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David Cortright Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-101
Abstract
David Cortright is an anuthor and antimilitarist. He was a co-founder of GI's United Against the War in Vietnam. After the early 1970s Cortright led several peace organizations, including SANE, Inc. and SANE/FREEZE. Cortright current serves as president of the Fourth Freedom Forum [ca. 1996 - date].
Dates:
1968 -
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-011
Abstract
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana was a writer and pacifist who taught comparative literature at Columbia University from 1912 until 1917. Dana lost his teaching post as an opponent of American participation in World War I. Dana continued to advocate civil liberties and the rights of conscientious objectors.
Dates:
1914-1950
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
Dorothy Day Collected Papers
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Day, Dorothy
Abstract
Collection consists of printed materials: leaflets, pamphlets, reprints, and a postcard reproduction of a wood-carved sculpture by Charles Wells (b. 1935) titled "Dorothy Day.".
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1915-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
John Dear Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-201
Abstract
Father John Dear is a Jesuit priest, peace and nonviolence activist, lecturer, and author of books on peace and social justice issues. His papers reflect his focus on nonviolent witness through all aspects of his life.
Dates:
1979-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
John D'Emilio Collected Papers
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-D'Emilio, John
Abstract
Audiocassettes and typed transcripts of interviews with Bayard Rustin, his friends and co-workers for D'Emilio's book Lost Prophet: the Life and Times of Bayard Rustin. Rustin was an African-American conscientious objector, civil rights worker, pacifist, Quaker. Interviews were between 1992 and 2002. Interviewees include: Bayard Rustin, Charles Bloomstein, Ernest Bromley, Marion Bromley, Stephen Carey, Ralph DiGia, Roy Finch, Caleb Foote, Larry Gara, Norman Hill, Rachelle Horowitz, George...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1992-2002
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Henry Drinker correspondence
Collection — othertype: SC-031
Identifier: SFHL-SC-031
Abstract
This collection includes letters received by Henry Drinker regarding various business and personal matters. The correspondents include Ruth Anna Rutter (later Lindley), George Churchman, and William Brinton, who wrote concerning a subscription from Lampeter Preparative Meeting for relief in Europe.
Dates:
1791-1801
Eichel Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-131
Overview
The Eichel Family papers provide a unique glimpse into the lives of conscientious objectors and peace activists from one family over two generations, from 1916 onward. Julius Eichel, David Eichel and Albert Eichel were all C.O.s during WWI. Julius Eichel and his wife Esther Eichel protested WWII. Their son Seymour Eichel also served time in prison for his refusal to serve in the military in the 1950s.
Dates:
1918 - 2008
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Jerry Elmer Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Elmer, Jerry
Scope and Contents
This collection includes information about 1) the Tiger Cage Vigil and Fast protesting the Vietnam War, which was held in Washington D.C. in the summer of 1974, and 2) the Rhode Island Freeze Campaign encompassing the 1982 nuclear freeze referendum held in ten states and 38 cities and counties throughout the United States. The Vietnam War material includes correspondence, leaflets and packets of information, newsletters, legal information, lists of project participants, and press releases....
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1973-1975, 1982
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Episcopal Peace Fellowship Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-118
Overview
The Episcopal Peace Fellowship (EPF), was founded November 1939 as an association of pacifist members of the Protestant Episcopal Church. The organization sought to discover and unite pacifists within the church and to influence its membership regarding Christianity and peace. The EPF has sponsored educational projects (publications, lectures, workshops, conferences), provided counseling and financial support for conscientious objectors, and contributed to pacifist projects in other...
Dates:
1936-2009; Majority of material found within 1936 - 2009
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Swarthmore College Peace Collection 142
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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
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 18
- Women and peace -- History -- Sources 17
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- 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
- English 146
- Undetermined 2
- Spanish; Castilian 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
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 8
- Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 8
- Mead, Lucia True Ames, 1856-1936 7
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 7
- 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
- Witherspoon, Frances, 1886-1973 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
- 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
- Conference of All Friends (1920) (London, England) 2 ∧ less
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