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"Service with the War Relocation Authority"
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-092
Abstract
George L. Townsend's memoir, entitled "Service of the War Relocation Authority," describes his recruitment by and work with the War Relocation Authority, a civilian agency established to provide care and services for Japanese Americans moved to Army Relocation Centers. Included is a map of Relocation Centers in the Western United States.
Dates:
1942-1946
Mira Sharpless Townsend Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-320
Abstract
The collection contains papers of Mira Sharpless Townsend, a major Quaker social activist and reformer in Philadelphia. Mira Sharpless Townsend (1798-1859) was born in Philadelphia, attended Friends Select School, and in 1828 married Samuel Townsend (1800-1887). He was a member of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting by whom she had six children, only two surviving to adulthood: Emily Sharpless Townsend who married Powell Stackhouse and Clara Gordon Townsend, married William Penn Troth. During...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1815 - 1858; 1806 - 1910
Transracial Asian Adoptee Oral History Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: BMC-RG12-OHTR
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of oral history interviews with six transracial Asian adoptees, both current students (at the time of interview) and alumnae/i. Conducted in 2023 by Celeste Bloom, Class of 2024, as part of her Impact Center for Community, Equity, and Understanding Fellowship project, these interviews highlight the diversity of transracial Asian adoptee experiences and demonstrate that the BIPOC community at Bryn Mawr—and beyond—is not a monolith.
Dates:
2023
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
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
Turner Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-152
Abstract
This collection centers around the family and descendants of Joseph Turner, Jr., (1790-1850) and his wife Rebecca (Sinclair) Turner (1787-1877), members of Baltimore Monthly Meeting-Western District. They raised eight children and had fifty-four grandchildren. As a young man, Joseph left the family plantation near Still Pond, Kent County, Maryland, and became a lumber merchant in Baltimore. He served as Clerk of the Lombard Street Meeting. Rebecca was a recorded minister and traveled widely....
Dates:
1776-1954
Underwood Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-153
Abstract
The Underwood family was a Quaker family, of Millville, Pennsylvania, and Woodbury, New Jersey. The collection contains chiefly papers of Warner Underwood (1851-1941), Quaker businessman and philanthropist, and his wife, Tamar Eliza John Underwood (1848-1932), including personal correspondence, financial and legal records (1876) relating to a sawmill in Centre County, Pa., student copy work, memorabilia, and historical material relating to Millville.
Dates:
1833-1927
Union pin and ribbon
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-801-11-038
Abstract
A pin and ribbon from Local Union No. 8 of the Pulp, Sulfur, and Paper Mill Workers Union in Great Works, ME
Dates:
late 19th or early 20th century
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
United Pacifist Committee Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-United Pacifist Committee
Dates:
1938-1947
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
United States Comprehensive Test Ban Coalition Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-178
Abstract
This organization was founded in March, 1988 as the U.S. Coalition of the International Comprehensive Test Ban Campaign. It was formed as a coalition of peace groups to raise public awareness of nuclear testing issues, and to call on governments to initiate testing moratoria and to undertake negotiations for a comprehensive test ban. Carolyn Cottom was its first Chair. The group changed name its name in 1989 to the United States Comprehensive Test Ban Coalition.
Dates:
1986-1996
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 144
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 113
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- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 28
- Quakers -- United States 28
- Neutrality -- United States -- History -- Sources 27
- Peace movements -- United States 26
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- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 25
- Antislavery movements -- United States 24
- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 24
- Peace movements -- History -- Sources 24
- manuscripts (documents) 23
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- Quaker women 22
- Antinuclear movement -- United States 21
- Pacifists -- United States 21
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- War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 18
- Women and peace -- United States -- History -- Sources 18
- Amnesty -- United States -- History -- Sources 17
- Education -- United States 17
- Slavery -- United States 17
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- Quakers -- Family relationships 16
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- Conscientious objectors -- United States 15
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- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 14
- Society of Friends -- Education 14
- Society of Friends -- United States 14
- United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 14
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 14
- Youth and peace -- History -- Sources 14
- Church controversies -- Society of Friends 13
- Nuclear disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 13
- Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 13
- Quaker women -- United States -- History -- Sources 13
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 13
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- United States 13
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- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Draft resisters -- United States -- Sources 12
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- genealogies (histories) 12
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- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- Sources 11
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- Quakers -- New York (State) -- New York 11
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania 11
- Suffragists -- United States -- History -- Sources 11
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union 11
- Women and peace 11
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- United States 11
- Militarism -- United States -- History -- Sources 10
- Motherhood -- United States -- History 10
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 10
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 10
- Peace -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 10
- Peace walks and marches -- History -- Sources 10
- Political prisoners -- United States -- History -- Sources 10
- Quaker abolitionists 10
- Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States 10
- Women -- Education 10
- Women and religion 10
- Women clergy -- United States -- Diaries 10
- account books 10
- financial records 10
- Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 9
- Quakers -- Genealogy 9
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- Women in education 9
- World War, 1939-1945 9 + ∧ less
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- English 1084
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- French 3
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- Names
- American Friends Service Committee 48
- Civilian Public Service 36
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 32
- Haverford College 27
- Swarthmore College 27
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 25
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 22
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 20
- War Resisters League 20
- Bryn Mawr College 18
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 15
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 15
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 15
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 14
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 14
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 14
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 14
- Lyttle, Bradford 13
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section 13
- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 12
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 12
- Mead, Lucia True Ames, 1856-1936 12
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 12
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 12
- Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 12
- Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987 12
- Kaufman, Abraham 11
- Newton, Ray 10
- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 10
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 10
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 9
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 9
- Dellinger, David T., 1915-2004 9
- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 9
- McReynolds, David 9
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 9
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 9
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. International Office 9
- Jack, Homer A. (Homer Alexander), 1916-1993 8
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library 8
- Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949 8
- Finch, Henry Le Roy 7
- Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.) 7
- Gara, Larry 7
- Gilmore, Robert Wallace, 1921-1988 7
- Hutchinson, Dorothy H. (Dorothy Hewitt), 1905-1984 7
- Page, Kirby, 1890-1957 7
- Sharpless family 7
- Whitney, Norman J. (Norman Jehiel), 1891-1967 7
- Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892 7
- A Quaker Action Group 6
- Baer, Gertrude 6
- Boss, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), 1888- 6
- Bromley, Ernest 6
- Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors 6
- Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 1924-2006 6
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 6
- DiGia, Ralph 6
- Forbes, Rose Dabney, 1864-1947 6
- Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879 6
- Golden Rule (Ketch) 6
- Hopper, Isaac T. (Isaac Tatem), 1771-1852 6
- Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 6
- Lochner, Louis Paul, 1887-1975 6
- Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880 6
- Pickus, Robert 6
- Rankin, Jeannette, 1880-1973 6
- Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) 6
- Reynolds, Earle L. 6
- Roodenko, Igal 6
- Tatum, Arlo D. 6
- Walker, Charles C. 6
- Westtown Boarding School 6
- Witherspoon, Frances, 1886-1973 6
- Allinson, Brent D. (Brent Dow) 5
- American Civil Liberties Union 5
- American Peace Society 5
- Andrews, Fannie Fern, 1867-1950 5
- Berrigan, Daniel 5
- Blake, Katherine Devereux, 1858-1950 5
- Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 5
- Bromley, Marion, -1996 5
- Burritt, Elihu, 1810-1879 5
- Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 5
- Carner, Lucy Perkins, 1886-1983 5
- Cary, Stephen G. 5
- Day, Dorothy, 1897-1980 5
- Dewey, John, 1859-1952 5
- Drinker, Henry, 1734-1809 5
- Emergency Peace Campaign (U.S.) 5
- Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 5
- Freeman, Harrop A. (Harrop Arthur), 1907-1993 5
- Furnas, Paul J. 5
- Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 5
- Gulick, Sidney Lewis, 1860-1945 5
- Henry Ford Peace Expedition (1915-1916) 5
- Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 5
- Houser, George M. 5
- Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 5
- Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 5 + ∧ less
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