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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Friends Peace Committee and its predecessors (1891-2015)
Collection — othertype: SW/Phy/770
Identifier: QM-Phy-770
Abstract
The Friends Peace Committee (FPC) of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting was formed in 1933 by the merger of similar committees that had been established in 1892 by the Race Street Yearly Meeting (Hicksite) and in 1916 by the Arch Street Yearly Meeting (Orthodox) in Philadelphia. Since 1933, the committee has undergone a series of structural changes, perhaps most strikingly under the direction of Executive Secretary George Hardin from 1949-1973. There are a number of different subcommittees under...
Dates:
1891-2007
Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-123
Abstract
Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon (1890-1979) was born into an extended Quaker family who lived for generations in Clarke and Loudon counties, Virginia. She moved beyond the Virginia Quaker community to a career in the women's movement, first as a campaigner for women's suffrage (1917-1920), then as an educator and political activist in Virginia (1920-1928) and finally as a research economist for the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor (1928-1956). During her retirement years, Pidgeon became...
Dates:
1769-1979[bulk 1905-1979]
Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon Schlesinger Library Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-124
Abstract
Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon (1890-1979) was born into an extended Quaker family who lived for generations in Clarke and Loudon counties, Virginia. She moved beyond the Virginia Quaker community to a career in the women's movement, first as a campaigner for women's suffrage (1917-1920), then as an educator and political activist in Virginia (1920-1928) and finally as a research economist for the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor (1928-1956). During her retirement years, Pidgeon became...
Dates:
1906-1979
Mercedes M. Randall Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-110
Abstract
Mercedes M. Randall was an early, and lifelong, member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. She held many positions of responsibility in the organization, including chairmanship of the National Education Committee, and presidency of the Manhattan Branch. Randall was the first biographer of Nobel Peace Prize winner, Emily Greene Balch.
Dates:
1914-1977
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Jeannette Rankin Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Rankin, Jeannette
Abstract
Jeannette Rankin (1880-1973), was the first woman to serve in Congress (1917-1919). She was an active suffragist and later worked in peace organizations such as the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and the National Council for Prevention of War. Rankin founded the Georgia Peace Society in the 1940s, and led the Jeannette Rankin Brigade, an all-women's protest march against the Vietnam war shortly before her death.
Dates:
1917-2011
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Grace Evans Rhoads Collected Papers
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Rhoads, Grace Evans
Dates:
1929-1953
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Dorothy Medders Robinson Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-127
Abstract
Dorothy Medders Robinson was president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, U.S. Section, from 1941 to 1946. She also served as the delegate to the WILPF International Congress in Luxembourg in 1946. Robinson was a chair of the Jane Addams Peace Association and the Jane Addams Hall of Fame Committee.
Dates:
1946-1978
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Kathleen Whitaker Sayre Collected Papers
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Sayre, Kathleen W
Dates:
1914-1961
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Rosika Schwimmer Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Schwimmer, Rosika
Abstract
Rosika Schwimmer was a suffragist and feminist leader from Hungary who worked internationally. She founded several Hungarian societies for the advancement of trade unionism, land reform, feminism, female suffrage and pacifism and worked to promote peace during World War I. She helped to form a number of U.S. and international peace groups, including the Emergency Peace Federation, the Henry Ford Peace Expedition, and the Woman's Peace Party. She received the World Peace Prize in 1937.
Dates:
1914-1948
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Rebecca Shelley Collected Papers
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Shelley, Rebecca
Dates:
1914-1981
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section 13
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 12
- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 9
- Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 9
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 8
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 7
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 7
- Woman's Peace Party 7
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. International Office 7
- Baer, Gertrude 6
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 6
- Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 6
- Mead, Lucia True Ames, 1856-1936 6
- Drevet, Camille 5
- Randall, Mercedes M. (Mercedes Moritz), 1895-1977 5
- Blake, Katherine Devereux, 1858-1950 4
- Henry Ford Peace Expedition (1915-1916) 4
- Heymann, Lida Gustava, 1868-1943 4
- Shelley, Rebecca, 1887-1984 4
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 4
- Abbott, Grace, 1878-1939 3
- American Friends Service Committee 3
- Ballantyne, Edith 3
- Boulding, Elise 3
- Brockway, Fenner, 1888-1988 3
- Bussey, Gertrude Carman, 1888-1961 3
- Camp, Kay 3
- Carner, Lucy Perkins, 1886-1983 3
- Chalmers, Ruth 3
- Cleghorn, Sarah Norcliffe, 1876-1959 3
- Doty, Madeleine Z. (Madeleine Zabriskie), 1877-1963 3
- Forbes, Rose Dabney, 1864-1947 3
- Gage-Colby, Ruth 3
- Graves, Anna Melissa, 1875-1964 3
- Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp 3
- Hamilton, Alice, 1869-1970 3
- Hutchinson, Dorothy H. (Dorothy Hewitt), 1905-1984 3
- Jane Addams Peace Association 3
- Kaufman, Abraham 3
- Lloyd, Lola Maverick, 1875-1944 3
- Lochner, Louis Paul, 1887-1975 3
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 3
- Post, Alice Thacher, 1853-1947 3
- Pye, Edith M. (Edith Mary) 3
- Ragaz, Clara 3
- Vernon, Mabel 3
- Villard, Fanny Garrison, 1844-1928 3
- Wald, Lillian D., 1867-1940 3
- Wales, Julia Grace, 1881- 3
- War Resisters League 3
- Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 3
- Witherspoon, Frances, 1886-1973 3
- Wold, Emma, 1871-1950 3
- Women Strike for Peace 3
- Woods, Amy 3
- Woolley, Mary Emma, 1863-1947 3
- American Union Against Militarism 2
- Angell, Norman, 1874-1967 2
- Arnett, Katharine M. (Katharine McCollin) 2
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 2
- Beaton, Grace M. 2
- Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 2
- Brown, H. Runham (Herbert Runham), 1879-1949 2
- Byrns, Elinor 2
- Courtney, Kathleen, Dame, 1878-1974 2
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 2
- Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 2
- Hartmann, George W. (George Wilfried), 1904-1955 2
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 2
- Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 2
- International Peace Bureau 2
- Jacobs, Aletta H. (Aletta Henriette), 1854-1929 2
- Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 2
- Jōdai, Tano, 1886-1982 2
- Kellogg, Paul Underwood, 1879-1958 2
- Kelsey, Kate 2
- Kelsey, Mary 2
- League of Nations 2
- Lewis, Lucy Biddle, 1861- 2
- MacDonald, James Ramsay, 1866-1937 2
- Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon (1890-1979) 2
- Morgan, Angela 2
- National Council of Women of the United States 2
- Park, Alice Locke 2
- Pendleton, Ellen F. (Ellen Fitz), 1864-1936 2
- People's Council of America for Democracy and Peace 2
- Ramondt-Hirschmann, Cor 2
- Rankin, Jeannette, 1880-1973 2
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 2
- Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970 2
- Scholarly Resources Inc. 2
- Sewall, May Wright, 1844-1920 2
- Sheepshanks, Mary, 1872-1958 2
- Starr, Ellen Gates 2
- Steffens, Dorothy R. 2
- Swanwick, Helena M. (Helena Maria), 1864-1939 2
- Swarthmore College 2
- Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949 2
- War Resisters' International 2
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