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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 Committee for Relief of German Children Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American Committee for Relief of German Children
Dates:
1923-1924
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
American Friends Service Committee: Civilian Public Service / Prison Service Committee Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-002
Overview
Organized to provide alternative service for conscientious objectors, who were assigned "work of national importance under civilian direction; the historic peace churches (Church of the Brethren, Religious Society of Friends and the Mennonite Church) band ed together to form the National Service Board for Religious Objectors (NISBRO) which coordinated the civilian public service (CPS) program; the American Friends Service Committee administered seventeen CPS camps and over thirty special...
Dates:
1940-1947
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
American Friends Service Committee Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American Friends Service Committee
Abstract
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) was set up in June 1917 as an outgrowth of and coordination point for the anti-war and relief activities of various bodies of the Religious Society of Friends in the United States.
Dates:
1917-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
American Interracial Peace Committee Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American Interracial Peace Committee
Scope and Contents
Contains pamphlets and leaflets. Five items.
Dates:
1928-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Nancy J. Babb Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Babb, Nancy
Abstract
Nancy Babb (1884-1948) was a member of the Society of Friends who served as a field representative for the Red Cross and then as a relief worker in Russia from 1917 to the mid 1920s. On her return to the United States in 1928 Babb lectured about her work in Russia. Babb also volunteered for a number of various women's organizations, including the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Babb established the National Circulating Library of Student's Peace Posters, an organization...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1921-1949
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Henry Joel Cadbury Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-081
Abstract
Henry J. Cadbury (1883-1974) was a distinguished Biblical scholar, teacher, and a member of the Society of Friends. Cadbury was one of the founders of the American Friends Service Committee. He served as its chairman from both 1928 to 1934 and again from 1944 to 1960. Cadbury supervised famine relief both in the United States and in Europe.
Dates:
1917-1974
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Center for Economic Conversion Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-215
Overview
The Center for Economic Conversion was a nonprofit organization which promoted the conversion of the military-based U.S. economy to a civilian-based, peace-oriented, and environmentally sustainable one. It was founded in 1975 as a project of the American Friends Service Committee. CEC was a leading advocate for using military base conversion as a tool to foster sustainable development.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1975-2000
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Horace Champney Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-166
Abstract
Horace Champney was a pacifist active in various causes from the late 1940s through the 1980s. He was a founder of The Peacemakers Movement in the 1950s and interested in civil rights, war tax refusal, and other social justice causes. Champney was a member A Quaker Action Group and a crew member of the ship the Phoenix, which sailed to North Vietnam with medical supplies, during the Vietnam war.
Dates:
1958-1990; Majority of material found within 1958-1979
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
College Peace Union Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-College Peace Union
Dates:
1960
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 4
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 4
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- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 3
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 3
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- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 3
- Lyttle, Bradford 3
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 3
- Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971 3
- Page, Kirby, 1890-1957 3
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- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 3
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- Innerst, J. Stuart, 1894-1975 2
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- Neely, Frances E. 2
- Newton, Ray 2
- Pearson, Drew, 1897-1969 2
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- Stern, Lee, 1915-1992 2
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- Allen, Henry T. (Henry Tureman), 1859-1930 1
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- Allen, Marie Hollister, 1893-1979 1
- American Committee for Relief of German Children 1
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- Angell, Stephen Ward, 1952- 1
- Anh, Le Thi 1
- Aptheker, Herbert, 1915-2003 1
- Ashley, Bruce 1
- Babb, Nancy J. (Nancy Jones), 1884-1948 1
- Baer, Gertrude 1
- Beard, Charles A. (Charles Austin), 1874-1948 1
- Benoit, Emile 1
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- Berrigan, Philip 1
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- Burr, Barbara R. 1
- Burritt, Elihu, 1810-1879 1
- Butler, Smedley D. (Smedley Darlington), 1881-1940 1
- Byrd, Richard Evelyn, 1888-1957 1
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