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Consultative Peace Council Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Consultative Peace Council
Abstract
Includes correspondence, reports, financial records, administrative files, minutes of meetings, publicity materials, brochures, newspaper clippings. Correspondents include: Devere Allen, Dorothy Detzer, Alfred Hassler, Jessie Wallace Hughan, Abe Kaufman, Frederick J. Libby, A.J. Muste, Ray Newton, Mildred Scott Olmsted, John Swomley, E. Raymond Wilson, and M.R. Zigler.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1930-1969
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
Emergency Peace Committee Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Emergency Peace Committee
Dates:
1931-1933
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Edward W. Evans Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-122
Overview
Edward Wyatt Evans (1882-1976) was a lifelong member of the Germantown (Pennsylvania) Monthly Meeting and was active in the Friends Peace Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Evans was instrumental in the founding of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (Fellowship of Reconcilation), and was the executive secretary from 1916-1919. During the 1920s, he was also active in educational and peace programs of the Society of Friends.
Dates:
1916-1922
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
J. Stuart Innerst Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-103
Overview
J. Stuart Innerst was a United Brethren in Christ missionary to China in the 1920s. Innerst and his wife Marion Reachard Innerst left China in 1927 with great concerns about the influence of western imperialism in that country. J. Stuart Innerst served as pastor of several churches and joined the Society of Friends in 1943. In addition to his pastoral work, Innerst also served as the Director of the Quaker Friends in Washington Program (1960-1961, lobbied members of Congress regarding China,...
Dates:
1920-1975
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Intentional Low Income Group Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Intentional Low Income Group
Abstract
Collection includes bulletins and statements of the Intentional Low Income Group.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1952-1954
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
Left Wing Pacifist-Socialists Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Left Wing Pacifist-Socialists
Abstract
This file includes correspondence and memoranda dated 1945, pertaining to the proposed organization of a new movement for radical nonviolent pacifists. Includes a letter of April 27, 1945, of which signers include Rex Corfman, Henry Dyer, Roy Finch, Lewis Hill, Morris Horowitz, Byron Johnson, Igal Roodenko, and Stanley Rappeport; a list of the addressees is included on the same page as the signers. Collection also includes a "Memorandum on Effective Pacifist Organization for Action" by...
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1945
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
National Peace Conference (U.S.) Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-049
Overview
The National Peace Conference was formed in 1933 to unify and coordinate the efforts of various organizations interested in world justice and peace. The organization was active until 1951.
Dates:
1933-1951
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
War Resisters League Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-040
Overview
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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- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 4
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 3
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 3
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 3
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 3
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 3
- Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987 3
- American Friends Service Committee 2
- Emergency Peace Campaign (U.S.) 2
- Finch, Henry Le Roy 2
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 2
- Kaufman, Abraham 2
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 2
- Newton, Ray 2
- Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971 2
- Page, Kirby, 1890-1957 2
- Roodenko, Igal 2
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 2
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 2
- Aberman, Sidney 1
- American Friends Reconstruction Unit 1
- Anti-War Mobilization Mass Meeting (1940 : Washington, D.C.) 1
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 1
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 1
- Barr, Allen H. 1
- Beaver, Gilbert A., -1952 1
- Bennett, Fay 1
- Biddle, William Canby, 1864-1942 1
- Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 1
- Brooks, R. Boland 1
- Brown, H. Runham (Herbert Runham), 1879-1949 1
- Butler, Smedley D. (Smedley Darlington), 1881-1940 1
- Byrd, Richard Evelyn, 1888-1957 1
- Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 1
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 1
- Conference of All Friends (1920) (London, England) 1
- Conference of Christian Pacifists 1
- Consultative Peace Council (U.S.) 1
- Corfman, Rex 1
- Dellinger, David T., 1915-2004 1
- DiGia, Ralph 1
- Dodge, Alice L. 1
- Douglas, Paul H. (Paul Howard), 1892-1976 1
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 1
- Dunbar, Olivia Howard, 1873-1953 1
- Dyer, Henry W. 1
- Eichel, Julius, 1896- 1
- Eichelberger, Clark M. (Clark Mell), 1896-1980 1
- Elderkin, Noble S. (Noble Strong), 1878-1966 1
- Emergency Peace Committee 1
- Evans, Edward W. (Edward Wyatt), 1882-1976 1
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 1
- Fey, Harold E. (Harold Edward), 1898-1990 1
- Fosdick, Harry Emerson 1
- Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.) 1
- Fuller, Walter G. 1
- Gladstone, Arthur 1
- Gottlieb, Edward P. 1
- Haines, Jennifer 1
- Hamilton, Albert W. 1
- Hardin, Floyd, 1890-1974 1
- Harker, Charles H. 1
- Hartmann, George W. (George Wilfried), 1904-1955 1
- Hassler, Alfred, 1910- 1
- Hedemann, Ed 1
- Hedemann, Grace 1
- Hennacy, Ammon, 1893-1970 1
- Hillyer, Mary W. 1
- Hodgkin, Henry T. (Henry Theodore), 1877-1933 1
- Holifield, Chet, 1903-1995 1
- Hollister, Alvaine 1
- Houser, George M. 1
- Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955 1
- Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 1
- Innerst, J. Stuart, 1894-1975 1
- Intentional Low Income Group 1
- Johnson, Clare Sturges 1
- Johnson, Edwin C. (Edwin Carl), 1884-1970 1
- Joint Peace Board 1
- Jones, Paul, 1880-1941 1
- Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 1
- Keep America Out of War Committee 1
- Keep America Out of War Congress 1
- Kelsey, Mary 1
- Kepler, Roy C. 1
- La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion), 1855-1925 1
- La Jolla Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Peace Committee 1
- Labor Anti-War Council 1
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 1
- Littell, Franklin H. (Franklin Hamlin), 1917-2009 1
- McReynolds, David 1
- Mendenhall, William O. 1
- National Peace Conference (U.S.) 1
- Nearing, Scott, 1883-1983 1
- Neutrality Bloc 1
- Nicholson, Vincent D. (Vincent De Witt), 1890-1945 1
- Olmstead, Frank 1
- Pacific Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Friend in the Orient Committee 1
- Pacifist Action Committee 1
- Palmer, Albert W. (Albert Wentworth), 1879-1954 1 + ∧ less
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