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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
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
William Charles Allen Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Allen, William Charles
Overview
William C. Allen was born in 1857 in Chester County, Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Society of Friends. Allen was deeply opposed to war and wrote often about the problems of propaganda, censorship, conscription, imperialism, and the munitions industry. He traveled widely and wrote many articles about his experiences abroad.
Dates:
1895-1937; Majority of material found within 1913-1937
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
Bent Andresen Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Andreson, Bent
Abstract
Bent Andresen registered as a conscientious objector (CO) during World War Two and was sent to a Civilian Public Service in 1944. Andresen participated in a guinea pig project in which he and several other COs lived in a refrigerated room for three months to test the impact of a high-protein diet on cold-weather conditions. He went AWOL in 1945 and was sentenced to two years in prison. Andreson was involved in various peace and justice groups throughout his lifetime.
Dates:
1928-1991
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Bennett W. Andrews and Florence N. Andrews Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-209
Abstract
Bennett Andrews was an absolutist conscientious objector during World War II. He served a five year sentence Danbury Prison, a federal penitentiary, in Connecticut. There he worked in a number of positions in the prison. Bennett Andrews was released from prison on July 11, 1946 and received amnesty from President Truman in 1947. Florence Andrews (born in 1913) married Bennett on July 22, 1938. She was also a strong pacifist, who fully supported her husband's C.O. stance.
Dates:
1940-1950, 1979-1980
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Anna Garlin Spencer Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-034
Overview
Anna Carpenter Garlin Spencer was a minister, feminist, educator, pacifist, and writer on ethics and social problems. Spencer was the first woman in Rhode Island to be ordained and served as the minister of the Bell Street Chapel from 1891 to 1902. Spencer was active in the cause of women's rights for more than forty years and served as the president of the Rhode Island Equal Suffrage Association. Spencer's interest in pacifism also led her to prominent positions with the National Peace and...
Dates:
1830-1931
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
Harold Barton Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Barton, Harold
Abstract
In the early 1940s National Mental Health Foundation originated in 1944-1945 when Harold Barton and three associates, serving at Byberry State Hospital in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), announced plans for a national campaign to improve the conditions in mental hospitals. The exposure of these conditions through the efforts of men serving in CPS, and their efforts to be a nonviolent presence in mental institutions, began a new movement in mental health care in the U.S. The National Mental...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1944-1949
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Randolph Silliman Bourne Collected Papers
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Bourne, Randolph Silliman
Dates:
1913-1917
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 4
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- Government, Resistance to -- History -- Sources 3
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 3
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 3
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- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- Sources 1
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- Aliens -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Americans -- Canada -- History -- Sources 1
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- Antinuclear movement -- History -- Sources 1
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- Church and social problems -- Catholic Church -- History -- Sources 1
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- Civil disobedience 1
- Civil rights 1 + ∧ less
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- English 114
- Undetermined 2
- Spanish; Castilian 1
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- American Friends Service Committee 13
- Civilian Public Service 13
- War Resisters League 12
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 9
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 8
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 8
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 8
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 8
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 8
- Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 8
- Mead, Lucia True Ames, 1856-1936 7
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 6
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 6
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 6
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 6
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section 6
- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 5
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 5
- Finch, Henry Le Roy 5
- Kaufman, Abraham 5
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 5
- Witherspoon, Frances, 1886-1973 5
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. International Office 5
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 4
- Baer, Gertrude 4
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 4
- Bromley, Ernest 4
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 4
- Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 4
- Lyttle, Bradford 4
- McReynolds, David 4
- Peacemaker Movement 4
- Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) 4
- Roodenko, Igal 4
- Shelley, Rebecca, 1887-1984 4
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 4
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 4
- A Quaker Action Group 3
- Bromley, Marion, -1996 3
- Byberry State Hospital (Pa.) 3
- Camp, Kay 3
- Civilian Public Service. Camp (Philadelphia, Pa.) 3
- DiGia, Ralph 3
- Drevet, Camille 3
- Eichel, Julius, 1896- 3
- Florence, Lella Secor, 1887-1966 3
- Freeman, Harrop A. (Harrop Arthur), 1907-1993 3
- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 3
- Furnas, Paul J. 3
- Graves, Anna Melissa, 1875-1964 3
- Henry Ford Peace Expedition (1915-1916) 3
- Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 3
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 3
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 3
- Lochner, Louis Paul, 1887-1975 3
- Morrison, Norman R., 1933-1965 3
- National Council for Prevention of War (U.S.) 3
- Nearing, Scott, 1883-1983 3
- Omaha Action (Project) 3
- Rankin, Jeannette, 1880-1973 3
- Reynolds, Earle L. 3
- Socialist Party (U.S.) 3
- Stern, Lee, 1915-1992 3
- Swann, Marjorie 3
- Villard, Fanny Garrison, 1844-1928 3
- Wentworth, Lydia G., 1858- 3
- Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 3
- Woods, Amy 3
- Allinson, Brent D. (Brent Dow) 2
- American Friends Service Committee. Peace Section 2
- American Peace Society 2
- Andresen, Bent, 1908-1991 2
- Angell, Norman, 1874-1967 2
- Arnett, Katharine M. (Katharine McCollin) 2
- Ballantyne, Edith 2
- Barr, Allen H. 2
- Berrigan, Philip 2
- Blake, Katherine Devereux, 1858-1950 2
- Boardman, Elizabeth Jelinek, 1917- 2
- Brandt, Wilmer, 1920- 2
- Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 2
- Brockway, Fenner, 1888-1988 2
- Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 2
- Burritt, Elihu, 1810-1879 2
- Carner, Lucy Perkins, 1886-1983 2
- Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors 2
- Chalmers, Ruth 2
- Civilian Public Service Union 2
- Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments (1932-1934) (Geneva, Switzerland) 2
- Corfman, Rex 2
- Dellinger, David T., 1915-2004 2
- Dewey, John, 1859-1952 2
- Doty, Madeleine Z. (Madeleine Zabriskie), 1877-1963 2
- Early, Frances H. 2
- Eastman, Crystal, 1881-1928 2
- Episcopal Church 2
- Flanagan, Ross, 1934- 2
- Forbes, Rose Dabney, 1864-1947 2
- Forest, Jim (James H.) 2
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