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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

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

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

Charlotte Citizens for Peace Records

 Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Charlotte Citizens for Peace
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, administrative files, financial records, flyers, newspaper clippings, reference files. Correspondents include Esther S. Frankel and Abraham Kaufman.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1982-1996

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

Civil Defense Protest Committee Collected Records

 Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Civil Defense Protest Committee
Abstract

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

Coalition for Peace Action Collected Records

 Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Coalition for Peace Action
Abstract

Collection includes printouts from emails, and publicity materials.

Dates: Majority of material found within 2005-

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

James W. and Shelley Douglass Collected Papers

 Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Douglass, James and Shelley
Abstract

Collection is primarily printed materials, including pamphlets, reprints, photocopies of interviews with and letters to various correspondents, including Ramsey Clark, Glenda Grabow, Pope John Paul II, and Cardinal Roger Etchegaray.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1990-

Francoise W. Douwes Collected Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Douwes, Francoise Wilhelmina
Abstract

Douwes was a member of the Philadelphia branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1985-2005

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Swarthmore College Peace Collection 58
Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College 1
 
Subject
Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 38
Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 38
Antinuclear movement -- United States 13
Peace movements -- United States 13
Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 8
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Nuclear arms control -- United States 6
Nuclear disarmament -- History -- Sources 6
Nuclear disarmament -- United States 6
Nuclear disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 6
Nuclear nonproliferation -- United States 6
Peace walks and marches -- History -- Sources 5
Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 5
Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
Nuclear facilities -- Environmental aspects -- United States 4
Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 4
Antinuclear movement 3
Antinuclear movement -- History -- Sources 3
Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 3
Peace movements 3
Peace movements -- History -- Sources 3
War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
Women and peace 3
Women and peace -- History -- Sources 3
Amnesty -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Arms control -- History -- Sources 2
Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Civil rights workers -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Disarmament -- History -- Sources 2
Disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Lobbying -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Nuclear disarmament 2
Peace -- Societies, etc. 2
Peace -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 2
Political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Tax protests and appeals -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
United States 2
War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 2
Women and peace -- United States 2
Women and peace -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Women political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
African American churches -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources 1
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- Sources 1
African Americans -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources 1
Antinuclear movement -- Delaware -- History -- Sources 1
Antinuclear movement -- Florida -- Lee County -- History -- Sources 1
Antinuclear movement -- Florida -- Port Charlotte -- History -- Sources 1
Antinuclear movement -- Germany (West) -- History -- Sources 1
Antinuclear movement -- Massachusetts -- History -- Sources 1
Antinuclear movement -- Merrimack River Valley (N.H. and Mass.) 1
Antinuclear movement -- New Jersey -- Princeton -- History -- Sources 1
Antinuclear movement -- North Carolina -- Greenville -- History -- Sources 1
Antinuclear movement -- Pennsylvania -- Harrisburg -- History -- Sources 1
Antinuclear movement -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
Antinuclear movement -- Pennsylvania -- Main Line -- History -- Sources 1
Antinuclear movement -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
Antinuclear movement -- United States -- Directories 1
Antinuclear movement -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- Sources 1
Arms control -- Economic aspects -- United States 1
Arms control -- United States 1
Arms control -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Arms race -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Arms race -- United States -- Economic policy -- Sources 1
Atomic bomb -- Testing -- History -- Sources 1
Ballistic missiles -- United States 1
Biological warfare -- History -- Sources 1
Chemical warfare -- History -- Sources 1
Children and peace 1
Civil defense -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- Sources 1
Civil disobedience -- Nebraska 1
Civil disobedience -- United States 1
Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Civil rights -- United States 1
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Conspiracies -- United States 1
Demonstrations -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- Sources 1
Direct action -- History -- Sources 1
Direct action -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Disarmament 1
Disarmament -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Disarmament -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
Eniwetok Proving Grounds (Marshall Islands) -- History -- Sources 1
Environmental health 1
Environmental justice -- Social aspects -- History -- Sources 1
Environmental protection -- Social aspects -- History -- Sources 1
Environmental responsibility -- Social aspects -- History -- Sources 1
Environmentalism -- Social aspects -- History -- Sources 1
Food relief -- United States 1
Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) -- History -- Sources 1
German Americans -- History -- Sources 1
Government spending policy -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Grassroots Peace Directory -- History -- Sources 1
Harrisburg (Pa.) -- History -- Sources 1
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 1
Human ecology -- Social aspects -- History -- Sources 1
Human rights -- History -- Sources 1
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Names
Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 6
American Friends Service Committee 5
Lyttle, Bradford 5
Omaha Action (Project) 5
Committee for Nonviolent Action 4
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Golden Rule (Ketch) 4
Jack, Homer A. (Homer Alexander), 1916-1993 4
Cousins, Norman 3
Reynolds, Earle L. 3
Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 3
San Francisco to Moscow Walk for Peace 3
Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 3
Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 3
Willoughby, George, pacifist 3
Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) 2
Berg, Lloyd A. 2
Bigelow, Albert, 1906- 2
Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 1924-2006 2
Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 2
DiGia, Ralph 2
Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 2
Frank, Morton 2
Fromm, Erich, 1900-1980 2
Gottlieb, Sanford 2
Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament (Organization) 2
Keys, Donald 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
Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign 2
Olson, Theodore, 1932-2020 2
Peace Action (Organization) 2
Québec-Washington-Guantánamo Walk for Peace 2
SANE/FREEZE (Organization) 2
Swann, Marjorie 2
Swann, Robert S. 2
Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) 2
Walk for Peace (Project) 2
Women Strike for Peace 2
A Quaker Action Group 1
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
Baez, Joan 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
Charlotte Citizens for Peace (Port Charlotte, Fla.) 1
Chavez, Daniel 1
Chicago Area Faculty for a Freeze on the Nuclear Arms Race 1
Chicago Council Against Racial and Religious Discrimination 1
Christofferson, Bill 1
Citizens Against Nuclear War (U.S.) 1
Civil Defense Protest Committee (New York, N.Y.) 1
Civilian Public Service 1
Clark, Diane K. 1
Clark, Gordon 1
Clark, Joseph S. 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
Committee for a Quaker Peace Witness 1
Committee of Correspondence (New York, N.Y. : 1960-1962) 1
Committee of Liaison with Families of Servicemen Detained in North Vietnam 1
Community Peace Squad (New York, N.Y.) 1
Computer-Based Peace Information Project 1
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