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Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 125 Collections and/or Records:

Rockland County Peace Association Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-121
Abstract

The Rockland County Peace Association was a small local peace group begun in 1930 to stimulate popular education and public opinion with a view to the prevention of war. It carried on relief work during World War II through the American Friends Service Committee.

Dates: 1930-1950
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Martha Schofield Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-134
Abstract Martha Schofield (1839-1916) was a Hicksite Quaker teacher from Pennsylvania who founded the Schofield Normal and Industrial School in Aiken, S. C., in 1868 to provide education for formerly enslaved people. The School gradually evolved into a boarding school for training young blacks in industrial trades or to become teachers. It was absorbed into the public school system in 1952. Martha Fell Schofield was born Feb. 1, 1839, near Newtown, Bucks County, PA. She was the daughter of Oliver W....
Dates: 1853-1944 (bulk 1856-1916)
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Student Peace Union Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-065
Abstract

The Student Peace Union was founded at the University of Chicago in 1959. It was an intercollegiate student group whose members believed that neither war nor the threat of war could any longer be successfully used to settle international disputes.

Dates: 1959-1967
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Syracuse Peace Council Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Syracuse Peace Council
Dates: 1938-; Majority of material found within 1969-1989
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

The collected records of the Woman's Peace Party : [microform]

 Collection — Othertype Reels 12.1-12.23
Identifier: SCPC-Reels-12.1-12.23
Dates: 1914-1920
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

The papers of Emily Greene Balch : [microform] / editor, Martha P. Shane

 Collection — Othertype Reels 129.1-129.26
Identifier: SCPC-Reels-129.1-129.26
Dates: 1875-1961
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, United States Section : [microform] / editor, Eleanor M. Barr

 Collection — Othertype Reels 130.1-130.97
Identifier: SCPC-Reels-130.1-130.97
Dates: 1919-1959
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Turn Toward Peace Collected Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Turn Toward Peace
Abstract Turn Toward Peace was founded in 1961 as a cooperative national effort of about 60 peace and liberal internationalist organizations; Norman Thomas was Chairman of TTP, and Robert Gilmore was the Executive Director. There eventually were offices in several large cities and 38 national organizations were affiliated with the organization. But by 1963, serious discord divided TTP and several years later a group split off to became the World Without War Council; some regional offices retained the...
Dates: 1961-1970
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

United Peace Chest of Philadelphia Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-194
Abstract

The United Peace Chest of Philadelphia coordinated and integrated Philadelphia organizations interested in promoting international peace. The name was often shortened to "United Peace Chest." The UPC was founded in 1938, though it was conceptualized in 1936 at a meeting of the Pennsylvania Branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

Dates: 1935-1955
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Vietnam Summer Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-067
Abstract Vietnam Summer was a nationwide project designed to reach concerned citizens throughout the United States and to weld them into an organized and active constituency against the war in Vietnam. Martin Luther King, Jr., Benjamin Spock and others launched the project nationally on April 23, 1967. From headquarters in Cambridge, Mass. co-directors Richard R. Fernandez and Lee D. Webb coordinated the efforts of 500 paid staff members and over 26,000 volunteers in about 700 local projects. Vietnam...
Dates: 1967
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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Bryn Mawr College Special Collections
Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections