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Elihu Burritt Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-096
Abstract
Elihu Burritt was born on December 10, 1810, in New Britain, Connecticut, into a working class family. He attended school briefly, but was largely self-educated. Burritt became a blacksmith to support himself, but he continued to study languages at night. Word of his erudition spread; he became known as the "Learned Blacksmith", and was offered opportunities to speak in public. While writing a lecture on "The Anatomy of the Earth", he was so impressed by the interdependency of its parts that...
Dates:
1840-1965; Majority of material found within 1841-1878
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
Kay Camp Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-169
Abstract
Katherine Lindsley Camp was born in 1918 [1919?], Mt. Kisco New York. She was a graduate of Swarthmore College (Class of 1940). Camp was elected president of the U.S. Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1967, and served as international president, 1974-1980. In addition Camp was founder of the Citizens Bi-Racial Study Group; former president of the Pennsylvania Women's Political Caucus; made unsuccessful bid for Congress in 1972 on the Democratic ticket in...
Dates:
1955-2006
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Lucy Perkins Carner Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Carner, Lucy Perkins
Abstract
Lucy Perkins Carner served on the board of such organizations as the American Friends Service Committee, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the War Resisters League, and the United World Federalists. She also joined the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. In many ways Carner worked for civil rights, protesting discrimination in businesses, and joining organizations such as the Congress on Racial Equality and the NAACP. She was also a war tax resister and protested against the...
Dates:
1953-1977
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
Harold Chance Collected Papers
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Chance, Harold
Dates:
1943-1944
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Charles C. Walker Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-296
Abstract
Minutes, reports, writings, notes, photographs, and printed material from Walker's work as an activist and nonviolent resistance trainer. Materials have been place in series based on how the subjects were identified in their original boxes.
Dates:
1940-2000
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Civil Defense Protest Committee Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Civil Defense Protest Committee
Scope and Contents
Collection includes meeting minutes, correspondence, legal documents, pamphlets, publicity materials, and newspaper clippings; the bulk of the collection is from 1955.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1955-1962
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Civilian Public Service Union Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-008
Scope and Contents
The records of the CPSU were deposited in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection in June of 1946 by Robert Beach of Philadelphia, a CPSU member. A small portion of the records came to the Peace Collection in 1976 from historian Charles Chatfield. These records originated in the larger collection of CPS records given to Chatfield by Gordon Streib (see Accession 76A-84). Records include a proposed constitution, scattered minutes, correspondence (1943-1945), CPSU Newsletter, statements,...
Dates:
1944-1946
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Samuel Colcord Collected Papers
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Colcord, Samuel
Dates:
1920-1931
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Swarthmore College Peace Collection 141
- Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College 6
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- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 113
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 45
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 30
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 30
- Pacifists -- United States 21
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 18
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 16
- Women and peace -- History -- Sources 16
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 15
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 10
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 10
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 9
- War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 9
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 8
- Conscientious objectors -- United States 8
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 8
- Women and peace -- United States -- History -- Sources 8
- Quaker women -- United States -- History -- Sources 7
- Suffragists -- United States -- History -- Sources 7
- United States 7
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 7
- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 6
- Pacifists 6
- Socialists -- United States -- History -- Sources 6
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 6
- Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
- Feminists -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 5
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 5
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 5
- Political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 5
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 4
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 4
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Draft resisters -- United States -- Sources 4
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- United States 4
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- Sources 3
- Draft resisters -- United States 3
- Government, Resistance to -- History -- Sources 3
- Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Pacifists -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 3
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 3
- Political prisoners -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Psychiatric hospitals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 3
- Tax protests and appeals -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Women pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Women political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Women social reformers -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 3
- African American civil rights workers -- History -- Sources 2
- African American pacifists -- History -- Sources 2
- African Americans -- History -- Sources 2
- African Americans -- Segregation -- History -- Sources 2
- Amnesty -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Civil rights workers -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Communal living -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Conscientious objection -- History -- Sources 2
- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 2
- Conscientious objection -- United States 2
- Conscientious objectors -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Disarmament -- History -- Sources 2
- Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Environmentalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- I-W service 2
- Internationalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Journalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Labor movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Lawyers -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 2
- Lobbyists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Neutrality -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Pacifism 2
- Pacifists -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 2
- Peace -- Congresses -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace movements -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace movements -- United States 2
- Peace walks and marches 2
- Peace walks and marches -- History -- Sources 2
- Prisoners -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Prisoners' writings, American 2
- Quaker women -- History -- Sources 2
- Quaker women -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 2
- Quakers 2
- Quakers -- Congresses -- History -- Sources 2
- Quakers -- New York (State) -- New York 2
- Segregation -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 2
- Women and peace 2
- Women clergy -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Women social reformers -- United States 2
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 2
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons -- Sources 2
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 2
- World War, 1914-1918 -- United States -- Sources 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Draft resisters -- United States -- Sources 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons -- Sources 2
- Youth and peace -- History -- Sources 2
- Abolitionists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
- Language
- Spanish; Castilian 2
- German 1
- Portuguese 1
- Swedish 1
- Vietnamese 1
- Names
- American Friends Service Committee 15
- Civilian Public Service 15
- War Resisters League 12
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 11
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 9
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 9
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 9
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 8
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 8
- Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 8
- Mead, Lucia True Ames, 1856-1936 7
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 7
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 7
- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 6
- Bromley, Ernest 6
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 6
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 6
- Finch, Henry Le Roy 6
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section 6
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 5
- Bromley, Marion, -1996 5
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 5
- Kaufman, Abraham 5
- McReynolds, David 5
- Peacemaker Movement 5
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 5
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 5
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. International Office 5
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 4
- Baer, Gertrude 4
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 4
- DiGia, Ralph 4
- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 4
- Furnas, Paul J. 4
- Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 4
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 4
- Lyttle, Bradford 4
- Nearing, Scott, 1883-1983 4
- Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) 4
- Roodenko, Igal 4
- Shelley, Rebecca, 1887-1984 4
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 4
- Witherspoon, Frances, 1886-1973 4
- A Quaker Action Group 3
- Allinson, Brent D. (Brent Dow) 3
- Berrigan, Philip 3
- Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 3
- Burritt, Elihu, 1810-1879 3
- Byberry State Hospital (Pa.) 3
- Camp, Kay 3
- Carner, Lucy Perkins, 1886-1983 3
- Civilian Public Service. Camp (Philadelphia, Pa.) 3
- Drevet, Camille 3
- Eichel, Julius, 1896- 3
- Florence, Lella Secor, 1887-1966 3
- Freeman, Harrop A. (Harrop Arthur), 1907-1993 3
- Gara, Larry 3
- Graves, Anna Melissa, 1875-1964 3
- Henry Ford Peace Expedition (1915-1916) 3
- Jones, Paul, 1880-1941 3
- Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 3
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 3
- Lochner, Louis Paul, 1887-1975 3
- Morrison, Norman R., 1933-1965 3
- National Council for Prevention of War (U.S.) 3
- Omaha Action (Project) 3
- Rankin, Jeannette, 1880-1973 3
- Reynolds, Earle L. 3
- Socialist Party (U.S.) 3
- Stern, Lee, 1915-1992 3
- Swann, Marjorie 3
- Swarthmore College. Peace Collection 3
- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 3
- Villard, Fanny Garrison, 1844-1928 3
- Wentworth, Lydia G., 1858- 3
- Whitney, Norman J. (Norman Jehiel), 1891-1967 3
- Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987 3
- Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 3
- Woods, Amy 3
- Young, Wilmer J. 3
- Ahimsa Farm 2
- American Friends Service Committee. Peace Section 2
- American Peace Society 2
- Andresen, Bent, 1908-1991 2
- Angell, Norman, 1874-1967 2
- Arnett, Katharine M. (Katharine McCollin) 2
- Ballantyne, Edith 2
- Barr, Allen H. 2
- Berrigan, Daniel 2
- Blake, Katherine Devereux, 1858-1950 2
- Boardman, Elizabeth Jelinek, 1917- 2
- Brainerd, Heloise, 1881-1969 2
- Brandt, Wilmer, 1920- 2
- Brockway, Fenner, 1888-1988 2
- Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 2
- Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 2
- Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors 2
- Chalmers, Ruth 2
- Civilian Public Service Union 2
- Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments (1932-1934) (Geneva, Switzerland) 2 + ∧ less
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