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Devere Allen Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-053
Abstract
Author, editor, journalist and lecturer; advocate of internationalist pacifism; influential member of the Socialist Party in the 1930s; genealogist; recorder of Rhode Island history and lore; named Harold Devere Allen.
Dates:
1809-1978; Majority of material found within 1910-1955
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
American Union Against Militarism Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-004
Overview
In 1915 a group of New York pacifists and near-pacifists organized the "Anti-militarism Committee" to combat the war spirit of the time. Activities included lobbying, publishing, a lecture campaign, and the establishment of a Civil Liberties Bureau. The most notable achievements were the work in the successful effort to avert war with Mexico in 1916 and the encouragement of opposition to peacetime conscription following World War I. The office was raided by the government and American Union...
Dates:
1915 - 1922
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-011
Abstract
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana was a writer and pacifist who taught comparative literature at Columbia University from 1912 until 1917. Dana lost his teaching post as an opponent of American participation in World War I. Dana continued to advocate civil liberties and the rights of conscientious objectors.
Dates:
1914-1950
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Emergency Peace Campaign Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-012
Abstract
Initiated in late 1935 by the American Friends Service Committee and other pacifists; originally planned as a two-year campaign to rally peace, religious, labor, African-American and student groups; aim was to organize a national campaign to promote peace principles in the face of preparation for war in Europe, and to keep the United States out of war; may have been preceded by the Emergency Peace Committee (1931-1933), though this has not been documented. The first EPC office opened in...
Dates:
1936-1937
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Anna Melissa Graves Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-015
Abstract
Anna Melissa Graves was a writer, teacher, world traveler, and internationalist. From the 1920s to the 1940s Graves traveled through Africa, Central and South America, China, Europe, and the Middle East. She taught school in many of these places and maintained a voluminous correspondence with the teachers, acquaintances, and former students she met on her travels.
Dates:
1919-1953
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
National Council for Prevention of War Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-023
Abstract
The National Council for Prevention of War (NCPW) was directed by J. Frederick Libby for many years; it lobbied Congress and created educational peace material, among other activities and campaigns.
Dates:
1921-1975
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Peoples Mandate Committee Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-109
Overview
Peoples Mandate to Governments to End War was an international campaign begun on September 6, 1935, by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom to express such overwhelming opposition to war that governments would not dare resort to it as a means of solving disputes between nations. By the end of the decade the Peoples Mandate became an independent organization, headed by Mabel Vernon, and focused on peace and connections between women and women's organizations in the...
Dates:
1935-1975; Majority of material found within 1935-1956
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 4
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 4
- Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949 4
- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 3
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- Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 2
- Brockway, Fenner, 1888-1988 2
- Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 2
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 2
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 2
- Eastman, Crystal, 1881-1928 2
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 2
- Fey, Harold E. (Harold Edward), 1898-1990 2
- Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 2
- Florence, Lella Secor, 1887-1966 2
- Graves, Anna Melissa, 1875-1964 2
- Harris, Paul, b. 1897 2
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 2
- Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 2
- Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 2
- Kaufman, Abraham 2
- Mead, Lucia True Ames, 1856-1936 2
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 2
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 2
- Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971 2
- Page, Kirby, 1890-1957 2
- Rankin, Jeannette, 1880-1973 2
- Reynolds, Reginald, 1905-1958 2
- Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 2
- Royden, A. Maude (Agnes Maude), 1876-1956 2
- Wald, Lillian D., 1867-1940 2
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section 2
- Abbott, Grace, 1878-1939 1
- Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971 1
- Adler, Friedrich 1
- Albizu Campos, Pedro, 1891-1965 1
- Allen, Horatio, 1802-1889 1
- Allen, Marie Hollister, 1893-1979 1
- Alley, Alden Gifford 1
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- Angell, Norman, 1874-1967 1
- Armstrong, Florence A. (Florence Arzelia), 1881-1962 1
- Balabanoff, Angelica, 1878-1965 1
- Barbusse, Henri, 1873-1935 1
- Beard, Charles A. (Charles Austin), 1874-1948 1
- Berg, Russel O. 1
- Beverage, Albion P. 1
- Biddle, Clement M. (Clement Miller), 1876-1959 1
- Boeckel, Florence Brewer, 1885- 1
- Bolling, Landrum Rymer 1
- Boyer, Gaeta Wold 1
- Brainerd, Heloise, 1881-1969 1
- Breckinridge, Sophonisba P. (Sophonisba Preston), 1866-1948 1
- Bridges, Harry, 1901- 1
- Brittain, Vera, 1893-1970 1
- Broun, Heywood, 1888-1939 1
- Brown, A. Barratt 1
- Browning, Hilda 1
- Burke, Ana del Pulgar 1
- Burritt, Elihu, 1810-1879 1
- Butler, Smedley D. (Smedley Darlington), 1881-1940 1
- Byrd, Richard Evelyn, 1888-1957 1
- Catchpool, Corder, 1883-1952 1
- Ceresole, Pierre, 1879-1945 1
- Chase, E. Dixwell 1
- Citizens Victory Committee for Harry Bridges 1
- Civil Rights Congress (U.S.) 1
- Clark, Roderic Kendall 1
- Committee on Militarism in Education (U.S.) 1
- Coolidge, A. Sprague 1
- Cranston, Maurice, 1920-1993 1
- Cunard, Nancy, 1896-1965 1
- Curti, Merle (Merle Eugene), 1897-1996 1
- Dana, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1881-1950 1
- Dewey, John, 1859-1952 1
- Douglas, Paul H. (Paul Howard), 1892-1976 1
- Dulles, John Foster 1
- Dunn, Robert W. (Robert Williams), 1895- 1
- Eichelberger, Clark M. (Clark Mell), 1896-1980 1
- Einstein, Albert 1
- Engelbrecht, H. C. (Helmuth Carol), 1895-1939 1
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