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Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-013
Abstract
The Fellowship of Reconciliation in the U.S. was founded in 1915 by Christian pacifists. The organization, whose members are now drawn from many religious groups, seeks to apply principles of peace and social justice and non-violent social change to issues such as disarmament, conscription, race relations, economic justice, and civil liberties.
Dates:
1915-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Keep America Out of War Congress Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Keep America Out of War
Overview
The Keep America Out of War Congress was founded in 1938 (as the Keep America Out of War Comittee), by several leading peace organizations. The Congress was to pursue a joint, minimum six-point peace program. The aims of this program included the removal of U.S. ships and nationals from belligerent zones, a war referendum, the abandonment of plans for conscription and industrial mobilization, and greater economic and social justice at home and abroad. The Keep America Out of War Congress was...
Dates:
1938-1942
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
A.J. Muste Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-050
Overview
A.J. Muste (1885-1967), was ordained a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, but later (1917), he became a member of the Society of Friends. During World War I, Muste's refusal to abandon his pacifist position led to his forced resignation from the Central Congregational Church in Newtonville, Massachusetts. Muste's involvement as a labor organizer began in 1919 when he led strikes in the textile mills of Lawrence, Massachusetts. He became the director of the Brookwood Labor College in...
Dates:
1920-1967
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
Post-War World Council Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-062
Overview
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
Turn Toward Peace Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Turn Toward Peace
Overview
Turn Toward Peace was founded in 1961 as a cooperative national effort of about 60 peace and liberal internationalist organizations; Norman Thomas was Chairman of TTP, and Robert Gilmore was the Executive Director. There eventually were offices in several large cities and 38 national organizations were affiliated with the organization. But by 1963, serious discord divided TTP and several years later a group split off to became the World Without War Council; some regional offices retained the...
Dates:
1961-1970
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 2
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 2
- Hillyer, Mary W. 2
- Lens, Sidney 2
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 2
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 2
- Turn Toward Peace (Organization) 2
- Abbott, Grace, 1878-1939 1
- Acts for Peace (Organization) 1
- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 1
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 1
- American Friends Service Committee 1
- Aptheker, Herbert, 1915-2003 1
- Armstrong, Florence A. (Florence Arzelia), 1881-1962 1
- Arvio, Raymond Paavo 1
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 1
- Baldridge, Cyrus Leroy, 1889-1977 1
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 1
- Beaver, Gilbert A., -1952 1
- Becker, Jo 1
- Bennett, Fay 1
- Berg, Lloyd A. 1
- Berrigan, Daniel 1
- Bingham, Alfred M. (Alfred Mitchell), 1905-1998 1
- Boehmer, Peter J. 1
- Boss, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), 1888- 1
- Boyer, Gaeta Wold 1
- Breckinridge, Sophonisba P. (Sophonisba Preston), 1866-1948 1
- Brick, Allan 1
- Burke, Ana del Pulgar 1
- Carner, Lucy Perkins, 1886-1983 1
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 1
- Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors 1
- Church Peace Mission (U.S.) 1
- Civilian Public Service 1
- Clergy and Laity Concerned (U.S.) 1
- Clergymen's Emergency Committee for Vietnam 1
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 1
- Congress of Racial Equality 1
- Cook, Cara 1
- Cornell, Thomas C. (Thomas Charles), 1934- 1
- Cousins, Norman 1
- Curry, A. Stauffer (Abram Stauffer), 1913- 1
- Dai Dong (Organization) 1
- Deats, Richard L., 1932- 1
- Dellinger, David T., 1915-2004 1
- Dewey, John, 1859-1952 1
- Dodge, Alice L. 1
- Drevet, Camille 1
- Drinan, Robert F. 1
- Dyer, Henry W. 1
- Elkinton, J. Passmore (Joseph Passmore), 1887-1971 1
- Evans, Edward W. (Edward Wyatt), 1882-1976 1
- Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 1
- Food for China (Project) 1
- Forest, Jim (James H.) 1
- Frankel, Morton 1
- Freeman, Harrop A. (Harrop Arthur), 1907-1993 1
- Fromm, Erich, 1900-1980 1
- Gara, Larry 1
- Gilmore, Robert Wallace, 1921-1988 1
- Gregg, Richard Bartlett, 1885- 1
- Hamilton, Albert W. 1
- Hamilton, Alice, 1869-1970 1
- Hassler, Alfred, 1910-1991 1
- Heidbrink, John 1
- Hollister, Alvaine 1
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 1
- Hostetter, C. Douglas, 1944- 1
- Houser, George M. 1
- Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 1
- Hunter, Barton 1
- International Committee of Conscience on Vietnam 1
- International Fellowship of Reconciliation 1
- International Fellowship of Reconciliation. North American Committee 1
- Jack, Homer A. (Homer Alexander), 1916-1993 1
- Jendrzejczyk, Michael 1
- Jones, Paul, 1880-1941 1
- Juram, Catharine 1
- Keep America Out of War Committee 1
- Keep America Out of War Congress 1
- Kennan, George F. (George Frost), 1904-2005 1
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 1
- Labor Anti-War Council 1
- Landon, Alfred M. (Alfred Mossman), 1887-1987 1
- Lewis, Lucy Biddle, 1861- 1
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 1
- Littell, Franklin H. (Franklin Hamlin), 1917-2009 1
- Lloyd, William Bross, 1908- 1
- Lynd, Staughton 1
- Matthews, J. B. (Joseph Brown), 1894-1966 1
- McReynolds, David 1
- Milholland, Vida 1
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 1
- National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (U.S.) 1
- National Council for Prevention of War (U.S.) 1
- Nevin, Ethan Allen 1
- Nhất Hạnh, Thích 1
- Nuclear Weapons Facilities Task Force. Rocky Flats/Nuclear Weapons Facilities Project 1 + ∧ less
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