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Bradford Lyttle Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-079
Overview
Bradford Lyttle is a long time leading peace activist involved in the promotion of nonviolence for social change and the elimination of war and nuclear weapons. Lyttle was the organizer of the San Francisco to Moscow walk in the 1960-1961, to highlight the message of disarmament and nonviolent resistance and bringing together U.S. and Soviet citizens together during the height of the Cold War. He went on to organize and participate in other marches and protests, including the Quebec - ...
Dates:
1954-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Dale Malleck Collected Papers
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Malleck, Dale
Abstract
Includes printed materials, some correspondence and pamphlets, mainly information about Malleck and the Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament (1985); includes poetry and other writings about peace by Malleck. Collection includes photos and t-shirts from various marches.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1985-1994
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
David McReynolds Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-134
Abstract
David McReynolds (1929-2018), was an activist with the War Resisters League, the Socialist Party USA and the Democratic Socialists of America. He was an editor of Liberation magazine in the 1950s and a leader of the WRL from the 1950s until his retirement in 1999. McReynolds ran for Congress twice and for President of the U.S. twice, including a run in 2000. McReynolds has attempted to integrate anti-war and pacifist philosophy with Socialist economics. David McReynolds was openly gay and...
Dates:
1943-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Edwin D. Mead and Lucia Ames Mead Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-021
Overview
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Holly Metz Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Metz, Holly
Overview
Papers of a freelance writer and book author about law, culture, and social issues.
Dates:
1983-1991; Majority of material found within 1983-1985
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
A.J. Muste Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-050
Overview
A.J. Muste (1885-1967), was ordained a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, but later (1917), he became a member of the Society of Friends. During World War I, Muste's refusal to abandon his pacifist position led to his forced resignation from the Central Congregational Church in Newtonville, Massachusetts. Muste's involvement as a labor organizer began in 1919 when he led strikes in the textile mills of Lawrence, Massachusetts. He became the director of the Brookwood Labor College in...
Dates:
1920-1967
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
Overview
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
Peacemaker Movement Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Peacemaker Movement
Overview
A group working on nonviolence from the late 1940s through the 1970s, particularly as it was expressed through tax refusal.
Dates:
1948-1980
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Jeannette Rankin Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Rankin, Jeannette
Overview
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 2
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