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National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War Collected Records, 1924-1943 (inclusive)

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2.08 linear ft. (25 linear in.)

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Representatives of nine national women's organizations united to accomplish two goals: to lobby for the United States to join the World Court, and to hold a conference together. They chose Carrie Chapman Catt to be their leader.

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Seymour Melman Collected Papers, 1970-1987 (inclusive)

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0.08 linear ft. (1 linear in.)

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National Conference of Labor, Socialist and Radical Movements Collected Records, 1918

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0.08 linear ft. (1 linear in.)

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T. Corder Catchpool Collected Papers, 1914-1952 (inclusive)

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0.42 linear ft. (5 linear in.)

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T. Corder Catchpool refused any service when the Compulsory Military Service Act was passed in 1916 in Great Britain. He was in prison slightly more than two years, after which he published On Two Fronts: Letters of a Conscientious Objector, a memoir about his experiences during the war and in prison. After World War I, Catchpool became a relief worker, secretary for the Friends International Centre in Berlin, and peace worker. He performed reconciliation work with the Friends War Victims Relief Committee in Berlin and eventually became secretary of the Quaker Centre there. After his arrest by the Gestapo because of his assistance to those adversely affected by Hitler's regime, Catchpool returned to England and made frequent trips to the continent to work as an interpreter for English peace efforts and as a relief worker for Germans in Czechoslovakia and Lithuania. During the Second World War he supported conscientious objectors and volunteered for hospital duty. In 1941 Catchpool...(see more)

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Bertram Pickard and Irene Pickard Collected Papers, 1918-1972 (inclusive)

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1.25 linear ft. (15 linear in.)

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Bertram Pickard was an internationalist; peace leader; Quaker; official for Society of Friends and United Nations organizations, including the Friends Peace Committee of the London Yearly Meeting, the Friends' Service Council, the Friends Geneva Centre, and the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations; and founder of the Quaker Press Service, later called the World Outlook Press Service.

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Helena M. Swanwick Collected Papers, 1907-1938 (inclusive)

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0.67 linear ft. (8 linear in.)

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Helena Maria Sickert was born in Germany and moved to England early on. She was an author, journalist, and lecturer involved in peace activism, feminism, and social justice. She became chair of the British Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and was a British delegate to the League of Nations. Her dream was that women, if they used their power, could make an end to war.

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Indochina Resource Center Records, 1960-1975 (inclusive)

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10 linear ft. (10 linear ft.)

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The Indochina Resource Center was founded in 1971 to inform the American people, legislators, and the media about the war in Indochina. The IRC also disseminated information about the countries of Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam where U.S. military personnel were fighting or bombing. The IRC changed its name to the Southeast Asia Resource Center in 1976. In 1982 the organization was absorbed by Asia Research Center.

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Muriel Lester Collected Papers, 1926-1968 (inclusive)

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0.42 linear ft. (5 linear in.)

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Muriel Lester and her sister Doris created Kingsley Hall, in 1914 as a community center for the area residents. For 20 years, Muriel made Kingsley Hall the center of her work. In 1934 she became Ambassador-At-Large and later Traveling Secretary for the International Fellowship of Reconciliation [IFOR].

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Alliance Universelle des Femmes pour la Paix par l'Éducation Collection, 1896-1909 (inclusive)

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4 items (4 items.)

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Elkinton Family Doukhobor Papers, 1884- (inclusive)

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1.25 linear ft. (15 linear in.)

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The Doukhobors are a pacifist sect. They originated in Russia but were forced to emigrate to Canada in 1898 due to their refusal to bear arms for the Tsar. In the late 1930s their leader, Peter P. Verigin, created an organization known as the Union of Spiritual Communities of Christ, also known as the Orthodox Doukhobors, which has maintained the tradition of Doukhobor cultural activities. The Elkinton Family, a prominent Philadelphia (Pa.) Quaker family, and other members of the Society of Friends in Canada and the United States have offered moral and material assistance to the Doukhobors because of the connection of their beliefs in pacifism and simplicity.

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