops on peace topics, discussions, and the publication of a newsletter. Its mission statement as of 2013 includes : "The Washington Peace Center is an anti-racist, grassroots, multi-issue organization working for peace,...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1960-2013

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-

George Willoughby and Lillian Willoughby Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-236
Abstract

George Willoughby (December 9, 1914 - January 5, 2010) and Lillian Willoughby (c. 1916 - January 15, 2009) were Quaker activists who took part in nonviolent protests against war, conducted nonviolence trainings in India and other countries, and advocated for preservation of land in New Jersey and elsewhere.

Dates: 1931-2010

Alice Wiser Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-203
Abstract

Alice Wiser was a Quaker and had trained as a social worker and psychological counselor. She dedicated the last ten to fifteen years of her life to both peace and women's rights. Wiser was instrumental in organizing the peace tent for the second United Nations Conference on Women held in Nairobi, Kenya in 1985. After the conference Wiser continued to organize around these issues, traveling around the world to interview women and talk about peace. Wiser died from breast cancer in 1995.

Dates: 1976-1991

Women Strike for Peace Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-115
Abstract

Women Strike for Peace came into existence on November 1, 1961, as a protest against atmospheric nuclear tests by the U.S. and the Soviet Union. By the late 1980s the national WSP office in Philadelphia closed, but the WSP legislative office and various WSP branches around the U.S. remained active through the 1990s.

Dates: 1961-1996

Ann Wright Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-285
Abstract

Col. Ann Wright served in the U.S. military an as an ambassador before resigning her post in 2003 in protest over the war on Iraq. She since has traveled extensively, written a book and many articles, and had many speaking engagements as a peace activist.

Dates: 2003-2020

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Swarthmore College Peace Collection 135
Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections 1
Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College 1
 
Subject
Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 67
Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 38
Antinuclear movement -- United States 21
Nuclear disarmament -- History -- Sources 15
Peace movements -- United States 13
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Antinuclear movement -- History -- Sources 12
Nuclear disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 11
Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 11
Disarmament -- History -- Sources 9
Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 9
Antinuclear movement 8
Nuclear disarmament -- United States 7
Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 7
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 7
Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 6
Nuclear arms control -- History -- Sources 6
Nuclear arms control -- United States 6
Nuclear nonproliferation -- United States 6
Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 5
Peace walks and marches -- History -- Sources 5
Women and peace 5
Women and peace -- History -- Sources 5
Women and peace -- United States 5
Women and peace -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
Nuclear disarmament 4
Nuclear facilities -- Environmental aspects -- United States 4
Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- History -- Sources 4
Peace -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 4
Peace movements -- History -- Sources 4
Antinuclear movement -- Great Britain 3
Antinuclear movement -- New York (State) -- History -- Sources 3
Arms control -- History -- Sources 3
Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
Direct action -- History -- Sources 3
Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
Nuclear disarmament -- Great Britain 3
Nuclear weapons (International law) -- History -- Sources 3
Nuclear weapons -- Great Britain 3
Peace -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 3
Peace -- Societies, etc. 3
Peace movements 3
Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States 3
United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union 3
War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
Women and peace -- Great Britain 3
Amnesty -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Antimissile missiles -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Antinuclear movement -- France -- History -- Sources 2
Antinuclear movement -- Massachusetts -- History -- Sources 2
Antinuclear movement -- New Jersey -- History -- Sources 2
Antinuclear movement -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 2
Arms control -- Citizen participation -- History -- Sources 2
Atomic bomb -- Testing -- History -- Sources 2
Biological warfare -- History -- Sources 2
Chemical warfare -- History -- Sources 2
Civil rights workers -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Disarmament -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 2
Disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Eniwetok Proving Grounds (Marshall Islands) -- History -- Sources 2
Feminists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Government, Resistance to -- History -- Sources 2
Lobbying -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
MX (Weapons system) -- History -- Sources 2
Nuclear arms control -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Nuclear nonproliferation -- History -- Sources 2
Pacifism -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 2
Peace -- Religious aspects 2
Peace movements -- Massachusetts -- History -- Sources 2
Peace movements -- New Jersey -- History -- Sources 2
Political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Political prisoners -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Tax protests and appeals -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Trident (Weapons systems) 2
United States 2
War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 2
Women political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
African American churches -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources 1
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- Sources 1
African Americans -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources 1
Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962 1
Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962 -- Sources 1
Anti-Nazi movement -- Germany 1
Antinuclear movement -- Australia -- History -- Sources 1
Antinuclear movement -- Brandywine Creek Valley (Pa. and Del.) -- History -- Sources 1
Antinuclear movement -- California -- Berkeley 1
Antinuclear movement -- California -- Santa Cruz 1
Antinuclear movement -- California -- Santa Cruz -- History -- Sources 1
Antinuclear movement -- Delaware -- History -- Sources 1
Antinuclear movement -- England -- Berkshire 1
Antinuclear movement -- Europe -- History -- Sources 1
Antinuclear movement -- Florida -- Lee County -- History -- Sources 1
Antinuclear movement -- Florida -- Port Charlotte -- History -- Sources 1
Antinuclear movement -- Germany 1
Antinuclear movement -- Germany (West) -- History -- Sources 1
Antinuclear movement -- Germany -- History -- 20th century 1
Antinuclear movement -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century 1
Antinuclear movement -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Antinuclear movement -- Illinois -- Chicago Region -- History -- Sources 1
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Language
English 134
French 3
German 3
Russian 1
 
Names
Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 8
American Friends Service Committee 7
Golden Rule (Ketch) 7
Cousins, Norman 5
Jack, Homer A. (Homer Alexander), 1916-1993 5
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Lyttle, Bradford 5
Omaha Action (Project) 5
Reynolds, Earle L. 5
Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 5
Willoughby, George, pacifist 5
Bigelow, Albert, 1906- 4
Committee for Nonviolent Action 4
Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) 4
Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 4
Gottlieb, Sanford 3
Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament (Organization) 3
Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp 3
Huntington, William R. 3
Keys, Donald 3
Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization) 3
San Francisco to Moscow Walk for Peace 3
Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 3
Women Strike for Peace 3
Affeldt, Allan 2
Aldridge, Robert C. 2
American Peace Test (Organization) 2
Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) 2
Berg, Lloyd A. 2
Chavez, Daniel 2
Chicago Area Faculty for a Freeze on the Nuclear Arms Race 2
Civilian Public Service 2
Clark, Joseph S. 2
Coalition for Peace Action (Princeton, N.J.) 2
Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 1924-2006 2
Cortright, David, 1946- 2
Cottom, Carolyn 2
Day, Dorothy, 1897-1980 2
Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 2
DiGia, Ralph 2
Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 2
Folsom, Franklin, 1907-1995 2
Frank, Morton 2
Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.) 2
Fromm, Erich, 1900-1980 2
General Electric Company 2
Hague Appeal for Peace 2
Illinois Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign 2
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War 2
Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy 2
Melman, Seymour 2
Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 2
National Campaign to Stop the MX (U.S.) 2
National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (U.S.) 2
Nebraska Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign 2
New England Committee for Nonviolent Action 2
Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization). Nevada Project 2
Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign 2
Olson, Theodore, 1932-2020 2
PRO-Peace (Organization) 2
Paschkis, V. (Victor) 2
Peace Action (Organization) 2
Peck, James 2
Phoenix (Yacht) 2
Prayer and Conscience Vigil, Washington, D.C., 1957 2
Québec-Washington-Guantánamo Walk for Peace 2
SANE/FREEZE (Organization) 2
Snyder, Edward F. 2
Spock, Benjamin, 1903-1998 2
Swann, Marjorie 2
Swann, Robert S. 2
United Nations 2
Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) 2
Walk for Peace (Project) 2
Weiss, Cora, 1934- 2
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section 2
A Quaker Action Group 1
Abington Coalition for a Nuclear Arms Freeze (Pennsylvania) 1
Abolition 2000 1
Access (Organization : Washington, D.C.) 1
Accra Assembly (Organization) 1
Aftel, Jacob 1
Ahearn, Aaron 1
Aicher, Paul J. 1
Alabama Freeze Coalition 1
Alabama Nuclear Freeze Campaign 1
Allen, Steve, 1921-2000 1
Alternatives to Violence Project 1
American Society of Mechanical Engineers 1
Ames Bilateral Freeze Campaign (Iowa) 1
Annual Training Institute in Non-Violence, Grindstone Island (Portland, Ontario, Canada) 1
Another Mother for Peace (Association) 1
Anthony, Robert L. 1
April Action (Organization) 1
Apsey, Lawrence S. 1
Aptheker, Herbert, 1915-2003 1
Ashly, Coleen 1
Avedon, Barbara 1
Axelrod, Beverly 1
Backe, John 1
Baez, Joan 1
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