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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
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
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-043
Abstract
Includes minutes, resolutions and general historical records; anniversary celebrations, committee minutes, literature and releases; office files from the legislative office, the finance and the executive director; includes miscellaneous records from branches, including New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, among others; a large correspondence file includes general office correspondence as well as that of the National Organizational Secretary, the Washington Legislative Secretary, and...
Dates:
1915-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Camp, Kay 2
- Chalmers, Ruth 2
- Steffens, Dorothy R. 2
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section 2
- Aberman, Sidney 1
- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 1
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 1
- Arnett, Katharine M. (Katharine McCollin) 1
- Art for World Friendship (Organization) 1
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 1
- Ballantyne, Edith 1
- Barr, Allen H. 1
- Boulding, Elise 1
- Brooks, R. Boland 1
- Brown, H. Runham (Herbert Runham), 1879-1949 1
- Carner, Lucy Perkins, 1886-1983 1
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 1
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 1
- Committee for World Development and World Disarmament 1
- Cookson, Sybil, 1890- 1
- Corfman, Rex 1
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 1
- DiGia, Ralph 1
- Dunbar, Olivia Howard, 1873-1953 1
- Eastman, Crystal, 1881-1928 1
- Eichel, Julius, 1896- 1
- Finch, Henry Le Roy 1
- Forbes, Rose Dabney, 1864-1947 1
- Fowler, Eleanor 1
- Frank, Libby 1
- Frazier, Howard 1
- Freeman, Ruth, 1901- 1
- Gage-Colby, Ruth 1
- Gale, Zona, 1874-1938 1
- Gottlieb, Edward P. 1
- Hartmann, George W. (George Wilfried), 1904-1955 1
- Hasegawa, Marii 1
- Hayes, Dorothy M. 1
- Hedemann, Ed 1
- Hedemann, Grace 1
- Hennacy, Ammon, 1893-1970 1
- Hinton, Carma 1
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 1
- Holmes, Margaret 1
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 1
- Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 1
- Hutchinson, Dorothy H. (Dorothy Hewitt), 1905-1984 1
- Ivey, Anne 1
- Jane Addams Peace Association 1
- Jōdai, Tano, 1886-1982 1
- Kaufman, Abraham 1
- Kepler, Roy C. 1
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 1
- Lochner, Louis Paul, 1887-1975 1
- McReynolds, David 1
- Mead, Lucia True Ames, 1856-1936 1
- Mellor, Ruth 1
- Midgley, Jane 1
- Moore, Carol V. 1
- Mueller, Melva 1
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 1
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 1
- Olmstead, Frank 1
- Olmsted, Allen S. (Allen Seymour), 1888-1977 1
- Post, Alice Thacher, 1853-1947 1
- Randall, Mercedes M. (Mercedes Moritz), 1895-1977 1
- Ransom, Frances Rose 1
- Richards, Edward C. M., 1886-1974 1
- Roodenko, Igal 1
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 1
- Samuel, Pat 1
- Schaum, Winifred W. 1
- Schwartz, Wendy (Editor) 1
- Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 1
- Sewall, May Wright, 1844-1920 1
- Shannon, K. Patricia 1
- Shelley, Rebecca, 1887-1984 1
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 1
- Van Voris, Jacqueline 1
- Wales, Julia Grace, 1881- 1
- War Resisters League 1
- Warbasse, Agnes D. (Agnes Dyer), 1877-1945 1
- Weideman, Elizabeth W. 1
- Wentworth, Lydia G., 1858- 1
- Witherspoon, Frances, 1886-1973 1
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