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Keep America Out of War Congress Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Keep America Out of War
Abstract
The Keep America Out of War Congress was founded in 1938 (as the Keep America Out of War Comittee), by several leading peace organizations. The Congress was to pursue a joint, minimum six-point peace program. The aims of this program included the removal of U.S. ships and nationals from belligerent zones, a war referendum, the abandonment of plans for conscription and industrial mobilization, and greater economic and social justice at home and abroad. The Keep America Out of War Congress was...
Dates:
1938-1942
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Leonard Stout Kenworthy diary
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-039
Abstract
Leonard Stout Kenworthy's "Quaker Berlin Diary" describes his experiences in Germany during World War II working with German Quakers to assist unaffiliated German Jews to leave Germany.
Dates:
1940-1941
Roy C. Kepler Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-185
Abstract
Roy Kepler was a radical pacifist and conscientious objector during World War II, owner of Kepler Books in Menlo Park, California, involved for many years with the War Resisters League, one of the founders of the Pacifica Foundation and public radio in California.
Dates:
1940-1985
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Frieda Langer Lazarus Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Lazarus, Frieda Langer
Scope and Contents
Collection consists of correspondence and printed matter related to Lazarus's involvement as Chair of the War Resisters League's Conscientious Objector Problems Committee, 1943-1946.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1943-1946
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Morris Evans Leeds papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1127
Abstract
The papers of Morris Evans Leeds (1869-1952), a Philadelphia Quaker who graduated from Haverford College and became president of Leeds & Northrup Company, manufacturers of precision instruments. He was also an inventor and developer. Leeds was a member of the Board of Haverford College and active on the School Board of Philadelphia.
Dates:
1757-1952; Majority of material found within 1880-1952
Gilbert MacMaster papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1016
Abstract
Gilbert MacMaster (1869-1967), a Quaker, was involved in charitable work in post-World War II Europe. The papers include his letters, photographs, and diary, which covers his and Margarethe Lachmund's (his wife) 30 years of service (1920-1950) with the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) child feeding mission in Germany, after World War I, as head of the Friends Center in Hamburg, during Hitler's rise to power, and as American Friends' representative in Basel, Switzerland, during World...
Dates:
1901-1968
Albon Man Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Man, Albon P.
Abstract
Albon Platt Man Jr.,was called up for the draft during World War II, but failed to register because of his conscientious objection to war, and was sentenced to three years in prison in March 1943. He was later involvemented with the Committee for Amnesty, the CCCO, the War Resisters League, and other peace groups.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1943-1965
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Josiah P. Marvel papers
Collection — othertype: SC-221
Identifier: SFHL-SC-221
Abstract
Josiah P. Marvel (1896-1959) was a Quaker, who worked with the American Friends Service Committee in France in 1940-41 and in 1942 became the chairman of the Quaker Emergency Service in New York City. This collection contains primarily Marvel's files on the Quaker Emergency Service, including its Civilian Readjustment Committee (a clinic that offered men arrested for soliciting sex with other men the option of psychiatric care in lieu of a prison sentence). The collection also includes a...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1942 - 1966
Josiah P. Marvel scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-04-017
Abstract
The scrapbook of Josiah P. Marvel includes Nazi documents, such as certificates and letters, from Marvel's time in occupied France during the summer of 1940, while travelling to and from Paris in service to the American Friends Service Committee. Documents include permissions from Nazi commanders in France, as well as The Hague and Brussels. Also included is a map of the location of prison camps, clothing lists, and a printed booklet on the National Work for Infants.
Dates:
1940-1941
Mennonite Central Committee Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Mennonite Central Committee
Abstract
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) was formed when representatives of various Mennonite conferences met July 27-28, 1920, in Elkhart (Indiana), and pledged to aid hungry people, including Mennonites, in Russia and Ukraine.Since then thousands have served with MCC worldwide on relief, peace and development projects.
Dates:
1940-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Swarthmore College Peace Collection 97
- Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections 43
- Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College 21
- Bryn Mawr College 9
- Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College 1
- Subject
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 37
- World War, 1939-1945 35
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 31
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 25
- World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Sources 21
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 17
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief 17
- Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 16
- correspondence 15
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 14
- Neutrality -- United States -- History -- Sources 13
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 11
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- United States 11
- Quakers 9
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 8
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 8
- Society of Friends -- Charities 8
- World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- American Friends Service Committee 8
- World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- Society of Friends 8
- Conscientious objectors -- United States 7
- diaries 7
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 6
- Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 6
- Quakers -- History 6
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany 6
- Amnesty -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
- Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
- Society of Friends -- International assistance 5
- World War, 1914-1918 5
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief -- Sources 5
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- Great Britain 5
- manuscripts (documents) 5
- photographs 5
- Bryn Mawr (Pa.) 4
- Conscientious objectors -- Great Britain 4
- Education 4
- International relief 4
- International relief -- France 4
- Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 4
- Pacifists -- United States 4
- Quaker women 4
- Society of Friends -- International assistance -- Germany 4
- Society of Friends -- Japan 4
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors 4
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Sources 4
- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 3
- Conscientious objection -- United States 3
- Education -- United States 3
- International relief -- Societies, etc 3
- Missionaries 3
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Pacifism 3
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 3
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 3
- Political prisoners -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Psychiatric hospitals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 3
- Quaker missionaries 3
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 3
- Refugees 3
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 3
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 3
- Women -- Societies and clubs 3
- World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- Society of Friends 3
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan 3
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 3
- Youth and peace -- History -- Sources 3
- letters (correspondence) 3
- newsletters 3
- postcards 3
- speeches (documents) 3
- Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962 2
- China -- History -- 20th Century 2
- Church work with refugees -- Society of Friends 2
- Conscientious objection -- History -- Sources 2
- Courtship -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 2
- Diaries 2
- Draft resisters -- United States 2
- Europe 2
- France 2
- Homosexuality -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 2
- I-W service 2
- International cooperation -- History -- Sources 2
- Japan -- History 2
- Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Sources 2
- Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 2
- National service -- United States 2
- Pacifism -- United States 2
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 2
- Quaker businesspeople 2
- Quaker conscientious objectors 2
- Quaker prison reformers -- United States 2
- Quakers -- 20th century -- Diaries 2
- Quakers -- Diaries 2
- Quakers -- Family relationships 2
- Quakers -- Germany 2
- Quakers -- Germany -- History -- 20th century 2
- Quakers -- New York (State) 2 + ∧ less
- Language
- English 167
- German 3
- French 2
- Czech 1
- Germanic languages 1
- Names
- Civilian Public Service 31
- American Friends Service Committee 28
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 10
- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 8
- Bryn Mawr College 7
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 7
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 6
- War Resisters League 6
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 5
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 5
- Haverford College 5
- Hutchinson, Dorothy H. (Dorothy Hewitt), 1905-1984 5
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 5
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 5
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 4
- Brethren Service Committee 4
- Civilian Public Service. Camp (Big Flats, NY) 4
- Furnas, Paul J. 4
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 4
- Kaufman, Abraham 4
- Marvel, Josiah P. (Josiah Philip), 1896-1959 4
- Pickett, Clarence, 1884-1965 4
- Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987 4
- Byberry State Hospital (Pa.) 3
- Cary, Stephen G. 3
- Civilian Public Service. Camp (Philadelphia, Pa.) 3
- Cornell, Julien D., 1910- 3
- DeSilver, Harrison 3
- Emergency Peace Campaign (U.S.) 3
- Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 3
- Friends Ambulance Unit 3
- Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.) 3
- Friends Girls School (Tokyo, Japan) 3
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 3
- Keep America Out of War Committee 3
- Keep America Out of War Congress 3
- Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors 3
- National Peace Conference (U.S.) 3
- Peace Now Movement (Organization) 3
- Quaker Emergency Service Readjustment Center (New York, N.Y.) 3
- Randall, Mercedes M. (Mercedes Moritz), 1895-1977 3
- Rankin, Jeannette, 1880-1973 3
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 3
- Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 3
- Steere, Douglas V. (Douglas Van), 1901-1995 3
- Swarthmore College 3
- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 3
- Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949 3
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section 3
- American Civil Liberties Union 2
- American Field Service 2
- American Friends Service Committee. Committee on Rights of Conscience 2
- Andresen, Bent, 1908-1991 2
- Baer, Gertrude 2
- Barr, Allen H. 2
- Benson, Purnell Handy, 1913- 2
- Boss, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), 1888- 2
- Bowles, Gilbert, 1869-1960 2
- Bowles, Gordon Townsend 2
- Bowles, Jane T. 2
- Bowles, Minnie, 1868-1958 2
- Brandt, Wilmer, 1920- 2
- Bromley, Ernest 2
- Bromley, Marion, -1996 2
- Brooks, R. Boland 2
- Butcher, Agnes Young, 1921-2005 2
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 2
- Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors 2
- Civilian Public Service Union 2
- Civilian Public Service. Camp (Lagro, Ind.) 2
- Civilian Public Service. Camp (Trenton, N.D.) 2
- Cleghorn, Sarah Norcliffe, 1876-1959 2
- Cooper, Samuel 2
- Corfman, Rex 2
- Dellinger, David T., 1915-2004 2
- Dyer, Henry W. 2
- Evans, Edward W. (Edward Wyatt), 1882-1976 2
- Finch, Henry Le Roy 2
- Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee (London, England) 2
- Gara, Larry 2
- Graves, Anna Melissa, 1875-1964 2
- Gregg, Richard Bartlett, 1885- 2
- Gulick, Sidney Lewis, 1860-1945 2
- Harkness, Georgia Elma, 1891-1974 2
- Harris, Paul, b. 1897 2
- Harvard University 2
- Heifer Project 2
- Hill, Lewis K. 2
- Jones, Margaret E., 1895-1984 2
- Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 2
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 2
- Licensed Agencies for Relief in Asia 2
- MacAdam, Ruth E. 2
- Man, Albon 2
- Mennonite Central Committee 2
- Monthly Meeting of New York (Society of Friends : Orthodox : New York, N.Y.). Peace and Service Committee 2
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 2
- National Committee on Conscientious Objectors (U.S.) 2
- National Council for Prevention of War (U.S.) 2
- Nelson Fuson, 1913-2006 2 + ∧ less
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