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Turn Toward Peace Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Turn Toward Peace
Abstract
Turn Toward Peace was founded in 1961 as a cooperative national effort of about 60 peace and liberal internationalist organizations; Norman Thomas was Chairman of TTP, and Robert Gilmore was the Executive Director. There eventually were offices in several large cities and 38 national organizations were affiliated with the organization. But by 1963, serious discord divided TTP and several years later a group split off to became the World Without War Council; some regional offices retained the...
Dates:
1961-1970
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Vietnam Summer Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-067
Abstract
Vietnam Summer was a nationwide project designed to reach concerned citizens throughout the United States and to weld them into an organized and active constituency against the war in Vietnam. Martin Luther King, Jr., Benjamin Spock and others launched the project nationally on April 23, 1967. From headquarters in Cambridge, Mass. co-directors Richard R. Fernandez and Lee D. Webb coordinated the efforts of 500 paid staff members and over 26,000 volunteers in about 700 local projects. Vietnam...
Dates:
1967
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
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Records
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
World Conference on Religion and Peace, USA Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-059
Abstract
In the early 1960s religious leaders, Rabbi Maurice Eisendrath and Dana McLean Greeley (Unitarian-Universalist) independently saw the need for national confernce on religion and peace. The organized the National Inter-religious Conference on Peace held March 15-17, 1966, in Washington, D.C., which brought together clergymen and laymen from all peace oriented viewpoints to discuss the relation of religion to peace. Minister and peace activist Homer A. Jack was also involved in organizing the...
Dates:
1962-1989
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 7
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- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 4
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 4
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 4
- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 3
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 3
- Dellinger, David T., 1915-2004 3
- Hassler, Alfred, 1910- 3
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 3
- Lochner, Louis Paul, 1887-1975 3
- Lyttle, Bradford 3
- McReynolds, David 3
- Mead, Lucia True Ames, 1856-1936 3
- Newton, Ray 3
- Peck, Sidney M. (Sidney Morris), 1926- 3
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 3
- Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987 3
- American Peace Society 2
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 2
- Brickner, Balfour, 1926-2005 2
- Brown, H. Runham (Herbert Runham), 1879-1949 2
- Call, Arthur Deerin, 1869-1941 2
- Camp, Kay 2
- Carner, Lucy Perkins, 1886-1983 2
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 2
- Chalmers, Ruth 2
- Christian Arbitration and Peace Society 2
- Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 1924-2006 2
- Fernandez, Richard R. (Richard Ritter) 2
- Forbes, Rose Dabney, 1864-1947 2
- Gara, Larry 2
- Hedemann, Ed 2
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 2
- Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 2
- Kaufman, Abraham 2
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 2
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 2
- Lens, Sidney 2
- Levering, Robert, 1944- 2
- Meacham, Stewart 2
- Mead, Edwin D. (Edwin Doak), 1849-1937 2
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 2
- Samuel, Pat 2
- Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 2
- Sewall, May Wright, 1844-1920 2
- Smiley, Glenn E. 2
- Steffens, Dorothy R. 2
- Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.) 2
- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 2
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 2
- Trueblood, Benjamin Franklin, 1847-1916 2
- Turn Toward Peace (Organization) 2
- Vietnam Summer (Organization) 2
- Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949 2
- Wales, Julia Grace, 1881- 2
- Walker, Charles C. 2
- War Resisters League 2
- Wentworth, Lydia G., 1858- 2
- Will, Herman, 1915- 2
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section 2
- Young, Ronald J., 1942- 2
- A Quaker Action Group 1
- Abbott, Grace, 1878-1939 1
- Abercrombie, Daniel Webster, 1853-1932 1
- Aberman, Sidney 1
- Acts for Peace (Organization) 1
- Affeldt, Allan 1
- Agus, Jacob B. (Jacob Bernard), 1911-1986 1
- Alexander, Joseph G. (Joseph Gundry), 1848- 1
- Alexander, Magnus W. (Magnus Washington), 1870-1932 1
- Allinson, Brent D. (Brent Dow) 1
- Alperovitz, Gar 1
- Altbach, Philip G. 1
- Alternatives to Violence Project 1
- Amdur, Stephen 1
- American League against War and Fascism 1
- American League for Peace and Democracy 1
- American Union for Concerted Peace Efforts 1
- American Woman's Republic 1
- Andrews, Fannie Fern, 1867-1950 1
- Another Mother for Peace (Association) 1
- Anti-War Mobilization Mass Meeting (1940 : Washington, D.C.) 1
- Armentrout, Barbara 1
- Armstrong, Florence A. (Florence Arzelia), 1881-1962 1
- Arnett, Katharine M. (Katharine McCollin) 1
- Art for World Friendship (Organization) 1
- Arvio, Raymond Paavo 1
- Ashly, Coleen 1
- Avedon, Barbara 1
- Babcock, Caroline L. (Caroline Lexow), 1882- 1
- Bailey, Hannah J. (Hannah Johnston), 1839-1923 1
- Ballantyne, Edith 1
- Barr, Allen H. 1
- Bassford, Abraham 1
- Baugher, Norman J., 1917-1968 1
- Beals, Charles Edward, 1869-1931 1
- Beaver, Gilbert A., -1952 1
- Becker, Jo 1
- Beheiren 1
- Bennett, Fay 1
- Bennett, John C. (John Coleman), 1902-1995 1 + ∧ less
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