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Peace movements -- History -- Sources

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 41 Collections and/or Records:

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

International Council of Women Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-B
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-International Council of Women
Abstract

Collection is primarily printed correspondence, flyers, reports, and news clippings; correspondents include Elizabeth Cadbury.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1888-1947

Robert Levering Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-080
Abstract

Robert E. Levering is a pacifist and Quaker. He has been the co-author of Fortune magazine's annual list of the "100 Best Companies to Work For," and a speaker on workplace trends and management strategies aimed at improving workplace productivity. Levering is a graduate of Swarthmore College and the Martin Luther King Jr. School of Social Change.

Dates: 1967-1972

National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-National Coordinating Committee to End the War...

National Peace Action Coalition Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-National Peace Action Coalition

National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-186
Overview

The National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee was formed in September 1982 at a National Action Conference of the War Resisters League and the Center on Law and Pacifism. Its supporters promote war tax resistance on the national level. The NWTRC is not to be confused with the organization War Tax Resistance, begun in New York, New York in 1969.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1982-2022

New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-New Mobilization Committee-End the War in Vietnam

New York Conference Against War Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-New York Conference Against War

New York Teachers' Anti-War Committee Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-New York Teachers' Anti-War Committee

New York Yearly Meeting Records: Outreach and Witness Committees

 Collection — Othertype SW/NYy/600_799
Identifier: QM-NYy-600_799
Scope and Contents

Records include minutes, reports, and general files of the New York Yearly Meeting committees particularly involved in carrying out the Quaker testimonies which involved outreach. Each committee is described and ennumerated separately, with reference to its predecessors and sucessors.

Dates: 1795-2011