Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981

Mildred Scott Olmsted Papers

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-082

Abstract Mildred Scott Olmsted, peace activist and suffragist, was born in Glenolden, Pennsylvania, in 1890. In 1922, Olmsted became Executive Secretary of the Pennsylvania Branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). From 1934 onward she assumed national positions with the organization. In 1946, Olmsted became National Administrative Secretary and held that position (until her retirement in 1966. She remained active as Executive Director Emerita of WILPF and also served...

Dates: 1881-1990; Majority of material found within 1907-1990

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Pennsylvania Committee for Total Disarmament Records

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-030

Abstract The Pennsylvania Committee for Total Disarmament was active from 1930 to 1936, chiefly in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Through public opinion and personal contacts, PCTD supporters pressured Congress to support total disarmament, including passage of the Frazier Amendment outlawing war. Other objectives of the Committee included a Congressional investigation of the munitions industry, opposition to all preparations and training for war (including ROTC), and support for...

Dates: 1930-1938

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Post-War World Council Records

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-062

Abstract

Founded in 1942 to continue the efforts begun by Keep America Out of War Congress; December 1941 KAOWC dissolved and reorganized as Provisional Committee Toward a Democratic Peace; February 1942 a more permanent group organized; ceased activities December 1967.

Dates: 1942-1967

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Mercedes M. Randall Papers

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-110

Abstract

Mercedes M. Randall was an early, and lifelong, member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. She held many positions of responsibility in the organization, including chairmanship of the National Education Committee, and presidency of the Manhattan Branch. Randall was the first biographer of Nobel Peace Prize winner, Emily Greene Balch.

Dates: 1914-1977

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Helene Stöcker Papers

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-035

Abstract

Dr. Helene Stöcker (1869-1943) was one of the first woman students to enter a German University. In the 1920s she helped found Germany's first woman suffrage organization, and later the Bund für Mutterschutz (Protection of Motherhood). Dr. Stöcker immigrated to the United States in 1941 under the sponsorship of friends and colleagues in the peace movement.

Dates: 1897-1994; Majority of material found within 1913-1943

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Helena M. Swanwick Collected Papers

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-Swanwick, Helena M.

Abstract

Helena Maria Sickert was born in Germany and moved to England early on. She was an author, journalist, and lecturer involved in peace activism, feminism, and social justice. She became chair of the British Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and was a British delegate to the League of Nations. Her dream was that women, if they used their power, could make an end to war.

Dates: 1907-1938

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

E. Raymond Wilson Papers

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-070

Abstract E. Raymond Wilson (1896-1987), a Quaker peace lobbyist, helped found the Friends Committee on National Legislation in 1943 and served as its Executive Secretary until 1962. He also helped organize the Committee on Militarism in Education in 1925. From 1931 to 1943, he served as Field and Education Secretary of the Peace Section of the American Friends Service Committee. He was the author of two books. The papers of E. Raymond Wilson contain personal and professional correspondence,...

Dates: 1914-1987

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Women's Committee to Oppose Conscription Records

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-068

Abstract This group was originally named the Committee to Oppose the Conscription of Women [WCOC], and then the National Committee to Oppose the Conscription of Women. It was formed in 1942 to protest the Austin-Wadsworth legislative bills and similar measures, which proposed that American women be drated into a civilian workforce for the duration of World War II. When the immediate threat of drafting women had passed, the group changed its name again, this time to the Women's Committee to Oppose...

Dates: 1942-1948

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:

Mildred Scott Olmsted Papers

Pennsylvania Committee for Total Disarmament Records

Post-War World Council Records

Mercedes M. Randall Papers

Helene Stöcker Papers

Helena M. Swanwick Collected Papers

Lydia G. Wentworth Papers

E. Raymond Wilson Papers

Women's Committee to Oppose Conscription Records

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