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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
Consultative Peace Council Records
Collection
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; Majority of material found within 1939-1955
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Emergency Peace Campaign Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-012
Abstract
Initiated in late 1935 by the American Friends Service Committee and other pacifists; originally planned as a two-year campaign to rally peace, religious, labor, African-American and student groups; aim was to organize a national campaign to promote peace principles in the face of preparation for war in Europe, and to keep the United States out of war; may have been preceded by the Emergency Peace Committee (1931-1933), though this has not been documented. The first EPC office opened in...
Dates:
1936-1937
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
National Council for Prevention of War Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-023
Abstract
The National Council for Prevention of War (NCPW) was directed by J. Frederick Libby for many years; it lobbied Congress and created educational peace material, among other activities and campaigns.
Dates:
1921-1975
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Peace Association of Friends in America Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-027
Overview
The Peace Association of Friends in America was organized in 1867 by Orthodox Friends in the New York, Baltimore, North Carolina, Ohio, Indiana, Western and Iowa Yearly Meetings in reaction to the Civil War, with its mission being to convince Friends and others that war was unchristian, inhumane and unnecessary.
Dates:
1868-1944
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Pennsylvania Committee for Total Disarmament Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-030
Overview
The Pennsylvania Committee for Total Disarmament was active from 1930 to 1936, chiefly in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Through public opinion and personal contacts, PCTD supporters pressured Congress to support total disarmament, including passage of the Frazier Amendment outlawing war. Other objectives of the Committee included a Congressional investigation of the munitions industry, opposition to all preparations and training for war (including ROTC), and support for...
Dates:
1930-1938
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 3
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- Messenger of peace (Richmond, IN : 1870) 1
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- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 5
- Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987 5
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 4
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 4
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 3
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 3
- Emergency Peace Campaign (U.S.) 3
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 3
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 3
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 3
- Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949 3
- American Friends Service Committee 2
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 2
- Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 2
- Brockway, Fenner, 1888-1988 2
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 2
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 2
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 2
- Fey, Harold E. (Harold Edward), 1898-1990 2
- Harris, Paul, b. 1897 2
- Hassler, Alfred, 1910- 2
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 2
- Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 2
- Kaufman, Abraham 2
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 2
- Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971 2
- Pacifist Action Committee 2
- Page, Kirby, 1890-1957 2
- Rankin, Jeannette, 1880-1973 2
- Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 2
- Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 2
- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 2
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section 2
- Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971 1
- Adler, Friedrich 1
- Allen, Horatio, 1802-1889 1
- Alley, Alden Gifford 1
- Allinson, Brent D. (Brent Dow) 1
- American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky 1
- American League against War and Fascism 1
- Anti-War Mobilization Mass Meeting (1940 : Washington, D.C.) 1
- Babcock, Caroline L. (Caroline Lexow), 1882- 1
- Baer, Gertrude 1
- Beard, Charles A. (Charles Austin), 1874-1948 1
- Berg, Russel O. 1
- Beverage, Albion P. 1
- Biddle, Clement M. (Clement Miller), 1876-1959 1
- Boeckel, Florence Brewer, 1885- 1
- Bolling, Landrum Rymer 1
- Brainerd, Heloise, 1881-1969 1
- Brittain, Vera, 1893-1970 1
- Broun, Heywood, 1888-1939 1
- Brown, H. Runham (Herbert Runham), 1879-1949 1
- Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 1
- Burritt, Elihu, 1810-1879 1
- Butler, Smedley D. (Smedley Darlington), 1881-1940 1
- Byrd, Richard Evelyn, 1888-1957 1
- Byrns, Elinor 1
- Cary, John R. 1
- Catchpool, Corder, 1883-1952 1
- Ceresole, Pierre, 1879-1945 1
- Chase, E. Dixwell 1
- Committee on Militarism in Education (U.S.) 1
- Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments (1932-1934) (Geneva, Switzerland) 1
- Consultative Peace Council (U.S.) 1
- Coolidge, A. Sprague 1
- Cope, Eliza M. 1
- Cox, Lucy A. 1
- Cranston, Maurice, 1920-1993 1
- Curti, Merle (Merle Eugene), 1897-1996 1
- Dewey, John, 1859-1952 1
- Douglas, Paul H. (Paul Howard), 1892-1976 1
- Drevet, Camille 1
- Drexel, Constance 1
- Dulles, John Foster 1
- Dulles, Sophia H. 1
- Eichelberger, Clark M. (Clark Mell), 1896-1980 1
- Einstein, Albert 1
- Engelbrecht, H. C. (Helmuth Carol), 1895-1939 1
- Eves, William 1
- Finucane, James F. 1
- Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 1
- Five Years Meeting (Society of Friends : U.S.). Peace Board 1
- Florence, Lella Secor, 1887-1966 1
- Fosdick, Harry Emerson 1
- Fosdick, Raymond B. (Raymond Blaine), 1883-1972 1
- Foxworthy, Theodore 1
- Frazier, Lynn J. (Lynn Joseph), 1874-1947 1
- Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.) 1
- Fry, A. Ruth (Anna Ruth), 1878-1962 1
- Garvey, Marcus, 1887-1940 1
- Gordon, Lindley V. 1
- Grant, Donald, 1889- 1
- Graves, Anna Melissa, 1875-1964 1
- Gray, Philip, 1906- 1
- Gregg, Richard Bartlett, 1885- 1
- Gulick, Sidney Lewis, 1860-1945 1
- Hadley, W. Spencer 1
- Harvey, William Brinton, 1862- 1 ∧ less
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