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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
Courage to Resist Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Courage to Resist
Abstract
Printouts of emails from Courage to Resist to group lists.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 2007-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Edward W. Evans Quaker Concerns Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-237
Overview
Edward W. Evans (1882-1976) was a Quaker leader and lawyer active in the educational and peace concerns of the Society of Friends. The collection primarily contains papers compiled by Edward W. Evans during his time as Secretary of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Orthodox), from 1938-1946. Of particular interest are the materials concerning Civilian Public Service. The collection is significant in its documentation of pacifist attitudes and the ways in which the Society of Friends was active...
Dates:
1938-1951
Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-013
Abstract
The Fellowship of Reconciliation in the U.S. was founded in 1915 by Christian pacifists. The organization, whose members are now drawn from many religious groups, seeks to apply principles of peace and social justice and non-violent social change to issues such as disarmament, conscription, race relations, economic justice, and civil liberties.
Dates:
1915-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Bradford Lyttle Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-079
Overview
Bradford Lyttle is a long time leading peace activist involved in the promotion of nonviolence for social change and the elimination of war and nuclear weapons. Lyttle was the organizer of the San Francisco to Moscow walk in the 1960-1961, to highlight the message of disarmament and nonviolent resistance and bringing together U.S. and Soviet citizens together during the height of the Cold War. He went on to organize and participate in other marches and protests, including the Quebec - ...
Dates:
1954-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
David McReynolds Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-134
Abstract
David McReynolds (1929-2018), was an activist with the War Resisters League, the Socialist Party USA and the Democratic Socialists of America. He was an editor of Liberation magazine in the 1950s and a leader of the WRL from the 1950s until his retirement in 1999. McReynolds ran for Congress twice and for President of the U.S. twice, including a run in 2000. McReynolds has attempted to integrate anti-war and pacifist philosophy with Socialist economics. David McReynolds was openly gay and...
Dates:
1943-
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
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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- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 4
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 4
- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 4
- American Friends Service Committee 3
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 3
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 3
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 3
- Kaufman, Abraham 3
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 3
- McReynolds, David 3
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 3
- Newton, Ray 3
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 3
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 3
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 3
- War Resisters League 3
- Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987 3
- Brockway, Fenner, 1888-1988 2
- Brown, H. Runham (Herbert Runham), 1879-1949 2
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 2
- Deats, Richard L., 1932- 2
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 2
- DiGia, Ralph 2
- Evans, Edward W. (Edward Wyatt), 1882-1976 2
- Forest, Jim (James H.) 2
- Gottlieb, Edward P. 2
- Gregg, Richard Bartlett, 1885- 2
- Hassler, Alfred, 1910- 2
- Hassler, Alfred, 1910-1991 2
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 2
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 2
- Lyttle, Bradford 2
- Nhất Hạnh, Thích 2
- Pacifist Action Committee 2
- Page, Kirby, 1890-1957 2
- Pickus, Robert 2
- Roodenko, Igal 2
- Socialist Party (U.S.) 2
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 2
- Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949 2
- Waskow, Arthur Ocean, 1933- 2
- Wentworth, Lydia G., 1858- 2
- Witherspoon, Frances, 1886-1973 2
- Aberman, Sidney 1
- Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971 1
- Acts for Peace (Organization) 1
- Adler, Friedrich 1
- Allen, Horatio, 1802-1889 1
- Allen, Steve, 1921-2000 1
- Allinson, Brent D. (Brent Dow) 1
- Altbach, Philip G. 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
- Arvio, Raymond Paavo 1
- Babcock, Caroline L. (Caroline Lexow), 1882- 1
- Baer, Gertrude 1
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 1
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 1
- Barr, Allen H. 1
- Beard, Charles A. (Charles Austin), 1874-1948 1
- Beaver, Gilbert A., -1952 1
- Becker, Jo 1
- Berg, Russel O. 1
- Berrigan, Daniel 1
- Boehmer, Peter J. 1
- Bolling, Landrum Rymer 1
- Brainerd, Heloise, 1881-1969 1
- Brick, Allan 1
- Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 1
- Brittain, Vera, 1893-1970 1
- Brooks, R. Boland 1
- Broun, Heywood, 1888-1939 1
- Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 1
- Burritt, Elihu, 1810-1879 1
- Byrns, Elinor 1
- Carner, Lucy Perkins, 1886-1983 1
- Catchpool, Corder, 1883-1952 1
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 1
- Ceresole, Pierre, 1879-1945 1
- Chase, E. Dixwell 1
- Chomsky, Noam 1
- Church Peace Mission (U.S.) 1
- Civilian Public Service 1
- Clergymen's Emergency Committee for Vietnam 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
- Corfman, Rex 1
- Cornell, Thomas C. (Thomas Charles), 1934- 1
- Courage to Resist (Organization) 1
- Cox, Lucy A. 1
- Cranston, Maurice, 1920-1993 1
- Curry, A. Stauffer (Abram Stauffer), 1913- 1
- Curti, Merle (Merle Eugene), 1897-1996 1
- Dai Dong (Organization) 1
- Dellinger, David T., 1915-2004 1
- Dewey, John, 1859-1952 1
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