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

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 125 Collections and/or Records:

McKeesport League of Peace Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-McKeesport League of Peace
Dates: 1921
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Michigan Council for World Peace Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Michigan Council for World Peace
Dates: 1924
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Minute Women for Peace Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Minute Women for Peace
Dates: 1951-1953
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

George Nasmyth and Florence Nasmyth Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-057
Abstract

George W. Nasmyth was educated at Cornell, Berlin, Gottingen, Heidelburg and Zurich. He dedicate his life to the cause of international understanding and peace. In 1919, he attended the Paris Peace Conference, and to organize the first meeting since the outbreak of the war of the World Alliance for Friendship Through the Churches. He died of a typhus infection at the age of 39, on September 20, 1920. Florence Nasmyth was a writer on peace issues.

Dates: 1911-1937
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

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
Abstract

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
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

National Council Against Conscription Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-052
Abstract The National Council Against Conscription had its first official meeting on December 13, 1945 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Nation Council Against Conscription worked to defeat various legislative measures which promoted universal military training and peacetime conscription, by lobbying Congress, public speaking, publishing detailed analyses of proposed legislation, corresponding with magazine and newspaper editors about their coverage of Universal Military Training, and producing...
Dates: 1944-1960
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

National Council for Limitation of Armaments Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-National Council for Limitation of Armaments
Dates: 1921-1922
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-075
Abstract The National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam was a conference of groups opposed to the United States' involvement in Vietnam. This groups in1966 and its first major undertaking at that time was to organize a mass rally on April 15, 1967, both in New York City and in San Francisco. The Mobe's chief aim was to mobilize public opinion against the Vietnamese War and against such other injustices of society as black inequality. It sought to weld a coalition of existing peace...
Dates: 1966-1969
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

National Peace Conference (U.S.) Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-049
Abstract

The National Peace Conference was formed in 1933 to unify and coordinate the efforts of various organizations interested in world justice and peace. The organization was active until 1951.

Dates: 1933-1951
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

National Peace Council (Great Britain) Collected Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-National Peace Council
Abstract 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
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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