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Peace Action, Inc. Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-219
Overview
Peace Action, Inc. was founded about 1979 as the Disarmament Action Network (DAN). The name of the organization was changed name to Peace Action, Inc. about 1985. The group was begun informally by members of the American Friends Service Committee's Cambridge. Massachusetts office and was affiliated with the Walk for Peace, the Human Race/Runners Around the World, and Give Peace a Dance. Many of the organization's actions concerned the anti-nuclear movement of the period. Peace Action, Inc....
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1982-1989
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Peace Action Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-151
Abstract
The Peace Action collection is a continuation of the SANE and SANE Education Fund (DG 58) collection, which also resides at the SCPC (the papers of the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign are at the University of Missouri at St. Louis). It documents the merger of SANE and the NWFC, as well as the goals and work of the merged organization, through meeting minutes, correspondence, program files, press clippings and other publicity, statements and communications with Congress and other leaders, as...
Dates:
1986-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Peace Association of Friends in America Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-027
Overview
The Peace Association of Friends in America was organized in 1867 by Orthodox Friends in the New York, Baltimore, North Carolina, Ohio, Indiana, Western and Iowa Yearly Meetings in reaction to the Civil War, with its mission being to convince Friends and others that war was unchristian, inhumane and unnecessary.
Dates:
1868-1944
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Peace Council of Northeast Philadelphia Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Peace Council of Northeast Philadelphia
Dates:
1935-1944
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Peace Heroes Memorial Society Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Peace Heroes Memorial Society
Dates:
1926-1941
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Pennsylvania Arbitration and Peace Society Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Pennsylvania Arbitration and Peace Society
Dates:
1908-1926
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Pennsylvania Committee for Total Disarmament Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-030
Overview
The Pennsylvania Committee for Total Disarmament was active from 1930 to 1936, chiefly in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Through public opinion and personal contacts, PCTD supporters pressured Congress to support total disarmament, including passage of the Frazier Amendment outlawing war. Other objectives of the Committee included a Congressional investigation of the munitions industry, opposition to all preparations and training for war (including ROTC), and support for...
Dates:
1930-1938
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Pennsylvania Peace Society Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-031
Overview
Organizations with the name Pennsylvania Peace Society existed as early as 1822. The records in this collection date from the late 19th century and into the first years of the 20th century. Material about earlier versions of the PPS maybe found in the records of the American Peace Society (DG 003); and in the records of the Universal Peace Union (DG 038).
Dates:
1866-1928; Majority of material found within 1893-1928
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
People's Coalition for Peace and Justice Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-084
Overview
The People's Coalition for Peace and Justice included various peace, anti-poverty, and labor groups. These groups worked together to confront the related issues of war in Southeast Asia and racism, sexism, poverty, and repression in the United States. The People's Coalition for Peace and Justice was founded in 1970 as National Coalition Against War, Racism, and Repression and organized several specific campaigns including People's Peace Treaty, Citizen's Action Pledge, and Nixon Eviction...
Dates:
1970-1974
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Peoples Mandate Committee Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-109
Overview
Peoples Mandate to Governments to End War was an international campaign begun on September 6, 1935, by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom to express such overwhelming opposition to war that governments would not dare resort to it as a means of solving disputes between nations. By the end of the decade the Peoples Mandate became an independent organization, headed by Mabel Vernon, and focused on peace and connections between women and women's organizations in the...
Dates:
1935-1975; Majority of material found within 1935-1956
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 35
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- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 6
- Mead, Lucia True Ames, 1856-1936 5
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 5
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 4
- Lochner, Louis Paul, 1887-1975 4
- Lyttle, Bradford 4
- Mead, Edwin D. (Edwin Doak), 1849-1937 4
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 4
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 3
- American Peace Society 3
- Andrews, Fannie Fern, 1867-1950 3
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 3
- Brown, H. Runham (Herbert Runham), 1879-1949 3
- Dellinger, David T., 1915-2004 3
- Forbes, Rose Dabney, 1864-1947 3
- Hassler, Alfred, 1910- 3
- McReynolds, David 3
- Newton, Ray 3
- Olmsted, Allen S. (Allen Seymour), 1888-1977 3
- Peck, Sidney M. (Sidney Morris), 1926- 3
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 3
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 3
- Turn Toward Peace (Organization) 3
- Universal Peace Union 3
- Walker, Charles C. 3
- Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987 3
- Boardman, Elizabeth Jelinek, 1917- 2
- Brickner, Balfour, 1926-2005 2
- Call, Arthur Deerin, 1869-1941 2
- Camp, Kay 2
- Carner, Lucy Perkins, 1886-1983 2
- Carter, Arabella, 1867- 2
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 2
- Chalmers, Ruth 2
- Christian Arbitration and Peace Society 2
- Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 1924-2006 2
- Dulles, Sophia H. 2
- Fernandez, Richard R. (Richard Ritter) 2
- Flanagan, Ross, 1934- 2
- Gara, Larry 2
- Gordon, Lindley V. 2
- Gulick, Sidney Lewis, 1860-1945 2
- Hedemann, Ed 2
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 2
- Holt, Hamilton, 1872-1951 2
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 2
- Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 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
- League of Nations 2
- Lens, Sidney 2
- Levering, Robert, 1944- 2
- Love, Alfred H. (Alfred Harry), 1830-1913 2
- Meacham, Stewart 2
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 2
- National Council for Prevention of War (Great Britain) 2
- National Peace Conference (U.S.) 2
- Parkman, Patricia 2
- Peckover, Priscilla Hannah, 1833-1931 2
- Pickus, Robert 2
- Samuel, Pat 2
- Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 2
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 2
- Sewall, May Wright, 1844-1920 2
- Short, William H. (William Harrison), 1868-1935 2
- Smiley, Glenn E. 2
- Steffens, Dorothy R. 2
- Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.) 2
- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 2
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 2
- Trueblood, Benjamin Franklin, 1847-1916 2
- Uphaus, Willard E. (Willard Edwin), 1890-1983 2
- Vietnam Summer (Organization) 2
- Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949 2
- Wales, Julia Grace, 1881- 2
- War Resisters League 2
- Weiss, Cora, 1934- 2
- Wentworth, Lydia G., 1858- 2
- Will, Herman, 1915- 2
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 2
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section 2
- Wood, Richard R. (Richard Reeve), 1897-1982 2
- World Without War Council 2
- Young, Ronald J., 1942- 2
- A Quaker Action Group 1
- Abbott, Grace, 1878-1939 1
- Abercrombie, Daniel Webster, 1853-1932 1
- Aberman, Sidney 1
- Acts for Peace (Organization) 1
- Affeldt, Allan 1
- Agus, Jacob B. (Jacob Bernard), 1911-1986 1
- Akron Council for Peace Action 1
- Albert Einstein Institution (Cambridge, Mass.) 1
- Albright, William A. 1
- Alexander, Joseph G. (Joseph Gundry), 1848- 1
- Alexander, Magnus W. (Magnus Washington), 1870-1932 1
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