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Peace History Society Records, 1963- (inclusive)

Extent:
11 linear ft. (11 linear ft.)
Abstract:
The records of the Peace History Society contain minutes, mailings, annual brochures, general correspondence, papers presented at its conferences, documents about PHS projects and its monthly journal Peace and Change, and audiotapes. Correspondents include Charles Barker, Berenice A. Carroll, John. W. Chambers, Charles Chatfield, Hilary Conroy, Blanche Wiesen Cook, Sandi E. Cooper, Charles DeBenedetti, Michael A. Lutzker, William L. Neumann, Arthur I. Waskow, Ralph Edward Weber, and Lawrence S. Wittner.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors Records, 1948-2010 (inclusive)

Extent:
90 linear ft. (90 linear feet.)
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CCCO developed a nationwide network of military and draft counselors and attorneys to assist conscientious objectors. Most active during the Korean and Vietnam Wars, the CCCO promoted such issues as amnesty, repatriation, and counter-recruitment.Operations were suspended in late October 2009. As of 2010, some of their counseling service has been taken over by the GI Rights Hotline.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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Ann Morrissett Davidon and William C. Davidon Papers, 1949- (inclusive)

Extent:
9 linear ft. (9 linear ft.)
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Ann Morrissett Davidon (1925-2004), was a writer, editor, educator, pacifist and peace activist through her entire life. William Cooper Davidon(1927- 2013), was a professor of physics at Haverford College and (retired 1994), pacifist, peace activist. The two were married in 1963 and both continued to be very active in peace, pacifist, anti-Vietnam War, and social justice organizations. They advocated and practiced war-tax resistance. In 1971, William Davidon was named an "unindicted co-conspirator" in a plot to kidnap Henry Kissenger. Ann Davidon remained active in peace issues for her entire life.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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Civilian Public Service Personal Papers and Collected Materials, 1939- (inclusive)

Extent:
14 linear ft. (14 linear ft.)
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Chiefly the personal papers of conscientious objectors assigned to Civilian Public Service (CPS) camps during World War II, such as correspondence, writings, memoirs, and reference material about CPS. Also included are records of or about various CPS camps and projects.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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Catholic Peace Fellowship Collected Records, 1962- (inclusive)

Extent:
0.2 linear ft. (2.5 inches)
Abstract:
The Catholic Peace Fellowship is a body founded in 1964 and still active today that defined itself as "An Educational Service Conducted by Catholic Members of the Fellowship of Reconciliation."

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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Bradford Lyttle Papers, 1954- (inclusive)

Extent:
49.75 linear ft. (49.75 linear ft.)
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Bradford [Brad] Lyttle is a long time leading peace activist involved in the promotion of nonviolence for social change and the elimination of war and nuclear weapons. Lyttle was the organizer of the San Francisco to Moscow walk in the 1960-1961, to highlight the message of disarmament and nonviolent resistance and bringing together U.S. and Soviet citizens together during the height of the Cold War. He went on to organize and participate in other marches and protests, including the Quebec - Washington - Guantanamo Walk for Peace, during which he and twenty other marchers were jailed by police in Albany, Georgia. During the Vietnam war Lyttle coordinated many organizations and demonstrations against the war. In 1983 he founded the United States Pacifist Party and ran for president in the 1984 elections. Lyttle continues to work for peace around the world. He has been a war tax resister, worked with peace projects and refugees in Bosnia and Croatia, and has been arrested many...(see more)

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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Jeannette Rankin Collected Papers, 1917-2011 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.42 linear ft. (5 linear in.)
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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.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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Friends School Haverford records, 1885-2010 (inclusive)

Extent:
28 linear ft. (36 horizontal document boxes, 15 volumes, 12 vertical document boxes.)
Abstract:
The records include minutes, reports, newsletters, correspondence, photographs, lists, financial records, curriculum records, notes, printed material, school publications, book manuscript and drafts, clippings, and other papers of Friends School, Haverford. Many of the records originated during the tenure of Miriam Brown as principal, 1950-1980, and include her notes, drafts, etc. for "Friends School Haverford, 1885-1985," a centennial history of the school.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

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Physicians for Social Responsibility Records, 1970- (inclusive)

Extent:
239 linear ft. (239 linear ft.)
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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..."

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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CarEth Foundation Records, 1988- (inclusive)

Extent:
10 linear ft. (10 linear ft.)
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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.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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

Extent:
12.5 linear ft. (12.5 linear ft.)
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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.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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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).

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows Records, 2001-2011 (bulk)

Extent:
14.18 linear ft.
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September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows was born when a small group of family members of those killed on September 11, 2001 in New York, New York, Washington, DC, and Pennsylvania connected after reading each others' pleas for nonviolent and reasoned responses to the terrorist attacks. The group was launched as a project of the Fellowship of Reconciliation - USA in February 2002. The goals of the group include promoting dialogue on alternatives to war and calling attention to threats to civil liberties, human rights, and other freedoms in the U.S. as a consequence of war.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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Alliance for Nuclear Accountability Records, 1990- (bulk)

Extent:
38 linear ft. (38 linear ft.)
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The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA), is a national network of organizations working to address issues of nuclear weapons production and waste cleanup. The organization was founded in Colorado in 1987 as the Military Production Network (MPN). In 1997 the name was name to the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability. The headquarters of the organization are in Washington D.C. and its members work together as a network to influence national policies related to nuclear weapons production, testing, research, cleanup of contaminated sites, public safety, and worker health. ANA's list of member organizations has expanded to include groups working on the costs and consequences of nuclear power facilities as well.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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Daniel Ellsberg Collected Papers, 1972- (bulk)

Extent:
0.08 linear ft. (1 folder.)
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The collection consists of one folder of printed material and pamphlets, including a research proprosal (1986): "U.S. First Use Threats and the Construction of Instability", and a transcript of a talk: "Daniel Ellsberg: The Construction of Instability" (1986).

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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Butternuts Quarterly Meeting Records (including Butternuts (Orthodox) and Duanesburg (Pre-Separation and Orthodox)), 1812-2012 (inclusive) 1843-1874 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.7 linear ft.
Abstract:
Minutes of Butternuts Quarterly Meeting and its predecessors, Butternuts Quarterly Meeting (Orthodox), Duanesburg Quarterly Meeting (Orthodox) and Duanesburg Ouarterly Meeting (pre-Separation), 1812-ongoing. Includes: minutes of the Meeting of Ministers and Elders 1812-1952; men's minutes & joint, 1828-2012; and women's minutes and joint, 1828-1910. Also includes the minutes of Butternuts Monthly Meeting (Orthodox), 1888-1910, in the volume 1876-1882.

Held at: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

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Alfred Monthly Meeting Records (including Finger Lakes), 1952-2016 (inclusive)

Extent:
2 linear ft.
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Includes: minutes of Alfred Monthly Meeting and its predecessor, Finger Lakes Monthly Meeting, from 1952. Vol. 1965-1969 also includes Alfred Preparative Meeting minutes, 1952-1969.

Held at: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

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Fifteenth Street Monthly Meeting Records, 1974-2023 (inclusive)

Extent:
3 linear ft. and 0.1 gb
Abstract:
Records of Fifteenth Street Monthly Meeting, 1974-. Includes: minutes, 1975-85/2015-2020 2mo, membership releases, 1974-96, Committee of Overseers Records and newsletter.

Held at: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

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Fredonia Monthly Meeting Records, 1963-2018 10mo. (inclusive)

Extent:
0.4 linear ft.
Abstract:
Records of Fredonia Monthly Meeting, 1963-. Includes: Minutes 1963-2018, and newsletter, 1987-95.

Held at: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

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Housatonic Monthly Meeting Records (including Housatonic and Newton Preparatives), 1957-2023 (inclusive)

Extent:
1.25 linear ft. (2 binders, 2 boxes, digital files) and 0.1 gb
Abstract:
Records of Housatonic Monthly Meeting and its predecessors, Housatonic Preparative Meeting and Newtown Preparative Meeting, 1957-ongoing. Includes minutes, newsletters, and state of the meeting reports. Beginning in 2021 records have been deposited digitally.

Held at: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

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Matinecock Monthly Meeting Records, 1961-2009 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.25 linear ft.
Abstract:
Records of Matinecock Monthly Meeting, including minutes, 1961-75 and 1976-1981, and newsletter, 1984-2009 (with gaps).

Held at: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

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Purchase Quarterly Meeting Records, 1745-2023 (inclusive)

Extent:
11 linear ft. (28 volumes and 5 boxes) and 0.1 gb
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Records of Purchase Quarterly Meeting, 1745-ongoing. Includes minutes 1745-2023 (with many periods lacking) and miscellaneous material 1893-1992, including information on the Edward B. Underhill Fund, Peach Pond Meeting House, and the ministry at Taconic Correctional Facility

Held at: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

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New Brunswick Monthly Meeting Records, 1927-2019 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 linear ft.
Abstract:
Records of New Brunswick Monthly Meeting, 1927-2017. Includes minutes, 1927-2017, and newsletters/mailings, 1980-1995.

Held at: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

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Somerset Hills Monthly Meeting Records, 1946-2009 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.5 linear ft.
Abstract:
Records of Somerset Hills Monthly Meeting, 1946-2009. Includes minutes 1946-2008, and miscellaneous 1946-95.

Held at: Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

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