Swarthmore College Peace Collection

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Papers of Homer A. Jack, 1930 -1995

Collection: DG 063
Later Accessions

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Contact Information
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
500 College Avenue
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/

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Descriptive Summary
Repository
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Creator
Jack, Homer A. (1916-1995)
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 1995.

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 Januaryuary 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 1995.

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. 94A-035
Acc. 94A-056
Acc. 03A-082
Acc. 08A-031

Detailed Description of the Collection

Acc. 94A-035
Box 1
Homer A. Jack, writings, primarily 1990s
United Nations and disarmament, ca. 1990-1993

Box 2
SANE- early history
Congress on Racial Eequality, early history
Greeley Foundation, 1990-1993
Working Group on Albert Schweitzer and Africa, 1988-1993

Box 3
Material about WCRP: A History of The World Conference on Religion and Peace

Box 4
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. & 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 & A.S.
Einstein, Albert
Gandhi
Blacks & 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 & International Bluffton Conference, Oct. 1992 ("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 & 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