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Another Mother for Peace Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-102
Abstract
Another Mother for Peace was a women's peace group born from the antipathy to the war in Vietnam, based in Los Angeles, California. The stated purpose of this non-partison, non-profit organization was "to educate women to take an active role in eliminating war as a means of solving disputes between nations, people and ideologies." AMP closed its offices in January 1986.
Dates:
1964-1978
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
John Beer Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Beer, John
Scope and Contents
Collection includes correspondence and notes about Beer's work for peace and social justice including: a typescript account of conscientious objector David Emerson's hearing in 1954 in Danville, Illinois; peace involvements in Delaware, 1960s-1980s, including opposition to the Vietnam War and to nuclear weapons; accounts of Western Quarterly Friends (Quakers) visits to the Pentagon to protest the arms race, 1979-1981, including correspondence with Brig. General Richard T. Boverie; opposition...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1954-1985
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Kay Camp Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-169
Abstract
Katherine Lindsley Camp was born in 1918 [1919?], Mt. Kisco New York. She was a graduate of Swarthmore College (Class of 1940). Camp was elected president of the U.S. Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1967, and served as international president, 1974-1980. In addition Camp was founder of the Citizens Bi-Racial Study Group; former president of the Pennsylvania Women's Political Caucus; made unsuccessful bid for Congress in 1972 on the Democratic ticket in...
Dates:
1955-2006
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Citizens Against Nuclear War Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-245
Abstract
Citizens Against Nuclear War was a coalition of 61 national organizations formed in 1982 as an initiative of the National Education Association. It had the goal of educating citizens about efforts to prevent nuclear war. Organizations which belonged to CAN encouraged their individual members to become informed about issues related to nuclear war. Among the members were professional associations, religious communities, women's and minority organizations, and labor unions. Programs included...
Dates:
1982-2012
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Civil Defense Protest Committee Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Civil Defense Protest Committee
Scope and Contents
Collection includes meeting minutes, correspondence, legal documents, pamphlets, publicity materials, and newspaper clippings; the bulk of the collection is from 1955.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1955-1962
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Coalition for Peace Action Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Coalition for Peace Action
Scope and Contents
Collection includes printouts from emails, and publicity materials.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 2004 - 2005
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Committee for Nonviolent Action Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-017
Abstract
CNVA was one of the first American peace groups to focus on nonviolentdirect action including civil disobedience. Its purpose of organizing imaginative and dramatic protest demonstrations on both land and sea attracted radical pacifists and called the attention of the American public to the atrocities of nuclear warfare. CNVA's first protest action was a vigil held outside the atomic weapons test grounds in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1957. In the second half of its existence CNVA efforts began to...
Dates:
1958-1968
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Francoise W. Douwes Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Douwes, Francoise Wilhelmina
Scope and Contents
This collection of papers is primarily about Douwes' activism with WILPF and other organizations.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1985-2005
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Libby Frank and Morton Frank Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-247
Abstract
The papers of a married couple, both of whom have worked for peace and justice organizations throughout the second half of the twentieth century and into the first decades of the twenty-first century. Libby Frank served as the executive director of the U.S. Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom from 1981-1986.
Dates:
1966-2012
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Freeze Campaigns Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Freeze Campaigns
Abstract
Collection includes brochures and flyers, printed correspondence, and pamphlets about the nuclear freeze movement.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1980-1988
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 37
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- Women and peace -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
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- My weekly reader 1
- Nonviolence -- Religious aspects -- Lutheran Church -- History -- Sources 1
- Nuclear arms control -- History -- Sources 1
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- Nuclear warfare -- Religious aspects -- Lutheran Church -- History -- Sources 1
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- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 6
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 4
- Lyttle, Bradford 4
- Omaha Action (Project) 4
- American Friends Service Committee 3
- Golden Rule (Ketch) 3
- Jack, Homer A. (Homer Alexander), 1916-1993 3
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 3
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 3
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 3
- Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) 2
- Berg, Lloyd A. 2
- Bigelow, Albert, 1906- 2
- Cousins, Norman 2
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 2
- DiGia, Ralph 2
- Frank, Morton 2
- Fromm, Erich, 1900-1980 2
- Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament (Organization) 2
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 2
- National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (U.S.) 2
- New England Committee for Nonviolent Action 2
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization) 2
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization). Nevada Project 2
- Olson, Theodore, 1932-2020 2
- Québec-Washington-Guantánamo Walk for Peace 2
- Reynolds, Earle L. 2
- San Francisco to Moscow Walk for Peace 2
- Swann, Marjorie 2
- Swann, Robert S. 2
- Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) 2
- Walk for Peace (Project) 2
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 2
- Abington Coalition for a Nuclear Arms Freeze (Pennsylvania) 1
- Access (Organization : Washington, D.C.) 1
- Accra Assembly (Organization) 1
- Affeldt, Allan 1
- Aicher, Paul J. 1
- Alabama Freeze Coalition 1
- Alabama Nuclear Freeze Campaign 1
- Alternatives to Violence Project 1
- Ames Bilateral Freeze Campaign (Iowa) 1
- Annual Training Institute in Non-Violence, Grindstone Island (Portland, Ontario, Canada) 1
- Another Mother for Peace (Association) 1
- Anthony, Robert L. 1
- April Action (Organization) 1
- Apsey, Lawrence S. 1
- Aptheker, Herbert, 1915-2003 1
- Ashly, Coleen 1
- Avedon, Barbara 1
- Axelrod, Beverly 1
- Backe, John 1
- Ballantyne, Edith 1
- Beer, John Joseph, 1927- 1
- Bergen County Freeze Campaign (New Jersey) 1
- Berman, Aline 1
- Berrigan, Daniel 1
- Beyond Nuclear (Organization) 1
- Birchard, Bruce 1
- Blass, Dorothy 1
- Block, Bonnie 1
- Boylan, Kathy Shields 1
- Brown, George Edward, 1920-1999 1
- Caldwell, Samuel D. 1
- Californians for a Bilateral Nuclear Weapons Freeze 1
- Camp, Kay 1
- Carner, Lucy Perkins, 1886-1983 1
- Carter, Nick (Minister) 1
- Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors 1
- Chavez, Daniel 1
- Chicago Area Faculty for a Freeze on the Nuclear Arms Race 1
- Chicago Council Against Racial and Religious Discrimination 1
- Citizens Against Nuclear War (U.S.) 1
- Civil Defense Protest Committee (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Clark, Diane K. 1
- Clark, Gordon 1
- Clarke, Mary S., 1916- 1
- Clergy and Laity Concerned (U.S.) 1
- Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament (Princeton, N.J.) 1
- Coalition for Peace Action (Princeton, N.J.) 1
- Coalition to Reverse the Nuclear Arms Race (Princeton, N.J.) 1
- Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 1924-2006 1
- Committee for a Quaker Peace Witness 1
- Community Peace Squad (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Computer-Based Peace Information Project 1
- Congress of Racial Equality 1
- Connecticut Freeze Campaign for a US-USSR Nuclear Arms Freeze 1
- Conroy, Evan 1
- Cook, Cara 1
- Corson, Helen H. 1
- Cortright, David, 1946- 1
- Cottom, Carolyn 1
- Council for a Nuclear Weapons Freeze (Cambridge, Mass.) 1
- Cranston, Alan, 1914-2000 1
- Davidov, Marv 1
- Day, Dorothy, 1897-1980 1
- Dean, Mary 1
- Deccy, Peter 1
- Delaware County Campaign for a Nuclear Weapons Freeze (Pennsylvania) 1
- Douwes, Francoise W. (Francoise Wilhelmina), 1923- 1 + ∧ less
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