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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

American Conference for Democracy and Terms of Peace Collected Records

 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

American Union Against Militarism Records

 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

Ellen Starr Brinton Papers

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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

Committee for Peaceful Alternatives Collected Records

 Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Committee for Peaceful Alternatives
Dates: 1949-1952

Dorothy Detzer Papers

 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

Emergency Peace Campaign Records

 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

Emergency Peace Federation Collected Records

 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

Edwin D. Mead and Lucia Ames Mead Papers

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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

George Nasmyth and Florence Nasmyth Papers

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Identifier: SCPC-DG-057
Abstract

George W. Nasmyth was educated at Cornell, Berlin, Gottingen, Heidelburg and Zurich. He dedicate his life to the cause of international understanding and peace. In 1919, he attended the Paris Peace Conference, and to organize the first meeting since the outbreak of the war of the World Alliance for Friendship Through the Churches. He died of a typhus infection at the age of 39, on September 20, 1920. Florence Nasmyth was a writer on peace issues.

Dates: 1911-1937

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Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 12
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World tomorrow (Periodical) 1
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Names
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 6
Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 5
Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 5
Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 4
Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 4
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Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 4
Mead, Lucia True Ames, 1856-1936 4
Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949 4
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section 4
American Friends Service Committee 3
Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 3
Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 3
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 3
Emergency Peace Campaign (U.S.) 3
Forbes, Rose Dabney, 1864-1947 3
Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 3
Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 3
Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 3
Newton, Ray 3
Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 3
Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 3
Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987 3
Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 2
Angell, Norman, 1874-1967 2
Brainerd, Heloise, 1881-1969 2
Brockway, Fenner, 1888-1988 2
Burritt, Elihu, 1810-1879 2
Drevet, Camille 2
Eastman, Crystal, 1881-1928 2
Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 2
Fey, Harold E. (Harold Edward), 1898-1990 2
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 2
Florence, Lella Secor, 1887-1966 2
Fry, A. Ruth (Anna Ruth), 1878-1962 2
Gale, Zona, 1874-1938 2
Graves, Anna Melissa, 1875-1964 2
Harris, Paul, b. 1897 2
Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 2
Hull, William I. (William Isaac), 1868-1939 2
Lochner, Louis Paul, 1887-1975 2
Mead, Edwin D. (Edwin Doak), 1849-1937 2
Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 2
Nasmyth, George William, 1882-1920 2
National Council for Prevention of War (U.S.) 2
Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971 2
Page, Kirby, 1890-1957 2
People's Council of America for Democracy and Peace 2
Randall, Mercedes M. (Mercedes Moritz), 1895-1977 2
Rankin, Jeannette, 1880-1973 2
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 2
Shelley, Rebecca, 1887-1984 2
Swarthmore College. Peace Collection 2
Wald, Lillian D., 1867-1940 2
Welles, Sumner, 1892-1961 2
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. International Office 2
World Peace Foundation 2
Abbott, Grace, 1878-1939 1
Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971 1
Adler, Friedrich 1
Allen, Horatio, 1802-1889 1
Allen, Marie Hollister, 1893-1979 1
Alley, Alden Gifford 1
American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky 1
American Conference for Democracy and Terms of Peace 1
American League against War and Fascism 1
American Peace League 1
American Union Against Militarism 1
American Union Against Militarism. Civil Liberties Bureau 1
Armstrong, Florence A. (Florence Arzelia), 1881-1962 1
Art for World Friendship (Organization) 1
Association of Cosmopolitan Clubs in the American Universities 1
Baer, Gertrude 1
Beard, Charles A. (Charles Austin), 1874-1948 1
Berg, Russel O. 1
Beverage, Albion P. 1
Biddle, Clement M. (Clement Miller), 1876-1959 1
Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950 1
Boeckel, Florence Brewer, 1885- 1
Bolling, Landrum Rymer 1
Boyer, Gaeta Wold 1
Breckinridge, Sophonisba P. (Sophonisba Preston), 1866-1948 1
Brittain, Vera, 1893-1970 1
Broun, Heywood, 1888-1939 1
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 1
Buell, Raymond Leslie, 1896-1946 1
Burke, Ana del Pulgar 1
Butler, Smedley D. (Smedley Darlington), 1881-1940 1
Byrd, Richard Evelyn, 1888-1957 1
Camp, Kay 1
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 1
Catchpool, Corder, 1883-1952 1
Cederfeld, Benny 1
Ceresole, Pierre, 1879-1945 1
Chalmers, Ruth 1
Chase, E. Dixwell 1
Committee for World Development and World Disarmament 1
Committee on Militarism in Education (U.S.) 1
Coolidge, A. Sprague 1
Courtney, Kathleen, Dame, 1878-1974 1
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