Repository: Swarthmore College Peace Collection / Subject: Peace Movements -- United States -- History -- Sources / Language: English / Year: <span class="from" data-blrl-begin="1900">1900</span> to <span class="to" data-blrl-end="1949">1949</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

National Council for Prevention of War Records, 1921-1975 (inclusive)

Extent:: 214.5 linear ft. ([517 boxes])
Abstract:: The National Council for Prevention of War (NCPW) was directed by J. Frederick Libby for many years; it lobbied Congress and created educational peace material, among other activities and campaigns.

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Catholic Association for International Peace Collected Records, 1927-1967 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.63 linear ft. (7.5 linear in.)
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International Association of the Friends of Peace Collected Records, 1913 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2 items (2 items.)
Abstract:: Items held: letter dated April 25, 1913, and the Platform of the International Association.

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William Ladd Collected Papers, 1814-1954 (inclusive) 1814-1841 (bulk)

Extent:: 0.83 linear ft. (10 linear in.)
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National Peace Federation Collected Records, 1915

Extent:: 0.04 linear ft. (.5 linear in.)
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Practical Peace League Collected Records, 1908

Extent:: 0.04 linear ft. (.5 linear in.)
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Emergency Peace Committee Collected Records, 1931-1933 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.25 linear ft. (3 linear in.)
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Ann Morrissett Davidon and William C. Davidon Papers, 1949- (inclusive)

Extent:: 9 linear ft. (9 linear ft.)
Abstract:: Ann Morrissett Davidon (1925-2004), was a writer, editor, educator, pacifist and peace activist through her entire life. William Cooper Davidon(1927- 2013), was a professor of physics at Haverford College and (retired 1994), pacifist, 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. Ann Davidon remained active in peace issues for her entire life.

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Joint Peace Board Collected Records, 1944-1945 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.04 linear ft. (.5 linear in.)
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People's Council of America for Democracy and Peace Collected Records, 1917-1919 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.21 linear ft. (2.5 linear in.)
Abstract:: The People's Council of America for Democracy and Peace grew out of the First American Conference for Democracy and Terms of Peace, held in New York, May 1917. It was organized to work for an early and liberal peace at the end of the World War. It favored world organizations, and disapproved of conscription. Officers were Louis Lochner, Emily Greene Balch, Rebecca Shelley, Scott Nearing, David Starr Jordan, Crystal Eastman, Eugene Debs, John Haynes Holmes, Henry W.L. Dana, Max Eastman, and Lella Secor Florence.

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