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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
Weston-Super-Mare Peace Society Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-Weston-Super-Mare Peace Society
Dates:
1910-1941
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Norman J. Whitney Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-061
Abstract
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
Wisbech Local Peace Association Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-042
Abstract
Priscilla Hannah Peckover (1833-1931) devoted much of her life toward mobilization for peace. In 1879 she formed the Wisbech Peace Association to promote the development of women in work for peace. This group of men and women became a center for peace activity in Great Britain. They concentrated on establishing peace by means of arbitration and disarmament, based on Christian theology.
Dates:
1880-1931
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Wisconsin Peace Society Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Wisconsin Peace Society
Dates:
1912-1937; Majority of material found within 1917-1920
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
Women's Peace Society Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-106
Abstract
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
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
World Peace Association Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-World Peace Association
Dates:
1915-1964; Majority of material found within 1941-1960
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
World Peace Foundation Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-055
Abstract
In 1902, Edwin Ginn began publication of an International Library to promote knowledge about peace. In July 1910, he established the International School of Peace which, in December, became the World Peace Foundation. Its purpose was to promote better international relations and world order by preparing and distributing specialized literature, mostly to college and university libraries, and by holding conferences. It was closely allied with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and...
Dates:
1910-1960
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Disarmament -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 3
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- Pacifism -- Great Britain -- History -- Sources 3
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- International law -- Sources 2
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- Loyalty oaths -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
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- Nuclear disarmament -- History -- Sources 2
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- Aiken (S.C.) -- Social conditions -- History -- 19th century 1
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- French 4
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- Names
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 7
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 7
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 6
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 6
- Mead, Lucia True Ames, 1856-1936 6
- American Peace Society 5
- Lochner, Louis Paul, 1887-1975 5
- Mead, Edwin D. (Edwin Doak), 1849-1937 5
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 5
- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 4
- American Friends Service Committee 4
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 4
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 4
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 4
- Hutchinson, Dorothy H. (Dorothy Hewitt), 1905-1984 4
- League of Nations 4
- Lyttle, Bradford 4
- Newton, Ray 4
- Olmsted, Allen S. (Allen Seymour), 1888-1977 4
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 4
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section 4
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 3
- Andrews, Fannie Fern, 1867-1950 3
- Brown, H. Runham (Herbert Runham), 1879-1949 3
- Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 3
- Carner, Lucy Perkins, 1886-1983 3
- Christian Arbitration and Peace Society 3
- Dellinger, David T., 1915-2004 3
- Forbes, Rose Dabney, 1864-1947 3
- Hassler, Alfred, 1910- 3
- Holt, Hamilton, 1872-1951 3
- Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 3
- McReynolds, David 3
- Peck, Sidney M. (Sidney Morris), 1926- 3
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 3
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 3
- Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 3
- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 3
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 3
- Turn Toward Peace (Organization) 3
- Universal Peace Union 3
- Walker, Charles C. 3
- Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987 3
- Affeldt, Allan 2
- Allinson, Brent D. (Brent Dow) 2
- American Legion 2
- Angell, Norman, 1874-1967 2
- Arnett, Katharine M. (Katharine McCollin) 2
- Baer, Gertrude 2
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 2
- Blake, Katherine Devereux, 1858-1950 2
- Blakeslee, George Hubbard, 1871-1954 2
- Boardman, Elizabeth Jelinek, 1917- 2
- Boss, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), 1888- 2
- Brickner, Balfour, 1926-2005 2
- Bussey, Gertrude Carman, 1888-1961 2
- Byrns, Elinor 2
- Call, Arthur Deerin, 1869-1941 2
- Camp, Kay 2
- Carter, Arabella, 1867- 2
- Chalmers, Ruth 2
- Chavez, Daniel 2
- Civilian Public Service 2
- Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 1924-2006 2
- Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments (1932-1934) (Geneva, Switzerland) 2
- Dewey, John, 1859-1952 2
- Dulles, Sophia H. 2
- Eckstein, Anna B., 1868-1947 2
- Evans, Edward W. (Edward Wyatt), 1882-1976 2
- Fernandez, Richard R. (Richard Ritter) 2
- Flanagan, Ross, 1934- 2
- Folsom, Franklin, 1907-1995 2
- Freeman, Harrop A. (Harrop Arthur), 1907-1993 2
- Gara, Larry 2
- Gordon, Lindley V. 2
- Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament (Organization) 2
- Gulick, Sidney Lewis, 1860-1945 2
- Hamilton, Alice, 1869-1970 2
- Hedemann, Ed 2
- Hillyer, Mary W. 2
- Hudson, Manley O. (Manley Ottmer), 1886-1960 2
- Hull, William I. (William Isaac), 1868-1939 2
- International Federation of Students 2
- Kaufman, Abraham 2
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 2
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 2
- Lens, Sidney 2
- Levering, Robert, 1944- 2
- Lewis, Lucy Biddle, 1861- 2
- Lloyd, Lola Maverick, 1875-1944 2
- Lockwood, Belva Ann, 1830-1917 2
- Love, Alfred H. (Alfred Harry), 1830-1913 2
- Meacham, Stewart 2
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 2
- Nasmyth, George William, 1882-1920 2
- National Council for Prevention of War (Great Britain) 2
- National Peace Conference (U.S.) 2
- PRO-Peace (Organization) 2
- Parkman, Patricia 2
- Peckover, Priscilla Hannah, 1833-1931 2 + ∧ less
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