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Devere Allen Papers
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Civil Defense Protest Committee Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Civil Defense Protest Committee
Abstract
Collection includes meeting minutes, correspondence, legal documents, pamphlets, publicity materials, and newspaper clippings; the bulk of the collection is from 1955.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1955-1962
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
A.J. Muste Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-050
Overview
A.J. Muste (1885-1967), was ordained a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, but later (1917), he became a member of the Society of Friends. During World War I, Muste's refusal to abandon his pacifist position led to his forced resignation from the Central Congregational Church in Newtonville, Massachusetts. Muste's involvement as a labor organizer began in 1919 when he led strikes in the textile mills of Lawrence, Massachusetts. He became the director of the Brookwood Labor College in...
Dates:
1920-1967
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Peace Action Center Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-093
Overview
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
Peacemaker Movement Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Peacemaker Movement
Overview
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
Marjorie Swann and Robert Swann Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-264
Overview
The Swanns were Quaker peace activitists who were particularly well known for their part in nonviolent direct action against nuclear weapons testing and deployment in the 1950s-1960s.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1949-1972
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
War Resisters League Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-040
Overview
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
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- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 6
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 2
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 2
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 2
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Ballistic missiles -- United States 1
- Civil defense -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil disobedience 1
- Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights workers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Connecticut -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950 -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection 1
- Conscientious objection -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Direct action -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Journalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Labor leaders -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Lecturers -- United States -- Biography -- Sources 1
- Pacifism 1
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace walks and marches -- History -- Sources 1
- Periodical editors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Polaris (Missile) 1
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- Quaker women -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Socialist parties -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Tax protests and appeals -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- World tomorrow (Periodical) 1
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- Names
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 4
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 4
- War Resisters League 3
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 2
- American Friends Service Committee 2
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 2
- DiGia, Ralph 2
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 2
- Finch, Henry Le Roy 2
- Hennacy, Ammon, 1893-1970 2
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 2
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 2
- Kaufman, Abraham 2
- Peacemaker Movement 2
- Roodenko, Igal 2
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 2
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 2
- Swann, Marjorie 2
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 2
- Aberman, Sidney 1
- Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971 1
- Adler, Friedrich 1
- Allen, Horatio, 1802-1889 1
- Allen, Marie Hollister, 1893-1979 1
- American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky 1
- American League against War and Fascism 1
- Anderson, Ross W. 1
- Annual Training Institute in Non-Violence, Grindstone Island (Portland, Ontario, Canada) 1
- Aptheker, Herbert, 1915-2003 1
- Baer, Gertrude 1
- Bagley, Jack L. 1
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 1
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 1
- Barr, Allen H. 1
- Beard, Charles A. (Charles Austin), 1874-1948 1
- Berg, Lloyd A. 1
- Berg, Russel O. 1
- Bigelow, Albert, 1906- 1
- Bishop, Sarah 1
- Boardman, Elizabeth Jelinek, 1917- 1
- Bolling, Landrum Rymer 1
- Brainerd, Heloise, 1881-1969 1
- Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 1
- Brittain, Vera, 1893-1970 1
- Brockway, Fenner, 1888-1988 1
- Bromley, Ernest 1
- Bromley, Marion, -1996 1
- Brooks, R. Boland 1
- Broun, Heywood, 1888-1939 1
- Brown, H. Runham (Herbert Runham), 1879-1949 1
- Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 1
- Burritt, Elihu, 1810-1879 1
- Carpenter, Florence Y. 1
- Catchpool, Corder, 1883-1952 1
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 1
- Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors 1
- Ceresole, Pierre, 1879-1945 1
- Chase, E. Dixwell 1
- Civil Defense Protest Committee (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Clergy and Laity Concerned (U.S.) 1
- Congress of Racial Equality 1
- Cook, Cara 1
- Coolidge, A. Sprague 1
- Corfman, Rex 1
- Corson, Helen H. 1
- Cousins, Norman 1
- Cranston, Maurice, 1920-1993 1
- Curti, Merle (Merle Eugene), 1897-1996 1
- Day, Dorothy, 1897-1980 1
- DeVault, Don 1
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 1
- Dewey, John, 1859-1952 1
- Drevet, Camille 1
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 1
- Dulles, John Foster 1
- Dunbar, Olivia Howard, 1873-1953 1
- Eichel, Julius, 1896- 1
- Einstein, Albert 1
- Elkinton, J. Passmore (Joseph Passmore), 1887-1971 1
- Emergency Peace Campaign (U.S.) 1
- Engelbrecht, H. C. (Helmuth Carol), 1895-1939 1
- Faust, Bertha, 1909- 1
- Fey, Harold E. (Harold Edward), 1898-1990 1
- Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 1
- Flanagan, Ross, 1934- 1
- Florence, Lella Secor, 1887-1966 1
- Frankel, Morton 1
- Fromm, Erich, 1900-1980 1
- Fry, A. Ruth (Anna Ruth), 1878-1962 1
- Garvey, Marcus, 1887-1940 1
- Golden Rule (Ketch) 1
- Gottlieb, Edward P. 1
- Gottwald, Norman K. (Norman Karol), 1926- 1
- Grant, Donald, 1889- 1
- Graves, Anna Melissa, 1875-1964 1
- Gray, Philip, 1906- 1
- Gregg, Richard Bartlett, 1885- 1
- Harris, Paul, b. 1897 1
- Hartmann, George W. (George Wilfried), 1904-1955 1 ∧ less
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