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Norman Thomas Collected Papers
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Thomas, Norman
Dates:
1909-1946
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
André Trocmé and Magda Trocmé Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-107
Abstract
André and Magda Trocmé are perhaps best known for their work in the small French town of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon where, during World War II, they inspired the villagers to help protect and sometimes to assist in the escape of Jews and other poltiical refugees. In 1938, André Trocmé, and his pacifist colleague Édouard Theis, founded L'Ecole Nouvelle Cévenol in Le Chambon, a Protestant, co-educational secondary school, with a curriculum of tolerance, honesty, and nonviolence. By 1942 the Germans...
Dates:
1919-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
United Pacifists of West Chester and Vicinity Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-United Pacifists of West Chester and Vicinity
Dates:
1952-1971
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Universal Peace Union Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-038
Abstract
The most colorful and important peace organization to rise from the the Civil War was the Universal Peace Union (UPU). This militant band grew out of reaction against compromising tactics which the American Peace Society adopted during the Civil War.
Dates:
1846-1938; Majority of material found within 1867-1923; Majority of material found within 1938
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
War Resisters League Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-040
Abstract
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:
1923-2013
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Ada Wardlaw Collected Papers
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Wardlaw, Ada
Dates:
1937-1963
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Wilfred Wellock Collected Papers
Collection — othertype: CDG-B
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-Wellock, Wilfred, M.P.
Scope and Contents
The collection includes primarily pamphlets written by Wilfred Wellock.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1915-1972
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Lydia G. Wentworth Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-041
Abstract
Lydia G. Wentworth, was a writer and ardent peace advocate who lived most of her life in Brookline, Massachusetts. Despite illness which confined her to bed for over thirty years, she carried on a prolific correspondence and contributed hundreds of articles to newspapers and magazines. Wentworth was on the advisory committee of the Women's Peace Society, and was a member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the Association to Abolish...
Dates:
1902-1947; Majority of material found within 1918-1947
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Norman J. Whitney Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-061
Abstract
Norman Jehiel Whitney (1891-1967) was a Quaker teacher, writer and devoted peace worker. From 1919-1957 he helped establish, and directed for many years, the Syracuse Peace Council. He left Syracuse in 1957 to work for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in peace education. Whitney's major peace work was in the area of counseling conscientious objectors to war (COs), particularly those in Civilian Public Service (CPS) camps. In 1941 he helped establish the New York State Board for...
Dates:
1938-1967
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
David Thoreau Wieck Collected Papers
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Wieck, David Thoreau
Scope and Contents
Includes prison correspondence, 1943-1946, and post-prison writings.
Dates:
1942-1969; Majority of material found within 1943-1950
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Swarthmore College Peace Collection 179
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- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 114
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 45
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 30
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 30
- Pacifists -- United States 21
- Women and peace -- History -- Sources 18
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 18
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 16
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 15
- Pacifists -- Great Britain -- History -- Sources 12
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 10
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 10
- Pacifists 10
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- 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
- Women and peace -- United States -- History -- Sources 8
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 7
- 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
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 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
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 5
- Political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 5
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 4
- Pacifists -- France -- History -- Sources 4
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 4
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Draft resisters -- United States -- Sources 4
- Women and peace 4
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- United States 4
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- Sources 3
- Conscientious objectors -- Great Britain -- History -- Sources 3
- Draft resisters -- United States 3
- Government, Resistance to -- History -- Sources 3
- Pacifism -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 3
- Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Pacifists -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 3
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 3
- Peace movements 3
- Peace movements -- Great Britain -- History -- Sources 3
- Peace movements -- New England -- History -- Sources 3
- Political prisoners -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Psychiatric hospitals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 3
- Quakers -- Great Britain -- History -- Sources 3
- Quakers -- New York (State) -- New York 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 -- Great Britain -- History -- Sources 2
- Disarmament -- History -- Sources 2
- Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Environmentalists 2
- Environmentalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Evil, Non-resistance to -- History -- Sources 2
- Feminists 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
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- Neutrality -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Nonviolence 2
- Pacifism 2
- Pacifists -- Germany -- History -- Sources 2
- Pacifists -- Great Britain 2
- Pacifists -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 2
- Pacifists -- Societies, etc. 2
- Peace -- Congresses -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Rogerenes 2
- Peace -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace movements -- France -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace movements -- History -- Sources 2
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- Language
- English 181
- German 7
- French 3
- Spanish; Castilian 2
- Czech 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 10
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 10
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 9
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 9
- Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 9
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 9
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 8
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 8
- Mead, Lucia True Ames, 1856-1936 7
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 7
- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 6
- Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 6
- Bromley, Ernest 6
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 6
- Finch, Henry Le Roy 6
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 6
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section 6
- Baer, Gertrude 5
- 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
- Witherspoon, Frances, 1886-1973 5
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. International Office 5
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 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
- Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 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
- A Quaker Action Group 3
- Allinson, Brent D. (Brent Dow) 3
- Berrigan, Philip 3
- Brockway, Fenner, 1888-1988 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
- Fry, A. Ruth (Anna Ruth), 1878-1962 3
- Gara, Larry 3
- Graves, Anna Melissa, 1875-1964 3
- Henry Ford Peace Expedition (1915-1916) 3
- Heymann, Lida Gustava, 1868-1943 3
- Jones, Paul, 1880-1941 3
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 3
- Lloyd, Lola Maverick, 1875-1944 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
- Ponsonby, Arthur Ponsonby, Baron, 1871-1946 3
- Rankin, Jeannette, 1880-1973 3
- Reynolds, Earle L. 3
- Reynolds, Reginald, 1905-1958 3
- Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970 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
- War Resisters' International 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
- Alexander, Horace Gundry, 1889-1989 2
- American Friends Service Committee. Peace Section 2
- American Peace Society 2
- Andresen, Bent, 1908-1991 2
- Angell, Norman, 1874-1967 2
- Anglican Pacifist Fellowship 2
- Arnett, Katharine M. (Katharine McCollin) 2
- Ballantyne, Edith 2
- Barr, Allen H. 2
- Berrigan, Daniel 2
- Blake, Katherine Devereux, 1858-1950 2 + ∧ less
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