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Unitarian Universalist Peace Network Records

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Identifier: SCPC-DG-159
Abstract Established in 1984 to strengthen peace work among Unitarian Universalists and interfaith communities, the goup was especially concerned with the international arms race and nuclear proliferation. Directors included Stephen M. Shick, Carol Powers, Stephanie Nichols. The headquarters were in Philadelphia, Pa. and sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Association. Unitarian Universalist Peace Fellowship, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, Unitarian Universalist United Nations Office,...
Dates: 1983-1991

United States Comprehensive Test Ban Coalition Records

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Identifier: SCPC-DG-178
Abstract

This organization was founded in March, 1988 as the U.S. Coalition of the International Comprehensive Test Ban Campaign. It was formed as a coalition of peace groups to raise public awareness of nuclear testing issues, and to call on governments to initiate testing moratoria and to undertake negotiations for a comprehensive test ban. Carolyn Cottom was its first Chair. The group changed name its name in 1989 to the United States Comprehensive Test Ban Coalition.

Dates: 1986-1996

Walk for Peace Collected Records

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

Washington Peace Center Records

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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

George Willoughby and Lillian Willoughby Papers

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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

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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

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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

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Swarthmore College Peace Collection 66
Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College 1
 
Subject
Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 37
Nuclear disarmament -- History -- Sources 13
Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 9
Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 8
Disarmament -- History -- Sources 6
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Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 6
Nuclear arms control -- History -- Sources 6
Nuclear disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 6
Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 5
Peace walks and marches -- History -- Sources 5
Women and peace -- History -- Sources 5
Antinuclear movement -- History -- Sources 4
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 4
Women and peace -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
Antinuclear movement 3
Arms control -- History -- Sources 3
Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 3
Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
Nuclear weapons (International law) -- History -- Sources 3
Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- History -- Sources 3
Peace -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 3
War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
Amnesty -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Antimissile missiles -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Atomic bomb -- Testing -- History -- Sources 2
Biological warfare -- History -- Sources 2
Chemical warfare -- History -- Sources 2
Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Civil rights workers -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Disarmament -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 2
Disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Feminists -- United States -- 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
Peace -- Societies, etc. 2
Peace movements 2
Peace movements -- 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
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
Antinuclear movement -- Australia -- History -- Sources 1
Antinuclear movement -- Germany (West) -- History -- Sources 1
Antinuclear movement -- Nevada -- History -- Sources 1
Antinuclear movement -- Nevada -- Nevada Test Site -- History -- Sources 1
Antinuclear movement -- New Jersey -- Princeton -- History -- Sources 1
Antinuclear movement -- New York (State) -- History -- Sources 1
Antinuclear movement -- New Zealand -- History -- Sources 1
Antinuclear movement -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
Antinuclear movement -- United States -- Directories 1
Antinuclear movement -- Vermont -- History -- Sources 1
Antinuclear movement -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- Sources 1
Antinuclear movement -- West (U.S.) -- History -- Sources 1
Arms control -- Citizen participation -- History -- Sources 1
Arms control -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 1
Arms control -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Arms race -- Economic aspects -- History -- Sources 1
Arms race -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Arms race -- United States -- Economic policy -- Sources 1
Atomic bomb -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
Atomic bomb -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 1
Atomic bomb -- Testing 1
Ballistic missiles -- United States 1
Biochemists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Children and war -- History -- Sources 1
Children's writings, American 1
Civil defense -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- Sources 1
Civil defense -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Civil disobedience 1
Civil disobedience -- History -- Sources 1
Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Civil rights demonstrations 1
Civil rights demonstrations -- Alabama -- History -- Sources 1
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Clergy -- California -- History -- Sources 1
College chaplains -- Ohio -- History -- Sources 1
Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Demonstrations -- United States -- Photographs 1
Demonstrations -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- Sources 1
Direct action -- History -- Sources 1
Direct action -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Disarmament -- Congresses -- History -- Sources 1
Disarmament -- Economic aspects -- History -- Sources 1
Disarmament -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Disarmament -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 1
Documentary photography -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Eniwetok Proving Grounds (Marshall Islands) 1
Eniwetok Proving Grounds (Marshall Islands) -- History -- Sources 1
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Language
Russian 1
 
Names
Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 8
American Friends Service Committee 5
Golden Rule (Ketch) 5
Lyttle, Bradford 5
Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 5
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Committee for Nonviolent Action 4
Jack, Homer A. (Homer Alexander), 1916-1993 4
Omaha Action (Project) 4
Reynolds, Earle L. 4
Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 4
Bigelow, Albert, 1906- 3
Cousins, Norman 3
Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament (Organization) 3
Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization) 3
Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 3
Willoughby, George, pacifist 3
Affeldt, Allan 2
American Peace Test (Organization) 2
Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) 2
Berg, Lloyd A. 2
Chavez, Daniel 2
Cortright, David, 1946- 2
Cottom, Carolyn 2
Day, Dorothy, 1897-1980 2
Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 2
DiGia, Ralph 2
Folsom, Franklin, 1907-1995 2
Frank, Morton 2
Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.) 2
Fromm, Erich, 1900-1980 2
Gottlieb, Sanford 2
Keys, Donald 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
Olson, Theodore, 1932-2020 2
PRO-Peace (Organization) 2
Prayer and Conscience Vigil, Washington, D.C., 1957 2
Québec-Washington-Guantánamo Walk for Peace 2
Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) 2
San Francisco to Moscow Walk for Peace 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
Women Strike for Peace 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
Aicher, Paul J. 1
Alabama Freeze Coalition 1
Alabama Nuclear Freeze Campaign 1
Allen, Steve, 1921-2000 1
Alternatives to Violence Project 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
Ballantyne, Edith 1
Ben-Levi, Cass 1
Bergen County Freeze Campaign (New Jersey) 1
Berman, Aline 1
Berrigan, Daniel 1
Beyond Nuclear (Organization) 1
Bigelow, Sylvia 1
Birchard, Bruce 1
Birnberg, Bruce 1
Blass, Dorothy 1
Block, Bonnie 1
Boylan, Kathy Shields 1
Breitbart, John 1
Brookhaven National Laboratory 1
Brown, George Edward, 1920-1999 1
Burns, Kate 1
Caldicott, Helen 1
Caldwell, Samuel D. 1
Californians for a Bilateral Nuclear Weapons Freeze 1
Camp, Kay 1
Campaign for Disarmament (Washington, D.C. : 1960-1961) 1
Campaign for Disarmament-Worldwide 1
Carner, Lucy Perkins, 1886-1983 1
Carpenter, Tim 1
Carter, Nick (Minister) 1
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