Repository: Swarthmore College Peace Collection / Record Source: Other PACSCL Partners / Subject: Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Northern California Service Board for Conscientious Objectors Collected Records, 1940-1954 (bulk)

Extent:: 0.13 linear ft. (1.5 linear inches.)
Abstract:: Includes printed correspondence, minutes of meetings, memoranda, brochures; correspondents include Allen H. Barr and Robert F. Leavens.

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Alice Locke Park Collected Papers, 1913-1948 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.04 linear ft. (.5 linear in.)
Abstract:

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Jeannette Rankin Collected Papers, 1917-2011 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.42 linear ft. (5 linear in.)
Abstract:: Jeannette Rankin (1880-1973), was the first woman to serve in Congress (1917-1919). She was an active suffragist and later worked in peace organizations such as the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and the National Council for Prevention of War. Rankin founded the Georgia Peace Society in the 1940s, and led the Jeannette Rankin Brigade, an all-women's protest march against the Vietnam war shortly before her death.

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Edward Thomas and Margaret Loring Thomas Collected Papers, 1917-1952 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.25 linear ft. (3 linear in.)
Abstract:: Edward Thomas was a chemist and chemical patent lawyer in New York City. His wife Margaret Loring Thomas had been active in settlement work and a teacher of home economics before marriage. Both were activist, pacifist Quakers.

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Peacemaker Movement Collected Records, 1948-1980 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2.5 linear ft. (30 linear in.)
Abstract:: A group working on nonviolence from the late 1940s through the 1970s, particularly as it was expressed through tax refusal.

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Ada Wardlaw Collected Papers, 1937-1963 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.17 linear ft. (2 linear in.)
Abstract:

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Alice Herz and Helga Herz Collected Papers, 1941-2002 (bulk)

Extent:: 0.42 linear ft. (5 linear inches.)
Abstract:: Papers of a German mother and daughter who emigrated to the United States and were peace activists in the Detroit area; mother was the first American to immolate herself in protest of the Vietnam War.

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No Foreign War Campaign Steering Committee Collected Records, 1938-1940 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.04 linear ft. (.5 linear in.)
Abstract:

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Lella Secor Florence Papers, 1915-1936 (inclusive)

Extent:: .5 linear ft. (.5 linear ft.)
Abstract:: Lella Secor Florence became a pacifist while serving as a journalist on the Henry Ford Peace Expedition (1915-1916) and then participated in several peace organizations focused on keeping the United States out of World War I. She was active in the British section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and in the birth control movement there and wrote Birth Control on Trial.

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William Marx Kantor Collected Papers, circa 1917-1920 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.21 linear ft. (2.5 linear in.)
Abstract:: William Kantor was a World War I conscientious objector from Philadelphia.

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