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Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 144 Collections and/or Records:

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

Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-147
Abstract

In 1986 six hundred people marched across the United States to demonstrate their opposition to the world-wide nuclear arms race. The march took nine months from California to Washington, D.C. The marchers wrote: "we will create a non-violent focus for positive change; the imperative being that nuclear weapons are politically, socially, economically and morally unjustifiable, and that, in any number, they are unacceptable." The GPM was also a traveling intentional and communal society.

Dates: 1986 - Date; Majority of material found within 1986

Robin Harper Collected Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Harper, Robin
Abstract

Robin Harper is active in the peace movement. During the 1950s and 1960s he protested nuclear weapons and missile defense systems. The papers in this collection reflect that involvement.

Dates: 1957 - 1988

Edward Hasbrouck Collected Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Hasbrouck, Edward
Abstract Edward Hasbrouck was born in 1960 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1980, when registration for the draft was reinstituted, he refused to register. Hasbrouck worked with the National Resistance Committee and affiliated local organizations. In June 1983, he was put on probation because of his draft refusal and sentenced to 1,000 hours of community service. This sentence was revoked in November 1983 in favor of a six month prison term, which Hasbrouck served at the federal prison camp in...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1965-1987

Henry Ford Peace Expedition Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-018
Abstract On December 4, 1915, Henry Ford and over one hundred delegates and reporters left Hoboken, New Jersey, aboard the steamship Oscar II bound for Norway, and an itinerary of peace meetings in nonbelligerant Europe. The purpose of the Henry Ford Peace Expedition was the establishment of a conference of neutral nations which would seek to implement peace proposals through continuous mediation. Although Ford left the expedition at Christiana (Oslo) for health reasons, the delegation visited...
Dates: 1915-1916

C. Douglas Hostetter Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-260
Abstract C. Douglas Hostetter (1944 - ), has been an peace activist since the 1960s. He was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam war and performed alternative service for the Mennonite Central Committee in rural Vietnam.Following his work in Vietnam Hostetter worked for the United Methodist Church at the United Nations on international affairs. From the mid 1980s through the end of the decade Hostetter served as the executive secretary of the American Friends Service Committee in their New...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1959-

Indochina Peace Campaign Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Indochina Peace Campaign
Dates: 1972

International Association of the Friends of Peace Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-International Association of the Friends of Peace
Abstract

Items held: letter dated April 25, 1913, and the Platform of the International Association.

Dates: 1913

Homer A. Jack Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-063
Abstract Homer A. Jack (1916-1993) was a Unitarian Universalist clergyman and denominational official who sought to apply religious values to national and international affairs. Jack was executive secretary of the Chicago Council Against Racial and Religious Discrimination (1943-1948), executive director of SANE (1960-1964), and secretary general of the World Conference on Religion and Peace (1970-1983). He had been minister of churches in Lawrence, Kansas (1942-1943), Evanston, Illinois (1948-1959),...
Dates: 1930-1995

Andrea Jeffries Collected Papers

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Jeffries, Andrea
Abstract

Collection includes handwritten letters from Charles (Charlie) Muse and John J. Phillips to Andrea Black (Jeffries), and letters between Muse and Phillips. Muse and Phillips were draft resisters, who were accused of burning Selective Service records during the Vietnam War era.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1963, 1971-1973