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Jane Addams Papers

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-001

Overview

A world-famous social reformer; co-founded the first settlement house in America in 1889; championed many causes on behalf of the urban poor, such as protection of immigrants, child labor laws, industrial safety, juvenile courts, and recognition of labor unions; a leading figure in the movement for international peace; awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.

Dates: 1838-; Majority of material found within 1880-1935

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

American Women for Peace Collected Records

Collection — othertype: CDG-A

Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American Women for Peace

Scope and Contents

Materials include releases, leaflets, and the periodical Peacemaker.

Dates: 1950-1953

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

Hannah J. Bailey Papers

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-005

Overview Hannah Johnston Bailey was a Quaker pacifist, suffragist, reformer,temperance leader, superintendent of the Department of Peace and Arbitration of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union from 1887 to 1916, president and business manager of the Woman's Temperance Publication Association, the publishing arm of the WCTU, president of the Maine Woman Suffrage Association (1891-1899), and a member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Included in her papers is material...

Dates: 1836-1923

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Katherine Devereux Blake Collected Papers

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Blake, Katherine Devereux

Abstract

Katherine Devereux Blake was a suffragist and peace activist through the first half of the twentieth century. She was a member of the Ford Peace Expedition in 1915-1916, served on the national board of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and its international executive board, and was the chief speaker for the Disarmament Caravan, which toured 9,000 miles in 1931.

Dates: 1911-1950

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Elise Boulding Collected Papers

Collection — othertype: CDG-A

Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Boulding, Elise

Dates: 1961-1975

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Kay Camp Papers

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-169

Abstract Katherine Lindsley Camp was born in 1918 [1919?], Mt. Kisco New York. She was a graduate of Swarthmore College (Class of 1940). Camp was elected president of the U.S. Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1967, and served as international president, 1974-1980. In addition Camp was founder of the Citizens Bi-Racial Study Group; former president of the Pennsylvania Women's Political Caucus; made unsuccessful bid for Congress in 1972 on the Democratic ticket in...

Dates: 1955-2006

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection