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Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-McKeesport League of Peace
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Michigan Council for World Peace
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Minute Women for Peace
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-057
Abstract
George W. Nasmyth was educated at Cornell, Berlin, Gottingen, Heidelburg and Zurich. He dedicate his life to the cause of international understanding and peace. In 1919, he attended the Paris Peace Conference, and to organize the first meeting since the outbreak of the war of the World Alliance for Friendship Through the Churches. He died of a typhus infection at the age of 39, on September 20, 1920. Florence Nasmyth was a writer on peace issues.
Dates:
1911-1937
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War
Abstract
Representatives of nine national women's organizations united to accomplish two goals: to lobby for the United States to join the World Court, and to hold a conference together. They chose Carrie Chapman Catt to be their leader.
Dates:
1924-1943
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-052
Abstract
The National Council Against Conscription had its first official meeting on December 13, 1945 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Nation Council Against Conscription worked to defeat various legislative measures which promoted universal military training and peacetime conscription, by lobbying Congress, public speaking, publishing detailed analyses of proposed legislation, corresponding with magazine and newspaper editors about their coverage of Universal Military Training, and producing...
Dates:
1944-1960
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-National Council for Limitation of Armaments
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-075
Abstract
The National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam was a conference of groups opposed to the United States' involvement in Vietnam. This groups in1966 and its first major undertaking at that time was to organize a mass rally on April 15, 1967, both in New York City and in San Francisco.
The Mobe's chief aim was to mobilize public opinion against the Vietnamese War and against such other injustices of society as black inequality. It sought to weld a coalition of existing peace...
Dates:
1966-1969
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-049
Abstract
The National Peace Conference was formed in 1933 to unify and coordinate the efforts of various organizations interested in world justice and peace. The organization was active until 1951.
Dates:
1933-1951
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-National Peace Council
Abstract
The National Peace Council, established in 1905 as the National Council of Peace Societies and later also known as the National Council for the Prevention of War, brought together national groups and organizations that held a common interest in peace, disarmament, and internationalism in support of radical and constructive solutions to problems related to war and violence. Its affiliated groups included peace societies as well as religious, social, and industrial organizations. A major task...
Dates:
1909-2000