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Wray Hoffman Diary, 1917-1919 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 volumes (1 v.)
Abstract:
Detailed account of Hoffman's conscription into 304th Engineers (based at an unnamed camp half way between Baltimore and Washington D.C.) and his experiences as a conscientious objector there and in France and Belgium (1918) working for the Friends Bureau Office of the American Red Cross.

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Sydney Dix Strong Papers, 1890-1938 (inclusive)

Extent:
1.25 linear ft. (15 linear inches)
Abstract:
Sydney Dix Strong (1860-1938) was an outspoken pacifist and strong supporter of disarmament, war resistance, and organized labor. He was the pastor for churches in Ohio and Illinois and did settlement work in Chicago. For his peace stance made him unpopular during WWI and in Oct. 1917 he was expelled from membership in the Municipal League of Seattle because of a speech he had given before the National Council of Congregational Churches, in which he praised the I.W.W. (International Workers of the World). Strong published many articles and sermon series, as well as his book Rise of American Democracy in 1935, and from 1921-1938 was associate editor of Unity magazine. Other activities included a campaign to collect signatures for a "Peace Letter to the President" in 1926, while he was Secretary of the Seattle Peace League and of the Seattle group of Peacemakers; the development of a "2%" button, based on comments made by Albert Einstein that if 2% of those who were supposed to do...(see more)

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League of Nations Association Collected Records, 1916, 1922-1945 (bulk)

Extent:
2.5 linear ft. (30 linear in.)
Abstract:
The American Association for International Cooperation and the League of Nations Non-Partisan Committee merged on January 10, 1923 to become the League of Nations Non-Partisan Association. This name was shortened in 1929 to become the League of Nations Association. The organization was inactive during WWII. After the war, it was revived as the United Nations Association.

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Martha Freund-Hoppe Collected Papers, 1914-1918 (bulk)

Extent:
0.83 linear ft. (10 linear in.)
Abstract:
This collection is a rich trove of images and documentation (photographs, newspapers, magazine pictures, items of propaganda, and other material) about Germany in the midst of World War I gathered by Martha Freund-Hoppe during the war.

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American Friends Service Committee Collected Records, 1917- (inclusive)

Extent:
1.6 linear ft. (4 boxes)
Abstract:
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) was set up in June 1917 as an outgrowth of and coordination point for the anti-war and relief activities of various bodies of the Religious Society of Friends in the United States.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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