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Student/Teacher Organization to Prevent Nuclear War Collected Records

 Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Student/Teacher Organization-Prevent Nuclear War
Abstract

The collection includes correspondence, minutes of meetings, financial records, flyers, brochures, pamphlets.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1981-

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

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

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

Walk for Peace Collected Records

 Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Walk for Peace
Dates: 1958

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

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-

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

Women Strike for Peace Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-115
Abstract

Women Strike for Peace came into existence on November 1, 1961, as a protest against atmospheric nuclear tests by the U.S. and the Soviet Union. By the late 1980s the national WSP office in Philadelphia closed, but the WSP legislative office and various WSP branches around the U.S. remained active through the 1990s.

Dates: 1961-1996

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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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