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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
Dorothy Detzer Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-086
Abstract
Dorothy Detzer was a peace activist, writer, and lobbyist. She served as the National Executive Secretary of the U.S. Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1924-1946.. Detzer influenced a Congressional investigation of the munitions industry, 1934-1936, and later wrote the book Appointment on the Hill, 1948, describing her two decades in Washington, D.C.
Dates:
1913-1981
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Dorothy H. Hutchinson Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-125
Abstract
Dorothy Hewitt Hutchinson (l905-l984) began to gain influence in the peace movement when her pamphlet A Call to Peace Now was printed by the Friends in l943. That summer, Hutchinson and a small group of people started the Peace Now Movement, using her pamphlet to rally support for the principle of a negotiated settlement rather than unconditional surrender of the Axis powers. This group included George W. Hartmann, a psychology professor at Columbia, and John Collett. Hutchinson also worked...
Dates:
1942-1980
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
Women's Committee to Oppose Conscription Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-068
Overview
This group was originally named the Committee to Oppose the Conscription of Women [WCOC], and then the National Committee to Oppose the Conscription of Women. It was formed in 1942 to protest the Austin-Wadsworth legislative bills and similar measures, which proposed that American women be drated into a civilian workforce for the duration of World War II. When the immediate threat of drafting women had passed, the group changed its name again, this time to the Women's Committee to Oppose...
Dates:
1942-1948
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 4
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- Hutchinson, Dorothy H. (Dorothy Hewitt), 1905-1984 2
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 2
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 2
- Scudder, Vida Dutton, 1861-1954 2
- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 2
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- Camp, Kay 1
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- Cary, Stephen G. 1
- Catchpool, Corder, 1883-1952 1
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 1
- Ceresole, Pierre, 1879-1945 1
- Chalmers, Frances K. (Frances Kinghorn) 1
- Chalmers, Ruth 1
- Chase, E. Dixwell 1
- Cleghorn, Sarah Norcliffe, 1876-1959 1
- Collett, John A. (John Albert), 1911- 1
- Committee to Oppose the Conscription of Women 1
- Cookson, Sybil, 1890- 1
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- Courtney, Kathleen, Dame, 1878-1974 1
- Cranston, Maurice, 1920-1993 1
- Curti, Merle (Merle Eugene), 1897-1996 1
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- Dewey, John, 1859-1952 1
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- Engelbrecht, H. C. (Helmuth Carol), 1895-1939 1
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 1
- Fey, Harold E. (Harold Edward), 1898-1990 1
- Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 1
- Florence, Lella Secor, 1887-1966 1
- Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-1965 1
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- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 1
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- Garvey, Marcus, 1887-1940 1
- Gjermoe, Johanne Ruetz 1
- Gordon, Mitchell 1
- Grant, Donald, 1889- 1
- Gray, Philip, 1906- 1
- Gregg, Richard Bartlett, 1885- 1
- Gulick, Sidney L. (Sidney Lewis), 1902-1988 1
- Harkness, Georgia Elma, 1891-1974 1
- Harris, Paul, b. 1897 1
- Hartmann, George W. (George Wilfried), 1904-1955 1
- Hasegawa, Marii 1
- Hassler, Alfred, 1910- 1
- Hayes, Dorothy M. 1
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- Holmes, Margaret 1
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- Inman, Samuel Guy, 1877-1965 1
- Isono, Fujiko, 1918- 1
- Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 1
- Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 1
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