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Another Mother for Peace Records

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-102

Abstract

Another Mother for Peace was a women's peace group born from the antipathy to the war in Vietnam, based in Los Angeles, California. The stated purpose of this non-partison, non-profit organization was "to educate women to take an active role in eliminating war as a means of solving disputes between nations, people and ideologies." AMP closed its offices in January 1986.

Dates: 1964-1978

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

A. Ruth Fry Papers

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

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Hannah Clothier Hull Papers

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-016

Abstract Hannah Clothier Hull (1872-1958), was one of the founders of the Woman's Peace Party and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. She served as a national officer of the WILPF for nearly forty years. Hull was also active in other social reform movements. A member of a well-to-do Quaker family, Hannah Clothier graduated from Swarthmore College in 1891. She first worked at a Philadelphia settlement house and then entered the graduate program in social work at Bryn Mawr College....

Dates: 1889-1958

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Belva Ann Lockwood Papers

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-098

Abstract Belva Ann McNall Lockwood (1830-1917), was the first woman attorney to practice before the Supreme Court. She personally lobbied members of Congress to pass a special act admitting women to the bar of the Court, and first practiced before the Court in 1879. Lockwood ran for the U.S. presidency in 1884 and 1888, being the first woman to have a complete, national campaign for that office. From the 1870s onward Lockwood was active with the radical peace group, the Universal Peace Union,...

Dates: 1878-1917, 1984, 1986, 1992

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

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

Mildred Scott Olmsted Papers

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-082

Abstract Mildred Scott Olmsted, peace activist and suffragist, was born in Glenolden, Pennsylvania, in 1890. In 1922, Olmsted became Executive Secretary of the Pennsylvania Branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). From 1934 onward she assumed national positions with the organization. In 1946, Olmsted became National Administrative Secretary and held that position (until her retirement in 1966. She remained active as Executive Director Emerita of WILPF and also served...

Dates: 1881-1990; Majority of material found within 1907-1990

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

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