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Mohandas K. Gandhi Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-India-Gandhi, Mahatma
Abstract
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in 1869 in Porbandar in Gujarat, India. He trained as a barrister and worked in Durban, South Africa. Influenced primarily by Hinduism, but also by elements of Jainism and Christianity as well as writers including Tolstoy and Thoreau, Gandhi developed the satyagraha ('devotion to truth'), a new nonviolent way to redress wrongs. Gandhi returned to India and in 1919, he announced a new satyagraha which attracted millions of followers. By 1920, Gandhi was a...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1919-
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
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- Aberman, Sidney 1
- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 1
- Alexander, Horace Gundry, 1889-1989 1
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 1
- Barr, Allen H. 1
- Brooks, R. Boland 1
- Brown, H. Runham (Herbert Runham), 1879-1949 1
- Chertkov, V. G. (Vladimir Grigorʹevich), 1854-1936 1
- Chintamani, Chirravoori Yajneswara, Sir, 1880-1941 1
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 1
- Corfman, Rex 1
- DiGia, Ralph 1
- Dunbar, Olivia Howard, 1873-1953 1
- Eichel, Julius, 1896- 1
- Finch, Henry Le Roy 1
- Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 1
- Gottlieb, Edward P. 1
- Gregg, Richard Bartlett, 1885- 1
- Hartmann, George W. (George Wilfried), 1904-1955 1
- Hedemann, Ed 1
- Hedemann, Grace 1
- Hennacy, Ammon, 1893-1970 1
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 1
- Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 1
- Kaufman, Abraham 1
- Kepler, Roy C. 1
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 1
- Mahmud, Syed, 1889-1971 1
- McReynolds, David 1
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 1
- Newman, Dorothy K. (Dorothy Krall) 1
- Olmstead, Frank 1
- Ransom, Frances Rose 1
- Reynolds, Reginald, 1905-1958 1
- Richards, Edward C. M., 1886-1974 1
- Roodenko, Igal 1
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 1
- Schaum, Winifred W. 1
- Schwartz, Wendy (Editor) 1
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 1
- War Resisters League 1
- Wentworth, Lydia G., 1858- 1
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