Repository: Swarthmore College Peace Collection / Online Content: Not Available / Year: <span class="from" data-blrl-begin="1995">1995</span> to <span class="to" data-blrl-end="1999">1999</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

CarEth Foundation Records, 1988- (inclusive)

Extent:: 10 linear ft. (10 linear ft.)
Abstract:: The CarEth Foundation is a family-run funding resource for the peace and social justice movement. It was founded in 1967 by G. Sterling Grumman to promote enduring world peace.

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Pacific Life Research Center Collected Records, 1997- (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.02 linear ft. (.2 linear in.)
Abstract:: Includes printed correspondence.

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Libby Frank and Morton Frank Papers, 1966-2012 (inclusive)

Extent:: 12.5 linear ft. (12.5 linear ft.)
Abstract:: The papers of a married couple, both of whom have worked for peace and justice organizations throughout the second half of the twentieth century and into the first decades of the twenty-first century. Libby Frank served as the executive director of the U.S. Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom from 1981-1986.

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Robert W. Lentz Collected Papers, 1964-2001 (bulk)

Extent:: 0.21 linear ft. (2.5 linear in.)
Abstract:: Robert W. Lentz was a civil rights lawyer, originally from West Chester Pennsylvania. He worked with the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) in Mississippi; for two weeks in the summer of 1964, and served as a lawyer to aid volunteers who were jailed in Mississippi for their civil rights efforts. Lentz returned to Mississippi in November 1966 to help with voter rights in the general election.

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Fellowship of Reconciliation Collected Records, 1915- (bulk)

Extent:: 1.25 linear ft. (15 linear in.)
Abstract:: The Fellowship of Reconciliation was established in December of 1914, during a meeting at Cambridge, England. It is still in existence today.

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Charles Bloomstein Collected Papers, 1938-2002 (bulk)

Extent:: 1.87 linear ft. (1.87 linear ft.)
Abstract:: Charles Bloomstein (1913 - 2002) was involved in a number of organizations that promoted civil rights, as well as peace. He was a conscientious objector during World War II, and served in Civilian Public Service (CPS) for three years.

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Alice Niles Lynd and Staughton Lynd Papers, 1965-1995 (inclusive)

Extent:: 8.33 linear ft. (8.33 linear feet.)
Abstract:: Staughton Lynd and Alice Niles Lynd, Quakers, authors, and activists in the civil rights and peace movements, who worked individually and collaborated on many labor and pacifist projects.

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Ward Miles and Alice Calder Miles Collected Papers, 1944-1948, 2003, 2007 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.21 linear ft. (2.5 linear in.)
Abstract:: Includes two oral history interview (4 p., 2007 and 2 p., 2003) of Ward Miles and Alice Calder Miles; information about the Civilian Public Service unit at the Byberry State Hospital in Philadelphia, Pa.; manuscript "Out of Sight Out of Mind" by Ward C. Miles; information about a psychiatric aide training project conducted for the Rockefeller Foundation under the auspices of the Menninger Foundation, Topeka, Kansas in 1948; reference material about mental hospitals and psychiatric aide training, including a manuscript "Sweet Dreams and Stale Delusions" by Leonard Edelstein (1945).

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Waldo Williams Collected Papers, 1942-1998 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.42 linear ft. (5 linear inches -- papers only)
Abstract:: Williams was a Welsh poet, war resister,war-tax resister, and conscientious objector in World War II. He became a Quaker in 1953.

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World Peace Council Collected Records, 1949-1996 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1.5 linear ft. (1.5 linear ft.)
Abstract:: The World Peace Council (WPC) is an international organization representing over 100 countries. Currently, its headquarters are in Greece. The organization was founded in 1948 and Frederic Joliot-Curie was its first president. According to the WPC website, it is described as an "anti-imperialist, democratic, independent and non-aligned international movement of mass action. It is an integral part of the world peace movement and acts in cooperation with other international and national movements" (2011).

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