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Jeannette Rankin Collected Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Rankin, Jeannette
Abstract

Jeannette Rankin (1880-1973), was the first woman to serve in Congress (1917-1919). She was an active suffragist and later worked in peace organizations such as the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and the National Council for Prevention of War. Rankin founded the Georgia Peace Society in the 1940s, and led the Jeannette Rankin Brigade, an all-women's protest march against the Vietnam war shortly before her death.

Dates: 1917-2011

Lynne Shivers Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-263
Abstract

Enid Lynne Shivers was a peace activist and prominent member of Movement for a New Society, for which she organized and wrote informational materials. This collection of her personal materials is primarily composed of journals dating from the 1960s until 2014 and materials from time she spent doing peace work in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1941-2015

Marjorie Swann and Robert Swann Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-264
Abstract

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

Édouard Theis Collected Papers

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Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-France-Theis, Edouard
Abstract Édouard Theis was a missionary and teacher in Madagascar and the Cameroons, before joining the theology faculty at the University of Paris. As a pacifist and conscientious objector to war Theis resisted Nazi violence and racism during World War II. Along with André and Magda Trocmé, Theis and his wife, Mildred, co-founded the Collège Cévenol in 1938. Theis taught French, German, and Greek, and his wife taught there as well. Theis also served as the college's first [second?] director until...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1947-1965

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

George Willoughby and Lillian Willoughby Papers

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Identifier: SCPC-DG-236
Abstract

George Willoughby (December 9, 1914 - January 5, 2010) and Lillian Willoughby (c. 1916 - January 15, 2009) were Quaker activists who took part in nonviolent protests against war, conducted nonviolence trainings in India and other countries, and advocated for preservation of land in New Jersey and elsewhere.

Dates: 1931-2010

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Records

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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-

Young People's Peace Conference transcript

 Collection — othertype: SC-222
Identifier: SFHL-SC-222
Abstract

Contains the transcript of the Young People's Peace Conference sponsored by the Joint Peace Committee of New York Quakers in 1933. Chief speakers were Frederick J. Libby, Paul Harris, Jr., Edmund B. Chaffee, Alden G. Alley, Sidney E. Goldstein, and Norman Thomas.

Dates: 1933

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Swarthmore College Peace Collection 36
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College 2
 
Subject
Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 30
Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 29
Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 8
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 8
Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 7
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Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 4
Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 4
War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
Women and peace -- History -- Sources 4
Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 3
Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
Pacifists -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 3
Pacifists -- United States 3
Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 3
Peace -- Societies, etc. 3
Political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Internationalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Lawyers -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 2
Pacifism -- History -- Sources 2
Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 2
Peace movements -- History -- Sources 2
Peace movements -- United States 2
Peace walks and marches -- History -- Sources 2
Quaker women -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 2
Quaker women -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Quakers -- Congresses -- History -- Sources 2
Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 2
Suffragists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
United States 2
Women and peace -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
World War, 1914-1918 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 2
World War, 1939-1945 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 2
Abolitionists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Antinuclear movement 1
Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Atomic bomb victims -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi 1
Atomic bomb victims -- Japan -- Nagasaki-shi 1
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Ballistic missiles -- United States 1
Children's literature -- Awards -- History -- Sources 1
Civil defense -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- Sources 1
Civil disobedience 1
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Civil rights workers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
College teachers -- Pensions -- United States States -- History -- Sources 1
College teachers -- Retirement -- United States States -- History -- Sources 1
Connecticut -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950 -- Sources 1
Conscientious objection 1
Conscientious objection -- History -- Sources 1
Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
Conscientious objection -- Societies, etc. 1
Conscientious objection -- United States 1
Cuba -- Foreign relations -- United States 1
Direct action -- History -- Sources 1
Direct action -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Disarmament -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
Disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Draft resisters -- History -- Sources 1
Draft resisters -- United States 1
Educators -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Feminists -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
Government, Resistance to -- United States 1
Harrisburg Seven Trial, Harrisburg, Pa., 1972 1
Internationalists 1
Internationalists -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
Investments -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 1
Investments -- Social aspects -- History -- Sources 1
Jews -- Czechoslovakia -- History -- Sources 1
Journalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Labor leaders -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Lecturers -- United States -- Biography -- Sources 1
Linguists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Literary prizes -- History -- Sources 1
Mennonites -- Missions -- History -- Sources 1
Mennonites -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Mexico -- Foreign relations -- United States 1
Militarism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Military unions -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Pacifism 1
Pacifists 1
Pacifists -- Connecticut -- Hartford -- History -- Sources 1
Pacifists -- Czechoslovakia -- History -- Sources 1
Pacifists -- France -- Le Chambon-sur-Lignon -- History -- Sources 1
Pacifists -- United States -- Congresses -- History -- Sources 1
Peace -- Congresses 1
Peace -- Congresses -- History -- Sources 1
Peace -- History -- Sources 1
Peace -- Poetry 1
Peace -- Religious aspects -- Congresses -- Sources 1
Peace -- Religious aspects -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Peace movements 1
Peace movements -- Connecticut -- Hartford -- History -- Sources 1
Peace movements -- France -- History -- Sources 1
Peace movements -- Georgia -- History -- Sources 1
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Language
German 1
Portuguese 1
Spanish; Castilian 1
Vietnamese 1
 
Names
American Friends Service Committee 8
Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 7
Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 7
War Resisters League 7
Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 6
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Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 5
Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 5
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section 5
Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 4
Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 4
Kaufman, Abraham 4
Lyttle, Bradford 4
McReynolds, David 4
Willoughby, George, pacifist 4
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 3
Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 3
Burritt, Elihu, 1810-1879 3
Camp, Kay 3
Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 3
Committee for Nonviolent Action 3
DiGia, Ralph 3
Finch, Henry Le Roy 3
Omaha Action (Project) 3
Roodenko, Igal 3
Socialist Party (U.S.) 3
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. International Office 3
Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 2
American Peace Society 2
Ballantyne, Edith 2
Berrigan, Philip 2
Brainerd, Heloise, 1881-1969 2
Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 2
Chalmers, Ruth 2
Conference of All Friends (1920) (London, England) 2
Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 2
Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 2
Early, Frances H. 2
Evans, Edward W. (Edward Wyatt), 1882-1976 2
Forbes, Rose Dabney, 1864-1947 2
Fry, A. Ruth (Anna Ruth), 1878-1962 2
Golden Rule (Ketch) 2
Gottlieb, Edward P. 2
Hennacy, Ammon, 1893-1970 2
Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 2
Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 2
Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 2
Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 2
Lakey, George 2
Lazarus, Frieda Langer 2
Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 2
Mead, Lucia True Ames, 1856-1936 2
National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (U.S.) 2
National Council for Prevention of War (U.S.) 2
Peacemaker Movement 2
Peck, James 2
Pickus, Robert 2
Prasad, Devi 2
Randall, Mercedes M. (Mercedes Moritz), 1895-1977 2
Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) 2
Reynolds, Earle L. 2
Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 2
Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 2
Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 2
Shelley, Rebecca, 1887-1984 2
Shivers, Lynne 2
Steffens, Dorothy R. 2
Swann, Marjorie 2
Swarthmore College. Peace Collection 2
Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 2
War Resisters' International 2
Willoughby, Lillian, 1915-2009 2
Witherspoon, Frances, 1886-1973 2
A Quaker Action Group 1
Aberman, Sidney 1
Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971 1
Adler, Friedrich 1
Allen, Horatio, 1802-1889 1
Allen, Marie Hollister, 1893-1979 1
Allen, Steve, 1921-2000 1
Altbach, Philip G. 1
American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky 1
American Friends Reconstruction Unit 1
American Friends Service Committee. New England Regional Office 1
American League against War and Fascism 1
American Peace League 1
Anderson, Jervis 1
Anderson, Ross W. 1
Andresen, Bent, 1908-1991 1
Angell, Norman, 1874-1967 1
Annual Training Institute in Non-Violence, Grindstone Island (Portland, Ontario, Canada) 1
Anti-Enlistment League 1
Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) 1
Aptheker, Herbert, 1915-2003 1
Arnett, Katharine M. (Katharine McCollin) 1
Art for World Friendship (Organization) 1
Atlantic City Conference for Peaceworkers 1
Baer, Gertrude 1
Bagley, Jack L. 1
Barr, Allen H. 1
Beard, Charles A. (Charles Austin), 1874-1948 1
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