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Peace Action Center Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-093
Overview
The Peace Action Center began in 1961 as a continuation of the vigil at Fort Detrick, Md. Peace activists had sponsored a continuous vigil as early as 1959 seeking the abandonment of biological weapons and appealed for the conversion of the fort into a world health center. The Peace Action Center included cooperative living quarters for the staff of religious pacifists, mostly Quakers. PAC staff including Lawrence Scott, director, and Jack L. Bagley, Sarah Bishop, Florence Y. Carpenter,...
Dates:
1959-1965
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:
1923-1994
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Aberman, Sidney 1
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 1
- Anderson, Ross W. 1
- Bagley, Jack L. 1
- Barr, Allen H. 1
- Bigelow, Albert, 1906- 1
- Bishop, Sarah 1
- Boardman, Elizabeth Jelinek, 1917- 1
- Brooks, R. Boland 1
- Brown, H. Runham (Herbert Runham), 1879-1949 1
- Carpenter, Florence Y. 1
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 1
- Corfman, Rex 1
- Corson, Helen H. 1
- DeVault, Don 1
- DiGia, Ralph 1
- Dunbar, Olivia Howard, 1873-1953 1
- Eichel, Julius, 1896- 1
- Faust, Bertha, 1909- 1
- Finch, Henry Le Roy 1
- Flanagan, Ross, 1934- 1
- Gottlieb, Edward P. 1
- Gottwald, Norman K. (Norman Karol), 1926- 1
- Hartmann, George W. (George Wilfried), 1904-1955 1
- Hedemann, Ed 1
- Hedemann, Grace 1
- Hennacy, Ammon, 1893-1970 1
- Hester, Hugh B. (Hugh Bryan), 1895-1983 1
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 1
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 1
- Kaufman, Abraham 1
- Kepler, Roy C. 1
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 1
- Lyttle, Bradford 1
- Martin, William R., 1938- 1
- McNeil, Gelston 1
- McReynolds, David 1
- Nash, Vernon 1
- Olmstead, Frank 1
- Parkman, Patricia 1
- Peace Action Center (Washington, D.C.) 1
- Pfeiffer, Stephen D. 1
- Ransom, Frances Rose 1
- Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) 1
- Richards, Edward C. M., 1886-1974 1
- Roodenko, Igal 1
- Schaum, Winifred W. 1
- Schwartz, Wendy (Editor) 1
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 1
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 1
- U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases 1
- Uphaus, Willard E. (Willard Edwin), 1890-1983 1
- Walker, Charles C. 1
- War Resisters League 1
- Wayland-Smith, Robert 1
- Wentworth, Lydia G., 1858- 1
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 1
- Witherspoon, Frances, 1886-1973 1
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