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Waldo Williams Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-Williams, Waldo
Overview
Williams was a Welsh poet, war resister,war-tax resister, and conscientious objector in World War II. He became a Quaker in 1953.
Dates:
1942-1998
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
George Willoughby and Lillian Willoughby Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-236
Overview
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Alexander Wilson and Edith J. Wilson Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-Alexander Wilson and Edith J. Wilson
Abstract
Alexander C. Wilson and Edith J. Wilson were British Quakers.
Dates:
1916-1922
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
E. Raymond Wilson Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-070
Overview
E. Raymond Wilson (1896-1987), a Quaker peace lobbyist, helped found the Friends Committee on National Legislation in 1943 and served as its Executive Secretary until 1962. He also helped organize the Committee on Militarism in Education in 1925. From 1931 to 1943, he served as Field and Education Secretary of the Peace Section of the American Friends Service Committee. He was the author of two books.
The papers of E. Raymond Wilson contain personal and professional correspondence,...
Dates:
1914-1987
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Neil Wollman Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-234
Overview
Neil Wollman (1950 - ) is a peace activist and psychologist. Beginning ca. 1984, Wollman began to pressure Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association-College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF) to engage in socially responsible investing, including divesting from companies that did business in South Africa or built nuclear weapons. Wollman helped to form the Make TIAA-CREF Ethical Coalition. He is the the author of the Graduation Pledge of Social and Environmental Responsibility...
Dates:
Majority of material found within ca. 1984-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-043
Abstract
Includes minutes, resolutions and general historical records; anniversary celebrations, committee minutes, literature and releases; office files from the legislative office, the finance and the executive director; includes miscellaneous records from branches, including New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, among others; a large correspondence file includes general office correspondence as well as that of the National Organizational Secretary, the Washington Legislative Secretary, and...
Dates:
1915-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Women's Peace Society Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-106
Overview
Women's Peace Society was not interested in using political or economic means to end what it termed "war-madness". Rather, its members chose educational methods such as handing out literature, participating in demonstrations, speaking at public events, and holding school contests. In August 1921, it sponsored a conference at Niagara Falls where it cooperated with Canadian peace women in starting the Women's Peace Union of the Western Hemisphere. The Women's Peace Union chose to work...
Dates:
1914-1933; Majority of material found within 1914-1933
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Young People's Peace Conference transcript
Collection — othertype: SC-222
Identifier: SFHL-SC-222
Abstract
Contains the transcript of the Young People's Peace Conference sponsored by the Joint Peace Committee of New York Quakers in 1933. Chief speakers were Frederick J. Libby, Paul Harris, Jr., Edmund B. Chaffee, Alden G. Alley, Sidney E. Goldstein, and Norman Thomas.
Dates:
1933
Wilmer J. and Mildred Binns Young Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-289
Overview
Wilmer J. Young (1887-1983), a Quaker teacher and peace activist born in Iowa, was involved in post World War I reconstruction in France and Poland. He married Mildred Binns in 1922, and together they worked with AFSC work camps and cooperative farms until he began to teach at Pendle Hill in 1955. The collection contains primarily journals and correspondence from his time in France.
Dates:
1909-2014
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- Swarthmore College Peace Collection 179
- Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College 10
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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
- Lobbyists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- 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
- Peace movements -- United States 2
- Peace walks and marches 2
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- Language
- English 180
- German 4
- French 2
- Undetermined 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
- 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
- Boardman, Elizabeth Jelinek, 1917- 2 ∧ less
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