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Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 113 Collections and/or Records:

Sydney Dix Strong Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-036
Abstract Sydney Dix Strong (1860-1938) was an outspoken pacifist and strong supporter of disarmament, war resistance, and organized labor. He was the pastor for churches in Ohio and Illinois and did settlement work in Chicago. For his peace stance made him unpopular during WWI and in Oct. 1917 he was expelled from membership in the Municipal League of Seattle because of a speech he had given before the National Council of Congregational Churches, in which he praised the I.W.W. (International Workers...
Dates: 1890-1938
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Edward Thomas and Margaret Loring Thomas Collected Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Thomas, Edward-Margaret Loring Thomas
Abstract

Edward Thomas was a chemist and chemical patent lawyer in New York City. His wife Margaret Loring Thomas had been active in settlement work and a teacher of home economics before marriage. Both were activist, pacifist Quakers.

Dates: 1917-1952
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Universal Peace Union Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-038
Abstract

The most colorful and important peace organization to rise from the the Civil War was the Universal Peace Union (UPU). This militant band grew out of reaction against compromising tactics which the American Peace Society adopted during the Civil War.

Dates: 1846-1938; Majority of material found within 1867-1923; Majority of material found within 1938
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

War Resisters League Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-040
Abstract The War Resisters League is a pacifist organization whose members are against all war. Witnessing the establishment of the War Resisters' International in Europe in 1921, and sensing a need for a similar organization in the United States, Dr. Jessie Wallace Hughan established the War Resisters League as an independent organization. The War Resisters League membership pledge, which has remained essentially unchanged since its inception, reads: "The War Resisters League affirms that war is a...
Dates: 1923-2013
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Ada Wardlaw Collected Papers

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Wardlaw, Ada
Dates: 1937-1963
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Lydia G. Wentworth Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-041
Abstract Lydia G. Wentworth, was a writer and ardent peace advocate who lived most of her life in Brookline, Massachusetts. Despite illness which confined her to bed for over thirty years, she carried on a prolific correspondence and contributed hundreds of articles to newspapers and magazines. Wentworth was on the advisory committee of the Women's Peace Society, and was a member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the Association to Abolish...
Dates: 1902-1947; Majority of material found within 1918-1947
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Norman J. Whitney Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-061
Abstract Norman Jehiel Whitney (1891-1967) was a Quaker teacher, writer and devoted peace worker. From 1919-1957 he helped establish, and directed for many years, the Syracuse Peace Council. He left Syracuse in 1957 to work for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in peace education. Whitney's major peace work was in the area of counseling conscientious objectors to war (COs), particularly those in Civilian Public Service (CPS) camps. In 1941 he helped establish the New York State Board for...
Dates: 1938 - 1967
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

David Thoreau Wieck Collected Papers

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Wieck, David Thoreau
Scope and Contents

Includes prison correspondence, 1943-1946, and post-prison writings.

Dates: 1942-1969; Majority of material found within 1943-1950
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Denny Wilcher Collected Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Wilcher, Denny
Abstract

This collection documents the experiences of Wilcher (and his friends), while in Civilian Public Service, and after he left CPS and was imprisoned at McNeil Island Federal Prison Camp.

Dates: 1941-1946
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

George Willoughby and Lillian Willoughby Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-236
Abstract

George Willoughby (December 9, 1914 - January 5, 2010) and Lillian Willoughby (c. 1916 - January 15, 2009) were Quaker activists who took part in nonviolent protests against war, conducted nonviolence trainings in India and other countries, and advocated for preservation of land in New Jersey and elsewhere.

Dates: 1931-2010
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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