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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
Pacem in Terris Institute Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Pacem in Terris Institute
Dates:
1966-1968
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Peace Action Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-151
Abstract
The Peace Action collection is a continuation of the SANE and SANE Education Fund (DG 58) collection, which also resides at the SCPC (the papers of the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign are at the University of Missouri at St. Louis). It documents the merger of SANE and the NWFC, as well as the goals and work of the merged organization, through meeting minutes, correspondence, program files, press clippings and other publicity, statements and communications with Congress and other leaders, as...
Dates:
1986-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Peace Association of Friends in America Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-027
Abstract
The Peace Association of Friends in America was organized in 1867 by Orthodox Friends in the New York, Baltimore, North Carolina, Ohio, Indiana, Western and Iowa Yearly Meetings in reaction to the Civil War, with its mission being to convince Friends and others that war was unchristian, inhumane and unnecessary.
Dates:
1868-1944
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Peace Now Movement Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Peace Now Movement
Dates:
1941-1949; Majority of material found within 1943-1945
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Peacemaker Movement Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Peacemaker Movement
Abstract
A group working on nonviolence from the late 1940s through the 1970s, particularly as it was expressed through tax refusal.
Dates:
1948-1980
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Pennsylvania Committee for Total Disarmament Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-030
Abstract
The Pennsylvania Committee for Total Disarmament was active from 1930 to 1936, chiefly in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Through public opinion and personal contacts, PCTD supporters pressured Congress to support total disarmament, including passage of the Frazier Amendment outlawing war. Other objectives of the Committee included a Congressional investigation of the munitions industry, opposition to all preparations and training for war (including ROTC), and support for...
Dates:
1930-1938
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
People's Coalition for Peace and Justice Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-084
Abstract
The People's Coalition for Peace and Justice included various peace, anti-poverty, and labor groups. These groups worked together to confront the related issues of war in Southeast Asia and racism, sexism, poverty, and repression in the United States. The People's Coalition for Peace and Justice was founded in 1970 as National Coalition Against War, Racism, and Repression and organized several specific campaigns including People's Peace Treaty, Citizen's Action Pledge, and Nixon Eviction...
Dates:
1970-1974
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
People's Council of America for Democracy and Peace Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-PCADP
Abstract
The People's Council of America for Democracy and Peace grew out of the First American Conference for Democracy and Terms of Peace, held in New York, May 1917. It was organized to work for an early and liberal peace at the end of the World War. It favored world organizations, and disapproved of conscription. Officers were Louis Lochner, Emily Greene Balch, Rebecca Shelley, Scott Nearing, David Starr Jordan, Crystal Eastman, Eugene Debs, John Haynes Holmes, Henry W.L. Dana, Max Eastman, and...
Dates:
1917-1919
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Peoples Mandate Committee Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-109
Abstract
Peoples Mandate to Governments to End War was an international campaign begun on September 6, 1935, by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom to express such overwhelming opposition to war that governments would not dare resort to it as a means of solving disputes between nations. By the end of the decade the Peoples Mandate became an independent organization, headed by Mabel Vernon, and focused on peace and connections between women and women's organizations in the...
Dates:
1935-1975; Majority of material found within 1935-1956
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 37
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- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 8
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- Peace movements -- History -- Sources 8
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- Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 5
- Nuclear disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
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- Peace -- Societies, etc. 5
- Youth and peace -- History -- Sources 5
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 4
- Peace -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 4
- Peace movements 4
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- Tax protests and appeals -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
- United States 4
- World War, 1914-1918 -- United States -- Sources 4
- World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Sources 4
- Amnesty -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Central America -- Politics and government -- 1979- -- Sources 3
- Civil rights workers -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
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- Disarmament -- History -- Sources 3
- Disarmament -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 3
- Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
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- Peace walks and marches 3
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- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 3
- Women and peace -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- Sources 2
- Anti-fascist movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Antinuclear movement 2
- Antinuclear movement -- History -- Sources 2
- Arms control -- History -- Sources 2
- Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 2
- College students -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Human rights -- Central America -- History -- Sources 2
- Internationalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Latin America -- Politics and government -- 1980- -- Sources 2
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- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 2
- Soldiers -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Student movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Students -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Suffragists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- United States -- Armed Forces -- Political activity -- History -- Sources 2
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Central America 2
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- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Draft resisters -- Sources 2
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Draft resisters -- United States -- Sources 2
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Peace -- Sources 2
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Protest movements -- Sources 2
- Abolitionists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Afghan War, 2001- -- Protest movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- African American churches -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources 1
- African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- Aiken 1
- African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- History -- 19th century 1
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- Aiken (S.C.) -- Social conditions -- History -- 19th century 1
- Antinuclear movement -- Delaware -- History -- Sources 1
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- Antinuclear movement -- New Jersey -- Princeton -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
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- German 3
- French 2
- Spanish; Castilian 2
- Esperanto 1
- Italian 1
- Names
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 14
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 13
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 12
- American Friends Service Committee 10
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 10
- Lyttle, Bradford 9
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 8
- War Resisters League 8
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section 8
- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 7
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 7
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 7
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 6
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 6
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 6
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 6
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 6
- Newton, Ray 6
- Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949 6
- Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987 6
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 5
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 5
- McReynolds, David 5
- Mead, Lucia True Ames, 1856-1936 5
- Pickus, Robert 5
- Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 5
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 5
- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 5
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 5
- American Peace Society 4
- Dellinger, David T., 1915-2004 4
- DiGia, Ralph 4
- Emergency Peace Campaign (U.S.) 4
- Forbes, Rose Dabney, 1864-1947 4
- Gilmore, Robert Wallace, 1921-1988 4
- Hassler, Alfred, 1910- 4
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 4
- Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 4
- Jack, Homer A. (Homer Alexander), 1916-1993 4
- Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 4
- Kaufman, Abraham 4
- Lochner, Louis Paul, 1887-1975 4
- Omaha Action (Project) 4
- Turn Toward Peace (Organization) 4
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. International Office 4
- American League against War and Fascism 3
- Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 3
- Brockway, Fenner, 1888-1988 3
- Burritt, Elihu, 1810-1879 3
- Camp, Kay 3
- Carner, Lucy Perkins, 1886-1983 3
- Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 1924-2006 3
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 3
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 3
- Evans, Edward W. (Edward Wyatt), 1882-1976 3
- Forest, Jim (James H.) 3
- Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.) 3
- Gara, Larry 3
- Golden Rule (Ketch) 3
- Gottlieb, Edward P. 3
- Gulick, Sidney Lewis, 1860-1945 3
- Hassler, Alfred, 1910-1991 3
- Hull, William I. (William Isaac), 1868-1939 3
- Hutchinson, Dorothy H. (Dorothy Hewitt), 1905-1984 3
- Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 3
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 3
- Lens, Sidney 3
- Meacham, Stewart 3
- Mead, Edwin D. (Edwin Doak), 1849-1937 3
- National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (U.S.) 3
- National Council for Prevention of War (U.S.) 3
- Page, Kirby, 1890-1957 3
- Peck, Sidney M. (Sidney Morris), 1926- 3
- People's Council of America for Democracy and Peace 3
- Randall, Mercedes M. (Mercedes Moritz), 1895-1977 3
- Reynolds, Earle L. 3
- Roodenko, Igal 3
- Spock, Benjamin, 1903-1998 3
- Swann, Marjorie 3
- Trueblood, Benjamin Franklin, 1847-1916 3
- Walker, Charles C. 3
- World Without War Council 3
- Altbach, Philip G. 2
- American League for Peace and Democracy 2
- Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) 2
- April Action (Organization) 2
- Ballantyne, Edith 2
- Beaver, Gilbert A., -1952 2
- Berg, Lloyd A. 2
- Berrigan, Daniel 2
- Bigelow, Albert, 1906- 2
- Blake, Katherine Devereux, 1858-1950 2
- Brainerd, Heloise, 1881-1969 2
- Brickner, Balfour, 1926-2005 2
- Brown, H. Runham (Herbert Runham), 1879-1949 2
- Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 2
- Call, Arthur Deerin, 1869-1941 2
- Chalmers, Ruth 2
- Christian Arbitration and Peace Society 2
- Clergy and Laity Concerned (U.S.) 2 + ∧ less
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