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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
Hannah Clothier Hull Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-016
Abstract
Hannah Clothier Hull (1872-1958), was one of the founders of the Woman's Peace Party and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. She served as a national officer of the WILPF for nearly forty years. Hull was also active in other social reform movements. A member of a well-to-do Quaker family, Hannah Clothier graduated from Swarthmore College in 1891. She first worked at a Philadelphia settlement house and then entered the graduate program in social work at Bryn Mawr College....
Dates:
1889-1958
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Keep America Out of War Congress Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Keep America Out of War
Overview
The Keep America Out of War Congress was founded in 1938 (as the Keep America Out of War Comittee), by several leading peace organizations. The Congress was to pursue a joint, minimum six-point peace program. The aims of this program included the removal of U.S. ships and nationals from belligerent zones, a war referendum, the abandonment of plans for conscription and industrial mobilization, and greater economic and social justice at home and abroad. The Keep America Out of War Congress was...
Dates:
1938-1942
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Mildred Scott Olmsted Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-082
Abstract
Mildred Scott Olmsted, peace activist and suffragist, was born in Glenolden, Pennsylvania, in 1890. In 1922, Olmsted became Executive Secretary of the Pennsylvania Branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). From 1934 onward she assumed national positions with the organization. In 1946, Olmsted became National Administrative Secretary and held that position (until her retirement in 1966. She remained active as Executive Director Emerita of WILPF and also served...
Dates:
1881-1990; Majority of material found within 1907-1990
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
Post-War World Council Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-062
Overview
Founded in 1942 to continue the efforts begun by Keep America Out of War Congress; December 1941 KAOWC dissolved and reorganized as Provisional Committee Toward a Democratic Peace; February 1942 a more permanent group organized; ceased activities December 1967.
Dates:
1942-1967
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
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- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 3
- Arnett, Katharine M. (Katharine McCollin) 2
- Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments (1932-1934) (Geneva, Switzerland) 2
- Hillyer, Mary W. 2
- Newton, Ray 2
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 2
- Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987 2
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 1
- Allinson, Brent D. (Brent Dow) 1
- Anti-War Mobilization Mass Meeting (1940 : Washington, D.C.) 1
- Babcock, Caroline L. (Caroline Lexow), 1882- 1
- Baber, Zonia 1
- Baer, Gertrude 1
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 1
- Baldridge, Cyrus Leroy, 1889-1977 1
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 1
- Ballantyne, Edith 1
- Bennett, Fay 1
- Bingham, Alfred M. (Alfred Mitchell), 1905-1998 1
- Blake, Katherine Devereux, 1858-1950 1
- Boss, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), 1888- 1
- Boulding, Elise 1
- Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 1
- Brockway, Fenner, 1888-1988 1
- Brown, H. Runham (Herbert Runham), 1879-1949 1
- Bussey, Gertrude Carman, 1888-1961 1
- Byrns, Elinor 1
- Camp, Kay 1
- Carner, Lucy Perkins, 1886-1983 1
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 1
- Chalmers, Ruth 1
- Consultative Peace Council (U.S.) 1
- Cookson, Sybil, 1890- 1
- Cope, Eliza M. 1
- Cox, Lucy A. 1
- Dewey, John, 1859-1952 1
- Dodge, Alice L. 1
- Doty, Madeleine Z. (Madeleine Zabriskie), 1877-1963 1
- Drexel, Constance 1
- Dulles, Sophia H. 1
- Dyer, Henry W. 1
- Elliot, Martha Helen 1
- Eves, William 1
- Fisher, Katharine Ward 1
- Frazier, Howard 1
- Frazier, Lynn J. (Lynn Joseph), 1874-1947 1
- Freeman, Ruth, 1901- 1
- Gage-Colby, Ruth 1
- Gordon, Lindley V. 1
- Hamilton, Albert W. 1
- Hamilton, Alice, 1869-1970 1
- Harvey, William Brinton, 1862- 1
- Hasegawa, Marii 1
- Hassler, Alfred, 1910- 1
- Hayes, Dorothy M. 1
- Heymann, Lida Gustava, 1868-1943 1
- Hollister, Alvaine 1
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 1
- Holmes, Margaret 1
- Hommel, Dorothy O. 1
- Hoopes, Darlington, b. 1896 1
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 1
- Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 1
- Hull, William I. (William Isaac), 1868-1939 1
- Hutchinson, Dorothy H. (Dorothy Hewitt), 1905-1984 1
- Joint Peace Board 1
- Jōdai, Tano, 1886-1982 1
- Kaufman, Abraham 1
- Keep America Out of War Committee 1
- Keep America Out of War Congress 1
- Labor Anti-War Council 1
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 1
- Lee, Jennie, 1904- 1
- Libby, Faith Ward, 1902- 1
- Lief, Alfred, 1901- 1
- Littell, Franklin H. (Franklin Hamlin), 1917-2009 1
- Lloyd, Lola Maverick, 1875-1944 1
- Lloyd, William Bross, 1908- 1
- Mead, Lucia True Ames, 1856-1936 1
- Mellor, Ruth 1
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 1
- National Council of Women of the United States 1
- Neutrality Bloc 1
- Nichols, Ruth, 1901-1960 1
- Nicholson, Vincent D. (Vincent De Witt), 1890-1945 1
- Nye, Gerald P. (Gerald Prentice), 1892-1971 1
- Olmsted, Allen S. (Allen Seymour), 1888-1977 1
- Pacifist Action Committee 1
- Peace Strategy Board 1
- Pennsylvania Committee for Total Disarmament 1
- Post War World Council 1
- Post, Alice Thacher, 1853-1947 1
- Provisional Committee Toward a Democratic Peace 1
- Randall, Mercedes M. (Mercedes Moritz), 1895-1977 1
- Rankin, Jeannette, 1880-1973 1
- Rorty, James, 1890-1973 1
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 1
- Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 1
- Shannon, K. Patricia 1 ∧ less
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