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Tracy D. Mygatt and Frances Witherspoon Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-089
Overview
Tracy Dickinson Mygatt (1885-1973) and Frances May Witherspoon (1886-1973) were prolific writers and absolute pacifists who worked together in movements for women's rights, world peace, civil liberties, and civil rights. Both women authored plays, articles, poems, sermons, and stories, individually and in collaboration. They were founders of the War Resisters League and later served as honorary chairs. Frances Witherspoon was a co-founder and Executive Secretary of the New York Bureau of...
Dates:
1835-1973; Majority of material found within 1911-1974
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
New York Bureau of Legal Advice Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-Reel-142.1
Abstract
Holdings in Tamiment Library: about half the records of the New York Bureau of Legal Advice consist of case histories pertaining to selective service exemption, draft evasion, conscientious objector status, military imprisonment, military discharge, desertion, amnesty, civil liberties and deportations. One third of the collection consists of office files, administrative reports and correspondence, including extensive fundraising correspondence. The remainder of the collection is made up of...
Dates:
1917-1919
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Beard, Mary Ritter, 1876-1958 1
- Bowie, Walter Russell, 1882-1969 1
- Campaign for World Government (Organization) 1
- Carner, Lucy Perkins, 1886-1983 1
- Casanova, Margaret 1
- Cleghorn, Sarah Norcliffe, 1876-1959 1
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 1
- Flynn, Bina 1
- Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley 1
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 1
- Holtzman, Elizabeth, correspondent 1
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 1
- Kuenzli, Alfred E. (Alfred Eugene), 1923- 1
- Layer, Frances Evans 1
- Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951 1
- Lloyd, Georgia, 1913- 1
- Magnes, Judah Leon, 1877-1948 1
- Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 1
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 1
- New York Bureau of Legal First Aid 1
- Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives 1
- Smedley, Agnes, 1892-1950 1
- Tamiment Library 1
- Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977 1
- Veblen, Thorstein, 1857-1929 1
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