Collections | Archives & Manuscripts

Letters of Nonviolence Project Records

Collection — othertype: CDG-A

Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Letters of Nonviolence Project

Abstract

Includes correspondence (2002-2004) to and from Daniel Berrigan, Kathy Boylan, Mary Dean, Joyce Ellwanger, Lisa Hughes, Carol Gilbert, Elizabeth McAlister, Ardeth Platte, Byron Plumley, and Michael Wisniewski.

Dates: Majority of material found within 2002-2004

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Robert Levering Papers

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-080

Abstract

Robert E. Levering is a pacifist and Quaker. He has been the co-author of Fortune magazine's annual list of the "100 Best Companies to Work For," and a speaker on workplace trends and management strategies aimed at improving workplace productivity. Levering is a graduate of Swarthmore College and the Martin Luther King Jr. School of Social Change.

Dates: 1967-1972

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Liberation News Service Collected Records

Collection — othertype: CDG-A

Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Liberation News Service

Scope and Contents

Collection includes printed correspondence, flyers.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1967-1975

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Belva Ann Lockwood Papers

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-098

Abstract Belva Ann McNall Lockwood (1830-1917), was the first woman attorney to practice before the Supreme Court. She personally lobbied members of Congress to pass a special act admitting women to the bar of the Court, and first practiced before the Court in 1879. Lockwood ran for the U.S. presidency in 1884 and 1888, being the first woman to have a complete, national campaign for that office. From the 1870s onward Lockwood was active with the radical peace group, the Universal Peace Union,...

Dates: 1878-1917, 1984, 1986, 1992

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Los Angeles Committee to Postpone Action on Peacetime Conscription Collected Records

Collection — othertype: CDG-A

Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Los Angeles Committee to Postpone Action-Peacetime Conscription

Dates: 1945

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Milton Lowenthal Papers

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-191

Abstract

Milton Lowenthal was an activist involved in peace and antinuclear movements in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, specifically those related to Three Mile Island and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He was a sponsor of Japanese antinuclear artist Kazuaki Kita. This collection includes correspondence, financial records, manuscripts, minutes of meetings, newspaper clippings, reference files, and other memorabilia.

Dates: 1962-1994

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Lutheran Peace Fellowship Records

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-171

Abstract Lutheran Peace Fellowship began its institutional life as three separate Lutheran peace groups in the late 1930s and early 1940. In 1974, John Backe, pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in New York City, became coordinator of the Lutheran Peace Fellowship, bringing it out of a relatively dormant period. Throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s, the Lutheran Peace Fellowship published newsletters, enabled discussions, and organized meetings around the themes of the spirituality of non-violence,...

Dates: Majority of material found within 1934-1991

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Bradford Lyttle Papers

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-079

Abstract Bradford [Brad] 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