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Mary Stone McDowell Collected Papers
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-McDowell, Mary Stone
Dates:
1914, 1918, 1945-1955
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Edwin D. Mead and Lucia Ames Mead Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-021
Abstract
Edwin D. Mead (1849-1937), and Lucia Ames Mead (1856-1936), were both leading pacifists, writers, and social reformers of the U.S. and international peace movement. Edwin Mead directed the work of the World Peace Foundation and participated in many international peace congresses. He was an American delegate to the International Peace Bureau. Mead helped found the School Peace League and was a prominent member of the American Peace League. Lucia Ames Mead was a leading member of many feminist...
Dates:
1876-1938
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Minute Women for Peace Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Minute Women for Peace
Dates:
1951-1953
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Angela Morgan Collected Papers
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Morgan, Angela
Dates:
1915-1955
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Laura Puffer Morgan Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Morgan, Laura Puffer
Abstract
Laura Puffer Morgan, throughout her lifetime, worked for organizations and movements that promoted peace, disarmament, world order and international understanding. She was an important analyst and writer on these issues for many periodicals.
Dates:
1926-1962
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Movement for a New Society Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-154
Abstract
Movement for a New Society began in 1971 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as a national network of activists committed to building a nonviolent revolution. Movement for a New Society grew to be a community, based in several areas around the United States. While Movement for a New Society was always an activist organization, it was also a co-housing and/or communal society. Movement for a New Society collectives formed in the Boston/Northeast Region, the Mid-Atlantic Region, Tucson, Seattle,...
Dates:
1971-1988
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Tracy D. Mygatt and Frances Witherspoon Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-089
Abstract
Tracy Dickinson Mygatt (1885-1973) and Frances May Witherspoon (1886-1973) were prolific writers and absolute pacifists who worked together in movements for women's rights, world peace, civil liberties, and civil rights. Both women authored plays, articles, poems, sermons, and stories, individually and in collaboration. They were founders of the War Resisters League and later served as honorary chairs. Frances Witherspoon was a co-founder and Executive Secretary of the New York Bureau of...
Dates:
1835-1973; Majority of material found within 1911-1974
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War
Abstract
Representatives of nine national women's organizations united to accomplish two goals: to lobby for the United States to join the World Court, and to hold a conference together. They chose Carrie Chapman Catt to be their leader.
Dates:
1924-1943
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
National Council of Jewish Women Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-National Council of Jewish Women
Dates:
1929-1959; Majority of material found within 1929-1940
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
National League of Women Voters Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-National League of Women Voters
Abstract
This National League of Women Voters material is from its Department of International Cooperation to Prevent War which had representation on the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War.
Dates:
1919-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection