Repository: Swarthmore College Peace Collection / Record Source: Other PACSCL Partners / Year: <span class="single" data-blrl-single="2011">2011</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Herb Ettel Collected Papers, 1977-2011 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 boxes (1/2 box)
Abstract:

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Jane Addams Peace Association [JAPA] Records, 1919-2023 (inclusive) 1985-2012 (bulk)

Extent:: 26.5 linear ft. (26 manuscript boxes; 2 card file boxes; 12 paige boxes)
Abstract:: JAPA was formed in 1948; it's mission, carried out primarily through its yearly Children's Book Awards, is to deepen understanding of peace and justice for children and their adults.

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Vietnam Veterans Against the War Collected Records, 1967- (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.42 linear ft. (5 linear in.)
Abstract:: Collection includes material from the national VVAW, the VVAW/Winter Soldier Organization, and branch material from Kansas City, Philadelphia, Chicago, New England, New York, and Milwaukee.

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Collected Papers, 1956- (bulk)

Extent:: 0.42 linear ft. (5 inches)
Abstract:: Pamphlets, articles, reprints, photocopies of works by and about Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Atrium Society Collected Records, 1984; 1995-1996, 2004- (bulk)

Extent:: 0.08 linear ft. (1 folder)
Abstract:

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Anglican Pacifist Fellowship Collected Records, 1940- (bulk)

Extent:: 0.42 linear ft. (5 linear inches.)
Abstract:: The collection includes annual reports (1940-), printed correspondence, leaflets, pamphlets.

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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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International Center on Nonviolent Conflict Collected Records, 2008- (bulk)

Extent:: 0.08 linear ft. (1 folder.)
Abstract:: Collection includes background information about the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict.

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Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice Collected Records, 1966- (bulk)

Extent:: 0.08 linear ft. (1 folder.)
Abstract:: Collection includes correspondence, minutes of meetings, flyers, publicity materials.

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Physicians for Social Responsibility Records, 1970- (inclusive)

Extent:: 239 linear ft. (239 linear ft.)
Abstract:: Founded in 1961 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by a group of physicians. PSR is an organization, and association of doctors concerned with the challenge of the nuclear age: "man's scientific knowledge now provides an unprecedented opportunity for medical and social advance; yet thermonuclear war poses a supreme threat to the health and survival of mankind." Since prevention is the only effective remedy, and therapy, these physicians are attempting to explore a new area of preventive medicine: the prevention of nuclear war. Their 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..."

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