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Committee for a Quaker Peace Witness Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Committee for a Quaker Peace Witness
Abstract
Committee for a Quaker Peace Witness; organized the November 1960 Washington Pilgrimage and two-day vigil at the Pentagon; chaired by Henry J. Cadbury; also called the Quaker Peace Witness Committee; work was continued by the Friends Witness for World Order
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1960-1961
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Committee for Non-violent Revolution Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Committee for Non-Violent Revolution
Dates:
1946
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Committee for Nonviolent Action Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-017
Abstract
CNVA was one of the first American peace groups to focus on nonviolentdirect action including civil disobedience. Its purpose of organizing imaginative and dramatic protest demonstrations on both land and sea attracted radical pacifists and called the attention of the American public to the atrocities of nuclear warfare. CNVA's first protest action was a vigil held outside the atomic weapons test grounds in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1957. In the second half of its existence CNVA efforts began to...
Dates:
1958-1968
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Committee for Peaceful Alternatives Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Committee for Peaceful Alternatives
Dates:
1949-1952
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Committee of Liaison with Families of Servicemen Detained in North Vietnam Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-227
Abstract
The Committee of Liaison with Families of Servicemen Detained in North Vietnam was founded in 1969. Cora Weiss was the co-chair and director of the organization from 1969-1972. The Committee organized the exchange of letters and packages between families of prisoners of war in Vietnam and the POWs. The Committee played a significant role in providing information to the U.S. public about the POW situation and in the public debates about this issue. Other supporters and activists with the...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1969-1973
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Committee on Peace and Service of the Bucks Quarterly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Committee on Peace and Service-Bucks Quarterly Meeting
Abstract
Includes minutes of meetings, correspondence, statements and reports, press releases, and news clippings. Correspondents include Conveners Mary Bye and Edward G. Ramberg, a noted physicist.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1963-1976
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Common Ground Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-243
Abstract
Common Ground was a community of faith founded by Quakers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1982 to break cycles of poverty, racism, and sexism through nonviolence education and action. Collaborative work with Baton Rouge Friends Meeting, local Clergy and Laity Concerned and Dignity chapters led to founding and shared workspace at Bienville House Center for Peace and Justice. Common Ground developed an educational program for abused residents and ex-residents from the city's domestic violence...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1982-2006
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Conciliation Internationale Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-B
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-France-Conciliation internationale
Scope and Contents
Includes subject/reference files, program, pamphlets, and invitation.
Dates:
1906-1930
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Congrès Démocratique International pour la Paix Collection
Collection — othertype: CDG-B
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-France-Congres democratique international pour la paix
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, publicity materials, and pamphlets.
Dates:
1921-1936
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Congrés National de la Paix Collection
Collection — othertype: CDG-B
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-France-Congres national de la paix
Abstract
Reports and other items related to the Congrés national de la paix for 1902, 1904, 1908, 1911, 1923, 1926, 1949.
Dates:
1902-1949
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection