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Another Mother for Peace Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-102
Abstract
Another Mother for Peace was a women's peace group born from the antipathy to the war in Vietnam, based in Los Angeles, California. The stated purpose of this non-partison, non-profit organization was "to educate women to take an active role in eliminating war as a means of solving disputes between nations, people and ideologies." AMP closed its offices in January 1986.
Dates:
1964-1978; Majority of material found within 1964-1978
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Kay Camp Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-169
Abstract
Katherine Lindsley Camp was born in 1918 [1919?], Mt. Kisco New York. She was a graduate of Swarthmore College (Class of 1940). Camp was elected president of the U.S. Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1967, and served as international president, 1974-1980. In addition Camp was founder of the Citizens Bi-Racial Study Group; former president of the Pennsylvania Women's Political Caucus; made unsuccessful bid for Congress in 1972 on the Democratic ticket in...
Dates:
1955-2006
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Linus Pauling Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Pauling, Linus and Ava
Dates:
1957-1987; Majority of material found within 1961-1979
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Alice Wiser Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-203
Overview
Alice Wiser was a Quaker and had trained as a social worker and psychological counselor. She dedicated the last ten to fifteen years of her life to both peace and women's rights. Wiser was instrumental in organizing the peace tent for the second United Nations Conference on Women held in Nairobi, Kenya in 1985. After the conference Wiser continued to organize around these issues, traveling around the world to interview women and talk about peace. Wiser died from breast cancer in 1995.
Dates:
1976-1991
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Women Strike for Peace Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-115
Overview
Women Strike for Peace came into existence on November 1, 1961, as a protest against atmospheric nuclear tests by the U.S. and the Soviet Union. By the late 1980s the national WSP office in Philadelphia closed, but the WSP legislative office and various WSP branches around the U.S. remained active through the 1990s.
Dates:
1961-1996
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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