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Peace Action Center Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-093
Abstract
The Peace Action Center began in 1961 as a continuation of the vigil at Fort Detrick, Md. Peace activists had sponsored a continuous vigil as early as 1959 seeking the abandonment of biological weapons and appealed for the conversion of the fort into a world health center. The Peace Action Center included cooperative living quarters for the staff of religious pacifists, mostly Quakers. PAC staff including Lawrence Scott, director, and Jack L. Bagley, Sarah Bishop, Florence Y. Carpenter,...
Dates:
1959-1965
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Peace Pilgrim Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-104
Abstract
Peace Pilgrim was born Mildred Lisette Norman in 1908. Between 1953 and l964, she had walked 25,000 miles across the U.S. for peace. Peace Pilgrim eventually made seven pilgrimages, crossing North America. She was killed in an automobile accident on July 7, 1981, at the age of 71.
Dates:
1908-1986
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Peacemaker Movement Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Peacemaker Movement
Abstract
A group working on nonviolence from the late 1940s through the 1970s, particularly as it was expressed through tax refusal.
Dates:
1948-1980
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Jeannette Rankin Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Rankin, Jeannette
Abstract
Jeannette Rankin (1880-1973), was the first woman to serve in Congress (1917-1919). She was an active suffragist and later worked in peace organizations such as the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and the National Council for Prevention of War. Rankin founded the Georgia Peace Society in the 1940s, and led the Jeannette Rankin Brigade, an all-women's protest march against the Vietnam war shortly before her death.
Dates:
1917-2011
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Joseph W. Reilly Collected Papers
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Reilly, Joseph W.
Scope and Contents
The collection includes information about the Eastern Pennsylvania Youth Council, the Friendship Cooperative House, the conference of the National Youth Assembly Against Universal Military Training, Washington D.C. February 15-16, 1948, the Philadelphia Resist Conscription Committee, the Philadelphia Youth Council to Oppose Conscription, the Philadelphia Town Meeting of Youth and Vets, and the Veterans Commission on Court-Martial Cases.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1945-1950
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Barbara Reynolds Collected Papers
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Reynolds, Barbara
Dates:
1948-1970
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Igal Roodenko Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-161
Abstract
Igal Roodenko was a pacifist, peace and civil rights activist, and advocate of nonviolence. He was a member of the War Resisters League Executive Committee, served on boards of A.J. Muste Memorial Institute and Consortium on Peace Research and Development (COPRED), and was active in Men of All Colors Together.
Dates:
1935-1991
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Bayard Rustin Collected Papers
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Rustin, Bayard
Dates:
1947-1987
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Kathleen Whitaker Sayre Collected Papers
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Sayre, Kathleen W
Dates:
1914-1961
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Charles Schumacher Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Schumacher, Charles
Abstract
Charles Schumacher was a chemist, chemical engineer and conscientious objector to World War II. He entered Civilian Public Service in 1944 and served in three CPS camps.
Dates:
1930-2003
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
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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 + ∧ less
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