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A Quaker Action Group Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-074
Scope and Contents
A Quaker Action Group (AQAG) records in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection include minutes, correspondence (1966-1971), memoranda, financial records, subject files (organizations), research files (topics), project files, newsletters, press releases, statements of Quaker yearly meetings in various cities, clippings, photographs and sound recordings. The files were first processed in 1974, and then again in 1980. In 2004, archival intern, Joe Clark, sorted the papers into the present...
Dates:
1965-1973
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Bella Abzug Collected Papers
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Abzug, Bella
Dates:
Majority of material found within circa 1966-1980
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Ailanthus Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Ailanthus
Abstract
The collection consists primarily of printed material; includes flyers, notes from meetings, newspaper clippings, photographs, banners, legal briefs, publicity materials, and reference files. Also includes a memoir by Robert W. Hillegass about the making of the play "Handy Dandy" by William Gibson which draws heavily on Ailanthus courtroom experience and spirituality.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1979-1992
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Alternatives to Violence Project USA Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-271
Abstract
Collection is primarily printed material; includes minutes, by-laws, flyers, manuals, newsletters.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1982-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
American Interracial Peace Committee Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American Interracial Peace Committee
Scope and Contents
Contains pamphlets and leaflets. Five items.
Dates:
1928-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
American League for Peace and Democracy Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American League for Peace and Democracy
Abstract
The American League against War and Fascism changed its name in 1937 to American League for Peace and Democracy (ALPD). It was a coalition of liberal and left-wing organizations united to oppose war and the fascist governments in Europe. It disbanded in 1940.
Dates:
1933-1939
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
American Peace Society Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-003
Abstract
In the 1820s William Ladd of the Maine Peace Society suggested that the regional US peace societies become associated in a national organization. As a result, the peace societies of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) merged in May 1828 to form the American Peace Society [APS]. The stated purpose of the American Peace Society was to "promote permanent international peace through justice; and to advance in every proper way the general use of...
Dates:
1828-1947
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 144
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- Tax protests and appeals -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
- United States 4
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Central America 4
- Women and peace -- United States 4
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- Sources 3
- Amnesty -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Antinuclear movement 3
- Antinuclear movement -- History -- Sources 3
- Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 3
- Civil rights workers -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Disarmament -- History -- Sources 3
- Disarmament -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 3
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- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 3
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- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 3
- Women and peace 3
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 3
- Anti-fascist movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Arms control -- History -- Sources 2
- Central America -- Foreign relations -- United States 2
- Civil rights -- United States 2
- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
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- College students -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
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- Disarmament 2
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- Human rights -- Latin America -- History -- Sources 2
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- Labor -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Lawyers -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 2
- Lobbying -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Mennonites -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Militarism -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Nonviolence -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 2
- Nuclear disarmament 2
- Pacifism -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Religious aspects 2
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- Language
- German 4
- French 2
- Spanish; Castilian 2
- Esperanto 1
- Italian 1
- Names
- American Friends Service Committee 17
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 17
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 15
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 13
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 12
- Lyttle, Bradford 12
- War Resisters League 12
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 9
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 9
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section 9
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 8
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 8
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 8
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 8
- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 7
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 7
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 7
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 7
- Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987 7
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 6
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 6
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 6
- Jack, Homer A. (Homer Alexander), 1916-1993 6
- Kaufman, Abraham 6
- McReynolds, David 6
- Mead, Lucia True Ames, 1856-1936 6
- Newton, Ray 6
- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 6
- Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949 6
- American Peace Society 5
- Omaha Action (Project) 5
- Pickus, Robert 5
- Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 5
- Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 1924-2006 4
- Dellinger, David T., 1915-2004 4
- DiGia, Ralph 4
- Emergency Peace Campaign (U.S.) 4
- Forbes, Rose Dabney, 1864-1947 4
- Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.) 4
- Gilmore, Robert Wallace, 1921-1988 4
- Golden Rule (Ketch) 4
- Hassler, Alfred, 1910- 4
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 4
- Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 4
- Hutchinson, Dorothy H. (Dorothy Hewitt), 1905-1984 4
- Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 4
- Lochner, Louis Paul, 1887-1975 4
- Mead, Edwin D. (Edwin Doak), 1849-1937 4
- National Council for Prevention of War (U.S.) 4
- Reynolds, Earle L. 4
- Shivers, Lynne 4
- Spock, Benjamin, 1903-1998 4
- Turn Toward Peace (Organization) 4
- Walker, Charles C. 4
- Weiss, Cora, 1934- 4
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. International Office 4
- A Quaker Action Group 3
- American League against War and Fascism 3
- Berrigan, Daniel 3
- Bigelow, Albert, 1906- 3
- Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 3
- Brockway, Fenner, 1888-1988 3
- Burritt, Elihu, 1810-1879 3
- Camp, Kay 3
- Carner, Lucy Perkins, 1886-1983 3
- Cousins, Norman 3
- Davidov, Marv 3
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 3
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 3
- Evans, Edward W. (Edward Wyatt), 1882-1976 3
- Finch, Henry Le Roy 3
- Forest, Jim (James H.) 3
- Gara, Larry 3
- Gottlieb, Edward P. 3
- Gottlieb, Sanford 3
- Gulick, Sidney Lewis, 1860-1945 3
- Hassler, Alfred, 1910-1991 3
- Hull, William I. (William Isaac), 1868-1939 3
- Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 3
- Keep America Out of War Congress 3
- Keys, Donald 3
- Lakey, George 3
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 3
- Lens, Sidney 3
- Levering, Robert, 1944- 3
- Meacham, Stewart 3
- National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (U.S.) 3
- New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam 3
- Page, Kirby, 1890-1957 3
- Peck, Sidney M. (Sidney Morris), 1926- 3
- People's Council of America for Democracy and Peace 3
- Randall, Mercedes M. (Mercedes Moritz), 1895-1977 3
- Rankin, Jeannette, 1880-1973 3
- Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) 3
- Roodenko, Igal 3
- San Francisco to Moscow Walk for Peace 3
- Socialist Party (U.S.) 3
- Swann, Marjorie 3
- Trueblood, Benjamin Franklin, 1847-1916 3
- Vietnam Summer (Organization) 3 + ∧ less
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