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Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Codepink
Scope and Contents
Includes letters, flyers, reports, printed emails, and materials from local branches.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 2003-2011
Collection — othertype: Reels 12.1a-12.24a
Identifier: SCPC-Reels-12.1a-12.24a
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-086
Abstract
Dorothy Detzer was a peace activist, writer, and lobbyist. She served as the National Executive Secretary of the U.S. Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1924-1946.. Detzer influenced a Congressional investigation of the munitions industry, 1934-1936, and later wrote the book Appointment on the Hill, 1948, describing her two decades in Washington, D.C.
Dates:
1913-1981
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Douwes, Francoise Wilhelmina
Scope and Contents
This collection of papers is primarily about Douwes' activism with WILPF and other organizations.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1985-2005
Collection — othertype: CDG-B
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-France-Drevet, Camille
Abstract
Mimeographed writings, statements on the Soviet Union and the international situation; Swiss Security Service report on Drevet (1933); pamphlets by Drevet.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1930-1933
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Dugan, Christiana
Abstract
Includes bibliographies of peace studies literature organized alphabetically by title; and typed notes on peace, women, and the peace movement.
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1991
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Fellowship of Peace
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-126
Abstract
Lella Secor Florence became a pacifist while serving as a journalist on the Henry Ford Peace Expedition (1915-1916) and then participated in several peace organizations focused on keeping the United States out of World War I. She was active in the British section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and in the birth control movement there and wrote Birth Control on Trial.
Dates:
1915-1936
Item — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-From the women of Philadelphia U.S.A.
Abstract
Handwritten draft of a reply to an address from women of Exeter, England, in response to their plea urging their American sisters to help prevent war between England and the United States. This draft, of which the final version no longer exists, warns that a mother could sow the seed of blood-thirsty ambition in her son "when in his childish hours she gave him tiny weapons, and taught him how to mimic war's murderous game." Signed by Lucretia Mott. The reply, which was sent to England and is...
Dates:
1846
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-046
Abstract
[Anna] Ruth Fry was an activist and a writer born into a prominent Quaker family in England. From 1914-1924, she served as general secretary of the Friends Relief Commission, which provided help for refugees and others ravaged by World War I. Fry wrote about her experiences in A Quaker Adventure (1926). She was also the first chairman of the Russian Famine Relief Fund in 1921. Fry went on to write numerous books, pamphlets and tracts, on a variety of Quaker and peace topics. She died on...
Dates:
1905-1957