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Marjorie Swann and Robert Swann Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-264
Abstract
The Swanns were Quaker peace activitists who were particularly well known for their part in nonviolent direct action against nuclear weapons testing and deployment in the 1950s-1960s.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1949-1972
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Swarthmore Students for Disarmament Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Swarthmore Students for Disarmament
Dates:
1957-1962
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Topsfield Foundation Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-256
Abstract
The Topsfield Foundation was founded by Paul J.Aicher in 1982. Aicher, a former engineer later turned philanthropist created a Foundation to aid grassroots citizens' groups in working against nuclear proliferation. In 1984 the Foundation began publishing the state-by-state Grassroots Peace Directories to provide networking information for these organizations and the larger peace movement. In the mid-1980s Aicher created two additional projects: ACCESS, a security information service based in...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1983-1997
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Unitarian Universalist Peace Network Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-159
Abstract
Established in 1984 to strengthen peace work among Unitarian Universalists and interfaith communities, the goup was especially concerned with the international arms race and nuclear proliferation. Directors included Stephen M. Shick, Carol Powers, Stephanie Nichols. The headquarters were in Philadelphia, Pa. and sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Association. Unitarian Universalist Peace Fellowship, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, Unitarian Universalist United Nations Office,...
Dates:
1983-1991
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
United States Comprehensive Test Ban Coalition Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-178
Abstract
This organization was founded in March, 1988 as the U.S. Coalition of the International Comprehensive Test Ban Campaign. It was formed as a coalition of peace groups to raise public awareness of nuclear testing issues, and to call on governments to initiate testing moratoria and to undertake negotiations for a comprehensive test ban. Carolyn Cottom was its first Chair. The group changed name its name in 1989 to the United States Comprehensive Test Ban Coalition.
Dates:
1986-1996
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Walk for Peace Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Walk for Peace
Dates:
1958
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Washington Peace Center Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-252
Abstract
The Washington Peace Center was formed in 1963 upon the dissolution of the Peace Action Center of Washington, D.C. The organization seeks to educate the public on peace issues through youth programs, conscientious objector/draft counseling, film screenings, speakers, workshops on peace topics, discussions, and the publication of a newsletter. Its mission statement as of 2013 includes : "The Washington Peace Center is an anti-racist, grassroots, multi-issue organization working for peace,...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1960-2013
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Cora Weiss Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-222
Abstract
Cora Weiss is a peace and social justice leader and activist. She is a supporter of the United Nations, an early member of Women Strike for Peace, a leader in the anti-Vietnam war movement in the United States. In the 1970s Weiss was the director of the Riverside Church (New York, NY) Disarmament Program. Weiss was also active with SANE, SANE/Freeze, Peace Action, and The Hague Appeal for Peace. Weiss became president of the International Peace Bureau in 2000. She has always been active in...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1960-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
George Willoughby and Lillian Willoughby Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-236
Abstract
George Willoughby (December 9, 1914 - January 5, 2010) and Lillian Willoughby (c. 1916 - January 15, 2009) were Quaker activists who took part in nonviolent protests against war, conducted nonviolence trainings in India and other countries, and advocated for preservation of land in New Jersey and elsewhere.
Dates:
1931-2010
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Alice Wiser Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-203
Abstract
Alice Wiser was a Quaker and had trained as a social worker and psychological counselor. She dedicated the last ten to fifteen years of her life to both peace and women's rights. Wiser was instrumental in organizing the peace tent for the second United Nations Conference on Women held in Nairobi, Kenya in 1985. After the conference Wiser continued to organize around these issues, traveling around the world to interview women and talk about peace. Wiser died from breast cancer in 1995.
Dates:
1976-1991
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 67
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- Antinuclear movement -- Great Britain 3
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- Peace -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 2
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- Arms control -- United States 1
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- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 8
- American Friends Service Committee 7
- Golden Rule (Ketch) 6
- Jack, Homer A. (Homer Alexander), 1916-1993 5
- Lyttle, Bradford 5
- Omaha Action (Project) 5
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 5
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 4
- Cousins, Norman 4
- Reynolds, Earle L. 4
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 4
- Bigelow, Albert, 1906- 3
- Gottlieb, Sanford 3
- Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament (Organization) 3
- Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp 3
- Keys, Donald 3
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization) 3
- San Francisco to Moscow Walk for Peace 3
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 3
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 3
- Women Strike for Peace 3
- Affeldt, Allan 2
- Aldridge, Robert C. 2
- American Peace Test (Organization) 2
- Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) 2
- Berg, Lloyd A. 2
- Chavez, Daniel 2
- Chicago Area Faculty for a Freeze on the Nuclear Arms Race 2
- Civilian Public Service 2
- Clark, Joseph S. 2
- Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 1924-2006 2
- Cortright, David, 1946- 2
- Cottom, Carolyn 2
- Day, Dorothy, 1897-1980 2
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 2
- DiGia, Ralph 2
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 2
- Folsom, Franklin, 1907-1995 2
- Frank, Morton 2
- Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.) 2
- Fromm, Erich, 1900-1980 2
- Huntington, William R. 2
- Illinois Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign 2
- Melman, Seymour 2
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 2
- National Campaign to Stop the MX (U.S.) 2
- National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (U.S.) 2
- Nebraska Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign 2
- New England Committee for Nonviolent Action 2
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization). Nevada Project 2
- Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign 2
- Olson, Theodore, 1932-2020 2
- PRO-Peace (Organization) 2
- Paschkis, V. (Victor) 2
- Peace Action (Organization) 2
- Prayer and Conscience Vigil, Washington, D.C., 1957 2
- Québec-Washington-Guantánamo Walk for Peace 2
- Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) 2
- SANE/FREEZE (Organization) 2
- Snyder, Edward F. 2
- Spock, Benjamin, 1903-1998 2
- Swann, Marjorie 2
- Swann, Robert S. 2
- United Nations 2
- Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) 2
- Walk for Peace (Project) 2
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section 2
- A Quaker Action Group 1
- Abington Coalition for a Nuclear Arms Freeze (Pennsylvania) 1
- Abolition 2000 1
- Access (Organization : Washington, D.C.) 1
- Accra Assembly (Organization) 1
- Aftel, Jacob 1
- Aicher, Paul J. 1
- Alabama Freeze Coalition 1
- Alabama Nuclear Freeze Campaign 1
- Allen, Steve, 1921-2000 1
- Alternatives to Violence Project 1
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers 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
- Baez, Joan 1
- Ballantyne, Edith 1
- Beer, John Joseph, 1927- 1
- Ben-Levi, Cass 1
- Benton, Marjorie Craig 1
- Bergen County Freeze Campaign (New Jersey) 1
- Berman, Aline 1
- Berrigan, Daniel 1
- Beyond Nuclear (Organization) 1
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