A Quaker Action Group Records [AQAG] (DG 074)
19.75 linear feet
Founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1966 to apply nonviolent direct action as a witness against the war in Vietnam; not an official body of the Religious Society of Friends; in 1971 transformed into Movement for a New Society.

ACCESS: A Security Information Service Records (DG 216)
3.1 linear feet
Established in 1985; a nonprofit, non-partisan information service on international security and peace. Through a telephone referral service, regular publication series, ACCESS Resource Brief, and reference books on international affairs, ACCESS provides information on current international events and guides concerned citizens and experts to sources of information on issues such as U.S. and foreign military policy, arms control, and regional conflicts; executive director: Mary E. Lord.

Jane Addams Papers (DG 001)
130 linear feet
A world-famous social reformer; co-founded Hull-House, the first settlement house in America in 1889. Hull-House reached thousands of Chicago-area immigrants through social service, activities and classes. Addams and her co-workers championed many causes on behalf of the urban poor, child labor laws, industrial safety, juvenile courts, and recognition of labor unions. As a feminist and pacifist, Addams was a leading figure in the woman suffrage movement and the movement for international peace. From 1915 through 1919, she served as chairman of the Woman's Peace Party (U.S.) and the International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace. Both organizations were forerunners of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). Addams was international president of WILPF from 1919 through 1929, and honorary international president from 1929 until her death in 1935. Jane Addams was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.
photograph exhibit
photograghs online

Horace Gundry Alexander Papers (DG 140)
2 linear feet and 11 linear inches
Born 1889 in Croyden (England); life-long member of the Religious Society of Friends; graduated with honors in history from Kings College, Cambridge University; director of Woodbrooke College; served as advisor to Mohandas K. Gandhi; wrote and published extensively about India; worked throughout the world for Indian rights; died 1989 in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

Devere Allen Papers (DG 053)
138 linear feet
Born Harold Devere Allen in 1891; author, editor, journalist and lecturer; advocate of internationalist pacifism; influential member of the Socialist Party in the United States, in the 1930s; leader of Young Democracy, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and the War Resisters League; genealogist; recorder of Rhode Island history and lore; died 1955.
photograph exhibit

Alliance for Conscientious Objectors Records (DG 088)
3 linear feet
Founded in 1970 as Conscientious Objectors for Service Benefits; name changed to Alliance for Conscientious Objectors, 1972; dissolved 1974.

American Civil Liberties Union: National Committee on Conscientious Objectors Records (DG 022)
13.25 linear feet
Began ca. 1940 with offices in New York, New York and Washington, D.C.; the committee was organized to aid conscientious objectors during World War II; ceased operations in 1946.

American Friends Service Committee [AFSC]: Civilian Public Service Records / Prison Service Committee Records (DG 002)
278 linear feet
AFSC worked the historic peace churches (Church of the Brethren, Religious Society of Friends and the Mennonite Church) to form the National Service Board for Religious Objectors (NISBRO) in the early 1940s to provide assistance to conscientious objectors to war. AFSC administered some of the Civilian Public Serivce camps, which provided alternative service for conscientious objectors, who were assigned "work of national importance under civilian direction; the American Friends Service Committee administered seventeen CPS camps and over thirty special service units which provided an alternative service program for 3400 men between 1941 and 1946. Part 4 and Part 5 are restricted; boxes in Part 4 are stored offsite.

American Peace Society Records (DG 003)
10.75 linear feet
In the 1820s William Ladd of the Maine Peace Society suggested that the regional U.S. peace societies become associated in a national organization. As a result, the peace societies of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, merged in May 1828 to form the American Peace Society [APS]. The stated purpose was to "promote permanent international peace through justice; and to advance in every proper way the general use of conciliation, arbitration, judicial methods, and other peaceful means of avoiding and adjusting differences among nations, to the end that right shall rule might in a law--governed world." The headquarters of the Society moved in 1835 from Hartford, Connecticut to Boston, Massachusetts, and in 1911 to Washington D.C., where it still has offices. There are significant holdings of the papers of Benjamin F. Trueblood, president of the APS at the end of the 19th century..
photograph exhibit

American Peace Test Records (DG 197)
10.75 linear feet
Founded in 1985 as a direct, nonviolent action campaign protesting U.S.testing of nuclear weapons at the Nevada Test Site, near Las Vegas. Originally a project of the National FREEZE Campaign, APT became an independent organization in 1986 when the first large-scale action took place. These actions were held throughout the 1980s, and were supported by nationally-known celebrities, politicians, and activists. APT reached its zenith around 1988, but was riven by internal conflicts. It regrouped in the early 1990s, and foundered once more. With a partial Comprehensive Test Ban as U.S. policy and declining attendance at protests, APT members voted to close down the organization ca. 1994. Protests at the NTS continued, sponsored by other organizations. Records are unprocessed and in the order as received from the donor.

American Union Against Militarism Records (DG 004)
1.75 linear feet
Founded in New York City, New York in 1915 as the Anti-Militarism Committee; opposed militarism in World War I, defended conscientious objectors and civil liberties during the war, worked for a just and lasting peace, and opposed peacetime conscription after the war; also known at times as the Anti-Preparedness Committee, Truth About Preparedness Committee, American Union for a Democratic Peace, and the League for an American Peace; closed its offices early in 1922, expecting that its work would be handled by the National Council for Reduction of Armaments.

Amnesty Information and Action Center Records (DG 114)
3 linear feet
Established in 1972 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, to support amnesty decisions on behalf of those Americans who refused to be drafted into the military during the Vietnam War; founded and run by Dwight S. Large and Frances K. Large for the purpose of distributing material to and coordinating networks of persons interested in all aspects of amnesty and reconciliation; sponsored by The Methodist Church; ceased operation in 1973.

Bennett W. Andrews and Florence N. Andrews Papers (DG 209)
20 linear inches
Bennett W. Andrews: born in 1906 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.; pacifist and absolutist conscientious objector to war; sentenced to Danbury prison for refusing to cooperate with Selective Service during World War II; married Florence N. Andrews in 1938; Bennett Andrews was musician and music teacher; He died in 1994. Florence N. Andrews was born in 1913; she was an absolute pacifist and worked for the American Friends Service Committee during World War II..

Another Mother for Peace Records (DG 102)
5.5 linear feet
Founded by women peace activists in California in 1967 to protest the Vietnam War; a non-profit, non-partisan association whose purpose was "to educate women to take an active role in eliminating war as a means of solving disputes between nations, people, and ideologies"; urged the establishment of a Department of Peace and raised funds to support peace candidates in the Senate and Congress; Well-known Hollywood actors and actresses, including Donna Reed, were founders and leaders; became inactive in 1979.

Armistice Records (DG 137)
4.25 linear feet
Known as Live Without Trident from 1977 through 1981; changed its name to Armistice in 1984. Files are unprocessed; no finding aid available online.
tripod record

Art for World Friendship Records (DG 066)
19 linear feet
Founded in 1946 by Maude Muller (1885?-1972) as a local project of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, U.S. Section. Children in more than 90 nations and the United States participated in the art exchange program, which later became a project of the Jane Addams Peace Association. Discontinued in 1968.
art exhibit / archival exhibit

Atlanta Sanctuary Committee Records (DG 180)
4.4 linear feet
Began in 1985 under the care of the Social Concerns Committee of the Atlanta Friends Meeting; included representatives from other religious communities; provided information about the sanctuary movement and sanctuary of Central American refugees escaping civil and covert wars in various Central American countries.

Hannah J. Bailey Papers (DG 005)
3 linear feet
Born 1839; Quaker minister, pacifist, suffrage leader, reformer, and temperance leader; superintendent of the Department of Peace and Arbitration of the National and International Woman's Christian Temperance Union [WCTU] from 1887 to 1916; president and business manager of the Woman's Temperance Publication Association; president of the Maine Woman Suffrage Association (1891-1899), and a member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association; Vice president of the Universal Peace Union (DG 038); died 1923. Her papers reflect personal and professional interests through correspondence and published/unpublished writings, photographs and memorabilia.

Emily Greene Balch Papers (DG 006)
25.75 linear feet
Born 1867; peace leader; Quaker; Professor of Economics and Sociology, Wellesley College, President of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, U.S. Section (1928-1933). Received Nobel Peace Prize (1946). Active in Woman's Peace Party (1915-1919) and People's Council of America for Democracy and Peace (1917). Dismissed from Wellesley College because of opposition to World War I; died 1961.
photograph exhibit

Albert Bigelow Papers (DG 076)
10 linear inches
Born 1906; architect, former Navy commander, and Quaker, who attempted to sail the ketch The Golden Rule into the U.S. atomic bomb test site in the Marshall Islands in 1958. This act of civil disobedience resulted in the arrest of Bigelow and his shipmates and their imprisonment in Honolulu, Hawaii. Bigelow later participated in other acts of civil disobedience. Author of Voyage of the Golden Rule (1959). The collection includes records about attempt to disrupt the testing, ships's log of The Golden Rule and sketches made on board the Golden Rule and in prison in Hawaii; collection also includes Bigelow's involvement in the Mercury Project vigil in Nevada (1957) and Alabama freedom rides (1961).

Brandywine Peace Community Records (DG 158)
3+ linear feet
Founded in April 1972 by Delaware County, Pennsylvania and Chester County, Pennsylvania to work for "peace, disarmament, and a change of values and priorities...to an emphasis on peace, social justice, and the needs of the people." Advocates nonviolent direct action by means of fasts, demonstrations, vigils, or principled trespass on private property; is especially active against nuclear weapons manufactured by the General Electric Company. Originally called the Brandywine War Tax Resistance Fund, later (as of 1976) called the Brandywine Alternative Fund; name changed to the Brandywine Peace Community and Alternative Fund ca. 1978, then to Brandywine Peace Community in 1980. Issued a newsletter, 197?-1989. Headquartered in Media, Pennsylvania until 1983, then in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

Ellen Starr Brinton Papers (DG 051)
10 linear inches
Born 1886; Quaker, feminist and internationalist, served as the first curator of the Jane Addams Peace Collection (later the Swarthmore College Peace Collection) from 1935 until her retirement in 1951; died 1954. Her papers include her travel journals from trips taken to Europe to rescue peace material before World War II. Ccorrespondence includes letters with the Kulka family, Jewish pacifists who tried unsuccessfully to come to the United States to escape persecution in Czechoslovakia. Her collection of peace and international relations stamps from around the world have (mostly) been scanned and are available to view online.

Marion Bromley and Ernest Bromley Papers (DG 214)
3.3 linear feet
Marion Coddington Bromley born 1912 or 1913, died Jan. 21, 1996; Ernest Bromley born March 14, 1912, died December 17, 1997; absolute pacifists, war-tax resisters, Quakers; worked for racial integration in the United States; founders of Peacemakers. Papers are primarily correspondence of Marion Bromley, 1945-1995.

Elihu Burritt Papers (DG 096)
1 linear feet
Born in New Britain, Connecticut in 1810; known as the "Learned Blacksmith" having worked in that occupation, but had taught himself to read in 50 languages; social reformer, abolitionist, absolute pacifist, linguist, and internationalist. He advocated programs of international cooperation and inexpensive international postage rates (which he called "ocean penny postage"), and promoted his plans by means of "Olive Leaves" (brief statements written by himself and other peace reformers) and "Friendly Addresses" between paired cities in the United States and England. Burritt opposed the American Civil War on absolute pacifist principles. He proposed a system of "compensated emancipation", to pay Southern slave owners to free their slaves. Burritt died in New Britain, Connecticut in 1879. Papers consist of correspondence (1841-1878), published writings by and about Burritt, books, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, photographs, and two serial publications, The Advocate of Peace and Universal Brotherhood (1846) and Burritt's Citizen of the World (1855-1856).

Business Executives Move for New National Priorities Records (DG 116)
32.25 linear feet (approx.)
Founded in 1967 as Business Executives Move for Vietnam Peace; objectives were to press for practical steps toward ending American participation in the Vietnam War, to use the business community's influence in expanding public support for disengagement, and to emphasize the war's adverse effect on the economy; name of the organization was changed in 1970 to Business Executives Move for Vietnam Peace and New National Priorities, later (1973) shortened to Business Executives Move for New National Priorities.

Henry J. Cadbury Papers (DG 081)
1 linear foot
Born 1883; a distinguished Biblical scholar, teacher, and a member of the Religious Society of Friends; one of the founders of the American Friends Service Committee, serving as its chairman from 1928 to 1934 and 1944 to 1960; supervised famine relief both in the United States and in Europe; died 1974.

Kay Camp Papers (DG 169)
15.5 linear feet
Katherine Lindsley Camp was born in 1918 [1919?] in Mt. Kisco, New York; graduate of Swarthmore College; elected president of the U.S. Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1967, and later served as international president, 1974-1980; 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 Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; member of the Religious Society of Friends; died 2006.

CarEth Foundation Records (DG 200)
10 linear feet
Founded in 1967 by G. Sterling Grumman to promote enduring world peace; a family-run funding resource for the peace and social justice movement; files include information about groups requesting funding and about the Peace Development Fund.

Center for Economic Conversion Records (DG 215)
7.5 linear feet
Begun in 1975 as a project of the American Friends Service Committee; a nonprofit organization which promoted the conversion of the military-based U.S. economy to a civilian-based, peace-oriented, and environmentally sustainable one; a leading advocate for using military base conversion as a tool to foster sustainable development.

Center on Conscience and War Records (DG 025) [formerly called NSBRO and NISBCO]
670+ linear feet
Formed in 1940 as the National Service Board for Religious Objectors; changed its name to National Interreligious Service Board for Conscientious Objectors in 1970, and to the Center on Conscience and War (CCW) in December, 1999; works to defend and extend the rights of conscientious objectors; founded by the historic peace churches (the Society of Friends (Quakers), Brethren and Mennonites) to provide a unified approach to the federal government in matters concerning conscientious objection and alternative services; headquartered in Washington, D.C. In addition to the administrative records of the Washington office (1940-current), the 1940-1947 records include correspondence, reports, and publications of 151 Civilian Public Service camps, together with case files of men assigned to CPS camps and of the men who were reclassified or imprisoned. Additional case files covering the period 1949 to 1973 contain information about men who performed alternative service (1-W classification) and about men who sought help with problems relating to military service and/or classification.

 

Central America Working Group Records (DG 145)
6 linear feet
Founded in 1979 as a lobbying organization topposing U.S. support for repressive regimes in Central America; collection contains material generated by the Central America Working Group and various materials about the civil wars and covert wars in Central America during the 1980s.

Central American Historical Institute Records (DG 174)
25 boxes
Established in 1982 as an independent educational and research center based at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.; affiliated with the Instituto Historica Centroamericano, a 25 year-old documentation center of the Jesuits of Central America; worked in Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama; ceased operation around 1993. Primarily reference files on Central America in the 1980s; most material is about El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua; in English and Spanish.

Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors Records [CCCO] (DG 073)
130.75 linear feet
CCCO/ An Agency for Military and Draft Counseling, was founded in 1948 following passage of the Selective Service Act. Called the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors (CCCO) until 1969, it developed a nationwide network of military and draft counselors and attorneys. Most active during the Korean and Vietnam Wars, CCCO today promotes such issues as amnesty, repatriation, and counter-recruitment. The bulk of the CCCO records are draft and military counselors' case files and legal files. CCCO closed in the fall of 2009. No finding aid available online.

[Central Organisation for a Durable Peace: formerly DG 007; changed to CDG-B Switzerland in March 2003]

Horace Champney Papers (DG 166)
8.25 linear feet
Born in 1905 in Cleveland, Ohio; a founder of The Peacemakers; sailed to North Vietnam with other Quakers on the yacht Phoenix; established a personal vigil and fast at the gates of the White House, protesting the war; advocate of war-tax resistance; member of A Quaker Action Group (DG 074), the American Friends Service Committee, the Committee for Nonviolent Action (DG 017), and the Fellowship of Reconciliation (DG 013); died August 31, 1990, Papers include over 550 photos, mostly black and white snapshots taken during the Phoenix voyage.

Charles Chatfield Papers (DG 224)
15.6 linear feet
Born 1934: professor at Wittenberg University (Springfield, Ohio); authority on peace history; principal areas of research: diplomatic history and international affairs, U.S. history and culture; has written or edited numerous books and articles on peace and antiwar movements, and taught courses which focused on historical methodology and on U.S. progressive, urban and diplomatic history; a founder of the Peace History Society (DG 094).

Children's Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Records (DG 190)
5 linear feet
Grassroots group organized by young people in Vermont; dedicated to educating children throughout the United States about the nuclear threat and what they could do to end the nuclear arms race; provided forum for the voices of children in opposition to the nuclear arms race. Collection includes letters of children to President Reagan.

Children's Peace Fair Records (DG 218)
3.75 linear feet
Founded 1988 in New Jersey; an annual fair to teach children how they can contribute to world peace and learn conflict resolution skills; organized in association with the Monmouth, New Jersey Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Collection is still in the original order in which it was donated.

Church Peace Mission Records (DG 177)
5.4 linear feet
Begun in 1950; objective was to challenge peace groups and denominations to "devote their energies to the removal of the social, economic and moral causes of...war"; the Fellowship of Reconciliation (DG 013), was instrumental in the creation and continuation of the CPM; other affiliated groups included the American Friends Service Committee, the Brethren Service Committee, the Baptist Pacifist Fellowship, the Episcopal Peace Fellowship, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and the Friends General Conference; CPM disbanded in 1967. Little material survives from the early years; much of the collection was generated while Paul Peachey was Executive Secretary (1962-1964).

Civilian Public Service: Personal Papers and Collected Material (DG 056)
14+ linear feet
Chiefly the personal papers of conscientious objectors assigned to Civilian Public Service (CPS) camps during World War II, includes correspondence, writings, memoirs, and reference material about CPS. Also included are records from, or about, various CPS camps and projects. Also included are materials about CPS reunions (held since the 1940s), and materials (such as questionnaires), from various research projects conducted on CPS.

Clearing House for Nigeria / Biafra Information Records (DG 168)
11.25 linear feet
Established to provide information about the 1968-1970 Nigeria/Biafra War; headquartered in New York. New York; in operation from October 1968 to February 1970; issued information packets and a news bulletin; promoted civilian relief, a cease-fire, and an arms embargo. Includes reports, government documents, journal articles, newspaper clippings, and photographs.

Clergy and Laity Concerned Records [CALC] (DG 120)
53 linear feet
Founded in 1965 for the purpose of opposing American involvement in Vietnam; until 1972, called Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam; was a nationwide, multi-racial network of people of faith and conscience who believed that moral/ethical/religious values must be brought to bear on problems of political, economic, and social injustice. Collection includes meeting minutes (1966-1973), correspondence (1965-1978), material on CALC's programs and projects, CALC publications and posters, press releases, newsclippings, photographs, and files on local CALC groups, particularly the Metropolitan Chicago Chapter (1969-1981). Also included are files of the newspaper American Report (1970-1974) and material relating to Help Unsell the War, a mass media campaign in 1971-1972. No finding aid available online.
tripod record

Coalition for a New Foreign Policy Records (DG 138)
27 linear feet
The leading organization lobbyed the U.S. Congress on behalf of a broad spectrum of peace and social justice organizations from the early 1970s through the 1980s. No finding aid available online.
tripod record

Committee for Nonviolent Action Records [CNVA] (DG 017)
18.75 linear feet
Organized in 1957 by Lawrence Scott to protest nuclear tests in Las Vegas, Nevada; one of the first U. S. peace groups to promote nonviolent direct action, including civil disobedience. Leaders included A.J. Muste, Bradford Lyttle, George Willoughby, and Neil Haworth. CNVA helped sponsor the voyages of the Phoenix and the Golden Rule (1958), and various protests: Omaha Action (1959), Polaris Action (1961), the San Francisco to Moscow Walk for Peace (1961), the voyages of Everyman I, II, and III (1962), and the Quebec-Washington-Guantanamo Walk for Peace (1963). Merged with the War Resisters League in 1968. Active in protests against the Vietnam war. The records of the New England Committee for Nonviolent Action are also available.

Committee of Liaison With Families of Servicemen Detained in Vietnam Records (DG 227)
19 linear feet
Founded in 1969; Cora Weiss was the co-chair and director 1969-1972; organized the exchange of letters and packages between families of prisoners of war in Vietnam and the POWs; played a significant role in providing information to the U.S. public about the POW situation and in the public debates about this issue. Other supporters and activists with the Committee included David Dellinger, Richard Falk, and William Sloane Coffin. Collection includes COL administrative records, newspaper clippings on COL activities, a large collection of newspaper clippings on individual prisoners of war, as well as clippings with general information on POWs; material about trips of COL organizers and supporters to Vietnam; and records on individual POWs, including COL correspondence with family members.

Committee of Responsibility Records (DG 173)
17.5 linear feet
Formed in 1966. COR was comprised of medical personnel, scientists, clergymen, and concerned citizens who sought avenues for helping South Vietnamese children under the age of 16 who had been wounded in the war. COR organizers provided direct medical aid by bringing children to the U.S. for treatment and rehabilitation. Approximately 100 children were treated in the U.S. most of whom lived with American families while undergoing the medical treatment. Almost all of these children returned to Vietnam once their treatment had been completed. .

Committee on Militarism in Education Records (DG 009)
48.25 linear feet
Founded in 1925 by John Nevin Sayre, Norman Thomas and E. Raymond Wilson to abolish compulsory military training in colleges and universities, and all military training in public high schools. Other executive members were Roswell P. Barnes, Tucker P. Smith, Edwin C. Johnson, and George A. Coe. Ceased operation in 1940. The collection includes minutes of the executive committee, annual reports, correspondence (1925-1940), financial records, form letters, articles and manuscripts, pamphlets, CME periodicals and other publications, photographs, and newspaper clippings. Subject files provide state-by-state coverage of the U.S. Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC), Citizens Military Training Corps (CMTC) and Civilian Conservation Corps, and congressional anti-conscription campaigns.

Committee for World Development and World Disarmament Records (DG 069)
7.5 linear feet
Established in 1950 as a non-political, non-partisan, educational organization for the purposes of stimulating discussion and providing a forum for information about world disarmament and world economic development, serving as a clearinghouse for exchange of information and ideas about development and disarmanent; initiated by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom as a project of the Jane Addams Peace Association; headquartered in New York, New ork.; ceased operations in 1970. Includes correspondence, annual reports, administrative files, financial records, minutes of meetings, periodicals, and reference files.

Consider the Alternatives Productions, Inc. Records (DG 130)
No finding aid available online.
tripod record

Consortium on Peace Research, Education and Development (U.S.) Records [COPRED] (DG 123)
14.5 linear feet
Founded in 1970 "to foster research and education in the areas of peace and conflict resolution" as a nonprofit, educational organization with both institutional and individual members; goal was to facilitate communication among those engaged in peace studies, peace education, and policy research; provided publications, resources, and consulting services, and sponsors conferences and workshops; in 2002, merged with the Peace Studies Association to form the Peace and Justice Studies Association. No finding aid available online.
tripod record

Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice Records (DG 135)
4.25 linear feet
Initiated by the War Resisters League in 1974, with additional sponsorship of other peace organizations; the purpose of the organizers was "a call for disarmament, a simultaneous shift of economic priorities away from militarism and toward meeting domestic and global human needs, and removal of the causes of war"; the Walk began in Ukiah, California on January 23, 1976; included"feeder" walks, the marchers covered 8,000 miles through 34 states; the Walk ended on October 18, 1976 at the Pentagon, where 53 marchers were arrested for failure to disperse.

Julien D. Cornell Papers (DG 010)
3.25 linear feet
Born 1910; practiced law in New York, New York, with a special interest in civil liberties. During World War II Cornell was considered an expert on legal issues regarding conscientious objection and Civilian Public Service, and was consulted by many lawyers throughout the country for his opinions. He also handled legal cases for many conscientious objectors, as well as advising many other COs about their legal rights. Cornell died in 1994.

David Cortright Papers (DG 101)
9 linear feet
Born 1946; co-founder of GI's United Against the War in Vietnam; studied at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington D.C., 1972-1974; research led to his book Soldiers in Revolt; Executive Director of National Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy (later called SANE, Inc.), 1977-1987; co-director of SANE/FREEZE, 1987-1988; president of the Fourth Freedom Forum [ca. 1996 - date].

 

 

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana Papers (DG 011)
10 linear inches
Born 1881; grandson of the poet Longfellow; HWL Dana was a writer and pacifist who taught comparative literature at Columbia University from 1912 until 1917; lost his teaching post for "disseminating doctrines of disloyalty"; opponent of American participation in World War I; advocate of civil liberties and conscientious objection; died 1950.

Ann Morrissett and William Davidon Papers (DG 144)
9 linear feet
Ann Morrissett Davidon (1925-2004) was a writer, editor, educator, pacifist and peace activist throughout her entire life. William Cooper Davidon (1927- ) was a professor of physics at Haverford College (retired 1994), pacifist, and peace activist. The two were married in 1963 and both continued to be very active in peace, pacifist, anti-Vietnam War, and social justice organizations. They advocated and practiced war-tax resistance. In 1971, William Davidon was named an "unindicted co-conspirator" in a plot to kidnap Henry Kissenger.

John Dear Papers (DG 201)
20+ linear feet
Born 1959; a Jesuit priest, peace and nonviolence activist, lecturer, and author of many books on peace and social justice issues. He is a former executive director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (DG 013).

Dorothy Detzer Papers (DG 086)
3 linear feet
Born 1893; a peace activist, writer, and lobbyist; served as the National Executive Secretary of the U.S. Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (1924-1946); influenced a Congressional investigation of the munitions industry (1934-1936); wrote autobiography/memoir Appointment on the Hill (1948) describing her two decades in Washington (DC); died 1981. Detzer's papers contain significant personal material from the last decade of her life as well as earlier WILPF-related material. See DG 043 for more information regarding her work with WILPF.

Dispatch News Service International Records (DG 108)
16.5 linear feet
Formed in Saigon in 1968 by Michael Morrow and other free-lance writers to give Westerners a deeper understanding of the people, problems, and cultures of Asia; Washington, D.C. office opened 1969; focused on news of Indochina, Southeast and East Asia, and Latin America; suspended operations March 1973. Chiefly records of the Washington, D.C., office (1970-1973) including unedited original manuscripts. (many unpublished), articles and releases circulated by DNSI, newsclippings and photocopies of published articles (1968-1973), correspondence (1970-1973), monthly memoranda sent to staff members and writers, newsletters, leaflets, financial records, fund-raising information, legal briefs, and photos.
photograph exhibit

Danilo Dolci Papers (DG 105)
3.75 linear feet
Born in Sesana on June 28,1924]; a devout Catholic; at age 28 moved to Sicily, working to overcome poverty and violence there; became known throughout the world as the "Sicilian Gandhi" because of his efforts in creating nonviolent change, and was nominated twice for the Nobel Peace Prize; died on December 30, 1997 from heart failure. All material in this document group was collected by Jerre Mangione throughout his long association with Dolci and his work with Friends of Danilo Dolci.

Educators for Social Responsibility Records (DG 206)
7.5 linear feet
A national organization headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts; supports social and emotional learning, character education, conflict resolution, violence prevention, and intergroup relations for children in preschool through high school.

Abraham Egnal Papers (DG 136)
1.5 linear feet
Born 1908; a schoolteacher fired by the school district in 1953 for refusing to answer questions before the House Un-American Activities Committee as to whether he was a communist (he survived by selling housewares at farmers’ markets); reinstated in 1967 by the courts and taught for several years at Overbrook High School, and at the Community College of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Villanova University; very active in the Philadelphia area peace movement; chairman of the West Philadelphia-Main Line Committee of the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, and also of its Greater Philadelphia Council; chairman of the Philadelphia Mobilization Committee in 1967; died December 20, 1998. No finding aid available online.
tripod record

Eichel Family Papers (DG 131)
3.25 linear feet
Julius, David and Albert Eichel (brothers) were absolutist conscientious objectors to war, All three brothers were imprisoned in various military prison camps in the U.S. during World War I. Julius Eichel was also imprisoned during WWII for his refusal to cooperate with Selective Service. Julius's son Seymour was also a conscientious objector and imprisoned for stance in 1957; his mother Esther picketed at the White House to try to win release for her son. Julius Eichel was an active member of the War Resister's League (DG 040).
photograph exhibit

Elkinton Family Doukhobor [Special] Collection (DG 133)
15 linear inches
The Doukhobors (also spelled Dukhobors) are a pacifist sect. They originated in Russia but were forced to emigrate in 1898 due to their refusal to bear arms for the Tsar. They now live primarily in western Canada, but some also remained in Russia. In the late 1930s their leader, Peter P. Verigin, created an organization known as the Union of Spiritual Communities of Christ, also known as the Orthodox Doukhobors, which has maintained the tradition of Doukhobor cultural activities. The Elkinton Family, a prominent Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Quaker family, and other members of the Society of Friends in Canada and the United States, offered moral and material assistance to the Doukhobors because of the connection of their beliefs in pacifism and simplicity. Includes correspondence between members of the Elkinton family and Doukhobors in Canada, 1899-1999; writings of Elkinton family members about the Doukhobors; biographical information about David Cope Elkinton; other correspondence by and about the Doukhobors; books, pamphlets, and manuscripts by and about the Doukhobors including books by Claude Laing Fisher, David C. Henderson, Basil Pozdynakov, Koozma J. Tarasoff, and Joseph S. Elkinton; administrative files of the Society of Friends' Doukhobor Committee (under the care of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting), 1903-1921; scrapbooks, photographs, and memorabilia.

Gerhard Elston Papers (DG 165)
28 linear feet
Born 1924 in Berlin, German); served as an officer or staff member in many peace and international organizations including as Executive Director for Amnesty Internationl USA (1978-1981), board member of Clergy and Laity Concerned, Bread for the World, American Christians for the Abolition of Torture, and the American Civil Liberties Union; died 1992. Much of this collection remains unprocessed and unorganized.

Emergency Peace Campaign Records (DG 012)
88.75 linear feet
Initiated in late 1935 by the American Friends Service Committee and other pacifists; originally planned as a two-year campaign to rally peace, religious, labor, African-American and student groups; aim was to organize a national campaign to promote peace principles in the face of preparation for war in Europe, and to keep the United States out of war; may have been preceded by the Emergency Peace Committee (1931-1933), though this has not been documented. The first EPC office opened in February 1, 1936. Ray Newton served as Executive Director; other staff members were Baruch Braunstein, Harold Chance, and Kirby Page. The EPC disbanded at the end of 1937, its work continued by the National Peace Conference.

Episcopal Peace Fellowship Records (DG 118)
5.5 linear feet
Founded November 1939 as an association of pacifist members of the Protestant Episcopal Church; sought to discover and unite pacifists within the church and to influence its membership regarding Christianity and peace; sponsored educational projects (publications, lectures, workshops, conferences), provided counseling and financial support for conscientious objectors, and contributed to pacifist projects in other countries.

Edward W. Evans Papers (DG 122)
13 linear inches
Edward Wyatt Evans born 1882; a lifelong member of the Germantown [Pennsylvania] Monthly Meeting and active in the Friends Peace Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting; instrumental in the founding of the Fellowship of Reconciliation and its executive secretary from 1916-1919; died 1976.

Exploratory Project on the Conditions of Peace Records [EXPRO] (DG 160)
10.5 linear feet
Established in 1987 as a forum to explore the conditions needed for a sustainable peace, and to develop positive alternatives for security in the nuclear age; headquarters located first at the Sociology Department of Boston College (Chestnut Hill, MA), later in Washington (DC); founder: W.H. Ferry; published books, background papers; ceased operation in 1990 or 1991. No finding aid available online.
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Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America: Committee on the Conscientious Objector Records (DG 048)
3.75 linear feet
Established in 1940 to serve as a center of information on conscientious objectors, particularly those in churches other than historic peace churches; active until 1946.

Fellowship of Reconciliation Records [FOR] (DG 013)
171+ linear feet
Founded in 1915 by Christian pacifists; members are now drawn from many religious groups; seeks to apply principles of peace and social justice and nonviolent social change to issues such as disarmament, conscription, race relations, economic justice, and civil liberties. The FOR-USA is affiliated with the International Fellowship of Reconciliation.

Roy Finch Papers (DG 195)
1.25 linear feet
Full name, Henry Leroy Finch, Jr., known as Roy Finch; philosopher; pacifist; conscientious objector to World War II; served in Civilian Public Service Camp no. 37 (Coleville, California) and at state hospitals in Trenton, New Jersey and Williamsburg, Virginia; editor of magazines, including Alternative and Liberation; involved with and then dissociated from the American Forum for Socialist Education; affiliated with the Fellowship of Reconciliation and War Resisters League.

 

Five College Program in Peace and World Security Records (DG 019)
___ linear feet
Educational arm of the Five Colleges of Western Massachusetts (Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, Smith, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst); conducts a program of lectures, panels, and films, as well as conferences and faculty workshops, to enhance the teaching of peace studies. Collection consists primarily of peace studies reference files. No finding aid available online.
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Ross Flanagan Papers (DG 064)
1.5 linear feet
Born 1934; a Quaker pacifist and activist, involved in many Quaker-sponsored projects, peace, and civil rights activities; served on the staff of the American Friends Service Committee in the 1950s; an early protestor against the Vietnam War and worked with A Quaker Action Group in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; involved in neighborhood revitalization projects in West Philadelphia in the 1970s.

Lella Faye Secor Florence Papers (DG 126)
5 linear inches
Born Lella Faye Secor in Battle Creek, Michigan in 1887; pacifist, writer, and radical; became a pacifist while serving as a journalist on the Henry Ford Peace Expedition (1915-1916); participated in several peace organizations focused on keeping the United States out of World War I; moved to England in 1917 following her marriage to Philip Sargant Florence; active in the British section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and in the birth control movement there; author of Birth Control on Trial; died in 1966. Family and other correspondence as well as correspondence, accounts, and news clippings about the Henry Ford Peace Expedition (1915-1916); material about the peace organizations in which Secor participated, including the American Neutral Conference Committee, the American Union Against Militarism, the Emergency Peace Federation, The People's Council of America for Democracy and Peace, The Young Democracy, and the Neutral Conference for Continuous Mediation.

Rose Dabney Forbes Papers (DG 014)
1.25 linear feet
Rose Dabney Malcolm Forbes born ca. 1875; chairman of the Massachusetts Branch of the Woman's Peace Party from 1915 to 1920, during which the Massachusetts branch helped organize a food conservation program during the First World War; active in many other organizations, including the Massachusetts Peace Society and the National Council for Prevention of War; a wealthy woman who gave $100,000 between 1921 and 1942.to the National Council for Prevention of War; died 1947.

Esther Frankel Papers (DG 097)
5 linear feet
New Jersey attorney, pacifist, and civil rights activist; member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, served as head its Human Rights Committee, especially active in its New Jersey branch; also involved with Women Strike for Peace and other reform movements relating to feminism and disarmament; specialized in civil rights litigation in the 1950s and Selective Service litigation in the 1960s. Collection includes case files and occasional correspondence of Frankel relating to her work handling civil liberties litigation (1950s) and selective service litigation (1960s).

Friends Committee on National Legislation Records [FCNL] (DG 047) some boxes stored off-site
200+ linear feet
Quaker Congressional lobbying organization established in 1943 to bring conscience and spiritual values to the political process in Washington, D.C.; grew out of the work of Friends War Problems Committee. Includes reference files relating to disarmament, conscription, universal military training, conscientious objection, pacifism, United Nations, Vietnam war, civil liberties, civil rights, food supply, and Indian rights.

Friends Meeting for Sufferings of Vietnamese Children Records (DG 111)
3.5 linear feet
Founded in 1966; also called Meeting for Sufferings of Vietnamese Children (MSVC); headquartered in Media, Pennsylvania; founded primarily by Quakers; purpose was to bring injured and orphaned Vietnamese and Amerasian children to the United States for medical treatment, placement in foster homes, or permanent adoption; worked in cooperation with Welcome House in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, and with other organizations, including the Committee of Responsibility, the American Friends Service Committee, International Social Service, and Physicians for Social Responsibility; FMSVC disbanded in October 1969. Collection includes meeting minutes (1966-1968), newsletters (1967-1969), and mailings. The bulk of the collection is correspondence, much of which deals with adoption and finance. There is also staff correspondence, both domestic and with Morgan Sibbett, the MSVC representative in Saigon, as well as correspondence with Welcome House. There are adoption documents including one received by FMSVC from the South Vietnamese government in May 1967 describing 60 Vietnamese children.

Friendshipment/Bach Mai Hospital Relief Fund Records (DG 228)
9 linear feet
Collection is unprocessed.

A. Ruth Fry Papers (DG 046)
1.1 linear feet
Anna Ruth Fry was born in1878; Fry, a British Quaker peace activist and author; travelled throughout Europe and Russia as a commissioner for the Friends War Victims Relief Committee after World War I; served as secretary of the National Council for the Prevention of War and as treasurer of War Resisters' International; died 1962.

Robert Wallace Gilmore Papers (DG 163)
11 linear feet
Pacifist and peace activist; Quaker; active in New York Friends Group, World Without War Council, Negotiation Now!, and many other organizations promoting peace and social change; affiliated with the American Friends Service Committee; married Joyce Mertz Gilmore; their personal convictions led them to be involved with and to grant funds for peace and civil rights initiatives and organizations.

Edward P. Gottlieb Papers (DG 172)
8.5 linear feet
Educator, civil rights activist, peace activist, and poet; served as chairman of the War Resisters League; resident of New York City. No finding aid available online.
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Anna Melissa Graves Papers (DG 015)
8.5 linear feet
Author, teacher, world traveler, internationalist; born in Baltimore, Maryland; assisted in relief work after World War I, in Europe, Asia, Africa and South America; active in leftist political circles; friend and benefactor of Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, a Peruvian political leader; member of Womens International League for Peace and Freeom; published books on her pacifism and internationalism. The papers of Graves consist mostly of correspondence from friends around the world. The letters, approximately half of which are from women, touch on family life in Syria, work and family conditions in China from the 1920s through the 1950s, and educational life in South America. Many of the letters describe war time and post war conditions in France and Germany. The issues of race and educational aspirations also are topics of many letters.

Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament Records (DG 147)
26 linear feet
Originally organized as PRO-Peace, which went bankrupt two weeks after departing from Los Angeles. California on March. 1, 1986; reorganized as the Great Peace March, the remaining marchers formed an independent, marcher-run corporation; GPM marchers and supporters reached their destination, Washington, D.C., on November 15, 1986. Collection includes correspondence to/from marchers, GPM administrative records, as well as accounts, poetry, art, and songs by marchers and supporters; photographs, film, and other memorabilia.

GWEN Project Records (DG 202)
7.9 linear feet
Began in the mid-1980s; worked against GWEN (Ground Wave Emergency Network), a plan by the U.S. Air Force to build towers around the U.S. to use for communication in the event that other methods were disabled; the GWEN Project was a national grass roots organization, headquartered in Amherst, Massachusetts.; co-directors, Nancy Foster and Lois Barber; in 1994 the U.S. Congress refused further funding to the Air Force for GWEN, calling it wasteful and unnecessary.

Hague Appeal for Peace (DG 211)
14.1 linear feet
The HAP was both an organization (based in New York, New York) and a conference, held May 11-15, 1999 at The Hague, Netherlands, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Hague Peace Conferences of 1899; defined itself as an organization with a global campaign to create a "culture of peace"; president was Cora Weiss; Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Graça Machel, Jody Williams, José Ramos-Horta, Queen Noor of Jordan, the Dalai Lama and many others, lent their support.

Henry Ford Peace Expedition Records (DG 018)
20.5 linear feet
An expedition sponsored by automobile magnate Henry Ford in 1915 to establish a conference of neutral nations for the implementation of peace proposals through continous mediation to bring about an end to World War I; sailed on board the ship Oscar II. Non-official records of the expedition including scattered correspondence and personal files of Theodore A. Hostetler, Benjamin W. Huebsch, John E. Jones, Louis P. Lochner, Rosika Schwimmer, and Arthur L. Weatherly, including diaries, correspondence, statements, speeches, passenger lists and biographies, press releases, pamphlets, the Argosy (a shipboard newsletter), menus, invitations, press credentials, visiting cards, newsclippings, and photos; together with documents of the Neutral Conference for Continuous Mediation.

Hannah Clothier Hull Papers (DG 016)
3 linear feet
Born 1872; an early officer of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, U.S.section; served as a national officer of the WILPF for nearly forty years; active in other social reform movements; served on the board of the American Friends Service Committee; member of well-to-do Pennsylvania Quaker family; graduate of Swarthmore College; married to William Isaac Hull; died 1958.

Gaillard T. Hunt Papers (DG 199)

3.1 linear feet
No finding aid available online.
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link to Hunt's own web site and writings

 

 

Dorothy Hutchinson Papers (DG 125)
5.25 linear feet
Born 1905; a Quaker devoted to peace causes; civil rights activist, internationalist, writer, and lecturer; a founding member of the Peace Now Movement during World War II; president of the U.S. Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1961-1965, and international president of WILPF, 1965-1968; died 1984.

Indochina Resource Center Records (DG 167)
5.25 linear feet
Founded in 1971 to inform the American people, legislators, and the media about the war in Indochina as well as disseminating information about Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam; changed name to Southeast Asia Resource Center in 1976; absorbed by Asia Research Center in 1982.

J. Stuart Innerst Papers (DG 103)
6.25 linear feet
Born 1894; missionary in Canton, China, 1920-1927; college chaplain at Otterbein College, 1927-1939, and pastor of various churches; became a Quaker in 1943; lobbyist for Friends Committee on National Legislation in the early 1960s; died 1975.

Institute for World Order: Grants Committee Records (DG 112)
2 linear feet
Established in 1964 to handle the grant-making functions of the Institute for International Order; name changed in 1972 to Institute for World Order; grant program discontinued in 1978.
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International Peace Walk Records (DG 150)
5.5 linear feet
Begun in January 1987 by individuals who had participated in the Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament; organized marches across the United States and the Soviet Union in 1987 and 1988, with marches planned for future years; purpose was to create a climate of trust between American and Soviet citizens in which arms control and reductions would become increasingly easier, and to focus attention on the costs of the U.S.-Soviet arms race; headquartered in Washington, D.C., with regional U.S. offices. No finding aid available online.
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Homer A. Jack Papers (DG 063)
61.5 linear feet
Born 1916; Unitarian Universalist clergyman and denominational official who sought to apply religious values to national and international affairs; executive secretary of the Chicago Council Against Racial and Religious Discrimination, 1943-1948; executive director of SANE, 1960-1964; secretary general of the World Conference on Religion and Peace, 1970-1983; chaired the NGO Committee on Disarmament (at U.N. Headquarters), 1973-1984; Author of books on Gandhi and Albert Schweitzer; died 1993.

Roy Kepler Papers (DG 185)
6.25 linear feet
Radical pacifist; conscientious objector during World War II, during which he was active in political organizing in Civilian Public Service camps; owned paperback bookstore in Berkeley, California; worked with draft resisters during the Vietnam War; a founder of the Pacifica Foundation and public radio in Berkeley, California; active with the War Resisters League, particularly West Coast branches; also with the Peacemakers, the Committee for Nonviolent Action, the Institute for the Study of Nonviolence, the Third Camp, and other groups advocating nonviolent social change; died 1994.

Lake Mohonk Conferences on International Arbitration Records (DG 054)
101.5 linear feet
Collection documents annual arbitration conferences (1895-1916) held at Mohonk Mountain House, Ulster County. New York; conference for 1917 was planned but not held; at their height, the conferences attracted hundreds of leaders of government, business, religion, the press, and education; the purpose of the conferences were to create and direct public sentiment in favor of international arbitration, arbitration treaties, and an international court.

Latin America Working Group Records (DG 184)
17.4 linear feet
Founded in 1983 as Central America Lobby Group, a project of the Coalition for a New Foreign and Military Policy; became a separate entity in 1988, under the name Central America Working Group; changed name in 1995 to Latin America Working Group to reflect its expanded mandate. Includes correspondence, administrative files, minutes of meetings, newspaper clippings, reference files. No finding aid available online.

Robert Levering Papers (DG 080)
2 linear feet
Quaker pacifist; co-author of Fortune magazine's annual list of the "100 Best Companies to Work For," and other books; a speaker on workplace trends and management strategies aimed at improving workplace productivity; involved with A Quaker Action Group, American Friends Service Committee, Friends Peace Committee, New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, and People's Coalition for Peace and Justice.

Frederick Libby and Faith Ward Libby Papers (DG 087)
10.5 linear inches
Frederick J. Libby (1874-1970) was a pacifist, writer, speaker and fundraiser. He was the founder and director of the National Council for Prevention of War, 1921-1970. Faith Ward Libby (1902-1984) was also a peace activist and member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. The two married in 1932.

Belva Ann Lockwood Papers (DG 098)
6 linear inches
Lawyer, suffragist, peace activist; first woman attorney to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court; Presidential candidate of the National Equal Rights Party in 1884 and 1888; Attorney General of the American Woman's Republic; executive board member of the Universal Peace Union; nominating member of the Nobel Peace Prize; b. Belva Ann Bennett; married 1st Uriah H. McNall; 2nd Ezekiel Lockwood. Scattered correspondence (1902-1913), briefs and legal memoranda, manuscripts of speeches and writings, memorabilia, pamphlets by Lockwood, articles, monographs, and clippings about Lockwood, and photographs, relating to her activities as a peace worker, advocate of rights of women, and first woman to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court. Includes material relating to the National Equal Rights Party, the American Woman's Republic, and the Universal Peace Union.

Milton Lowenthal Papers (DG 191)
12.5 linear feet
Activist involved in peace and antinuclear movements in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, as well as the United Nations Association of the United States of America in Harrisburg, the U.N.'s International Year of the Child, the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, as well as protests after the Three Mile Island accident in 1979; sponsor of Japanese antinuclear artist Kazuaki Kita. No finding aid available online.
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Lutheran Peace Fellowship Records (DG 171)
22.5 linear inches
Founded 1941; headquartered in various cities in the United States; still active as of 2004.

Bradford Lyttle Papers (DG 079)
3.25 linear feet
Born 1927; pacifist; active with the American Friends Service Committee and Committee for Nonviolent Action; imprisoned for opposition to militarism; a principal organizer of the San Francisco to Moscow Walk for Peace (1960-1961), and the Québec-Washington-Guantánamo Walk for Peace (1963-1964). Collection incluces manuscript draft of Lyttle's book about the San Francisco to Moscow Walk for Peace entitled You Come with Naked Hands, walk log and diary, statements by prisoners, prison notes on toilet paper, prison logs, and much else. No finding aid available online.
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Macedonia Cooperative Community Records (DG 071)
2 linear feet
Formed in 1937 in northern Georgia by Morris Randolph Mitchell (1895-1976); comprised of families who worked collectively on dairy, agricultural, forestry, and woodworking projects that provided the economic underpinnings of the community; originally established as an economic cooperative, it later passed through two distinctive phases before it folded in 1958. Many of the men who joined the community had been conscientious objectors during World War II. Collection is rich in details about what went into the establishment and maintenance of this intentional community, seen especially in the many letters exchanged between Morris Mitchell and Elvin Roberts, which portray Mitchell's intense enthusiasm for all that he hoped to accomplish there, and his great attention to specifics (including sketches of Mitchell's ideas for the cabins to be built, etc.).

Dorothy Marder Papers (DG 233)
12.75 linear feet
Dorothy Marder was a photographer and photojournalist, peace activist, Lesbian and Gay community member, counselor, and disabilities advocate. Her most extensive photographic work concerned women's peace activism (especially Women Strike for Peace), in the New York, New York area between the late 1960s through the 1980s Many of her photographs appeared in peace movement and alternative press publications. Marder photographed well-known peace activists, feminists, and political figures of the last quarter of the twentieth century including: Bella Abzug, Joan Baez, David Dellinger, Ron Dellums, Barbara Jordan, Coretta Scott King, Grace Paley, and Gloria Steinem.

Milarda Marsalka Papers (DG 217)
3.3 linear feet
Born in Czechoslovakia; 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; ; died in the United States, 1999 or 2000. No finding aid available online.
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Massachusetts Peace Society Records (DG 020)
5 linear feet
MPS was the second [third?] such society to form in America; organized on December 28, 1815; founded primarily by Noah Worcester (1758-1837), a Unitarian ministerl membership list of the new Society included an array of clergymen and Boston merchants, as well as prominent men at Harvard University and in local and state government; accepted persons who did not hold to a full pacifist position, attempting to unite all those who believed that war as a method of resolving conflict was both unchristian and inhumane; s upport for the MPS dwindled during the 1820s and the retirement of Worcester in 1828 bled it of much of its vitality; MPS merged into the newly formed American Peace Society in May 1828. A new MPS was organized on April 27, 1911, upon the departure from Boston of the American Peace Society's offices to Washington, D.C.; was possibly a branch of the American Peace Society; held monthly meetings with addresses by prominent men; U.S. entry into World War I put an end to its activities.

John McConnell Papers (DG 212)
24.5 linear feet
Born 1915; author, editor; minister, advocate for the environment; businessman; organized Meals for Millions in 1962 in San Francisco, California to feed displaced Hong Kong refugees; organized the Minute for Peace radio broadcast in 1964; designed the Earth Flag in 1968; proposed the idea of Earth Day in 1969, Sea Citizens in 1974, and Earth Trustees in 1995.

David McReynolds Papers (DG 134)
30.5 linear feet
Active with the War Resisters League; a Socialist candidte for national office. The personal correspondence in this collection is restricted during the lifetime of Dave McReynolds. Also includes meeting minutes, releases, convention reports and publications, datebooks, articles by McReynolds, and newsclippings about him. No finding aid available online.

Edwin Mead and Lucia Ames Mead Papers (DG 021)
13.25 linear feet
Edwin Mead was active with the World Peace Foundation and the Lake Mohonk Conferences. His papers include correspondence (1876-1935), with many peace leaders, includingAndrew Carnegie (1902 to 1910) and Edwin Ginn. In addition to the correspondence there are manuscripts, printed articles, clippings, and memorials issued after his death. Substantial amounts of material by and about Edwin Mead may be found in the records of the World Peace Foundation and the Lake Mohonk Conferences on International Arbitration.
Lucia Ames Mead was a writer and peace activist. She was a founder of the Woman's Peace Party and active with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Her papers consist of her diaries, notebooks, and correspondence with numerous organizations, including the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, the Woman's Peace Union (London), and the American Woman's Republic. Many manuscripts and printed versions of her articles, pamphlets, book reviews, and newspaper clippings are included. Collection also contains a file of newspaper clippings on attacks on Mead for her role in the peace movement by the American Legion and the Daughters of the American Revolution. There are also peace cartoons, photographs, and memorials issued after her death.

Helen Mears Papers (DG 210)
7.5 linear inches
Born ca. 1902; author, journalist, antinuclear proponent; lived in New York, New York; travelled to Japan and China in the 1930s and 1940s, experiences which formed the basis for her three books; critic of U.S. policy in post-World War II Japan; died ca. 1989

Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors Records (DG 060)
7.5 linear feet
Established by the United Pacifist Committee in 1940 as a non-sectarian, free advisory service for conscientious objectors to war and military service.from metropolitan New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut; disbanded in 1980.

Joseph Miller Papers (DG 193)
6.66 feet
Born 1912; a mortgage banker; founder and president of Barco, Inc.; an activist for peace and social justice causes such as welfare rights, including the Philadelphia Urban Finance Corporation and the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy; died 1997.

Movement for a New Society Records (DG 154)
48.5 linear feet
Founded 1971, primarily in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; superseded A Quaker Action Group; a national network of activists committed to building a nonviolent revolution and co-housing or co-operative urban communities; provided training in nonviolent direct action; committed to decentralized organization and decision-making; ceased operation about 1988. Branches of the MNS exhausted across the U.S. with major centers in Boston, Massachusetts and Minneapolis, Minnesota. New Society Publishers, a business group founded by MNS members continued through the mid 1990s.

A.J. Muste Papers (DG 050)
24 linear feet
Born Abraham Johannes Muste in 1885; Quaker, pacifist; clergyman; labor, civil rights, and peace activist; executive secretary of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, director of the War Resisters League, active with the Committee for Nonviolent Action; a respected leader of the peace movement for over 30 years; died 1967; His papers include the records of Liberation magazine and information about the San Francisco to Moscow Walk, Omaha Action, and Polaris Action. Almost the entirety of the collection has been microfilmed (reels 89:1-39).

Nasmyth, George and Florence Nasmyth Papers (DG 057)
17.5 linear inches
George born 1882; dedicate his life to the cause of international understanding and peace; attended the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, and organized the first meeting after the outbreak of the war of the World Alliance for Friendship Through the Churches; died 1920. Florence was a writer on peace issues.

National Action/Research on the Military-Industrial Complex Records [NARMIC] (DG 208)
12 linear feet
Began in 1969 as a 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 by providing information about the role of the military-industrial complex in American society. Collection, only partially processed, includes correspondence and program files re: the Vietnam War, chemical/biological warfare, nuclear power, the B-1 bomber, U.S. aid, and domestic counter-insurgency.

National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund Records (DG 155)
8 linear feet
Founded in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1971 as the World Peace Tax Fund dedicated to providing taxpayers opposed to any participation in war, an alternative way to pay income, estate, and gift taxs for non-military purposes; national office moved to Washington, D.C. in 1975; name changed to National Council for a World Peace Tax Fund in 1975, to National Campaign for a World Peace Tax Fund in 1983, and to National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund in 1984 or 1985. Collection ncludes correspondence, office files, brochures, and newsletters. No finding aid available online.
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National Council Against Conscription Records (DG 052)
4.5 linear feet
Established 1945 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; worked to defeat various legislative measures which promoted universal military training and peacetime conscription, by lobbying Congress, public speaking, publishing detailed analyses of proposed legislation, corresponding with magazine and newspaper editors about their coverage of Universal Military Training, and producing literature on the subject.

National Council for Prevention of War Records [NCPW] (DG 023)
214.5 linear feet
Created in 1921 in Washington. D.C. by representatives of 17 United States peace organizations to serve as a clearinghouse under the name of National Council for Limitation of Armaments; Frederick J. Libby served as Executive Secretary until 1954; headquartered in Washington, D.C.; changed its name in Jauary. 1922 to the National Council for the Reduction of Armaments, and to National Council for Prevention of War in 1923; supported neutrality legislation, an anti-war referendum, the Keep America Out of War campaign, aid for displaced persons and for justice in the War Crimes Trials, among other issues; Libby retired in 1954, although the NCPW kept its corporate status until 1971, it effectively ended as a peace organization in the 1950s.

National Council to Repeal the Draft Records (DG 085)
11.75 linear feet
Organized in January 1969; operations ceased following the official end of the draft on June 30, 1973. Collection includes correspondence, testimony before congressional hearings, lists of contacts and sponsors, state organization files, pamphlets produced by NCRD and other groups, press releases, newsletters, and audiovisual items.

National Interreligious Service Board for Conscientious Objection (NISBCO) / National Service Board for Religious Objectors (NSBRO) [see Center on Conscience and War]

 

National Peace Conference Records (DG 049)
6.25 linear feet
No finding aid available online.
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National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee Records (DG 186)
7.35 linear feet
Formed in 1982 at a National Action Conference of the War Resisters League and the Center on Law and Pacifism; headquartered successively in East Patchogue, New York, Seattle, Washington, and Monroe, Maine; promotes war tax resistance on the national level; not to be confused with the organization War Tax Resistance, begun in New York in 1969.

Scott Nearing Papers (DG 124)
8.6 linear feet
Born 1883; taught economics at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) starting in 1906; taught at Swarthmore College for several years beginning in 1908; served as Secretary of the Pennsylvania Child Labor Committee, 1905-1907; dismissed from Wharton School in 1915 because of his "radical" economic views; taught at the University of Toledo (Toledo, Ohio), 1916-1917, but was fired because of his anti-war views; arrested and indicted by the U.S. government under the Espionage Act for obstructing recruiting and enlistment into the armed forces, but was acquitted of charges in 1919; member of the People's Council of America for Democracy and Peace; unable to find work in the academic world, he became a lecturer, writer, and free-lance teacher; ran for Congress on the Socialist ticket against Fiorello LaGuardia; member of the Socialist Party, 1917-1922; joined the Communist Party 1927-1930, but resigned because he could not accept Leninist theory; lived and studied in Germany in late 1920s and early 1930s; in early 1930s moved to New England, with his second wife, Helen Nearing, and both became well known for their lives as home steaders and environmentalists; author of many books and pamphlets; died 1983.

Negotiation Now! Records (DG 196)
15 linear feet
Founded as a national citizens' campaign for new initiatives to end the war in Vietnam by means of massive petitioning; later known as the National Committee for a Political Settlement in Vietnam; members called upon the United States government to unconditionally end the bombing of North Vietnam. Collection includes correspondence, annual reports, administrative files, financial records, flyers and handbills, minutes of meetings, periodicals, reference files, and photographs.

New Call to Peacemaking Records (DG 143)
6 linear feet
Founded in 1975; a cooperative effort of Brethren, Quakers and Mennonites to reinvigorate the understanding of and commitment to nonviolence and peacemaking within those faith communities; after 1982 shifted focus to more contact and relationship with other Christian groups open to the search for a more faithful peace witness. No finding aid available online.

New England Committee for Nonviolent Action Records (DG 017)
22.08 linear feet
CNVA was one of the first American peace groups to focus on nonviolent direct action including civil disobedience. Its purpose of organizing imaginative and dramatic protest demonstrations on both land and sea attracted radical pacifists and called the attention of the American public to the atrocities of nuclear warfare. CNVA's first protest action was a vigil held outside the atomic weapons test grounds in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1957. In the second half of its existence CNVA efforts began to focus on Vietnam. The organization allied its resources with other American peace groups. As other American peace groups adopted CNVA's methods of dramatic and nonviolent demonstrations, its own numbers and support waned. In the fall of 1967, CNVA voted to merge with the War Resisters League, which became reality in January l968. The New England CNVA was based in Connecticut and there was sometimes little distinction between its work and the "national" CNVA.

New Jersey SANE Records (DG 132)
15.5 linear feet
No finding aid available online.
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New Society Publishers Records (DG 189)
56 linear feet
New Society Publishers was a cooperative business based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded by members of Movement for a New Society in the late 1980s. New Society Publishers produced books on peace, social justice, and ecological topics. The Philadelphia office closed in December 1996 and a different form of the New Society Publishers business was re-formed in British Columbia, Canada. The new incarnation of New Society Publishers has little, to no, connection with the original business.

New York Friends Group Records (DG 198)
10.25 linear feet
A funding agency for U.S. peace and antinuclear groups, organized and run by activist Doris Shamleffer. The collection contains administrative records, financial records, correspondence, files on programs and organizations sponsored by the NYFG.

New York Peace Society Records (DG 026)
7.25 linear feet
The New York Peace Society was the first peace society in the world, beginning in 1815, and lasting in various incarnations until 1940. Includes one pamphlet from the New York Peace Society (1815-1828): "The Question of War Reviewed"; one pamphlet from the New York Peace Society (1836-ca. 1844): "Arbitrament [sic] of National Disputes"; no items are included for the New York Peace Society (1844-18??); the bulk of the collection is from the New York Peace Society (1910-1940) and its predecessor, the Peace Society of the City of New York (1906-1910).

NGO Committee on Disarmament Records (DG 139)
10.4 linear feet
Established in June 1973 by a group of international NGOs (non-governmental organizations) which had petitioned the New York Bureau of the Conference of NGOs in Consultative Status with the U.N. Economic and Social Council to form a NGO Committee on Disarmament at U.N. headquarters to parallel to the Special NGO Committee on Disarmament in Geneva, Switzerland; purposes of the organization were: 1. to bring interested NGOs together to discuss current disarmament negotiations and potential progress; 2. to relate the programs of NGOs to current U.N. disarmament goals; 3. to monitor work in the U.N. on the economic and social consequences of disarmament; 4. to coordinate NGO liaison with various organs and units of the U.N. involved in disarmament; 5. to cooperate closely with the Special NGO Committee on Disarmament at Geneva.Includes correspondence, minutes, administrative files and reference files, especially concerning the United Nations Special Session on Disarmament, 1978 and Special Session on Disarmament, 1982. No finding aid available online.
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NISBCO; NSBRO [see Center on Conscience and War]

NOMOR, Committee for a Nuclear Overkill Moratorium Records (DG 146)
4 linear feet
Founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1976, NOMOR's aim was "to call for a moratorium on the production of nuclear weapons as a unilateral American initiative...for a first step toward stopping and reversing the...international arms race." The founders and activists of NOMOR engaged in media campaigns, sponsored conferences, workshops, and benefits, and was involved with the "Symphony for Survival." News from NOMOR was published between 1978 and 1986. In spite of regional support, especially from the academic community, NOMOR was not able to make the transition to a nationally-recognized organization, possibly because its aims overlapped with those of other similar groups. NOMOR ceased operation in the summer of 1986.

Allen S. Olmsted II Papers (DG 095)
6.25 linear feet
Lawyer, judge, pacifist and advocate of civil liberties; acted as lawyer for the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section; married to Mildred Scott Olmsted. The bulk of the collection is correspondence (1898-1977). Olmsted graduated from Harvard Law School where he was a leader of a group in support of woman suffrage.

Mildred Scott Olmsted (DG 082)
14 linear feet
Born 1890 in Glenolden, Pennsylvania; Olmsted was a Quaker, peace advocate, woman suffrage worker, birth control advocate, civil rights and civil liberties supporter. Relief worker with the YMCA in Germany after WWI; early graduate of the Bryn Mawr School of Social Work; national leader of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom for over 50 years. .Executive Secretary of the Pennsylvania Branch of the WILPF, 1922-[1933?]; assumed national and international positions with WILPF, 1934-1966, remained active with WILPF and other social justice groups until the late 1980s; died 1990. Collection includes personal papers, family papers, and records of work with many peace and social justice groups.

Victor Paschkis Papers (DG 119)
1.5 linear feet
Born 1898 in Vienna, Austria; emigrated from Germany to the U.S. in 1938; Quaker; mechanical engineer; professor at Columbia University; founder and first president of Society for Social Responsibility in Science; chairman of the National Friends Conference on Race Relations, the American Friends Service Committee's Race Relations Committee, and the Committee on Fair Employment; died 1991. Collection includes articles and speeches by Paschkis; citation for the Max Born Memorial Medal; constitution and bylaws (1956), pamphlets, newsletters, and other materials relating to Society for Social Responsibility in Science; periodicals and occasional papers from other organizations including Club of Rome; reprints from American Society of Mechanical Engineers; and a small quantity of correspondence (1971-1976) in German and English. Topics include zero growth economy, technology and society, nuclear disarmament, and Christian pacifism. No finding aid available online.
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Peace Action Records (DG 151)
39+ linear feet
Formed as a result of a merger between SANE, Inc.and the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign in November 1987; called SANE/FREEZE until 1993, when name was changed to Peace Action; goals: to promote and clarify peace issues, elect pro-peace government officials, promote nuclear arms control, and lobby for a peace economy.

Peace Action Center Records (DG 093)
7.9 linear feet
Begun in 1961 as a continuation of the vigil at Fort Detrick, Maryland to protest production and testing of biological and chemical weapons; included cooperative living quarters for the staff of religious pacifists, mostly Quakers; director was Lawrence Scott; disbanded Fall 1963.

Peace Action, Inc. Records (DG 219)
15 linear feet
Founded about 1979 as the Disarmament Action Network (DAN); changed name to Peace Action, Inc. about 1985; begun informally by members of the American Friends Service Committee's Cambridge, Massachusetts office and was affiliated with the Walk for Peace, the Human Race/Runners Around the World, and Give Peace a Dance; most actions concerned the anti-nuclear movement of the period; not connected to the national organization, Peace Action.

Peace and Justice Studies Association Records (DG 231)
___ linear feet
Non-profit organization formed in 2001 as a result of a merger of the Consortium on Peace Research, Education and Development (COPRED) and the Peace Studies Association (PSA); dedicated to bringing together academics, K-12 teachers, and grassroots activists to explore alternatives to violence and share visions and strategies for peacebuilding, social justice, and social change; also serves as a professional association for scholars in the field of peace and conflict resolution studies, and is the North American affiliate of the International Peace Research Association. co-edits (with the Peace History Society), the journal Peace and Change No finding aid available online.
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Peace Association of Friends in America Records (DG 027)
1.5 linear feet
Organized in 1867 in reaction to the Civil War by Orthodox Friends in the New York, Baltimore, North Carolina, Ohio, Indiana, Western and Iowa Yearly Meetings; incorporated in 1894 in Indiana for the purpose of promoting peace; grew to include all thirteen yearly meetings of the Five Years Meeting; headquartered in Richmond. Indiana; governed by a seven-man Board of Directors elected by representatives of each of the thirteen yearly meetings; among the leaders of the Peace Association were Daniel Hill, president or secretary from 1867 until hs death in 1899, and his successor Allen D. Hole, president until 1927; affiliated with the American Peace Society in 1914; the Peace Association attempted to teach Friends and others that war is unchristian, inhumane, and unnecessary through the publication and dissemination of peace literature, the organization of public meetings and lectures, and the awarding of prizes for essay on peace topics; organization changed its name to the Peace Board of the Five Years Meeting in 1940, apparently continuing to function thereafter as a committee of the Five Years Meeting.

Peace History Society Records (DG 094)
11 linear feet
Formed as an ad hoc committee in December 1963 "to encourage, support, and coordinate peace research among historians and social scientists."; between 1986 and 1994 it was called the Council on Peace Research in History; name changed to Peace History Society in 1994; sponsors conferences, co-edits (with Peace and Justice Studies Association), the journal Peace and Change as well as a newsletter, and conducts many peace research programs with other organizations; affiliated with American History Association,and has acquired Non-Governmental Organization status at the United Nations. Collection contains meeting minutes, mailings, annual brochures, general correspondence, papers presented at its conferences, documents about PHS projects and its monthly journal Peace and Change, and audiotapes. No finding aid available online.
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Peace Pilgrim Papers (DG 104)
3.75 linear feet
Born 1908 as Mildred Norman Ryder; as "Peace Pilgrim" traversed the U.S. on foot for the cause of peace from 1953 until her death to promote inner peace and, consequently, world peace; died 1981 in an automobile accident.

Peace Studies Association Records (DG 230)
___ linear feet
Non-profit organization formed in 1987 to cooperate with organizations and individuals concerned with peace studies and the development of a more peaceful world; an independent federation of college programs, university programs, and individuals for the study of peace, conflict, justice, and global security; formed in order to serve pedagogical, intellectual and institutional needs; merged with Consortium on Peace Research, Education and Development (COPRED) in 2002 to form the Peace and Justice Studies Association. No finding aid available online.
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Pennsylvania Committee for Total Disarmament Records (DG 030)
8.75 linear feet
Organized for the purpose of promoting legislation for universal disarmament; active from 1930 to 1936, chiefly in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; William I. Hull served as chairman; Sophia H. Dulles was executive secretary; Mary Winsor, Eliza M. Cope, William Eves III and Edward N. Wright were among the most active members, many of whom were Quakers.

Pennsylvania Peace Society Records (DG 031)
10 linear feet
The earliest group known as the Pennsylvania Peace Society formed in the 1820s. Various groups with this name appeared through the years before the Civil War. In 1866 as a state branch of the Universal Peace Union (UPU); Alfred Love was founder of the UPU and President of the PPS; several women served as Presidents and Vice-Presidents of the PPS, including Lucretia Mott, who was the Society's third President (ca. 1870-1880); activities included holding peace fairs, neighborhood "parlor" meetings, musical programs featuring the Peace Band, Mother's Peace Days, lectures on peace and internationalism, and war relief work, which included knitting woolen garments as well as raising funds for food relief; championed the cause of temperance, worked for the elimination of boxing bouts, the regulation of firearms, and the abolition of capital punishment, and attempted to uplift public morality through education in public schools; gave tacit approval to woman suffrage; disbanded in 1928.
Collection contains r ecords of the fourth Pennsylvania Peace Society (1866-1928) primarily for the period 1893-1928, including minute books, pamphlets and other publications, scattered correspondence, clippings, peace songs, small flags and other memorabilia, and information about Arabella Carter and Alfred H. Love, leaders of the society.

People's Coalition for Peace and Justice Records (DG 084)
5 linear feet
Coalition of various peace, anti-poverty, and labor groups which worked together to confront the related issues of war in Southeast Asia and racism, sexism, poverty, and repression in the U.S.; founded 1970 as National Coalition Against War, Racism, and Repression. Collection includes scattered meeting minutes and correspondence, mimeographed letters to key contacts, reports, releases, statements, brochures, newsclippings, posters, and peace buttons.

Peoples Mandate Committee Records (DG 109)
17.5 linear feet
People's Mandate to Governments to End War was an international campaign begun on September. 6, 1935 by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, to express such overwhelming opposition to war that governments would not dare resort to it as a means of solving disputes between nations; it was directed by Mabel Vernon; in 1936 the U.S. Section of the Peoples Mandate separated from WILPF and became a distinct organization eventually under the name the Peoples Mandate Committee; in this later format the organization established contacts with feminists, pacifists, and other women in Latin America, The executive board included many well-known reformers and pacifists, such as Carrie Chapman Catt (honorary chairman), Mary E. Woolley (chairman), Grace Abbott, Dorothy Canfield Fisher and Lillian Wald. Mabel Vernon directed the organization until her retirement in the late 1950s.

Philadelphia Area Alliance for Central America Records [PAACA] (DG 181)
10.2 linear feet
Formed in 1991 by the merger of two Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-area activist organizations: Central America Organizing Project (CAOP) and the Philadelphia chapter of Pledge of Resistance; involved with issues concerning U.S. intervention in Central America. Collection includes correspondence, administrative files, financial records, memorabilia, minutes of meetings, newspaper clippings, periodicals, reference files, photographs, posters, and audiovisual items. No finding aid available online.
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Philadelphia CISPES Records (DG 183)
10 linear feet
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based organization, loosely affiliated with national and other local Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), groups; concerned with issues of human rights and U.S. intervention in Central America in general and El Salvador in particular. Collection includes correspondence, administrative files, financial records, memorabilia, minutes of meetings, newspaper clippings, periodicals, reference files, photographs, posters, audiovisual items, banners, and lapel buttons. No finding aid available online.
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[Philadelphia Peace Council: formerly DG 037, now a CDG-A]

Philadelphia War Tax Resistance Records (DG 182)
8.5 linear feet
An outgrowth of A Quaker Action Group, as part of the national war tax resistance movement; became known as Philadelphia War Tax Resistance/War Resisters League in 1975; was one of 190 centers for the national organization.
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Philadelphia Women's Peace Encampment Records (DG 157)
2 linear feet
Began as a project of the SANE Education Fund in 1983; formed to support the work of the Women's Peace Encampment at the Seneca Army Depot near Romulus, NewYork; radical feminist, direct-action collective with a focus on issues including nuclear disarmament, anti-militarism, racism, and right-wing repression; disbanded in 1988.

Phoenix Defense Fund Records (DG 072)
2 linear feet
Established through the efforts of Norman Cousins and other supporters of Barbara and Earle Reynolds who sailed the yacht Phoenix into a nuclear test site, Eniwetok Proving Grounds, and were arrested, tried, and acquitted (1958-1960); also known as Reynolds Defense Fund. Chiefly correspondence (1957-1961) of Earle and Barbara Reynolds and their sympathizers; together with personal statements by Earle Reynolds and newsclippings of the voyages of the Golden Rule and the Phoenix. Correspondents include Albert Bigelow, Syd Cassyd, Peter Charlton, Babette Deutsch, William R. Huntington, Charles T. Jackson, Gabriel W. Lasker, John Lofton, James Peck, Orion W. Sherwood, George Willoughby, and George Kiyoshi Yamada. No finding aid available online.
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Physicians for Social Responsibility Records [PSR] (DG 175)
239+ linear feet
Founded in 1961 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by a group of physicians; both an organization and an association of doctors concerned with the challenge of the nuclear age; aims are to "provide for the medical community the scientific data on which political decisions must in part be based; to alert physicians to the dangerous implication of the arms race; to involve physicians in serious exploration of peaceful alternatives..."

Planetary Citizens Records (DG 092)
11.5 linear feet
Founded in 1971; an association of individuals who promoted the concept of mutual brotherhood and interdependence of all people, regardless of national origin; initially a project of the World Association of World Federalists and World Federalists, USA; later incorporated as a distinct organization. Collection includes correspondence (1971-1985), scattered meeting minutes, memoranda, statements, brochures, lists of initial endorsers of the Human Manifesto and Pledge of Planetary Citizenship, financial records, and newsclippings; together with correspondence with and information about several other groups including International Registry of World Citizens, World Citizens Assembly (1975), World Citizens League, and World Service Authority. No finding aid available online.
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Murray Polner Papers (DG 113)
4.75 linear feet
An author and editor of books and periodicals on social history, public policy, and Jewish concerns; educator at various colleges and universities.Collection chiefly relates to Polner's research on Vietnam veterans for his book No Victory Parades and on the question of amnesty for When Can I Come Home?, including correspondence (1963-1972), mss. of both books, transcripts of taped interviews, questionnaires, research notes, articles by Polner and others, copies of legal briefs, and newsclippings; audiotapes of oral histories of American Jews who were conscientious objectors or who resisted serving in the military during World War II or the Korean War; and research notes and correspondence about the evacuation of Japanese Americans from the West Coast during World War II and information about the Vietnam war, conscientious objection, and constitutional rights of GIs. No finding aid available online.
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Josephine W. Pomerance Papers (DG 129)
8.5 linear feet
Born 1910; peace worker best known in the areas of disarmament and United Nations reform; received M.A. in political science from the New School for Social Research; member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; co-founder of its Committee for World Development and World Disarmament; worked for the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA/USA) in the 1960s and 1970s; observer at the United Nations; wrote, lectured, and consulted on disarmament and arms control subjects; died 1980.

 

Post-War World Council Records (DG 062)
3.75 linear feet
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; The PWWC was created by Norman Thomas and his associates to work toward a democratic, non-imperialist peace settlement. Collection also includes material from the Youth Committee for Democracy. The PWWC ceased activities December 1967.

 

Charles Price Papers (DG 204)
22.5 linear feet
Born 1913; professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Quaker; peace, environmental action and world federalism advocate, and president of World Federalists; died 2001. Collection includes papers documenting Charles C. Price's work for peace, world federalism, and environmental protection. No finding aid available online.
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Prisoner Visitation and Support Records (DG 223)
24 linear feet
Founded as the Prisoner Visitation Service in April 1968, to carry forward the Quaker tradition of caring for prisoners and to serve the increasing numbers of draft resistors and GIs who were resisting the Vietnam War and were being sent to brigs and stockades for their acts of conscience; major founder was the Reverend Robert Horton (1900-1991), a retired Methodist minister with years of prison visitation experience; other participants included the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors, the American Friends Service Committee, the National Interreligious Service Board for Conscientious Objectors, and the War Resisters League. Later at least thirteen additional groups, including eight major denominational organizations, joined in sponsoring PVS's activities; name of the organization was changed to Prisoner Visitation and Support in 1971. Collection includes six boxes of organizational correspondence, biographical information, meeting minutes, and reports; manuscript biographies of conscientious objectors and other war resisters for a projected book by Robert Horton; correspondence between the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors and the Federal Bureau of Prisons; two boxes of financial and fundraising material; four boxes of correspondence and notes of prison visitors; 30 boxes of prisoner correspondence; also includes reference material about prisons, chaplaincy to prisons, amnesty for draft resisters, military prisoners, and the prisoner work strike at Federal Correctional Institution at Danbury, Connecticut, in 1972.

Pro-Peace Records (DG 152)
5.7 linear feet
PRO-Peace stands for People Reaching Out for Peace; a non-profit, non-partisan organization begun in April 1985 by David B. Mixner and headquartered in Los Angeles CA); called attention to global nuclear disarmament; tried to plan a march across the United States but failed to raise the necessary funds and the march collapsed two weeks after it had begun in March 1986; reorganized under new leadership at the Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament, which completed the walk in November 1986.

Professionals Coalition for Nuclear Arms Control Records [PCNAC] (DG 164)
3.75 linear feet
Organized in 1984 as a coalition of organizations: Lawyers Alliance for Nuclear Arms Control, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and the Union of Concerned Scientists; joined in 1985 by Architects, Designers, Planners for Social Responsibility, in 1987 by Psychologists for Social Responsibiity, High Technology Professionals for Peace, and Citiens Against Nuclear War, and in 1991 by Business Executives for Nuclear Age Concerns; formed as a lobbying and educational group to promote effective arms control legislation; Freeze Voter Education Fund and Training Institute merged with PCNAC in February 1989; the PCNAC Education Fund sponsored a series of training workshops and conferences around the U.S.; ceased operations in 1992.

Promoting Enduring Peace Records (DG 141)
4 linear feet
Founded in 1952; headquartered in Woodmont, Connecticut; principles included peace with freedom and justice for all, support for the United Nations, and belief in religion as the fundamental force for righteousness; established the Gandhi Peace Award. No finding aid available online.
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Mercedes M. Randall Papers (DG 110)
4 linear feet
Born Mercedes Irene Moritz in Guatemala City (Central America) in 1895; author and peace leader; earned Master's degree in history from Columbia University; married John Herman Randall in 1922; member of Young Democracy; early and lifelong member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, in which she held many positions, including chairmanship of the National Education Committee and presidency of the Manhattan Branch; author of many WILPF documents; close friend, biographer, and literary executor of Emily Greene Balch; died 1977. Collection includes notes and drafts for Randall's biography of Emily Greene Balch, other writings, biographical material, correspondence (1914-1976), a scrapbook of newsclippings etc. kept during World War I scrapbook, personal statements on pacifism by noted individuals, and material relating to rescue of Jewish refugees, and the Holocaust.

Hugh Richardson Papers (DG 032)
1 linear feet
Born at Newcastle on Tyne, England in 1864; earned an M.A. (from Canterbury?); science instructor, lecturer, editor and author; as a member of the Society of Friends, was vitally interested in the cause of peace and internationalism; during World War I, visited prisoner-of-war camps in Scotland on behalf of the Emergency Committee of the Society of Friends and sent the prisoners seeds, linoleum, a sheet of rubber for printing, a stereoscope, a kaleidescope, writing tablets, and books. Richardson lobbied for the non-payment of taxes until the end of the war, proposed disarmament by general agreement, was against scientific research that promoted military science, tried to work out a mathematical formula for weighting votes in a universal government, thought there was a relation between the weather and political events, and was interested in how ornithology was related to military invasions; died in 1936.Collection consists of letters written to Richardson by peace leaders -- such as Horace Alexander of the Peace Committee of the Society of Friends and Carl Heath of the National Peace Council -- and others, as well as letters regarding Richardson's visits to prisoners-of-war (mostly from internees in the camps, thanking Richardson for his letters, visits and gifts). It also contains Richardson's manuscript articles and play, his travel journals, periodicals in German from prisoner-of-war camps in Scotland and the Isle of Man, and miscellaneous material.

Dorothy Medders Robinson Papers (DG 127)
0.5 linear feet
President of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, U.S. Section, from 1941 to 1946; delegate to the WILPF International Congress in Luxembourg in 1946; chaired Jane Addams Peace Association and the Jane Addams Hall of Fame Committee (sponsored by WILPF) which resulted in Addams' induction in 1968 into the Hall of Fame for Great Americans at New York University; in private life, Mrs. Orris Grovernor Robinson; died in 1982.

Rockland County Peace Association Records (DG 121)
1.75 linear feet
Small, local peace group begun in 1930 to stimulate popular education and public opinion with a view to the prevention of war; officers included Kathleen Whitaker Sayre, McCarrell H. Leiper, and Walter B. MacKellar; admitted to the National Peace Conference in 1937; carried on relief work during World War II through the American Friends Service Committee; dissolved in 1950.

Igal Roodenko Papers (DG 161)
3.3 linear feet
Pacifist, peace,civil rights, and gay rights activist, advocate of nonviolence, printer; born 1917 in New York, New York; graduated from Cornell University; served 20 months in a federal prison for draft refusal during and after World War II; member of War Resisters League Executive Committee from 1947 to 1977; WRL Chair from 1968 to 1972; served on boards of A.J. Muste Memorial Institute and Consortium on Peace Research and Development (COPRED); active in Men of All Colors Together; died 1991. Most of the collection deals with Roodenko's experiences as a conscientious objector from 1943 to 1946, and his tours (for the WRL) from 1970 to 1991.

SANE, Inc. Records (DG 058)
199 linear feet
Established in 1957 as National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy; to focus American opinion on the facts and dangers of the nuclear age; By the mid 1960s, the focus of the organization had shifted to protest against the Vietnam war and SANE became a leader of the anti-war movement. By the late 1970s and the end of the war, SANE returned to its original focus, promoting nuclear disarmament. name changed to SANE, Inc./A Citizens' Organization for a Sane World in 1969; 1987 merged with Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign to become SANE/FREEZE; and later became Peace Action.

John Nevin Sayre Papers (DG 117)
37 linear feet
Born 1884; Episcopalian minister, pacifist and internationalist; staff member of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, U.S. Section, 1924-1967, served as chair, 1935-1940; worked with the International Fellowship of Reconciliation and served as chair, 1935-1955; served as editor of The World Tomorrow (1922-1924) and Fellowship magazine 1940-1945); a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union and the Committee on Militarism in Education; died 1977.

SCI International Voluntary Service (U.S.) Records (DG 148)
10.1 linear feet
Established around 1956 by Robert Stowell and others as an American affiliate of Service Civil International (founded in Europe in 1920 by Pierre Ceresole) with goals of voluntary service, self-discipline, and international friendship; operated approximately 87 workcamps between 1954 and 1974; arranged short-term workcamp assignments overseas and a small number of long-term and conscientious objector placements; suspended operation in the mid-1970s, but was revived in the mid-1980s by a group of former SCI volunteers located in Croze, Virginia.No finding aid available online.
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School of the Americas Watch Records (DG 207)
1+ box/es
The School of the Americas (SOA), in 2001 renamed the "Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation," (WHISC) is a combat training school for Latin American military personnel, located at Fort Benning, Georgia. The SOA Watch monitors the work of the SOA/WHISC and is a direct action protest organization. It was founded in 1990 by Catholic peace activist, Father Roy Bourgeois. No finding aid available online.
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Lawrence Scott Papers (DG 090)
7.5 linear feet
Born 1908; construction engineer, Baptist clergyman, and Quaker activist; worked against testing of nuclear weapons and chemical and biological weapons research; supervised Friends Mississippi Project; project director of the Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick in Maryland; executive secretary of the Peace Action Center; a founder of A Quaker Action Group; died 1986. Collection is chiefly material from the Vigil at Fort Detrick protesting the U.S. Army biological weapons research and testing center, including correspondence, memos, statements by members of the vigil, financial records, newsletters, bound notebooks, press releases, newsclippings, and photos; together with materials relating to Scott's work as supervisor of the Friends Mississippi Project to rebuild fire-bombed churches of African American congregations in Mississippi; the collection includes reports by Scott, scattered correspondence, financial records, news items, and fused glass and bell fragments; and papers relating to his activities against nuclear weapons and chemical and biological warfare with Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (later Committee for Nonviolent Action), Nevada Project, Washington Prayer Vigil, Pacific Project which sponsored the voyage of the Golden Rule to Eniwetok Proving Grounds, European Project which focused on nuclear testing by British and Soviet governments, and Peace Action Center. No finding aid available online.
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Alice Slater Papers (DG 225)
15.5 linear feet
An internationally known nuclear policy expert; involved in nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation, and elimination of weapons issues; founder or officer of several major organizations, including Global Resource Action Center for the Environment, Economists Allied for Arms Reduction, Abolition 2000, Lawyers Committee for Nuclear Policy, and Stand for Truth About Radiation.

Society of Friends: U.S. Peace Material [collected] Records (DG 033)
12.5 linear feet
The material in this collection was gathered from various sources and reflects an eclectic mix of writings by and about Quakers in the 19th and 20th centuries. Quaker peace material was often removed from the Friends Historical Library at Swarthmore College and given to the Peace Collection; however, this is no longer necessarily true, and scholars should consult FHL for other and/or more recent material.

Edith Reeves Solenberger (DG 176)
4 linear feet
Born 1886; Quaker peace activist who participated in a broad range of organizations; member of the Lansdowne [Pennsylvania] Monthly Meeting; a founder of the Lansdowne-Upper Darby [Pennsylvania] branch of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; career included social work, writing, and public speaking; interested in disability issues and had a notable impact on the treatment of children with physical disabilities in the Philadelphia. Pennsylvania area; The collection also includes materials on Native Americans and the Doukhobors; Solenberger died in 1976.

Wilhelm Sollmann Papers (DG 045)
7 linear feet
Friedrich Wilhelm Sollmann born 1881; German labor leader, journalist; member of the German delegation to the Versailles Peace Treaty conference; in 1920 was elected to the first of eight terms in the German Reichstag where he was a prominent member of the committee on foreign affairs; a lecturer and advisor on Germany and international affairs, 1937-1951; exiled in 1933; sought refuge in the United States and eventually became an American citizen, adopting William F. Sollmann as his preferred form of address; died 1951. Collection includes many letters with fellow exiles who wrote of political, financial, and marital difficulties resulting from the Nazi regime; also includes family correspondence.

Anna Garlin Spencer (DG 034)
3.75 linear feet
Anna Carpenter Garlin Spencer born 1851; minister, feminist, educator, pacifist, and writer on ethics and social problems; was religious leader in the Bell Street Chapel in Providence, Rhode Island, beginning in 1889; first woman in Rhode Island to be ordained; served as the president of the Rhode Island Equal Suffrage Association; early participant in the National Council of Women, and president of that organization in 1920; member of the executive committee of the National Peace and Arbitration Congress in 1907; founding member of the Woman's Peace Party in 1915, serving as vice chair; first chair of the national board of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, U.S. in 1919; died 1931.

Lee Stern Papers (DG 170)
3 linear feet
This collection contains prison poems and essays, 1942-1946, Ahimsa Farm correspondence, information about Lee Stern's 1965 fast to protest the bombing of North Vietnam, information about Stern's activities with A Quaker Action Group's bringing of medical supplies to Vietnam; includes a small amount of material about the Children's Creative Response to Conflict and Alternatives to Violence; scattered items regarding civil rights, the Peace and Social Action Program, the Quaker Project on Community Conflict, the Friends Coordinating Committee on Peace, and New York Yearly Meeting's Vigil at the White House in 1971. Correspondents include: Roger Axford
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Helene Stöcker Papers (DG 035)
4.1 linear feet
Born 1869; She was one of the first woman students to enter a German University; helped found Germany's first woman suffrage organization, and later the Bund für Mutterschutz (Protection of Motherhood); active in the German and international peace movement from the World War I period onward; belonged to the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, the Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft (German Peace Society), and the International Peace Bureau; connected her work in pacifism with the work in sexual reform; driven out of Germany by the Nazis in 1933 and lived for periods in Switzerland, England, and Sweden; emigrated to the United States in 1941; died 1943..

Sidney Dix Strong Papers (DG 036)
15 linear inches
Born 1860; Congregational minister, pacifist, war resistance leader, author, editor, and political activist. Includes correspondence (1895-1938), writings, sermons; information relating to the Russell Tremain case, 1927, regarding the salute to the national flag, and the Geneva Disarmament Conference, 1932; died 1938.

Student Peace Union Records (DG 065)
5.75 linear feet
Founded at University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois), in 1959 as an intercollegiate student group which believed that neither war nor the threat of war could any longer be successfully used to settle international disputes; merged with the College Peace Union in 1960; membership peaked in 1962 at 3500; Philip G. Altbach was national chairman; headquartered in Chicago until 1964 when SPU office was closed down and re-opened in New York; February 1967 merged with Campus Americans for Democratic Action to become Independent Student Union. Collection includes constitution, scattered meeting minutes and correspondence, national office statements, press releases, working papers, college addresses, financial records, newsletters, pamphlets, and photos, relating to SPU's work against war and militarism. No finding aid available online.
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Swarthmore College Peace Collection: Office File Records (DG 000)
___ linear feet
Begun with a deposit of papers from Nobel Peace Prize winner, Jane Addams and records from the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; Ellen Starr Brinton hired as first curator, 1935; since then has grown to over 20,000 feet of material on non-governmental efforts towards peace from around the world.

John M. Swomley Papers (DG 226)
13 linear inches
Born 1915 ; minister in the Methodist Church; served as Director of the National Council Against Conscription, editor of Conscription News, and as National Secretary of the Fellowship of Reconciliation; active with the American Friends Service Committee and the American Civil Liberties Union; campaigned against universal military training; author of books on militarism and the Cold War. Much of this collection references Swomley's efforts over many years to stop mandatory universal military training (UMT), especially in the United States.

 

Steve Trimm Papers (DG 232)
3.54 linear feet
Born 1948; in 1968 was convicted for refusing induction into the armed services and sentenced to four years in prison; fled to Canada in 1969 where he lived "underground" until 1974; in 1976 received clemency from the U.S. government under the Earned Re-entry Program and was pardoned; author of Walking Wounded: Men's Lives During and Since the Vietnam War (1993) and other publications; since the 1970s has been active with various peace and anti-war organizations, including Witness for Peace.

André and Magda Trocmé Papers (DG 107)
7.7 linear feet
André and Magda Trocmé are best known for their work in the small French town of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon. In 1938, André Trocmé, and his pacifist colleague Édouard Theis, founded L'Ecole Nouvelle Cévenol in Le Chambon, a Protestant, co-educational secondary school, with a curriculum of tolerance, honesty, and nonviolence. During World War II, André and Magda Trocmé inspired the inhabitants of Le Chambon to help in the escape of Jews and other poltiical refugees from the Vichy regime and German occupying forces.. In 1943, André Trocmé, Édouard Theis, and the head of the public school, Roger Darcissac were interned in a camp by the Vichy police. After their release, all three went into hiding. From the late 1940s onwards André and Magda Trocmé traveled as European Secretaries for the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR).

Unitarian Universalist Peace Network Records (DG 159)
3.8 linear feet
Established in 1984 to strengthen peace work among Unitarian Universalists and interfaith communities; especially concerned with the international arms race and nuclear proliferation; directors: Stephen M. Shick, Carol Powers, Stephanie Nichols; headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Association, Unitarian Universalist Peace Fellowship, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, Unitarian Universalist United Nations Office, Unitarian Universalist Women's Federation, and the International Association for Religious Freedom; published two periodicals, Peace Network News and Nuclear Free Zone News; organized a Rapid Action Alert network to communicate concerns to elected representatives; ceased operations on November 30, 1991. No finding aid available online.
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United Peace Chest of Philadelphia Records (DG 194)
23 linear inches
Founded in 1938, coordinated and integrated Philadelphia, Pennsylvania organizations interested in promoting international peace; name often shortened to United Peace Chest; other organizations involved were the Emergency Peace Campaign, the National Council for Prevention of War, the Philadelphia Peace Council, the Committee on Militarism in Education, and the Fellowship of Reconciliation; disbanded in 1956.

United States Comprehensive Test Ban Coalition Records (DG 178)
5.4 linear feet
Begun in March 1988 as the U.S. Coalition of the International Comprehensive Test Ban Campaign; Carolyn Cottom was its first Chair; formed as a coalition of peace groups to raise public awareness of nuclear testing issues, and to call on governments to initiate testing moratoria and to undertake negotiations for a comprehensive test ban; changed name in 1989 to United States Comprehensive Test Ban Coalition. Collection includes correspondence, annual reports, administrative files, minutes of meetings, reference files. No finding aid available online.
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Universal Peace Union Records (DG 038)
12.5 linear feet
Founded in 1866 to remove the causes of war; championed international arbitration, arbitration in labor disputes, and such causes as suffrage, temperance, anti-lynching, anti-militarism, and Indian rights; Quaker peace activist Alfred H. Love (1830-1913) was a principal organizer and served for many years as president of the UPU; well-known activists such as Hannah J. Bailey, Belva Lockwood; John Hutchinson; and Frances Ellen Harper all served as officers; the group was officially dissolved in 1920. The diaries of Alfred H. Love are also included in the collection.
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U.S. Interreligious Committee for Peace in the Middle East Records (DG 188)
4 linear feet
Founded in 1987; grew out of three interreligious study tours to the Middle East and exploratory consultations with more than 100 Jewish, Christian and Muslim leaders between 1985 and 1987. No finding aid available online.
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U.S. Peace Council Records (DG 153)
3 linear feet
Began in 1978 or 1979; National Founding Conference held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 9-11, 1979; headquartered in New York, New York until 1990, then moved to Philadelphia; formed as a "peace and solidarity network"; published the periodical Peace and Solidarity; affiliated with the World Peace Council; national headquarters closed in 1992; operations continued (1993- ) by the Michigan chapter. Collection includes correspondence, administrative files, pamphlets, newsletters, newspaper clippings. No finding aid available online.
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Vietnam Summer Records (DG 067)
11 linear feet
Martin Luther King, Jr., Benjamin Spock and others launched the project nationally on April 23, 1967 to reach concerned citizens throughout the United States and to weld them into an organized and active constituency against the war in Vietnam; from headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, co-directors Richard R. Fernandez and Lee D. Webb coordinated the efforts of 500 paid staff members and over 26,000 volunteers in 700 local projects; officially ended on September 20, 1967. Collection includes meeting minutes of the steering committee, correspondence, funding proposals, state and city project files, monthly audit reports, press conference packets, applications of volunteers, scrapbooks, buttons and photographs. No finding aid available online.
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Walkabout Peace and Justice Records (DG 162)
4 linear feet
First organized in 1985 in Davis, California, as an experimental project to provide a source of information for the peace-walking community; sponsored walks in support of issues related to peace and social justice; acted as a clearinghouse to provide information about other peace walks; most siginficant organizer was Barbara Hirshkowitz, who later became a leader of New Society Publishers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

War Resisters' International Records (DG 039)
3.25 linear feet
Founded in 1921 War Resisters' International; acts as a coordinating body for pacifist individuals and organizations throughout the world.

War Resisters League Records (DG 040)
34+ linear feet
Established by Dr. Jessie Wallace Hughan and others, together with colleagues from the Women's Peace Society and the Women's Peace Union, as a secular, absolute pacifist organization with similar goals to War Resisters' International; seeks to end war and social injustice through nonviolent tactics.

War Tax Resisters Penalty Fund Records (DG 192)
2.7 linear feet
Begun in 1982 as a volunteer project of the North Manchester, Indiana Fellowship of Reconciliation; supports and encourages conscientious war tax resisters in the U.S.; as of 1994, had involved about 1000 tax resisters and supporters, and numbered 500 members nationally; in earlier years, called Tax Resisters Penalty Fund; head organizer, Cliff Kindy. No finding aid available online.
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Cora Weiss Papers (DG 222)
12.5 linear feet
Born 1934; supporter of the United Nations, an early member of Women Strike for Peace, serving on its National Board from 1961-1973, director of the Riverside Church (New York, New York) Disarmament Program in 1970s; involved with organizing demonstrations against the Vietnam war, including the largest on November 15, 1969 in Washington, D.C.; Co-Chair and Director of the Committee of Liaison with Families of Servicemen Detained in Vietnam; organized the exchange of mail between families and prisoners of war in Vietnam; active with SANE, SANE/Freeze, Peace Action, and a found of The Hague Appeal for Peace; became president of the International Peace Bureau in 2000; hosted first women's radio program in New York City in the 1970s; attended women's disarmament summits in the former Soveit Union, the U.N. Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995, and many other events; recipient of numerous peace awards from all over the world.

Lydia G. Wentworth Papers (DG 041)
4.5 linear feet
Born 1858; author; advocate for pacifism, socialism, and feminism; lived most of her life in Brookline, Massachusetts; died 1947.

Norman J. Whitney Papers (DG 061)
7.5 linear feet
Born 1891; Quaker teacher, writer and devoted peace worker; taught English at Syracuse University (NY), 1919-1957; helped establish and directed for many years the Syracuse Peace Council; left Syracuse in 1957 to work for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in peace education; acted as friend and counselor to conscientious objectors, particularly those in Civilian Public Service Camps; died 1967.

E. Raymond Wilson Papers (DG 070)
35.25 linear feet
Born 1896; Quaker; went to Japan in 1926-1927 through Japanese Brotherhood Scholarship; helped organize the Committee on Militarism in Education in 1925; served as Field and Education Secretary of the Peace Section of the American Friends Service Committee, 1931-1943; helped found the Friends Committee on National Legislation in 1943 and served as its Executive Secretary until 1962; author of two books; died 1987.
Japanese lantern slides digitized

WIN Magazine Records (DG 077)
Records: 7.75 linear feet; Photographs; 7.5 linear feet
WIN Magazine was published from January 1966 until October 1983; begun by the New York Workshop in Nonviolence; sponsorship was taken over in September 1966 by the Committee for Nonviolent Action (CNVA); CNVA merged with the War Resisters League in the fall of 1967 which then assumed financial responsibility for the magazine, but did not directly control its editorial board or staff.
Photograph Collection

Winston Foundation for World Peace Records (DG 211)
4.75 linear feet
Begun in September 1986; concentrated on the U.S.-Soviet rivalry, arms control, the global arms trade, regional conflicts, and efforts to build civil society; endowed by Robert Winston Scrivner to work for the prevention of nuclear war; grant-making was concluded in June 1999, and offices in Washington, D.C. closed two months later. Collection includes Board meeting minutes, 1985-1999; dockets, 1990-1999; board memorandums, 1990-1999; grant lists, 1991-1999; trip reports, 1995-1997 and undated; miscellaneous reports, 1992-1999 and undated. No finding aid available online.
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Wisbech Local Peace Association Records (DG 042)
1.6 linear feet
Priscilla Hannah Peckover (1833-1931) devoted much of her life toward mobilization for peace. She believed that every person had a duty to perform in consolidating public opinion against war. In 1879 she formed the Wisbech Peace Association to promote the development of women in work for peace. This group of men and women, eventually growing from hundreds to thousands, became a center for peace activity in Great Britain. They concentrated on establishing peace by means of arbitration and disarmament. The organizers of the Wisbech Peace Association condemned war based on Christian theology.
Collection contains membership blanks, annual reports of the organization's activities, tracts and other publications issued by the group, writings by Priscilla Peckover, and correspondence between Peckover and other peace leaders in Great Britain, Europe and North America.

Alice Wiser Papers (DG 203)
7.5 linear feet
Quaker; trained as a social worker and psychological counselor; dedicated the last ten to fifteen years of her life to both peace and women's rights; instrumental in organizing the peace tent for the second United Nations Conference on Women held in Nairobi, Kenya in 1985; after the conference, continued to organize around these issues, traveling around the world to interview women and talk about peace; died ca. 1995. Of note in the collection are audiotapes and transcripts of interviews with women around the world in the mid to late 1980s on women's rights, peace, and politics.

Witness for Peace Records (DG 149)
4+ linear feet
Founded in 1983; headquartered in Washington, D.C.; purpose is to work with the people of Central America by acting in continuous nonviolent resistance to U.S. covert or overt intervention in their countries and to help change U.S. policy to one which fosters justice, peace, and friendship with the countries of Central America; although primarily Christian, WFP welcomes others who vary in spiritual approach but who agree with WFP's objectives.Collection includes organizational and financial reports, periodicals, annual reports, pamphlets, manuals, and audiotapes of training sessions for volunteers. No finding aid available online.
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Woman's Peace Party Records (Part I of DG 043)
11.75 linear feet
The Woman's Peace Party (WPP) was formed in January 1915 with a platform calling for a conference of neutral nations, limitation of armaments, organized opposition to militarism in the U.S., democratic control of foreign policy, and extension of the franchise to women; in April 1915 became the American Section of the International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace; Jane Addams served as chair; the WPP became the U.S. Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in November 1919.

Women Strike for Peace Records (DG 115)
32 linear feet
Begun in 1961 as a one-day protest against the above ground testing of nuclear weapons, led by Dagmar Wilson and other women, in Washington, D.C.; a nation-wide grass-roots organization most active during the Vietnam War, when it operated draft counseling and amnesty programs, and lobbied against the continuation of the war; has local chapters throughout the U.S.; by the 1980s the national headquarters were in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; legislative office and National Information Clearing House in Washington, D.C.; also known as WISP (Women's International Strike for Peace) or Women for Peace; disbanded ca. 1989.

Women's Committee to Oppose Conscription Records (DG 068)
7.5 linear feet
Founded in 1943 as the Committee to Oppose the Conscription of Women (also known as the National Committee to Oppose the Conscription of Women); formed to protest the Austin-Wadsworth legislative action to conscript women into a civilian-based labor force; as an independent committee with one objective it expected to educate and motivate a constituency no organized peace group could reach; at its height, the group had a governing committee of 150 members and a national mailing list of 3000; when the immediate threat of drafting women had passed, the organization changed its name to the Women's Committee to Oppose Conscription, to reflect its stand against any conscription; Mildred Scott Olmsted served as Director, A.J. Muste as Treasurer, and Grace Rhoads as secretary.

 

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (U.S.) Records [WILPF] (DG 043)

238+ linear feet
Established in January 1920, replacing the Woman's Peace Party as the official arm of the WILPF in the United States; its aim was to "promote methods for the attainment of that peace between nations which is based on justice and good will and to cooperate with women from other countries who are working for the same ends"; an important leader in the peace movement of the 20th century, as well as in women's issues; had a Legislative Office in Washington, D.C. for many years; state and local branches carry out goals of the national program on a more local level; national office in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania closed in 2009; some activities currently being overseen from office in Massachusetts (2010- ). Collection includes records from its predecessor organization, the Woman's Peace Party, some files related to the International WILPF (especially reports of international congresses), the U.S. National records U.S. local branch records,, and the files of the Jane Addams Peace Association [JAPA]. Available as well are photographs and/or negatives (several thousand), periodicals, posters, banners, scrapbooks, postcards, graphics, audiovisual material, campaign buttons, lapel ribbons and pins, bumperstickers and other stickers, and other memorabilia.
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Women's Peace Union Records (DG 044)
11.25 linear feet
Founded in August 1921 to encourage the formation of a peace group to encompass all the women of the western hemisphere, to work for complete disarmament and the abolition of all constitutional and legal sanctions for war; records are those of the United States branch.

[World Association of World Federalists: United Nations Office: formerly DG 091; deaccessioned in March 2003 and sent to Lilly Library]

World Conference on Religion and Peace Records (DG 078)
43.5 linear feet
An international organization of representatives of the world's major religious traditions who met to study and act upon global problems affecting peace, justice, and human survival; from 1970-1984, the international headquarters in New York was directed by Homer A. Jack, Secretary-Generall headquarters moved to Geneva, Switzerland in 1984, with John B. Taylor as Secretary-General.

World Conference on Religion and Peace (U.S.) Records (DG 059)
4.25 linear feet
National Inter-religious Conference on Peace held March 15-17, 1966, in Washington, D.C., to bring together clergy and laity from all peace oriented viewpoints to discuss the relation of religion to peace; following conference, U.S. Inter-religious Committee on Peace (also called Inter-religious Committee on Peace) formed to continue this work; name changed in 1975 to World Conference on Religion and Peace (USA) to identify more clearly with World Conference on Religion and Peace (International); also called WCRP/USA or WCRP (U.S.A.).Collection includes meeting minutes, correspondence (1965-1966), statements produced by the conference, workshop kits, study group working papers, publicity, and anthology of published papers of the conference; and correspondence (1962-1989) and other materials of Homer A. Jack. No finding aid available online.
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World Peace Foundation Records (DG 055)
21.25 linear feet
In 1902, Edwin Ginn began publication of an International Library to promote knowledge about peace. In July 1910, he established the International School of Peace which, in December of that year, became the World Peace Foundation. Its purpose was to promote better international relations and world order by preparing and distributing specialized literature, mostly to college and university libraries, and by holding conferences. It was closely allied with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and supported formation of the League of Nations and the Permanent Court of International Justice and, later, the United Nations.

World Without War Council, Midwest Records (DG 128)
12 linear feet
Begun in Northern California in 1958, when twelve national peace organizations cooperated in establishing Acts for Peace; founded by Robert Pickus, it developed in 1961 into Turn Toward Peace (TTP), a cooperative national effort of some 60 peace and liberal internationalist organizations. Around 1967 (sources vary on the year), WWWC split off from Turn Toward Peace; independently incorporated WWWC regional offices were opened in Seattle, Washington, Chicago, Illinois, and New York, New York. Collection includes minutes of meetings, program and project reports, information about the National Committee for the Peace Ballot (co-sponsored by WWWC), 1975-1976, the World Without War Calendar, 1977-1983, newsletters, information from the Northern California (Berkeley) Office, Northwest Regional (Seattle, Washington) Office, and the Eugene, Oregon Branch. No finding aid available online.

 

Young Friends of North America: Committee on Conscription Records (DG 083)
12.5 linear feet
The Young Friends of North America, an open fellowship of Quakers between the ages of 18 and 30, established a Committee on Conscription in the fall of 1968 to facilitate communication among Friends who were involved with draft resistance; chaired by conscientious objector Peter Blood; collected information from members of the Religious Society of Friends who had refused to cooperate with conscription since the 1940s, as well as Friends who were currently imprisoned for draft resistance. Collection is small, but valuable because of the personal information it contains in correspondence, statements, and questionnaires filled out by Friends (and others) who resisted the draft during the Vietnam war. The Committee also collected information from various Yearly Meetings about their stance on draft resistance, conscription, providing sanctuary to men opposed to the draft, and tax resistance.