Homer A. Jack Papers (DG 063), Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Homer A. Jack Papers, 1930 -1995

Collection: DG 063
Later Accessions

Contact Information
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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Swarthmore, PA 19081-1399
U.S.A.
Telephone: 610-328-8557 (curator)
Fax: 610-690-5728
Email: wchmiel@swarthmore.edu (curator)
URL: http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/

Descriptive Summary
Repository
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Creator
Jack, Homer A. (1916-1993)
Title
Homer A. Jack Papers
Inclusive Dates
1930-1995
Call Number
DG 063
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
16.6 linear feet [papers in unprocessed acciessions only]
Abstract
Homer A. Jack (1916-1993) was a Unitarian Universalist clergyman and denominational official who sought to apply religious values to national and international affairs. Jack was executive secretary of the Chicago Council Against Racial and Religious Discrimination (1943-1948), executive director of SANE (1960-1964), and secretary general of the World Conference on Religion and Peace (1970-1983). He had been minister of churches in Lawrence, Kansas (1942-1943), Evanston, Illinois (1948-1959), and Winnetka, Illinois (1984-1987) and served as director of the Division of Social Responsibility of the Unitarian Universalist Association (1964-1970). Jack also chaired the NGO Committee on Disarmament (at UN Headquarters) from 1973-1984. Homer Jack "retired" to Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, in Januaryuary 1987. He published a history of the World Conference on Religion and Peace in 1993, and continued to be active in various peace and human rights organizations, speaking and traveling frequently. Homer Jack died of cancer in 1993.

Administrative Information
Restrictions to Access
No
Usage Restrictions
Yes, some correspondence is restricted due to poor condition
Alternate Form of Material
None
Acquisitions Information
Gift of Homer A. Jack, Inga Jack, (1970-2007)
Processing Information
Processed by Wendy Chmielewski, 2008
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Homer A. Jackl Papers (DG 063.), Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law

Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online library/archival catalogs.
See tripod record

Related Collections
DG 058 SANE
DG 059 National Inter-Religious Conference on Peace; World Council on Relgion and Peace/USA
DG 063 Homer A. Jack Papers (processed collection)
DG 078 World Conference on Religion and Peace
DG 139 NGO Committee on Disarmament (at UN Headquarters)

Historical Background
Homer A. Jack (1916-1993) was a Unitarian Universalist clergyman and denominational official who sought to apply religious values to national and international affairs. Jack was executive secretary of the Chicago Council Against Racial and Religious Discrimination (1943-1948), executive director of SANE (1960-1964), and secretary general of the World Conference on Religion and Peace (1970-1983). He had been minister of churches in Lawrence, Kansas (1942-1943), Evanston, Illinois (1948-1959), and Winnetka, Illinois (1984-1987) and served as director of the Division of Social Responsibility of the Unitarian Universalist Association (1964-1970). Jack served as Secretary General of the World Conference on Religion and Peace from 1970 until 1983 when he became Secretary-General Emeritus. From Januaryuary 1984 to Januaryuary 1987 he served as Minister of the Lake Shore Unitarian Universalist Society in Winnetka, Illinois. In November 1983, Homer Jack received a Pomerance Award for his incomparable work in expressing concern on disarmament, peace, and human rights issues for non-governmental organizations at the United Nations. The Pomerance Awards, presented by the NGO Committee on Disarmament (at United Nations Headquarters) for outstanding contributions to the field of disarmament, were created in 1982 in memory of Josephine Pomerance whose papers are also in SCPC. In April 1984, Homer Jack was awarded the second Niwano Peace Prize by the Niwano Peace Foundation in Tokyo, Japan. This prize honors persons or groups who have performed distinguished service in the promotion of world peace through inter-religious cooperation.

Homer Jack married his second wife, Ingeborg Kind, in June 1972. One of his step-daughters, Renate Belck, worked for several years as his secretary at the World Conference on Religion and Peace in New York. He has two children (Alex Jack and Lucy Jack Williams) from his first marriage, and two grandchildren.

Homer Jack "retired" to Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, in January 1987. He published a history of the World Conference on Religion and Peace in 1993. He continued to be active in various peace and human rights organizations, speaking and traveling frequently. Homer Jack died of cancer in 1993.

Collection Overview
See DG 063 Homer A. Jack Papers (processed collection) for full description of the Jack Papers

Arrangement of Collection
The later accessions of the papers of Homer A. Jack have been added to DG 063 after the majority of the collection was processed. These later accessions remain unprocessed, but temporary finding aids are available. This material remains organized by accession and in the manner in which it was donated.

Acc. 86A-054
Box 1 [Lake Shore Unitarian Universalist Society: Winnetka, 1984-1987]
Letter of Agreement, 1983 (November 7)
Reports, schedules, attendance, 1985-1987 (found with correspondences)
"Commentaries and Columns by Homer A. Jack, 1984"
Sunday Services, 1984-1987 (but not texts of sermons)
Orders of Service, 1983-1987
Church Newsletters, 1984-1987
Censorship of Homer Jack by Cook

Box 2 [Niwana Peace Prize, 1984 Lecture Trip to California, (October)]
Niwano Peace Prize Awarded to Homer Jack, 1984
Niwano Peace Prize, 1984 speeches by Homer Jack
Niwano Peace Prize, 1984 correspondences
Niwano Peace Prize, 1984 clippings
Niwano Peace Prize trip to Japan 1984 (April)
Lecture Trip to California 1984 (October)

1987 accessions
Box 3 [Organizational work, Chicago, circa 1984-1986]
International Conference on the Relationship Between Disarmament and Development UN, 1987 (August-September) correspondences and notes of Homer Jack
UN reports on disarmament and development , 1986-1987
Non-Govermental Organizations Conference on the Relationship Between Disarmament and Development Stockholm, 1987 (May)
Conference documents - Reports, statements, etcetera
Conference documents - written statements from Non-Govermental Organizations
Non-Governmental Organization observers
Non-Governmental Organization statements

1987 and 1988 accessions
Box 4
Statements by countries
UN Press Releases
Articles and clippings
For CDG-A/CDG-B

Acc. 87A-152
Box 5 [Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, 1983-1988]
Albert Schweitzer Fellowship 1985
Albert Schweitzer Fellowship 1983-1988
1988 Schweitzer Conference
Information about Schweitzer circla 1976-1989

Ambiguous accessions
Box 6 [International Conference on the Relationship Between Disarmament and Development, UN, 1987 (August-September)]
Third special session on disarmament Homer A. Jack writings
Third special session on disarmament general UN disarmament publications
Third special session on disarmament preparatory committee
Third special session on disarmament UN reports to conference
Third special session on disarmament position papers
Third special session on disarmament miscellaneous

Box 7 [International Conference on the Relationship Between Disarmament and Development, UN, 1987 (August-September)]
Third special session on disarmament concluding documents
Third special session on disarmament articles and evaluation afterwards
Third special session on disarmament Non-Governmental Organization statements to session

Box 8 [International Conference on the Relationship Between Disarmament and Development, UN, 1987 (August-September)]
Committee Whole Verbatim

Later accessions
Box 9
Anti-Satellite Pact 1983-1987
Chemical weapons 1981-1983
Deterrence 1984-1985
Freeze 1985-1986 (1982-1987)
MX 1979-1983
UN military budgets 1980-1984
New European groups 1982-1984

Box 10
No First Use 1982
Nuclear weapon free zones 1984-1986
Nuclear winter 1983-1987
Reykjavik summit conference 1986-1987
Soviet-American relations 1981-1987
Test ban 1984-1986
UN Committee on Disarmament Conference 1981, 1984

Box 11
UN Disarmament Commission 1978-1982
UN Second Special Session on Disarmament 1981-1982
UN Disarmament Studies 1962-1985
UN Disarmament Studies 1981-1982
UN World Disarmament Conference 1972-1982
World Peace Council 1983-1987
US policy 1983-1986

Box 12
SANE/Freeze convention Cleveland, 1987 (November) [Acc. 88A-001]
Citizen Action To Bridge the Gap Chicago 1987 (May)
Bota (Alexandra)
Minns lectures background material #2l, 1957-1965 (1987)
Pendle Hill, 1987 (autumn) Homer Jack and faculty [88A-075]
Delaware County Peace Center 1987-1988 [Acc. 88A-077]
Farmer and Rostin [Acc. 89A-44]

Box 13
Minns Background material #1 1945-1955 (1987) [Acc. 88A-001]
Schweitzer Mss. correspondences, 1984-1986
Minns attack on Jack 1985
Minns lectures correspondences 1985-1987
Woodstock, Vermont 1986 [Acc. 87A-039]
Project involving William Lloyd family, 1986 [Acc. 87A-152]
Inamullah Kahn nomination for Templeton Prize, 1986

Box 14
Harvard speech 1985 [no acc. listed]
Meadville course fall 1985 [Acc. 87A-039]
Philosofest 1985 (October) [Acc. 87A-029]
Jack arrest 1985 (July) [Acc. 87A-028]
Mission Mss.and correspondences 1985
North American I.A.R.P. 1984-1986 [Acc. 87A-053]

Box 15
Winnetka Clergy, Minutes 1985 (September) - 1986 (May) [Acc. 87A-152]
Chicago Area Liberal Ministers (CALM) 1984-1986 [Acc. 87A-028]
Unitarian Universalist Peace Network Chicago 1985 [Acc. 87A-035]
10th Congressional District Nuclear Freeze 1984-1987 [Acc. 87A-043]
10th Congressional District Nuclear Freeze 1985-1987 [Acc. 87A-052]
Illinois Freeze 1985-1986 [2 folders] [Acc. 87A-036]

Box 16
National Freeze and Freeze Conventions 1985-1986 [Acc. 87A-043]
National Freeze 1985-1987 [Acc. 87A-052]
"Toward Freedom" 1984-1986
Clergy and Laity concerned Chicago 1985-1987
North Shore Peace Initiative 1984-1987

Box 17
Amnesty International, group 304 Winnetka, Illinois 1984-1987 [Acc. 87A-052]
North Shore Interfaith Housing Council 1984-1986 [Acc. 87A-053]
North Shore Community Housing Resource Board 1986
North Suburban Housing Center 1986
United Nations Association / Illinois 1985-1986
Peace Awareness Committee Winnetka 1984-1986

Acc. 91A-081
Box 18
Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, 1989
Schweitzer colloquium, UN, 1990
Niwano statement on Gulf Crisis, 1990
Comprehensive Test Ban, 1990
Key West, 1990
Geneva, 1990
International Assocation for Religious Freedom Congress, Hamburg, 1990

Acc. 91A-127
Box 19 [Amendment Conference of the States -- Parties to the Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space, and Under Water. UN, 1991 (January)]
General debate
Press releases
Official documents
Miscellaneous
Non-Governmental Organization materials (not speeches)

Acc. 91A-126
Box 20 [Gulf War]
Churches
Unitarian Universalists
Ceasefire [2 folders]
Deadline
Roger Fischer
Lessons
Delaware County
Miscellaneous

Acc. 90A-127
Box 21 [Disarmament - Non-proliferation treaty, review conference, Geneva 1990 (September)]
Committees
Official documents
Miscellaneous [3 folders]

Box 22 [Dana McLean Greeley Foundation circa 1985-1989]
1988
1989
Supplements

Box 23 [Disarmament: Amendment Conference to Partial Test Ban Treaty]
Exchange of views
Miscellaneous

Acc. 91A-057
Box 24 [Media Fellowship House Delaware County Peace Center Brethren Press Toward Freedom, etcetera circa 1987-1990]
Rossides
Fellowship Media House
King Coalition 1990
Delaware County Peace Center 1988
Schweitzer - Russell 1980
Brethren Press 1987-1990
UN documents, 1980
Toward Freedom

Box 25
Correspondence with John Taylor, World Conference on Religion and Peace 1984-1987
William Sloane Coffin visit to Swarthmore, 1989 (December 10)

Acc. 90A-121
Box 26 [Dana McLean Greeley Foundation circa 1985-1989]
By-Laws
Executive Committee
Finances
Board
1985
1986
1987

Acc. 94A-035
Box 1
Homer A. Jack writings
Miscellaneous manuscripts
Disarmament, 1990 -1991 (H.A.J. writings)
Middle East, 1991 - 1992
Greenpeace report on the Gulf War, 1991 and H.A.J. notes
"A New Agenda for the Old Peace Movement," May 1992
Bosnia, 1992 [two folders]
Clippings re: Bosnia
Order form for The Minns Lectures, 1987
Incomplete Article on Gulf War by H.A.J. [two folders]

Box 2
H.A.J. writing circa 1991, pages 6-7 (incomplete)
Community reception for H.A.J., 1993 (March)
Martin Luther King, Jr. manuscript by H.A.J. (in German)
Urban poverty and economic development, 1991 - 1992
World Conference on Religion and Peace: Women's meeting, 1990 - 1991
Unitarian Universalist Association, 1993
Teaching in a Nuclear Age
Humanitarian intervention by UN, 1990 - 1991
UN Security Council: General's report on Agenda for Peace, 1992
H.A.J. writings and UN documents circa 1991

Box 3
UN restructuring, 1990 - 1992
Middle East arms, 1990 - 1991
Disarmament, 1991 - 1992
Clippings
UN Disarmament Commission, 1993
NGO disarmament conference, April 1993
Alfonso Garcia Robles

Box 4
Founding of SANE
CORE re: history
The Greeley Foundation, 1990 [five folders]

Box 5
The Greeley Foundation, 1991 [three folders]
The Greeley Foundation, 1992 - 1993 [three folders]
The Greeley Foundation, 1993

Box 6
Working group on Albert Schweitzer and Africa, 1988 - 1991
Working group on Albert Schweitzer and Africa, 1992 - 1993
Albert Schweitzer/Africa masters
Working group on Albert Schweitzer and Africa, 1991 - 1993
Albert Schweitzer/Africa

Box 7
Material about WCRP: A History of The World Conference on Religion and Peace

Box 8
Manuscript of WCRP: A History of The World Conference on Religion and Peace, May 1991 (before editorial work)

Acc. 94A-056
Box 1
Personal correspondence, 1991-1993
20/20
Diversity
NGO Committee on Disarmament
Pendle Hill
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Jobs with Peace
Unitiversalist Unitarian denominational
Material relating to publication of World Conference on Religion and Peace history

Box 2
Material for autobiography (never completed - rest of material went to Alex Jack)
Reprint originals, 1991
Material for church services

Box 3
Material for church services, continued
Substantive issues: (not every folder is listed)
Palestinians
Middle East
World Conference on Religion and Peace
Albert Schweitzer Fellowship
IARF/USA
Unitarian Universalists
Bibliography
Albert Schweitzer - Robles
Japan
Bajaj Foundation
India
NGO - Religious discrimination, 1991-1992
Disarmament

Box 4
Substantive issues, continued: (not every folder is listed)
Salzberg 1991
Mulholland - RD
John Taylor
World Conference on Religion and Peace/UNCED
ACRP newsletter
Global Forum
Interfaith organizations conference
Massacres
Moon's World Parliament
Multi-religious literature
Moon - unsent letter
Niwano Foundation
Nobel Prize Alternative
Nobel prizes
Nonviolence International
Temple of Understanding
Templeton Foundation
Week prayer world peace
Sermons and speaking, 1991
Race relations
Env. and development NGOs
Japan sermons
Disarmament and development
Disarmament and religion
Disarmament Commission
Disarmament: Human rights
SANE
Test moratorium, footnote to history
Unilateralism
Soviet positions
Hiroshima

Box 5 Substantive issues, continued.: (not every folder is listed)
Federalism
Hunger
Japan
Peace prayers
Non-aligned philosophy
Network
Peace process
Media Fellowship
Selma 1965
Social investment
Peacefund Canada
Camara, Helder
Cousins, Norman
Stevenson, Adelai S.
DuBois and A.S.
Einstein, Albert
Gandhi
Blacks and Gandhi
Greeley, Dana
Khan, Inamullah
Nehru
Reeb, James
Schweitzer
Mother Teresa seminar
Tutu, Desmond

Box 6 Correspondence, speeches, reprints
World Conference on Religion and Peace V proceedings
Lucker
Gotland/World Conference on Religion and Peace Europe and International Bluffton Conference, 1992 (October) ("Erasing the Color Line in the North: Non-Violent Protest and Civil Rights, 1942-1965")
1989 reprints
Africa
Anti-Semitism Bandung
Buddhism
China
Environment and religion
Chinese religion
Speeches: Disarmament
Lippincott (re "Teaching in a Nuclear Age")
Miscellaneous manuscripts
Miscellaneous speeches, etc.
Homer A. Jack/Disarmament speeches
Homer A. Jack speeches
Race reprints
Homer A. Jack miscellany (includes speeches)

Box 7
Relatives
Autobiography: used material
Delco Committee for Peace and Justice in the Middle East, 1991-1992
IARF, 1992
Toward Fredom [periodicals moved to SCPC Periodicals]
Aicher, Paul
Tibet
United Nations
Unification Church
Untouchability
Unitarianism, 1980s

Box 8 Sermons, speeches, Martin Luther King, Ayodhya
After Gulf War and United Nations
Current sermons, 1987+
Sermons, 1970s
Sermons: Unitarianism
Sermons on Bible
Day of Prayer for Human Rights
Essay on Martin Luther King in German
Sermons on personalities
Sermons: theology
Florida sermons I
Speeches, 1980+
King, Martin Luther
Ayodhya [2 folders]

Box 9
Miscellaneous publications
Bibliography and writings, 1991-1992
"A Sheaf of Papers on Selma, 1965, and James Reeb"
Homer A. Jack bibliography, September 1991
End 1993
"The Gandhi Century," November 1992
Japan volume
"Drafting a United Nations Convention for Religious Freedom"
Homer A. Jack writings, ca. 1990-1991
Gulf War, 1991
King Nobel manuscript
Order forms [for Homer A. Jack publications]
World's Parliament of Religions, 1893 [several folders]
India tour, 1993
International Interfaith Organizations Coordinating Committee

NOTE [Eleanor Barr September 30, 1994]: Folder labels in this accession do not always reflect the contents of the folders because HAJ re-used the folders. Before bringing materials to the Peace Collection, HAJ often wrote a note describing the contents and inserted it in the front of the folder. These notes are usually more accurate than the folder labels. Some of the folders in this accession have such notes but many do not.

Acc. 03A-082
Box 1
Arun Gandhi
South Africa 1993
Signs of Hope Chester
Black Holocaust
King Seminar
King – Personal Encounters
King – Delco
M. L. K. Maple Shade Mss.
Selma M. L. King
Civil Rights, Georgia
Juliette Morgan
M. L. King Crozer Statue
Juliette Morgan
Church / Chester
Ministerium
Chester Peace / Racism

Box 2
[no label]
Gandhi Seminar
Bajaj – Gandhi Institutions
Gandhi
India
India 1993 I.A.R.F.
India
India
The Non-Aligned
Bangladesh / Pakistan

Box 3
[no label]
Bajaj – Publicity
“Gandhi” Bajaj Award, Trip to India 1988
Gandhi, Nobel Prize
CFB to Parents

Acc. 08A-031
Box 1
Visit of RKK Camera Crew, June 1988
Homer Jack, public relations
Second collection of essays/letters
Sermons
India
China
Homer Jack, reprints
Cuba
The World’s Parliament of Religion, 1893 -1993
Homer Jack, manuscripts 1980
United Nations Disarmament/Disarmament Times
Wars/Conflicts
Human Rights
Albert Schweitzer [2 folders]
World Conference on Religion and Peace
International Association for Religious Freedom
Compliments on book
Unitarian Universalist Assembly
Illustrations
E. Biographical Vignettes, unpublished
Parliament of World Religion
World Conference on Religion and Peace Ethics: Western Papers
U.S. policies
Interfaith/peace
World Conference on Religion and Peace

Box 2
Minutes of World Conference on Religion and Peace meeting of Exec. Committee
World Conference on Religion and Peace meetings
World Conference on Religion and Peace, planning and meeting minutes
World Conference on Religion and Peace, Assembly Six, July 1992—related materials
Homer Jack, reference file on politics
Homer Jack, special reports from Unitarian Universalist Assembly
Homer Jack, memos and writings for Unitarian Universalist Assembly , etc.

Box 3
Disarm
United Nations
Unitarian Universalist Assembly General Assembly Resolutions and Info.
South Asian Doctors’ Regional Conference
Miscellaneous
United Nations material

Box 4
United Nations material
Homer Jack, June 3, 1993 to August 5, 1993
Make copies
Homer Jack, get well
Memorial service for Homer Jack in Evanston, Winnetka
World Conference on Religion and Peace, Homer Jack’s death
Japan/Homer Jack faxes
Media UU memorial service
World Conference on Religion and Peace, United Nations church center memorial service
Swarthmore, March 21, 1993: honored by peace community

Box 5
India
Israel/Palestine
Counter-Insurgency and Tribal Peoples in the Philippines
Photocopies, Homer Jack
Memories
C.V.s, etc.
Quinces and mangoes
Disarmament United Nations
Humour
Unitarian
United Nations— United States
Miscellaneous
UU Arms Trade
Middle East Committee 1993
Iraq, 1990: file on Delco Committee for Peace and Justice in Mid. East
Iraq, history

Box 6
Iraq, Homer Jack
Reference materials
New World Order and the United Nations
Reference material
United Nations, Mid. East Peace/Israel Human Rights
United Nations, War/Peace
United Nations, Nuclear Weapons/War
Miscellaneous
Peace
Bibliography 1993
Reference materials

Box 7
Homer Jack—Unitarian Universalist Assembly /Sermons
Reference materials: Gulf War
Nonproliferation and disarmament
Death penalty report
Homer Jack and Herschel Halbert, World Conference on Religion and Peace preparers, the beginning of WCRP

Accession 08A-049A
Box 1 (of 1)
South Korea, 1979--Homer Jack trip and reference material
China, 1980--Homer Jack writing and reference material
Japan, 1984-1993--Homer Jack trips
India, 1988--Homer Jack trip and reference material
Awards to Homer Jack, 1979-1994