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Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-053
Abstract
Author, editor, journalist and lecturer; advocate of internationalist pacifism; influential member of the Socialist Party in the 1930s; genealogist; recorder of Rhode Island history and lore; named Harold Devere Allen.
Dates:
1809-1978; Majority of material found within 1910-1955
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American Committee for the Outlawry of War
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American Conference for Democracy
Abstract
The People's Council of America for Democracy and Peace grew out of the First American Conference for Democracy and Terms of Peace, held in New York, May 1917. It was organized to work for an early and liberal peace at the end of the World War. It favored world organizations and disapproved of conscription.
Dates:
1917-1919
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-004
Abstract
In 1915 a group of New York pacifists and near-pacifists organized the "Anti-militarism Committee" to combat the war spirit of the time. Activities included lobbying, publishing, a lecture campaign, and the establishment of a Civil Liberties Bureau. The most notable achievements were the work in the successful effort to avert war with Mexico in 1916 and the encouragement of opposition to peacetime conscription following World War I. The office was raided by the government and American Union...
Dates:
1915 - 1922
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-051
Abstract
Ellen Starr Brinton (1886-1954), Quaker, feminist and internationalist, served as the first curator of the Jane Addams Peace Collection (later the Swarthmore College Peace Collection) from 1935 until her retirement in 1951.
Dates:
1895-1980; Majority of material found within 1933-1954
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Committee for Peaceful Alternatives
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-086
Abstract
Dorothy Detzer was a peace activist, writer, and lobbyist. She served as the National Executive Secretary of the U.S. Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1924-1946.. Detzer influenced a Congressional investigation of the munitions industry, 1934-1936, and later wrote the book Appointment on the Hill, 1948, describing her two decades in Washington, D.C.
Dates:
1913-1981
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-012
Abstract
Initiated in late 1935 by the American Friends Service Committee and other pacifists; originally planned as a two-year campaign to rally peace, religious, labor, African-American and student groups; aim was to organize a national campaign to promote peace principles in the face of preparation for war in Europe, and to keep the United States out of war; may have been preceded by the Emergency Peace Committee (1931-1933), though this has not been documented. The first EPC office opened in...
Dates:
1936-1937
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Emergency Peace Federation
Abstract
The Emergency Peace Federation was organized to oppose U.S. drift into the the first world war. In July 1917 the Federation merged with the People's Council of America for Democracy and Peace.
Dates:
1914-1917
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-021
Abstract
Edwin D. Mead (1849-1937), and Lucia Ames Mead (1856-1936), were both leading pacifists, writers, and social reformers of the U.S. and international peace movement. Edwin Mead directed the work of the World Peace Foundation and participated in many international peace congresses. He was an American delegate to the International Peace Bureau. Mead helped found the School Peace League and was a prominent member of the American Peace League. Lucia Ames Mead was a leading member of many feminist...
Dates:
1876-1938