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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
Turn Toward Peace Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Turn Toward Peace
Abstract
Turn Toward Peace was founded in 1961 as a cooperative national effort of about 60 peace and liberal internationalist organizations; Norman Thomas was Chairman of TTP, and Robert Gilmore was the Executive Director. There eventually were offices in several large cities and 38 national organizations were affiliated with the organization. But by 1963, serious discord divided TTP and several years later a group split off to became the World Without War Council; some regional offices retained the...
Dates:
1961-1970
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
Mary Jo and Walter Uphoff Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Uphoff, Mary Jo and Walter
Abstract
Mary Jo Uphoff was involved with Youth Committee Against War (of the Keep America Out of War Congress). Walter Uphoff was a labor historian and author of Kohler On Strike.
Dates:
1934-1991
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
U.S. Peace Council Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-153
Abstract
The U.S. Peace Council National Founding Conference was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 9-11, 1979. The organization was headquartered in New York, New York until 1990, then moved to Philadelphia. It was formed as a "peace and solidarity network" and published the periodical Peace and Solidarity. The U.S. Peace Council was affiliated with the World Peace Council, headquartered in Helsinki, Finland. ThePhiladelphia national headquarters closed in 1992, but some operations were...
Dates:
1979-1992
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Veterans for Peace in Vietnam Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Veterans for Peace in Vietnam
Dates:
1965-1980; Majority of material found within 1968-1975
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Veterans for Peace, Inc. Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-240
Abstract
Veterans For Peace, Inc. (VFP) is an educational and humanitarian organization dedicated to the abolishment of war. VFP iss comprised primarily of veterans of the United States military, but non-veterans may also join as associate members. VFP's statement of purpose (as of 2010) states that their mission is: "To increase public awareness of the costs of war; to restrain the U.S. government from intervening, overtly and covertly, in the internal affairs of other nations; to end the arms race...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1985-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Vietnam Summer Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-067
Abstract
Vietnam Summer was a nationwide project designed to reach concerned citizens throughout the United States and to weld them into an organized and active constituency against the war in Vietnam. Martin Luther King, Jr., Benjamin Spock and others launched the project nationally on April 23, 1967. From headquarters in Cambridge, Mass. co-directors Richard R. Fernandez and Lee D. Webb coordinated the efforts of 500 paid staff members and over 26,000 volunteers in about 700 local projects. Vietnam...
Dates:
1967
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
Walkabout Peace and Justice Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-162
Abstract
Walkabout Peace and Justice was first organized in 1985 in Davis, California, as an experimental project to provide a source of information for the peace-walking community. The group sponsored walks in support of issues related to peace and social justice; acted as a clearinghouse to provide information about other peace walks, mainly through its journal, Walkabout Peace and Justice. It's most siginficant organizer was Barbara Hirshkowitz, who later became a participant in New Society...
Dates:
1981-1992
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 144
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- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 6
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- 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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- 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
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- College students -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
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- Disarmament 2
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- 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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