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A Quaker Action Group Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-074
Scope and Contents
A Quaker Action Group (AQAG) records in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection include minutes, correspondence (1966-1971), memoranda, financial records, subject files (organizations), research files (topics), project files, newsletters, press releases, statements of Quaker yearly meetings in various cities, clippings, photographs and sound recordings. The files were first processed in 1974, and then again in 1980. In 2004, archival intern, Joe Clark, sorted the papers into the present...
Dates:
1965-1973
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
American Peace Society Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-003
Abstract
In the 1820s William Ladd of the Maine Peace Society suggested that the regional US peace societies become associated in a national organization. As a result, the peace societies of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) merged in May 1828 to form the American Peace Society [APS]. The stated purpose of the American Peace Society was to "promote permanent international peace through justice; and to advance in every proper way the general use of...
Dates:
1828-1947
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
American Union for Concerted Peace Efforts Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American Union for Concerted Peace Efforts
Scope and Contents
Includes the periodical Toward World Cooperation.
Dates:
1938-1939
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Another Mother for Peace Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-102
Abstract
Another Mother for Peace was a women's peace group born from the antipathy to the war in Vietnam, based in Los Angeles, California. The stated purpose of this non-partison, non-profit organization was "to educate women to take an active role in eliminating war as a means of solving disputes between nations, people and ideologies." AMP closed its offices in January 1986.
Dates:
1964-1978; Majority of material found within 1964-1978
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Clergy and Laity Concerned Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-120
Abstract
The collection includes minutes (1966-1973), correspondence (1965-1978), material on Clergy and Laity Concerned's programs and projects, Clergy and Laity Concerned (CALC) publications and posters, press releases, clippings, photographs, and files on local CALC groups, particularly the Metropolitan Chicago Chapter (1969-1981). Also included are files of the newspaper American Report (1970-1974) and material relating to Help Unsell the War, a mass media campaign in 1971-1972. Correspondents...
Dates:
1965-1983
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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
Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-135
Abstract
The Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice was initated in 1974 to "call for disarmament, a simultaneous shift of economic priorities away from militarism and toward meeting domestic and global human needs, and removal of the causes of war." When the Walk ended on October 18, 1976 at the Pentagon in Washington D.C., walkers had covered 8,000 miles through 34 states.
Dates:
1975-1978
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 Quaker Concerns Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-237
Abstract
Edward W. Evans (1882-1976) was a Quaker leader and lawyer active in the educational and peace concerns of the Society of Friends. The collection primarily contains papers compiled by Edward W. Evans during his time as Secretary of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Orthodox), from 1938-1946. Of particular interest are the materials concerning Civilian Public Service. The collection is significant in its documentation of pacifist attitudes and the ways in which the Society of Friends was active...
Dates:
1920, 1938-1951
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
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- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 5
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 5
- American Friends Service Committee 4
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 4
- Lyttle, Bradford 4
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 4
- Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987 4
- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 3
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 3
- Dellinger, David T., 1915-2004 3
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 3
- Hassler, Alfred, 1910- 3
- Jack, Homer A. (Homer Alexander), 1916-1993 3
- Lens, Sidney 3
- Levering, Robert, 1944- 3
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 3
- Lochner, Louis Paul, 1887-1975 3
- McReynolds, David 3
- Mead, Lucia True Ames, 1856-1936 3
- Newton, Ray 3
- Peck, Sidney M. (Sidney Morris), 1926- 3
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 3
- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 3
- War Resisters League 3
- Young, Ronald J., 1942- 3
- A Quaker Action Group 2
- American Peace Society 2
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 2
- Brickner, Balfour, 1926-2005 2
- Brown, H. Runham (Herbert Runham), 1879-1949 2
- Call, Arthur Deerin, 1869-1941 2
- Camp, Kay 2
- Carner, Lucy Perkins, 1886-1983 2
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 2
- Chalmers, Ruth 2
- Christian Arbitration and Peace Society 2
- Clergy and Laity Concerned (U.S.) 2
- Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 1924-2006 2
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 2
- Evans, Edward W. (Edward Wyatt), 1882-1976 2
- Fernandez, Richard R. (Richard Ritter) 2
- Forbes, Rose Dabney, 1864-1947 2
- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 2
- Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.) 2
- Gara, Larry 2
- Hedemann, Ed 2
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 2
- Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 2
- Hutchinson, Dorothy H. (Dorothy Hewitt), 1905-1984 2
- Kaufman, Abraham 2
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 2
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 2
- Lynd, Staughton 2
- Meacham, Stewart 2
- Mead, Edwin D. (Edwin Doak), 1849-1937 2
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 2
- New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam 2
- People's Coalition for Peace and Justice 2
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 2
- Samuel, Pat 2
- Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 2
- Sewall, May Wright, 1844-1920 2
- Smiley, Glenn E. 2
- Steffens, Dorothy R. 2
- Sterner, Beverly 2
- Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.) 2
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 2
- Trueblood, Benjamin Franklin, 1847-1916 2
- Turn Toward Peace (Organization) 2
- Vietnam Summer (Organization) 2
- Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949 2
- Wales, Julia Grace, 1881- 2
- Walker, Charles C. 2
- Wentworth, Lydia G., 1858- 2
- Will, Herman, 1915- 2
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 2
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section 2
- Abbott, Grace, 1878-1939 1
- Abercrombie, Daniel Webster, 1853-1932 1
- Aberman, Sidney 1
- Acts for Peace (Organization) 1
- Affeldt, Allan 1
- Agus, Jacob B. (Jacob Bernard), 1911-1986 1
- Alexander, Joseph G. (Joseph Gundry), 1848- 1
- Alexander, Magnus W. (Magnus Washington), 1870-1932 1
- Allinson, Brent D. (Brent Dow) 1
- Alperovitz, Gar 1
- Altbach, Philip G. 1
- Alternatives to Violence Project 1
- Amdur, Stephen 1
- American League against War and Fascism 1
- American League for Peace and Democracy 1
- American Union for Concerted Peace Efforts 1
- American Woman's Republic 1
- Andrews, Fannie Fern, 1867-1950 1
- Angell, Stephen Ward, 1952- 1
- Another Mother for Peace (Association) 1
- Anti-War Mobilization Mass Meeting (1940 : Washington, D.C.) 1
- Aptheker, Herbert, 1915-2003 1
- Armentrout, Barbara 1 + ∧ less
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