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Devere Allen Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-053
Abstract
Author, editor, journalist and lecturer; advocate of internationalist pacifism; influential member of the Socialist Party in the 1930s; genealogist; recorder of Rhode Island history and lore; named Harold Devere Allen.
Dates:
1809-1978; Majority of material found within 1910-1955
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Katherine Anne Assante Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Assante, Katherine Anne
Abstract
This collection includes a copy of Assante's thesis, and e-mail interviews with David McReynolds in support of her research. McReynolds was associated with the War Resisters League for many years.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 2009-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-135
Overview
The Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice was initated in 1974 to "call for disarmament, a simultaneous shift of economic priorities away from militarism and toward meeting domestic and global human needs, and removal of the causes of war." When the Walk ended on October 18, 1976 at the Pentagon in Washington D.C., walkers had covered 8,000 miles through 34 states.
Dates:
1975-1978
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Ann Morrissett Davidon and William C. Davidon Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-144
Abstract
Ann Morrissett Davidon (1925-2004), was a writer, editor, educator, pacifist and peace activist through her entire life. William Cooper Davidon(1927- 2013), was a professor of physics at Haverford College and (retired 1994), pacifist, peace activist. The two were married in 1963 and both continued to be very active in peace, pacifist, anti-Vietnam War, and social justice organizations. They advocated and practiced war-tax resistance. In 1971, William Davidon was named an "unindicted...
Dates:
1949-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Eichel Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-131
Overview
The Eichel Family papers provide a unique glimpse into the lives of conscientious objectors and peace activists from one family over two generations, from 1916 onward. Julius Eichel, David Eichel and Albert Eichel were all C.O.s during WWI. Julius Eichel and his wife Esther Eichel protested WWII. Their son Seymour Eichel also served time in prison for his refusal to serve in the military in the 1950s.
Dates:
1918 - 2008
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Emergency Anti-War Committee Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Emergency Anti-War Committee-New York
Dates:
1935
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Henry LeRoy Finch Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-195
Overview
Henry Leroy (Roy) Finch Jr. was a pacifist, conscientious objector to World War II, philosopher and writer.
Dates:
1933-1995
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Edward P. Gottlieb Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-172
Abstract
Edward Gottlieb was an educator, civil rights activist, peace activist, and poet. He was the chairman of the War Resisters in the 1960s.
Dates:
1929-2000
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Jessie Wallace Hughan Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-251
Abstract
Jessie Wallace Hughan (December 25, 1875 – April 10, 1955) was an American educator, social activist, and a radical pacifist. During her college days she was one of four co-founders of Alpha Omicron Pi, a national sorority for university women. She also was a founder and the first Secretary of the War Resisters League, established in 1923. For over two decades, she was a perennial candidate for political office on the ticket of the Socialist Party of America in her home state of New York.
Dates:
1870-1998
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Abraham Kaufman Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Kaufman, Abraham
Overview
In October 1928, Kaufman became the first paid employee of the War Resisters League, eventually becoming its Executive Secretary through 1947. He co-founded the Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1942-1997
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 6
- McReynolds, David 6
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- Kaufman, Abraham 5
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 5
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 5
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 4
- Gara, Larry 4
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 4
- Roodenko, Igal 4
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 4
- American Friends Service Committee 3
- DiGia, Ralph 3
- Finch, Henry Le Roy 3
- Gottlieb, Edward P. 3
- Hedemann, Ed 3
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 3
- Socialist Party (U.S.) 3
- War Resisters' International 3
- Witherspoon, Frances, 1886-1973 3
- Women's Peace Union 3
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 2
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 2
- Brown, H. Runham (Herbert Runham), 1879-1949 2
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- Davidon, Ann Morrissett 2
- Dellinger, David T., 1915-2004 2
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 2
- Early, Frances H. 2
- Eichel, Julius, 1896- 2
- Graves, Anna Melissa, 1875-1964 2
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- Peck, James 2
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- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 2
- Schwartz, Wendy (Editor) 2
- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 2
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 2
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section 2
- Aberman, Sidney 1
- Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971 1
- Adler, Friedrich 1
- Allen, Horatio, 1802-1889 1
- Allen, Steve, 1921-2000 1
- Altbach, Philip G. 1
- American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky 1
- American Forum for Socialist Education 1
- American League against War and Fascism 1
- Anderson, Jervis 1
- Andresen, Bent, 1908-1991 1
- Anti-Enlistment League 1
- Aptheker, Herbert, 1915-2003 1
- Assante, Katherine Anne 1
- Baer, Gertrude 1
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 1
- Barr, Allen H. 1
- Beard, Charles A. (Charles Austin), 1874-1948 1
- Beaton, Grace M. 1
- Bennett, Scott H. 1
- Berg, Lloyd A. 1
- Berg, Russel O. 1
- Berrigan, Philip 1
- Bohn, Lewis Christian 1
- Bolling, Landrum Rymer 1
- Bourdet, Claude, 1909- 1
- Bowie, Walter Russell, 1882-1969 1
- Brainerd, Heloise, 1881-1969 1
- Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 1
- Brittain, Vera, 1893-1970 1
- Brockway, Fenner, 1888-1988 1
- Bromley, Ernest 1
- Bromley, Marion, -1996 1
- Brooks, R. Boland 1
- Broun, Heywood, 1888-1939 1
- Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 1
- Burritt, Elihu, 1810-1879 1
- Byrns, Elinor 1
- Cakars, Maris 1
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- Casanova, Margaret 1
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- Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors 1
- Ceresole, Pierre, 1879-1945 1
- Charlotte Citizens for Peace (Port Charlotte, Fla.) 1
- Chase, E. Dixwell 1
- Chomsky, Noam 1
- Cleghorn, Sarah Norcliffe, 1876-1959 1
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