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Marjorie Swann and Robert Swann Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-264
Overview
The Swanns were Quaker peace activitists who were particularly well known for their part in nonviolent direct action against nuclear weapons testing and deployment in the 1950s-1960s.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1949-1972
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Sydney Dix Strong Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-036
Overview
Sydney Dix Strong (1860-1938) was an outspoken pacifist and strong supporter of disarmament, war resistance, and organized labor. He was the pastor for churches in Ohio and Illinois and did settlement work in Chicago. For his peace stance made him unpopular during WWI and in Oct. 1917 he was expelled from membership in the Municipal League of Seattle because of a speech he had given before the National Council of Congregational Churches, in which he praised the I.W.W. (International Workers...
Dates:
1890-1938
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
The Reminiscences of Frances Witherspoon and Tracy D. Mygatt
Collection — othertype: DG 89
Identifier: SCPC-DG-089-Series C Box 7
Dates:
1966
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Edward Thomas and Margaret Loring Thomas Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Thomas, Edward-Margaret Loring Thomas
Overview
Edward Thomas was a chemist and chemical patent lawyer in New York City. His wife Margaret Loring Thomas had been active in settlement work and a teacher of home economics before marriage. Both were activist, pacifist Quakers.
Dates:
1917-1952
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Universal Peace Union Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-038
Overview
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
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:
1923-2013
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
Lydia G. Wentworth Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-041
Overview
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
Overview
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
Abstract
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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- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 114
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- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 25
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- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 15
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 15
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- Academic freedom -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- African American Quakers 1
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- Sources 1
- African Americans -- History -- Sources 1
- Aliens -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Americans -- Canada -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement 1
- Antinuclear movement -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- Rhode Island 1
- Antinuclear movement -- United States 1
- Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Arbitration (International law) 1
- Arbitration (International law) -- History -- Sources 1
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- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
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- English 114
- Undetermined 2
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- American Friends Service Committee 13
- Civilian Public Service 13
- War Resisters League 12
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 9
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 8
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 8
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 8
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 8
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 8
- Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 8
- Mead, Lucia True Ames, 1856-1936 7
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 6
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 6
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 6
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 6
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section 6
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 5
- Finch, Henry Le Roy 5
- Kaufman, Abraham 5
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 5
- Witherspoon, Frances, 1886-1973 5
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. International Office 5
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 4
- Baer, Gertrude 4
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 4
- Bromley, Ernest 4
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 4
- Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 4
- Lyttle, Bradford 4
- McReynolds, David 4
- Peacemaker Movement 4
- Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) 4
- Roodenko, Igal 4
- Shelley, Rebecca, 1887-1984 4
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 4
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 4
- A Quaker Action Group 3
- Bromley, Marion, -1996 3
- Byberry State Hospital (Pa.) 3
- Camp, Kay 3
- Civilian Public Service. Camp (Philadelphia, Pa.) 3
- DiGia, Ralph 3
- Drevet, Camille 3
- Eichel, Julius, 1896- 3
- Florence, Lella Secor, 1887-1966 3
- Freeman, Harrop A. (Harrop Arthur), 1907-1993 3
- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 3
- Furnas, Paul J. 3
- Graves, Anna Melissa, 1875-1964 3
- Henry Ford Peace Expedition (1915-1916) 3
- Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 3
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 3
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 3
- Lochner, Louis Paul, 1887-1975 3
- Morrison, Norman R., 1933-1965 3
- National Council for Prevention of War (U.S.) 3
- Nearing, Scott, 1883-1983 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
- Villard, Fanny Garrison, 1844-1928 3
- Wentworth, Lydia G., 1858- 3
- Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 3
- Woods, Amy 3
- Allinson, Brent D. (Brent Dow) 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, Philip 2
- Blake, Katherine Devereux, 1858-1950 2
- Boardman, Elizabeth Jelinek, 1917- 2
- Brandt, Wilmer, 1920- 2
- Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 2
- Brockway, Fenner, 1888-1988 2
- Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 2
- Burritt, Elihu, 1810-1879 2
- Carner, Lucy Perkins, 1886-1983 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
- Corfman, Rex 2
- Dellinger, David T., 1915-2004 2
- Dewey, John, 1859-1952 2
- Doty, Madeleine Z. (Madeleine Zabriskie), 1877-1963 2
- Early, Frances H. 2
- Eastman, Crystal, 1881-1928 2
- Episcopal Church 2
- Flanagan, Ross, 1934- 2
- Forbes, Rose Dabney, 1864-1947 2
- Forest, Jim (James H.) 2
- Gara, Larry 2
- Golden Rule (Ketch) 2 ∧ less
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