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Consultative Peace Council Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Consultative Peace Council
Abstract
Includes correspondence, reports, financial records, administrative files, minutes of meetings, publicity materials, brochures, newspaper clippings. Correspondents include: Devere Allen, Dorothy Detzer, Alfred Hassler, Jessie Wallace Hughan, Abe Kaufman, Frederick J. Libby, A.J. Muste, Ray Newton, Mildred Scott Olmsted, John Swomley, E. Raymond Wilson, and M.R. Zigler.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1930-1969; Majority of material found within 1939-1955
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Emergency Peace Committee Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Emergency Peace Committee
Dates:
1931-1933
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Edward W. Evans Quaker Concerns Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-237
Overview
Edward W. Evans (1882-1976) was a Quaker leader and lawyer active in the educational and peace concerns of the Society of Friends. The collection primarily contains papers compiled by Edward W. Evans during his time as Secretary of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Orthodox), from 1938-1946. Of particular interest are the materials concerning Civilian Public Service. The collection is significant in its documentation of pacifist attitudes and the ways in which the Society of Friends was active...
Dates:
1938-1951
Keep America Out of War Congress Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Keep America Out of War
Overview
The Keep America Out of War Congress was founded in 1938 (as the Keep America Out of War Comittee), by several leading peace organizations. The Congress was to pursue a joint, minimum six-point peace program. The aims of this program included the removal of U.S. ships and nationals from belligerent zones, a war referendum, the abandonment of plans for conscription and industrial mobilization, and greater economic and social justice at home and abroad. The Keep America Out of War Congress was...
Dates:
1938-1942
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
National Peace Conference (U.S.) Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-049
Overview
The National Peace Conference was formed in 1933 to unify and coordinate the efforts of various organizations interested in world justice and peace. The organization was active until 1951.
Dates:
1933-1951
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
War Resisters League Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-040
Overview
The War Resisters League is a pacifist organization whose members are against all war. Witnessing the establishment of the War Resisters' International in Europe in 1921, and sensing a need for a similar organization in the United States, Dr. Jessie Wallace Hughan established the War Resisters League as an independent organization. The War Resisters League membership pledge, which has remained essentially unchanged since its inception, reads: "The War Resisters League affirms that war is a...
Dates:
1923-1994
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Swarthmore College Peace Collection 5
- Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College 1
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- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 5
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Neutrality -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 2
- Civil disobedience 1
- Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection 1
- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
- Conscientious objection -- Societies, etc. 1
- Conscientious objection -- United States 1
- Lawyers -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism 1
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifists -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Congresses -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Socialism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- United States 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Protest movements -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Religious aspects 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Sources 1
- Youth and peace -- History -- Sources 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 2
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 2
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 2
- Kaufman, Abraham 2
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 2
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 2
- Aberman, Sidney 1
- American Friends Service Committee 1
- Anti-War Mobilization Mass Meeting (1940 : Washington, D.C.) 1
- Barr, Allen H. 1
- Bennett, Fay 1
- Brooks, R. Boland 1
- Brown, H. Runham (Herbert Runham), 1879-1949 1
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 1
- Consultative Peace Council (U.S.) 1
- Corfman, Rex 1
- DiGia, Ralph 1
- Dodge, Alice L. 1
- Dunbar, Olivia Howard, 1873-1953 1
- Dyer, Henry W. 1
- Eichel, Julius, 1896- 1
- Emergency Peace Campaign (U.S.) 1
- Emergency Peace Committee 1
- Evans, Edward W. (Edward Wyatt), 1882-1976 1
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 1
- Finch, Henry Le Roy 1
- Five Years Meeting (Society of Friends: U.S.) 1
- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 1
- Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.) 1
- Furnas, Paul J. 1
- Gottlieb, Edward P. 1
- Hamilton, Albert W. 1
- Hartmann, George W. (George Wilfried), 1904-1955 1
- Hassler, Alfred, 1910- 1
- Hedemann, Ed 1
- Hedemann, Grace 1
- Hennacy, Ammon, 1893-1970 1
- Hillyer, Mary W. 1
- Hollister, Alvaine 1
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 1
- Joint Peace Board 1
- Keep America Out of War Committee 1
- Keep America Out of War Congress 1
- Kepler, Roy C. 1
- Labor Anti-War Council 1
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 1
- Littell, Franklin H. (Franklin Hamlin), 1917-2009 1
- McReynolds, David 1
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 1
- National Peace Conference (U.S.) 1
- Neutrality Bloc 1
- Newton, Ray 1
- Olmstead, Frank 1
- Pacifist Action Committee 1
- Peace Strategy Board 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955) 1
- Pickett, Clarence, 1884-1965 1
- Ransom, Frances Rose 1
- Richards, Edward C. M., 1886-1974 1
- Roodenko, Igal 1
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 1
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 1
- Schaum, Winifred W. 1
- Schwartz, Wendy (Editor) 1
- Smith, Lyn 1
- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 1
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 1
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 1
- War Resisters League 1
- Wentworth, Lydia G., 1858- 1
- Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987 1
- Witherspoon, Frances, 1886-1973 1
- World Alliance for International Friendship through Religion 1
- World Council of Churches 1
- Youth Committee Against War 1
- Zigler, M. R. 1 ∧ less
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