Peace Testimony Archival: K-O

The Quaker Testimony for Peace:
Archival Resources at Swarthmore College

Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081

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Archival collections are listed alphabetically below; see notes under each collection for restrictions, microfilm availability, and online finding aids

Anti-Vietnam War mail-in protest, November 1972

William Kantor, born of Russian Jewish parents in Philadelphia in 1893, became a socialist and an absolutist conscientious objector to World War I. He was imprisoned for his pacifist convictions and became acquainted with members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Kantor eventually became a convinced Friend. His imprisonment sites included Camp Meade, Fort Jay, Fort Leavenworth, and Alcatraz, from which he was dishonorably discharged in 1919.

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the papers of this individual.

Pacifist, suffragist, member of the Society of Friends in New York, relief worker with the American Friends Reconstruction Unit, executive secretary (1923-1925) of the Honfleur conferences (held in France).

Includes miscellaneous correspondence; two oversize scrapbooks (ca. 1914-1919) which contain correspondence (some with her relative, Kate Kelsey); articles and half-tone images from U.S. and foreign periodicals about World War I; small posters; sheet music; and material about Woodrow Wilson's 1916 presidential campaign and the Women's March for Woodrow Wilson in Washington D.C., ca. 1917; also small amounts of secondary material relating to the American Friends Service Committee, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the Arbitration and Peace Society of Pennsylvania, the American Union Against Militarism, the U.S. Democratic Party and the American Friends Reconstruction Unit.

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the papers of this individual.

Author of the “Speaks” series of pamphlets about the ideas of major literary, political, and religious figures.

British Quaker; lived in Rhodesia; edited the Rhodesian Fellowship of Reconciliation newsletter for nine years; imprisoned for refusing to comply with the national military service; then went to England where he was a correspondent for the Rhodesian Fellowship of Reconciliation newsletter for five years.

German Quaker; Recording Clerk of Germany Yearly Meeting; Member of the Peace Committee of Germany Yearly Meeting; worked to lessen tensions between East and West Germany and also with other Eastern European nations; received an honorary degree from Haverford College in 1973.

Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration
Records, 1895-1937, Bulk 1895-1918.
101.5 linear ft.

Annual conference (1895-1916) held at Mohonk Mountain House,

Ulster

County, N.Y.; conference for 1917 was planned but not held; at their height, conferences attracted 300 leaders of government, business, religion, the press, and education; purpose of the conferences was to create and direct public sentiment in favor of international arbitration, arbitration treaties, and an international court. The Conferences were convened by the Quaker Smiley family. Alfred and Albert Smiley are pictured at right.

Proceedings, correspondence (1895-1937), conference invitations with acceptances and rejections, correspondence and prize essays from the Pugsley Prize competitions (a national college essay and oratorical contest), scrapbooks of clippings, and circulars and other material sent to colleges and universities. Correspondents include Lyman Abbott, Hannah J. Bailey, Fredrik Bajer, E.W. Blatchford, Cephas Brainerd, Nicholas Murray Butler, John Clifford, Theodore L. Cuyler, W. Evans Darby, Charles W. Eliot, Paul d'Estournelles de Constant, Mary Frost Evans, John W. Foster, E.M. Gallaudet, John B. Garrett, Edwin Ginn, Edward E. Hale, Edward A. Horton, Alfred H. Love, Edwin D. Mead, Robert Treat Paine, Frederic Passy, Joseph W. Pease, Harry Clinton Phillips, Hodgson Pratt, Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze, Albert K. Smiley, Daniel Smiley, A.R. Spofford, Benjamin F. Trueblood, and Herbert Welsh.

George Lakey combined the roles of pacifist, activist, teacher, and writer. He was imprisoned for civil rights sit-ins; he taught at the Martin Luther King School of Social Change, Haverford College, and the University of Pennsylvania. He co-chaired A Quaker Action Group and was project director of the voyage of the Phoenix, a sailing ship which transported medical supplies to North and

South Vietnam

during the Vietnamese Conflict.

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the papers of this individual.

Quaker; conscientious objector during the Vietnam War; walked 500 miles from Cleveland to Washington D.C. to turn in the draft cards that allowed him to be a conscientious objector and to cancel his registration with the Selective Service; served one year in prison.

An initiative originating in the Orange Grove Monthly Meeting Peace Committee in 1962; a nationwide program of intensive unstructured letter writing for the cause of peace four times a year; project included letters to U.S. organizations and officials, and also letters to Russians.

Quaker; one of the founders of Church Center for the United Nations; secretary of the Ocean Education Project; vice chairman of the Policy Committee of the Friends Committee on National Legislation; represented the Friends World Committee for Consultation at the UN Law of the Sea conference.

Libby, Frederick Joseph, 1874-
Frederick J. And Faith Ward Libby Papers, 1909-1970, 1931-1969 (Bulk).
10.5 linear ft.

Frederick J. Libby (1874-1970) (pictured above) was a pacifist, writer, speaker and fundraiser; born in Richmond, Maine; graduate of Bowdoin College, B.A. 1894; graduate of Andover Theological Seminary, B.D. 1902; Congregational minister; joined Society of Friends in 1921; performed relief work with the American Friends Service Committee and American Red Cross in France, 1918-1920; AFSC official, 1920-1921; founder and executive secretary of National Council for Prevention of War, 1921-1970; helped organize the Keep America Out of War Congress, 1938; editor of NCPW serials News Bulletin and Peace Action, 1921-1954; author of War on War (1922) and To End War: The Story of the National Council for the Prevention of War (1969). Faith Ward Libby (1902-1984) was his wife.

Personal correspondence (1931-1969) between Frederick J. Libby and Faith Ward Libby; memorabilia, and photos.

British Quaker; concerned with nuclear weapons, conscription, and atomic energy.

LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected Document Groups: International. Great Britain

Founded in 1866 to remove the causes of war; championed international arbitration, arbitration in labor disputes, and such causes as suffrage, temperance, anti-militarism, and Indian rights; Alfred H. Love, a Quaker, (1830-1913) was a principal organizer and served for many years as president of the UPU; dissolved in 1920. Many members of the UPU, including Alfred H. Love, were Quakers.

Records (1866-1920) of Universal Peace Union including minutes (1891-1920), scattered correspondence, membership lists, financial and serial subscription records, scrapbooks, memorabilia, and photos; together with diaries (1848-1912) and other personal papers of Alfred H. Love and a small collection of personal papers (ca. 1891-1915) of Mary Frost Ormsby Evans. Includes material relating to Pennsylvania Peace Society.

Organized in 3 series. I. Universal Peace Union; II. Alfred H. Love, president; III. Mary Frost Ormsby Evans.

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Microfilm available (19 reels) of the collection excluding oversize material; available for interlibrary loan; consult Peace Collection.

Lucretia Mott was a prominent Philadelphia Quaker minister and a leader in reform movements, especially antislavery, education, peace, and women's rights. She was born in 1793 in Nantucket, Massachusetts, and was educated at Nine Partners Boarding School in Dutchess Co., N.Y. In 1811, she married James Mott and they settled in Philadelphia, Pa. The Motts were active Hicksite Quakers, and Lucretia served as clerk of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and traveled in the ministry. James Mott was a founder of the American Slavery Society in 1833, and Lucretia was a founder of the Philadelphia Female Antislavery Society. In 1840, they went to

England

to attend the first World's Antislavery Convention and Lucretia met Elizabeth Cady Stanton. In 1848, she and Stanton announced a conference on women's rights to be held at Seneca Falls, N.Y. She and her husband were active in the founding of Swarthmore College, a coeducational institution incorporated in 1864, and supported the founding of the nation's first medical school for women, Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, and the School of Design for Women, now Moore College of Art. Lucretia Mott died in 1880 in Philadelphia, Pa.

The collection includes correspondence of Lucretia Mott and her husband, James M. Mott, with family and other reformers of their day, including Edward M. David, Joseph Dugdale, Anna Davis Hallowell, William Lloyd Garrison, James Miller McKim, Harriet Martineau, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucy Stone. Also contains sermons, essays, and antislavery documents, and the diary of Lucretia Mott's trip to England to attend the World's Antislavery Convention of 1840.

Organized into series: 1. Correspondence; 2. Diary & other writings; 3. Notes and drafts for Life and Letters; 4. Newspaper clippings, secondary references, and miscellaneous Mott memorabilia; 5. Margaret McHenry research papers.

Lynd, Staughton and Alice Lynd
Staughton And Alice Lynd Papers, 1965-1971.
10.25 linear ft.

Staughton Lynd and Alice Niles Lynd, Quakers, authors, and activists in the civil rights and peace movements, have worked individually and together on many labor and pacifist projects. Alice Lynd, draft counselor, nursery school teacher, and writer, worked with the American Friends Service Committee and directed day care and health center projects in Chicago. Staughton Lynd (b. 1929), historian and community organizer, taught at Spelman College and Yale University. He directed freedom schools during the Mississippi Summer Project (1964) and was chairman of the first march against the Vietnam War in Washington D.C. on April 17, 1965. Later that year he visited Hanoi,

North Vietnam

. He graduated from law school in 1976, then practiced labor law.

Scattered correspondence (1965-1971), ms. drafts and revisions of publications written by the Lynds, subject files, statements and articles by conscientious objectors, conscientious objector case files and counseling manuals, newsletters, articles, clippings, and sound recordings, relating to Staughton and Alice Lynd and their activism. Materials relating to the writings and publication of We Won't Go, by Alice Lynd, and The Resistance, by Michael Ferber and Staughton Lynd, form a substantial part of the collection. Correspondents include Paul Bert Denison, Richard Dodge, Stanley Faulkner, Lary Gara, Ann Fagan Ginger, Carl Haessler, David Hartsough, Francis Heisler, Bradford Lyttle, Thomas Rodd, F. Paul Salstrom, Jeffrey Shero, and Arlo D. Tatum.

Some restrictions apply. Consult Swarthmore College Peace Collection for details.

MacClelland, Emma Chandler, 1892-1965
Papers, 1918-1919.
18 folders (.5 linear ft.).

Emma Chandler MacClelland was a Quaker who was involved in relief work in

France

during World War I with the American Friends Service Committee. She was born in West Chester, Pa. in 1895, and married Lee H. MacClelland after her return from

France

. She was a member of Reading Monthly Meeting at the time of her death in 1965.

Correspondence of Emma Chandler MacClelland during the period, 1918-1919, in which she did relief work in

France

. Details her activities in Brittany, Bordeaux, and other locations. Also includes photographs of her trip.

MacDowell, E. Carleton (Edwin Carleton), 1887-1973
Papers, 1917-1927.
ca. 200 items.

Correspondence, minutes, reports, memorabilia, pictures and other papers, relating to MacDowell's involvement in Quaker relief activities in

France

during and after World War I. Includes material relating to American Friends Service Committee's Reconstruction Unit and Message Committee, Berlin Centre Committee, and Friends Council for International Service.

Graduate of Swarthmore College; instructor in Latin at the Manual Training High School in Brooklyn, NY. since 1905; put on trial before a special committee of the Board of Education and charged with "conduct unbecoming to a teacher; dismissed from her position in 1918 because of her refusal to sign an unqualified loyalty oath, which she felt conflicted with her Quaker principles. Her brother, Dr. Carlton McDowell, served with the American Friends War Victim Relief Committee in 1918.

Chiefly correspondence with his family written while Maris was serving as a dentist with American Friends Service Committee in France after World War I; together with photograph album and other papers.

Member of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, U.S. Section, active with the New Haven, Connecticut Branch; worked for American-Soviet friendship and conversion of economy from military to civilian production; born in Czechoslovakia; died in the United States, 1999 or 2000.

Correspondence, annual reports, administrative files, financial records, flyers and handbills, memorabilia, minutes of meetings, newspaper clippings, periodicals, reference files, and photographs.

Marvel, Josiah P. (Josiah Philip), 1896-1959
Peace In Our Time, [1942].
1 v. (in folder).

Josiah P. Marvel was a New York Quaker who worked with the AFSC in

France

in 1940-41. Born in Indiana, the son of Charles and Amy J. Marvel, he moved to New York in 1929. Marvel married Elinore Jacobs Strettenheim in 1941, and was living in Washington, D.C. when he died in 1959.

Typescript memoir of Josiah P. Marvel of his service in

France

with the American Friends Service Committee from July 1940 to June 1941. He spent most of his time in Paris, and was involved in feeding refugees and visiting internment camps and prisons.

Mary Stone McDowell, a graduate of Swarthmore College, was a birthright Quaker school teacher whom the New York City Board of Education dismissed on charges of disloyalty based on her refusal as a Quaker to sign a loyalty pledge during World War I. Reinstated in 1923, she retired in 1943, and became a war tax resister, continuing her pacifist stance against military spending until her death in 1955.

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the papers of this individual.

Media Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Peace Committee
Committee Papers, 1933-1988.
ca. 800 items in box (.5 linear ft.).

Miscellaneous committee papers as follows: Community Relations Committee, 1957-1964; Community Support Corporation, 1971-1976; Coordinating Committee reports, 1948-1953, 1966-1973; Coordinating Committee papers concerning Shoemaker Fund/Meeting Sec'y, 1955-1961; Coppock-Patterson Committee, 1957-1960; Fellowship Activities Committee, 1957-1960; The Harned Committee, 1937-1955, 1967-1969; Long Range Planning, 1969-1976; Overseers, 1957-1968; Religious Education (also called Fist Day School Committee) reports, 1945-1965 and God and Country Award Data, 1956-1958; School Committee, 1967; School Relationship Committee, 1980-1988; Peace Committee minutes, 1933-1938; Peace Committee reports and correspondence, 1954-1965; Worship and Ministry, 1955-1969; Young Friends, 1944-1958.

Miller, Richmond P., 1902-1972
Papers, 1923-1970.
6 boxes ; 3 linear ft.

Richmond Pearson Miller was a Quaker author and educator. He was the son of J. Milton and Sara G. Miller. In 1926 he married Alice Leinbach.

Includes correspondence, writings, and papers relating to various Quaker concerns. Miller was involved with the 1962 NBC television production, Gentle Persuaders, the William Penn Tercentenary in 1964, the William Jeanes Memorial Library controversy, and the United Nations. In addition, he participated in commemorative events at Quaker meeting houses, the All American Friends Conference in Oskaloosa, 1929, First Day Schools, Friends Peace Committee, National Conference on the Churches and Social Welfare in Cleveland, 1961, the Ohio Yearly Meeting Sesquicentennial in 1962, School of Mysticism in New York, 1929, World Conference of Friends in1952, and Young Friends Caravan in 1925.

Mitchell, Arthur Lyon, b. 1916
Family Papers, 1786-1989, 1815-1861.
17 items (4 folders).

Quaker; helped to start the Seoul Friends Meeting in

Korea

; son of Eugene and Hattie (Schaumberg) Mitchell. His ancestor, Peter Lyon, was a member of Nine Partners Monthly Meeting in Dutchess County, New York, and the original purchaser of "Millbrook," the family home; he was born in 1784, married Mabel, and died in 1870. They had at least seven children: Daniel H., Mary, Hannah, John, Asahel, Arthur, and William. Hannah Lyon was born in 1813 and married Charles Coffin before 1835. Their daughter, Amelia, was a teacher and married David L. Mitchell, son of Richard Mitchell of Washington, New York.

Includes letters written by or to family members, including Peter Lyon, 1815 and 1849; John Lyon, 1849; Asahel Lyon (d. 1830), n.d.; Amelia Coffin,1864 (2); and Mary Lyon, 1827. Also: Hannah Lyon's notes on Quaker meetings, n.d.; death notice of Joseph Mitchell, 1786; statement of Charles Coffin's inability to serve in the military, 1837; Amelia Coffin's teacher certificate, 1861; program for Nine Partners School, 1861; grant of property, Mary Lyon to Peter Lyon, 1833; grant of property, Richard Mitchell to David L. Mitchell, 1865; "Society of Friends in Seoul, Korea-Early History" and "The Establishment of a Quaker Meeting in Seoul, Korea", n.d., and an obituary of Ham Sok Hon, 1989. Topics of interest are: Quaker women, pacifism, celibacy, and Select meetings.

Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia (Hicksite). Peace Committee
Records, 1951-1954.
2 folders.

Includes records of the Peace Committee of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting (Hicksite), 1951-1954. Includes files on refugee families who were assisted by Philadelphia Monthly Meeting.

Quaker; served with the American Friends Service Committee in France after World War I; jailed for refusing to register under the Selective Service Act in World War II.

Norman Morrison became interested in the religious ideals and principles of the Society of Friends while studying in

Scotland

. In 1962, as a convinced Friend, he became the Executive Secretary of the Baltimore Monthly Meeting. Morrison was distraught as the pace of U.S military involvement and the bombing of civilians in Vietnam escalated; he immolated himself in front of the Pentagon on November 2, 1965. His was one of three such deaths in the

United States

, though many Buddhist monks in

Vietnam

used self-immolation as religious witness to attempt to end the war.

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the papers of this individual.

Not affiliated with the Society of Friends; began in 1971 in Philadelphia, Pa.; superseded A Quaker Action Group; a national network of activists committed to building a nonviolent revolution; provided training in nonviolent direct action; committed to decentralized organization and decision-making. For the first ten years, collectives in Philadelphia encouraged the formation of regional groups, including collectives in the Boston/Northeast Region, the Mid-Atlantic Region, Tucson, Seattle, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Chicago, etc.; after 1981 efforts were made to strengthen communication and coordination among the various collectives; MNS published three newsletters for internal communication: Dandelion Wine, Wine, and Grapevine; and one external newsletter, The Dandelion; ceased operation in 1988.

Includes correspondence, administrative files, notes of meetings, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, brochures, directories, membership materials, financial records, notebooks, journals, and photos. Subjects include nonviolence and training for nonviolent action; feminism, nonviolence, and peace.

Chiefly correspondence (1937-1967) divided into private correspondence and business papers; together with autobiographical material, book reviews, speeches, articles, pamphlets, clippings, and sound recordings by and about Muste. Includes information about George Kennan, Linus Pauling, Anatol Rapoport, A. Philip Randolph, Morton Sobell, Congress of Racial Equality, World Peace Brigade, Pendle Hill, Hudson Institute, yachts Golden Rule and Phoenix, Omaha Action, Polaris Action, and organized tax resistance; records of Liberation magazine; and correspondence relating to American Friends Service Committee, Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors, Clergy and Laity Concerned, Committee for Nonviolent Action, Fellowship of Reconciliation, National Council for Prevention of War, SANE, and War Resisters League. Correspondents include Herbert Aptheker, Norman Cousins, J. Passmore Elkinton, Erich Fromm, Homer A. Jack, Sidney Lens, Staughton Lynd, Tracy D. Mygatt, Theodore Roszak, Bertrand Russell, John Nevin Sayre, and Norman Thomas.

Entire collection excluding 2 linear ft. from 1969 accessions available on microfilm (39 reels). Available on interlibrary loan from the Swarthmore College Peace Collection.

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LOCATION: Peace Collection Archives, DG 50; use microfilm, Reels 89.1-89.39.

National Action/Research on the Military-Industrial Complex
Records, 1969-1990.
64 linear ft.

Began in 1969; located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; project of the American Friends Service Committee; served as a resource for journalists, educators and students, the religious community, peace organizations, and concerned citizens from the U.S., Canada, and overseas; provided information about the role of the military-industrial complex in American society, research, production and distribution of U.S. military technology and weaponry, U.S. military and economic policies, U.S. military buildups in foreign countries, defense contractors, and U.S. exports of high technology. NARMIC had a special library of over 40,000 documents and a computerized database; published books, study guides, information sheets, reports, slideshows, and documentary films; ceased operation in October 1990.

Includes correspondence; consists primarily of reference files about the B-1 Bomber, chemical and biological warfare, domestic insurgency, nuclear power, and the Vietnamese Conflict; includes 10 photos taken at Rocky Mountain Arsenal in Denver.

National Circulating Library of Students' Peace Posters.
Collection, 1935-1951.
10 linear in.

Founded by Nancy J. Babb, a Quaker, the National Circulating Library of Students' Peace Posters had the single goal of promoting peace through graphic arts. Located in Philadelphia, the organization sponsored peace poster contests in schools across the country. Eventually the prize-winning posters were reproduced, full color, as stamp-sized stickers sold by the sheet.

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the records of this organization.

National Council for Limitation of Armaments.
Collection, 1921-1922.
1.5 linear in.

The National Council for Limitation for Armaments was a clearinghouse for several national organizations. It promoted the cause of disarmament following World War I. The Friends Disarmament Council of the Society of Friends was influential in this group. The National Council was a forerunner of the National Council for Prevention of War in the

United States

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the records of this organization.

Began January, 1974; American Friends Service Committee effort to stop the development of the B-1 bomber.

New Call to Peacemaking; cooperative effort of Brethren, Quakers and Mennonites; founded in 1975 to reinvigorate the understanding of and commitment to nonviolence and peacemaking within those faith communities; organized national conferences on October 6-8, 1978 and October 2-5, 1980; after 1982, a decision was made to shift the direction of New Call from revitalizing the peace testimony within the historic peace churches to more contact and relationship with other Christian groups open to the search for a more faithful peace witness; name changed to Every Church a Peace Church.

LOCATION: Peace Collection Archives, DG 143 and
Friends Historical Library: Pamphlet Group 3

Founded ca. 1969 in Clinton, New York; a communal society which emphasized rebirth as individual Christians and as members of the Society of Friends (Quakers); an additional center was established in winter 1971/72 in Sumneytown, Pa.

Includes correspondence, flyers, periodicals, reference material.Access is restricted: consult Curator of the Swarthmore College Peace Collection.

New York Friends Center
Records, 1938-1964.
3 boxes ; 1.5 linear ft.

Established in 1938 by the New York Monthly Meetings at the 20th Street meeting house, the New York Friends Center was initially created to provide a meeting place for Quakers and to serve as a Quaker information and reception center in New York City. Sponsorship of service projects began in the 1940's. Housing and community projects included an international visitors program and hostel, sponsoring alternative service for conscientious objectors, social rehabilitation through counseling and job placement of women prisoners, assisting WWII refugees through the monthly Tuesday Luncheon Clubs (1942-1961) and providing hospital visitors. In 1955 the New York Friends Center joined with the Hiroshima Peace Center Association to sponsor the travel to New York City and reconstructive surgery for twenty five Japanese girls who had been injured in the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. Known as the "Hiroshima Maidens," the young women stayed initially at Pendle Hill School, Wallingford, Pennsylvania, and then with Quaker families during the year-long recuperation.

Records, 1938-1964, document the activities and events of the New York Friends Center and consist of minutes, financial records, correspondence, newsletters and newspaper clippings, particularly of the Hiroshima Maidens Project, 1955-1956.

Divided into series: Series 1. Minutes and Correspondence; Series 2. Annual Reports; Series 3. Projects.

Primarily a funding agency for

U.S.

peace and antinuclear groups; organized and run by Doris Shamleffer.

Includes files about grants to U.S. peace and antinuclear groups, and reference material about them; also, annual reports, correspondence, administrative files, financial records, and minutes of meetings.

New York State Board for Civilian Public Service
Collection, 1941-1944.
.25 linear in.

The New York State Board for Civilian Public Service was formed to advise men how to deal with problems arising from conscientious objection and Civilian Public Service under the Selective Service Act of 1940. The Board was formed at the suggestion of Paul Comly French, Executive Secretary of the National Service Board for Religious Objectors. The New York State Board cooperated with the American Friends Service Committee, Fellowship of Reconciliation and the Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors, and its members were drawn from the entire state. Its successor organization was the New York State Committee for Conscientious Objectors.

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the records of this organization.

Quaker; teacher; participated in Quaker relief in Europe after World War One; head of the American Friends Service Committee Peace Section; Executive Director of the Emergency Peace Campaign; founder and Executive Secretary of Farmers and World Affairs.

A major Quaker peace group operating in northern

England

; mission is “to support the active promotion of peace in all its height and breadth.”

Minutes, reports, pamphlets, leaflets, letters, newsletters, misc. publications.

LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected Document Groups: International. Great Britain
and Friends Historical Library: Pamphlet Group 3

Quaker; peacetime draft resister after World War II; legal trial, 1949-1950.

Lawyer, judge, Quaker, pacifist and advocate of civil liberties. Married to Mildred Scott Olmsted who, though not a Quaker, was associated with them in many causes.

Scattered correspondence (1898-1977), Olmsted's writings on treaties, peace, and related legal topics, memoranda and briefs, handbooks on conscientious objection, and board minutes of the many organizations with which he was involved. Includes minutes and memos of Rights of Conscience Committee of the American Friends Service Committee, Philadelphia Peace Council, Joint Peace Committee of Providence and Chester Monthly Meetings, American Civil Liberties Union, and Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors; correspondence with German emigrés and American consular officials (1939-1942); and transcripts of Olmsted's dismissal hearing by the American Legion and correspondence with post officers (1922-1927). Subjects include freedom of speech, loyalty oaths, universal military training, conscientious objectors, and racial integration. Correspondents include Brent D. Allinson, Gertrude Baer, Roger N. Baldwin, Edward W. Evans, Francis Heisler, Dorothy H. Hutchinson, Esther Everett Lape, Walter C. Longstreth, Arlo D. Tatum, Lyle Tatum, George Willoughby, and C.H. (Mike) Yarrow.

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LOCATION: Peace Collection Archives, DG 95.

Peace leader; National Executive Director of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section, 1934-1966; Executive Secretary of Pennsylvania branch of WILPF; director during World War II of Women's Committee to Oppose Conscription; active with Philadelphia (Pa.) SANE, Promoting Enduring Peace, and Pennsylvania American Civil Liberties Union; early leader in birth control movement and women's suffrage. Quaker; member of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Committee on Reorganization in 1973 and 1974 and also served on the Executive Committee of the Peace Education Committee of the American Friends Service Committee. Mildred Scott Olmsted is pictured below on the left with Joan Baez, a folk-singer, pacifist, and Quaker.

Chiefly personal correspondence (1908-1989); together with oral history transcripts, annotated Women's International League for Peace and Freedom materials, material relating to WILPF U.S. Section, articles, speeches and writings, material on other peace organizations, clippings, awards and citations, and personal memorabilia. Correspondents include Katharine M. Arnett, Edith Ballantyne, Elise Boulding, Katherine L. Camp, Lucy P. Carner, Ruth Chalmers, Ruth Gage Colby, Sybil Cookson, Dorothy Detzer, Howard Frazier, Ruth Freeman, Margaret Forte, Marii Hasegawa, Dorothy M. Hayes, Margaret Holmes, Dorothy H. Hutchinson, Tano Jodai, Ruth Mellor, Allen S. Olmsted, Mercedes M. Randall, Martha Sandquist, Dorothea De Schweinitz, K. Patricia Shannon, Dorothy R. Steffens, Jacqueline Van Voris, and Elizabeth W. Weideman.

Organized into 8 series. I.Biographical. II.Correspondence. III.Speeches and writings by Olmsted. IV.WILPF events/projects. V.Other events/projects/organizations/subjects. VI.AV material. VII. Memorabilia. VIII. Material from misc. organizations. Series I,II,III,IV,V are in chronological arrangement. Series VIII is in alphabetical order.

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LOCATION: Peace Collection Archives, DG 082.

Dr. Francis Skillman Onderdonk was the organizer of the Peace Films Caravan, a non-profit organization. Trained as an architect in Vienna, he received his doctorate in 1919 after working as a draftsman during World War I. In 1928, he joined the Society of Friends. He willed his collection of pictures, poster, 9 films, and postcards, as well as antiwar cartoons, woodcuts, and literature to the Peace Collection.

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the papers of this individual.

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