Record Source: Other PACSCL Partners / Subject: Peace Movements -- United States -- History -- Sources - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam Collected Records, 1965-1967 (inclusive)

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

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Records, 1915- (inclusive)

Extent:: 392 linear ft.
Abstract:: Includes minutes, resolutions and general historical records; anniversary celebrations, committee minutes, literature and releases; office files from the legislative office, the finance and the executive director; includes miscellaneous records from branches, including New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, among others; a large correspondence file includes general office correspondence as well as that of the National Organizational Secretary, the Washington Legislative Secretary, and others; also contains approximately 2150 photographs and/or negatives, periodicals, posters, banners, scrapbooks, postcards, graphics, audiovisual material, campaign buttons, lapel ribbons and pins, bumperstickers and other stickers, and other memorabilia.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Central American Historical Institute Records, 1980-1993 (bulk)

Extent:: 12.5 linear ft. (25 boxes (estimated at 6" each))
Abstract:: Primarily reference files on Central America in the 1980s; most material is about El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua; in English and Spanish.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

David McReynolds Papers, 1943- (inclusive)

Extent:: 30.5 linear ft. (30.5 linear ft.)
Abstract:: David McReynolds (1929-2018), was an activist with the War Resisters League, the Socialist Party USA and the Democratic Socialists of America. He was an editor of Liberation magazine in the 1950s and a leader of the WRL from the 1950s until his retirement in 1999. McReynolds ran for Congress twice and for President of the U.S. twice, including a run in 2000. McReynolds has attempted to integrate anti-war and pacifist philosophy with Socialist economics. David McReynolds was openly gay and had written about this topic as well.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Freeze Campaigns (State and Local) Collected Records, 1980-1989 (bulk)

Extent:: 0.83 linear ft. (10 linear in.)
Abstract:: These are collected records of state and local nuclear freeze campaigns. Freeze was a grassroots movements which called for a bilateral freeze on the nuclear weapons buildup by the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1980s.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Robin Harper Collected Papers, 1957-1967 (bulk)

Extent:: 0.42 linear ft. (5 linear in.)
Abstract:: Robin Harper is active in the peace movement. During the 1950s and 1960s he protested nuclear weapons and missile defense systems. The papers in this collection reflect that involvement.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Ken Giles Collected Papers, 1973-1990 (bulk)

Extent:: 0.83 linear ft. (10 linear in.)
Abstract:: This collection reflects the involvement of Ken Giles in various Jewish groups/organizations that worked for peace in the Middle East.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Public Action Coalition on Toys Collected Records, 1966-1981 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.83 linear ft. (10 linear in.)
Abstract:: This collection documents the efforts of two groups that worked to raise the issue of violence perpetuated by the manufacture and sale of war toys to children.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Neil Wollman Papers, ca. 1984- (bulk)

Extent:: 5 linear ft. (5 linear ft.)
Abstract:: Neil Wollman (1950 - ) is a peace activist and psychologist. Beginning ca. 1984, Wollman began to pressure Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association-College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF) to engage in socially responsible investing, including divesting from companies that did business in South Africa or built nuclear weapons. Wollman helped to form the Make TIAA-CREF Ethical Coalition. He is the the author of the Graduation Pledge of Social and Environmental Responsibility (www.graduationpledge.org), and iscurrently involved with Kids Can make A Difference "to inspire students to realize that it is within their power to help eliminate hunger and poverty in their communities, country and world."

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

October 6 Witness Collected Records, 1983-1984 (bulk)

Extent:: 0.83 linear ft. (10 linear in.)
Abstract:: Includes correspondence (1983-1984), minutes of meetings, financial records, mailing lists, planning reports, publicity, press coverage, newspaper clippings, and follow-up notes. Correspondents include Bruce Birchard, Samuel D. Caldwell, and Morton Frank.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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