Record Source: Other PACSCL Partners / Subject: Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources / Creator: Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Start Over Record Source Other PACSCL Partners Subject Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources Creator Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964

Extent:: 3.75 linear ft. (3.75 linear ft.)
Abstract:: 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; ceased activities December 1967.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Extent:: 4.5 linear ft. ([11 boxes])
Abstract:: The National Council Against Conscription had its first official meeting on December 13, 1945 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Nation Council Against Conscription 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.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Extent:: 7.25 linear ft. (18 boxes)
Abstract:: The New York Peace Society was the first peace society in the United States beginning in 1815, and lasting in various incarnations until 1940.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Extent:: 35.4 linear ft. (series a = 37 boxes and 15.22 linear feet; series b = 49 boxes and 20.22 linear feet)
Abstract:: The War Resisters League is a pacifist organization whose members are against all war. Witnessing the establishment of the War Resisters' International in Europe in 1921, and sensing a need for a similar organization in the United States, Dr. Jessie Wallace Hughan established the War Resisters League as an independent organization. The War Resisters League membership pledge, which has remained essentially unchanged since its inception, reads: "The War Resisters League affirms that war is a crime against humanity. We therefore are determined not to support any kind of war, international or civil, and to strive non-violently for the removal of all causes of war." The League seeks to end war and social injustice through pacifist and nonviolent tactics.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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