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A. Ruth Fry Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-046
Abstract
[Anna] Ruth Fry was an activist and a writer born into a prominent Quaker family in England. From 1914-1924, she served as general secretary of the Friends Relief Commission, which provided help for refugees and others ravaged by World War I. Fry wrote about her experiences in A Quaker Adventure (1926). She was also the first chairman of the Russian Famine Relief Fund in 1921. Fry went on to write numerous books, pamphlets and tracts, on a variety of Quaker and peace topics. She died on...
Dates:
1905-1957
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Mildred Scott Olmsted Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-082
Abstract
Mildred Scott Olmsted, peace activist and suffragist, was born in Glenolden, Pennsylvania, in 1890. In 1922, Olmsted became Executive Secretary of the Pennsylvania Branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). From 1934 onward she assumed national positions with the organization. In 1946, Olmsted became National Administrative Secretary and held that position (until her retirement in 1966. She remained active as Executive Director Emerita of WILPF and also served...
Dates:
1881-1990; Majority of material found within 1907-1990
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Peace Action Center Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-093
Abstract
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
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
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- Brown, H. Runham (Herbert Runham), 1879-1949 2
- Camp, Kay 2
- Chalmers, Ruth 2
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 2
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 2
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 2
- Steffens, Dorothy R. 2
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section 2
- Aberman, Sidney 1
- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 1
- Albright, William A. 1
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 1
- Anderson, Ross W. 1
- Arnett, Katharine M. (Katharine McCollin) 1
- Art for World Friendship (Organization) 1
- Bagley, Jack L. 1
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 1
- Ballantyne, Edith 1
- Barr, Allen H. 1
- Beaton, Grace M. 1
- Bigelow, Albert, 1906- 1
- Bishop, Sarah 1
- Boardman, Elizabeth Jelinek, 1917- 1
- Boulding, Elise 1
- Brooks, R. Boland 1
- Carner, Lucy Perkins, 1886-1983 1
- Carpenter, Florence Y. 1
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 1
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 1
- Committee for World Development and World Disarmament 1
- Cookson, Sybil, 1890- 1
- Corfman, Rex 1
- Corson, Helen H. 1
- DeVault, Don 1
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 1
- DiGia, Ralph 1
- Dunbar, Olivia Howard, 1873-1953 1
- Eastman, Crystal, 1881-1928 1
- Eichel, Julius, 1896- 1
- Faust, Bertha, 1909- 1
- Finch, Henry Le Roy 1
- Flanagan, Ross, 1934- 1
- Forbes, Rose Dabney, 1864-1947 1
- Fowler, Eleanor 1
- Frank, Libby 1
- Frazier, Howard 1
- Freeman, Ruth, 1901- 1
- Friends' Emergency & War Victims' Relief Committee (London, England) 1
- Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee (London, England) 1
- Fry, A. Ruth (Anna Ruth), 1878-1962 1
- Gage-Colby, Ruth 1
- Gale, Zona, 1874-1938 1
- Gottlieb, Edward P. 1
- Gottwald, Norman K. (Norman Karol), 1926- 1
- Hartmann, George W. (George Wilfried), 1904-1955 1
- Hasegawa, Marii 1
- Hayes, Dorothy M. 1
- Hedemann, Ed 1
- Hedemann, Grace 1
- Hennacy, Ammon, 1893-1970 1
- Hester, Hugh B. (Hugh Bryan), 1895-1983 1
- Hinton, Carma 1
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 1
- Holmes, Margaret 1
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 1
- Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 1
- Hutchinson, Dorothy H. (Dorothy Hewitt), 1905-1984 1
- Ivey, Anne 1
- Jane Addams Peace Association 1
- Jōdai, Tano, 1886-1982 1
- Kaufman, Abraham 1
- Kepler, Roy C. 1
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 1
- Lochner, Louis Paul, 1887-1975 1
- Lyttle, Bradford 1
- Martin, William R., 1938- 1
- McNeil, Gelston 1
- McReynolds, David 1
- Mead, Lucia True Ames, 1856-1936 1
- Mellor, Ruth 1
- Midgley, Jane 1
- Moore, Carol V. 1
- Mueller, Melva 1
- Nash, Vernon 1
- National Council for Prevention of War (Great Britain) 1
- Olmstead, Frank 1
- Olmsted, Allen S. (Allen Seymour), 1888-1977 1
- Parkman, Patricia 1
- Peace Action Center (Washington, D.C.) 1
- Pfeiffer, Stephen D. 1
- Post, Alice Thacher, 1853-1947 1
- Randall, Mercedes M. (Mercedes Moritz), 1895-1977 1
- Ransom, Frances Rose 1
- Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) 1
- Richards, Edward C. M., 1886-1974 1
- Roodenko, Igal 1
- Samuel, Pat 1
- Schaum, Winifred W. 1
- Schwartz, Wendy (Editor) 1
- Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 1 + ∧ less
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