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Peace -- Societies, etc.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:

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
Overview

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

National Peace Council (Great Britain) Collected Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-National Peace Council
Overview The National Peace Council, established in 1905 as the National Council of Peace Societies and later also known as the National Council for the Prevention of War, brought together national groups and organizations that held a common interest in peace, disarmament, and internationalism in support of radical and constructive solutions to problems related to war and violence. Its affiliated groups included peace societies as well as religious, social, and industrial organizations. A major task...
Dates: 1909-2000

Peace Action Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-151
Abstract The Peace Action collection is a continuation of the SANE and SANE Education Fund (DG 58) collection, which also resides at the SCPC (the papers of the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign are at the University of Missouri at St. Louis). It documents the merger of SANE and the NWFC, as well as the goals and work of the merged organization, through meeting minutes, correspondence, program files, press clippings and other publicity, statements and communications with Congress and other leaders, as...
Dates: 1986-

Peninsula Peace and Justice Center Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Peninsula Peace and Justice Center
Abstract

This collection consists of flyers, announcements, emails, booklets, printed correspondence.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1980-

Philadelphia Peace Council Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Philadelphia Peace Council-(1925-ca. 1932)
Abstract Includes scattered minutes (1924-1932), scattered correspondence (1924-1928), form letters, statements, membership lists, bulletins (1925-1928) and materials relating to several conferences on the teaching of history, and other records, of the first Philadelphia Peace Council (1922-ca. 1932), earlier known as Philadelphia Council for World Peace. Correspondents include J. Howard Branson, Sophia H. Dulles, Harold Evans, Agnes M. Irwin, Frederick J. Libby, Allen S. Olmsted, and Richard R....
Dates: 1924-1931

Philadelphia Peace Council Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Philadelphia Peace Council-(1937-ca. 1943)
Abstract

Includes constitution (1938), minutes (1937-1943), correspondence (1937-1943), form letters, financial records, leaflets, speeches, releases, membership lists, bulletins (1938-1941), clippings, and other records. Correspondents include Maria Biasone, Orton S. Clark, Frederick J. Libby, Allen S. Olmsted, Daniel A. Poling, and Richard R. Wood.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1937-1943

Piedmont Peace Resource Center Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Piedmont Peace Resource Center
Abstract

This collection consists of flyers, announcements, financial records, booklets, printed correspondence. Includes information about the "Alternatives to Military Service" project.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1984-1992

Promoting Enduring Peace Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-141
Overview Promoting Enduring Peace was founded in 1952, with headquarters in Woodmont, Connecticut. Principles of the organization included: peace with freedom and justice for all, support for the United Nations, and belief in religion as the fundamental force for righteousness. Today PEP's mission is to conduct peace education promoting the advent of a harmonious planetary commonwealth through the convergence of the worldwide movements for disarmament, social justice, and environmental stewardship as...
Dates: 1949-

Société de la Paix de Genève Collection

 Collection — Othertype CDG-B
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Switzerland-Societe de la Paix de Geneve
Abstract

Printed materials: periodicals and pamphlets; all materials in this collection are in French.

Dates: Majority of material found in 1830-1839

Wilbur K. (Wilbur Kelsey) Thomas Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-149
Overview Wilbur K. Thomas (1882-1953), a Quaker born in Indiana, was executive secretary of the American Friends Service Committee from 1918 to 1929. He graduated from Friends University in 1904, served as pastor of various Quaker churches, graduated from Yale Divinity School in 1907, earned a Ph.D. from Boston University in 1914, and was a member of Boston Friends Meeting after 1909. He was director of the Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation in Philadelphia from 1930 to 1946. The collection contains...
Dates: 1914-1933