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Lawrence Scott Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-090
Abstract
Lawrence Scott was a construction engineer, Baptist clergyman, and Quaker activist. He worked as an activist against the testing of nuclear weapons and biological weapons research. He was the supervisor for the Friends Mississippi Project, project director of the Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick in Maryland, executive secretary of the Peace Action Center and a founder of A Quaker Action Group.
Dates:
1955-1965
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-244
Abstract
September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows was born when a small group of family members of those killed on September 11, 2001 in New York, New York, Washington, DC, and Pennsylvania connected after reading each others' pleas for nonviolent and reasoned responses to the terrorist attacks. The group was launched as a project of the Fellowship of Reconciliation - USA in February 2002. The goals of the group include promoting dialogue on alternatives to war and calling attention to threats...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 2001-2011
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Kevin J. Shay Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Shay, Kevin
Abstract
Kevin J. Shay is a journalist, author, photographer, activist, and marcher for peace and justice.
Dates:
1983-2000
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Lynne Shivers Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-263
Abstract
Enid Lynne Shivers was a peace activist and prominent member of Movement for a New Society, for which she organized and wrote informational materials. This collection of her personal materials is primarily composed of journals dating from the 1960s until 2014 and materials from time she spent doing peace work in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1941-2015
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Edward F. Snyder Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-241
Abstract
Edward Furnas Snyder is a Quaker lobbyist for peace, civil rights, and economic justice. He joined staff of Friends Committee on National Legislation in 1955 and retired in 1990 as Executive Secretary of the FCNL Snyder argued against legislation for a U.S. military draft and excessive military spending; worked for cultural and scientific exchanges between Soviet and U.S. citizens to lessen tensions of the Cold War. Edward and Dorothy Snyder have long been tax resisters arguing that the...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1950-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Benjamin Spock Collected Papers
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Spock, Benjamin
Abstract
Collection consists of photocopied material released under the Freedom of Information Act for the years 1964-1972, with the bulk of the material from 1968. Includes informants' reports, transcripts of personal conversations, writings by and about Spock, and transcripts of Spock's media appearances.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1964-1972
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Student Peace Union Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-065
Abstract
The Student Peace Union was founded at the University of Chicago in 1959. It was an intercollegiate student group whose members believed that neither war nor the threat of war could any longer be successfully used to settle international disputes.
Dates:
1959-1967
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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
Édouard Theis Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-France-Theis, Edouard
Abstract
Édouard Theis was a missionary and teacher in Madagascar and the Cameroons, before joining the theology faculty at the University of Paris. As a pacifist and conscientious objector to war Theis resisted Nazi violence and racism during World War II. Along with André and Magda Trocmé, Theis and his wife, Mildred, co-founded the Collège Cévenol in 1938. Theis taught French, German, and Greek, and his wife taught there as well. Theis also served as the college's first [second?] director until...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1947-1965
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 144
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- Nuclear disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 8
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- Peace walks and marches -- History -- Sources 8
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 7
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 7
- Central America -- Politics and government -- 1979- -- Sources 6
- Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 6
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 6
- Disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 6
- Nuclear arms control -- United States 6
- Nuclear disarmament -- History -- Sources 6
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- Nuclear nonproliferation -- United States 6
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 6
- Peace movements 6
- Women and peace -- United States -- History -- Sources 6
- Youth and peace -- History -- Sources 6
- Peace -- Congresses -- History -- Sources 5
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 5
- World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Sources 5
- Direct action -- History -- Sources 4
- Nuclear facilities -- Environmental aspects -- United States 4
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- Student movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
- Students -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 4
- Suffragists -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
- Tax protests and appeals -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
- United States 4
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Central America 4
- Women and peace -- United States 4
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- Sources 3
- Amnesty -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Antinuclear movement 3
- Antinuclear movement -- History -- Sources 3
- Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 3
- Civil rights workers -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Disarmament -- History -- Sources 3
- Disarmament -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 3
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- Peace movements -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- Sources 3
- Peace walks and marches 3
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 3
- Socialism -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 3
- Women and peace 3
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 3
- Anti-fascist movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Arms control -- History -- Sources 2
- Central America -- Foreign relations -- United States 2
- Civil rights -- United States 2
- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- College students -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
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- Disarmament 2
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- Human rights -- Latin America -- History -- Sources 2
- Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Protest movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
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- Labor -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Lawyers -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 2
- Lobbying -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Mennonites -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Militarism -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Nonviolence -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 2
- Nuclear disarmament 2
- Pacifism -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Religious aspects 2
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church -- History -- Sources 2 + ∧ less
- Language
- German 4
- French 2
- Spanish; Castilian 2
- Esperanto 1
- Italian 1
- Names
- American Friends Service Committee 17
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 17
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 15
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 13
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 12
- Lyttle, Bradford 12
- War Resisters League 12
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 9
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 9
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section 9
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 8
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 8
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 8
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 8
- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 7
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 7
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 7
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 7
- Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987 7
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 6
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 6
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 6
- Jack, Homer A. (Homer Alexander), 1916-1993 6
- Kaufman, Abraham 6
- McReynolds, David 6
- Mead, Lucia True Ames, 1856-1936 6
- Newton, Ray 6
- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 6
- Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949 6
- American Peace Society 5
- Omaha Action (Project) 5
- Pickus, Robert 5
- Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 5
- Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 1924-2006 4
- Dellinger, David T., 1915-2004 4
- DiGia, Ralph 4
- Emergency Peace Campaign (U.S.) 4
- Forbes, Rose Dabney, 1864-1947 4
- Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.) 4
- Gilmore, Robert Wallace, 1921-1988 4
- Golden Rule (Ketch) 4
- Hassler, Alfred, 1910- 4
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 4
- Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 4
- Hutchinson, Dorothy H. (Dorothy Hewitt), 1905-1984 4
- Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 4
- Lochner, Louis Paul, 1887-1975 4
- Mead, Edwin D. (Edwin Doak), 1849-1937 4
- National Council for Prevention of War (U.S.) 4
- Reynolds, Earle L. 4
- Shivers, Lynne 4
- Spock, Benjamin, 1903-1998 4
- Turn Toward Peace (Organization) 4
- Walker, Charles C. 4
- Weiss, Cora, 1934- 4
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. International Office 4
- A Quaker Action Group 3
- American League against War and Fascism 3
- Berrigan, Daniel 3
- Bigelow, Albert, 1906- 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
- Cousins, Norman 3
- Davidov, Marv 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
- Finch, Henry Le Roy 3
- Forest, Jim (James H.) 3
- Gara, Larry 3
- Gottlieb, Edward P. 3
- Gottlieb, Sanford 3
- Gulick, Sidney Lewis, 1860-1945 3
- Hassler, Alfred, 1910-1991 3
- Hull, William I. (William Isaac), 1868-1939 3
- Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 3
- Keep America Out of War Congress 3
- Keys, Donald 3
- Lakey, George 3
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 3
- Lens, Sidney 3
- Levering, Robert, 1944- 3
- Meacham, Stewart 3
- National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (U.S.) 3
- New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam 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
- Rankin, Jeannette, 1880-1973 3
- Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) 3
- Roodenko, Igal 3
- San Francisco to Moscow Walk for Peace 3
- Socialist Party (U.S.) 3
- Swann, Marjorie 3
- Trueblood, Benjamin Franklin, 1847-1916 3
- Vietnam Summer (Organization) 3 + ∧ less
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