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Devere Allen Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-053
Abstract
Author, editor, journalist and lecturer; advocate of internationalist pacifism; influential member of the Socialist Party in the 1930s; genealogist; recorder of Rhode Island history and lore; named Harold Devere Allen.
Dates:
1809-1978; Majority of material found within 1910-1955
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
American Friends Service Committee Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American Friends Service Committee
Abstract
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) was set up in June 1917 as an outgrowth of and coordination point for the anti-war and relief activities of various bodies of the Religious Society of Friends in the United States.
Dates:
1917-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Henry Joel Cadbury Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-081
Abstract
Henry J. Cadbury (1883-1974) was a distinguished Biblical scholar, teacher, and a member of the Society of Friends. Cadbury was one of the founders of the American Friends Service Committee. He served as its chairman from both 1928 to 1934 and again from 1944 to 1960. Cadbury supervised famine relief both in the United States and in Europe.
Dates:
1917-1974
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Horace Champney Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-166
Abstract
Horace Champney was a pacifist active in various causes from the late 1940s through the 1980s. He was a founder of The Peacemakers Movement in the 1950s and interested in civil rights, war tax refusal, and other social justice causes. Champney was a member A Quaker Action Group and a crew member of the ship the Phoenix, which sailed to North Vietnam with medical supplies, during the Vietnam war.
Dates:
1958-1990; Majority of material found within 1958-1979
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Ann Morrissett Davidon and William C. Davidon Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-144
Abstract
Ann Morrissett Davidon (1925-2004), was a writer, editor, educator, pacifist and peace activist through her entire life. William Cooper Davidon(1927- 2013), was a professor of physics at Haverford College and (retired 1994), pacifist, peace activist. The two were married in 1963 and both continued to be very active in peace, pacifist, anti-Vietnam War, and social justice organizations. They advocated and practiced war-tax resistance. In 1971, William Davidon was named an "unindicted...
Dates:
1949-
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:
1920, 1938-1951
Robert Wallace Gilmore Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-163
Abstract
Robert W. Gilmore was a Quaker pacifist who was involved in a number of peace groups, either as a staffperson or as a Board member. His papers reflect these involvements through correspondence and other materials.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1960-1982
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Alice Herz and Helga Herz Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Herz, Alice and Helga Herz
Abstract
Papers of a German mother and daughter who emigrated to the United States and were peace activists in the Detroit area; mother was the first American to immolate herself in protest of the Vietnam War.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1941-2002
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Bradford Lyttle Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-079
Overview
Bradford Lyttle is a long time leading peace activist involved in the promotion of nonviolence for social change and the elimination of war and nuclear weapons. Lyttle was the organizer of the San Francisco to Moscow walk in the 1960-1961, to highlight the message of disarmament and nonviolent resistance and bringing together U.S. and Soviet citizens together during the height of the Cold War. He went on to organize and participate in other marches and protests, including the Quebec - ...
Dates:
1954-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
A.J. Muste Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-050
Overview
A.J. Muste (1885-1967), was ordained a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, but later (1917), he became a member of the Society of Friends. During World War I, Muste's refusal to abandon his pacifist position led to his forced resignation from the Central Congregational Church in Newtonville, Massachusetts. Muste's involvement as a labor organizer began in 1919 when he led strikes in the textile mills of Lawrence, Massachusetts. He became the director of the Brookwood Labor College in...
Dates:
1920-1967
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 5
- War Resisters League 3
- A Quaker Action Group 2
- Civilian Public Service 2
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- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 2
- Furnas, Paul J. 2
- Haverford College 2
- Lyttle, Bradford 2
- McReynolds, David 2
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 2
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 2
- National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (U.S.) 2
- Pendle Hill (School: Wallingford, Pa.) 2
- Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) 2
- Reynolds, Earle L. 2
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 2
- Shivers, Lynne 2
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 2
- War Resisters' International 2
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 2
- Willoughby, Lillian, 1915-2009 2
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section 2
- Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971 1
- Adler, Friedrich 1
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 1
- Allen, Horatio, 1802-1889 1
- American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky 1
- American Friends Service Committee. Committee on Rights of Conscience 1
- American League against War and Fascism 1
- Anh, Le Thi 1
- Aptheker, Herbert, 1915-2003 1
- Ashley, Bruce 1
- Baer, Gertrude 1
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 1
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 1
- Beard, Charles A. (Charles Austin), 1874-1948 1
- Berg, Lloyd A. 1
- Berg, Russel O. 1
- Berrigan, Philip 1
- Boardman, Elizabeth Jelinek, 1917- 1
- Bolling, Landrum Rymer 1
- Bourdet, Claude, 1909- 1
- Brainerd, Heloise, 1881-1969 1
- Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 1
- British Withdrawal from Northern Ireland Campaign 1
- Brittain, Vera, 1893-1970 1
- Brockway, Fenner, 1888-1988 1
- Bromley, Ernest 1
- Broun, Heywood, 1888-1939 1
- Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 1
- Burritt, Elihu, 1810-1879 1
- Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 1
- Canadian Friends Service Committee 1
- Cary, Stephen G. 1
- Catchpool, Corder, 1883-1952 1
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 1
- Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors 1
- Ceresole, Pierre, 1879-1945 1
- Champney, Beulah 1
- Champney, Horace 1
- Champney, Ken 1
- Chase, E. Dixwell 1
- Clergy and Laity Concerned (U.S.) 1
- Coalition of Labor Union Women (U.S.). Detroit Chapter 1
- Committee of Correspondence (New York, N.Y. : 1960-1962) 1
- Committee on U.S.-U.S.S.R. Peace Leadership Exchange 1
- Conference of All Friends (1920) (London, England) 1
- Congress of Racial Equality 1
- Cook, Cara 1
- Coolidge, A. Sprague 1
- Cousins, Norman 1
- Cranston, Maurice, 1920-1993 1
- Crozer Theological Seminary 1
- Curti, Merle (Merle Eugene), 1897-1996 1
- Daniel Seeger Defense Fund of the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors 1
- Davidon, Ann Morrissett 1
- Davidon, William C. 1
- Delaware Valley Land Trust 1
- Delta Cooperative Farm Project (Hillhouse, Miss.) 1
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 1
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 1
- Dewey, John, 1859-1952 1
- Drevet, Camille 1
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 1
- Dulles, John Foster 1
- Einstein, Albert 1
- Elkinton, J. Passmore (Joseph Passmore), 1887-1971 1
- Emergency Peace Campaign (U.S.) 1
- Engelbrecht, H. C. (Helmuth Carol), 1895-1939 1
- Enzer, Erica 1
- Evans, Edward W. (Edward Wyatt), 1882-1976 1
- Fey, Harold E. (Harold Edward), 1898-1990 1
- Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 1
- Five Years Meeting (Society of Friends: U.S.) 1
- Flanagan, Ross, 1934- 1
- Florence, Lella Secor, 1887-1966 1
- Frankel, Morton 1
- Freeman, Harrop A. (Harrop Arthur), 1907-1993 1 ∧ less
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