Repository: Swarthmore College Peace Collection / Year: <span class="single" data-blrl-single="1955">1955</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Gerhard Elston Papers, 1849-1992 (inclusive)

Extent:: 28 linear ft. (28 linear ft.)
Abstract:: Gerhard Elston served as an officer or staff member in many peace and international organizations including as Executive Director for Amnesty Internationl USA (1978-1981), board member of Clergy and Laity Concerned, Bread for the World, American Christians for the Abolition of Torture, and the American Civil Liberties Union. He died suddenly in 1992 at the age of 68.

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Bennett W. Andrews and Florence N. Andrews Papers, 1940-1950, 1979-1980 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1.67 linear ft. (20 linear in.)
Abstract:: Bennett Andrews was an absolutist conscientious objector during World War II. He served a five year sentence Danbury Prison, a federal penitentiary, in Connecticut. There he worked in a number of positions in the prison. Bennett Andrews was released from prison on July 11, 1946 and received amnesty from President Truman in 1947. Florence Andrews (born in 1913) married Bennett on July 22, 1938. She was also a strong pacifist, who fully supported her husband's C.O. stance.

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Macedonia Cooperative Community Records, 1937-1958 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2.08 linear ft. (2.08 linear ft.)
Abstract:: The Macedonia Cooperative Community was formed in 1937 northern Georgia by Morris Randolph Mitchell (1895-1976), an educator who later served as the first president of Friends World College. The Macedonia Cooperative Community, which took its name from a nearby Baptist Church, was comprised of families who worked collectively on dairy, agricultural, forestry, and woodworking projects that provided the economic underpinnings of the community. Originally established as an economic cooperative, Macedonia later passed through two distinctive phases before it folded in 1958.

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Peace Pilgrim Papers, 1908-1986 (inclusive)

Extent:: 3.75 linear ft. (9 boxes)
Abstract:: Peace Pilgrim was born Mildred Lisette Norman in 1908. Between 1953 and l964, she had walked 25,000 miles across the U.S. for peace. Peace Pilgrim eventually made seven pilgrimages, crossing North America. She was killed in an automobile accident on July 7, 1981, at the age of 71.

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Josephine Wertheim Pomerance Papers, 1952-1980 (inclusive)

Extent:: 10.34 linear ft. (22 boxes)
Abstract:: Josephine W. Pomerance was a peace worker best known in the areas of disarmament and United Nations reform. She was an observer at the United Nations, and she wrote, lectured, and consulted on disarmament and arms control subjects. Pomerance also worked with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

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International Languages, 1877-1977 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2 linear ft. (3 boxes)
Abstract:: The collection includes materials on establishing an international language system.

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Devere Allen Papers, 1809-1978 (inclusive) 1910-1955 (bulk)

Extent:: 138 linear ft. (138 linear ft.)
Abstract:: Author, editor, journalist and lecturer; advocate of internationalist pacifism; influential member of the Socialist Party in the 1930s; genealogist; recorder of Rhode Island history and lore; named Harold Devere Allen.

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Church Peace Union Collected Records, 1915-1961 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1.17 linear ft. (14 linear in.)
Abstract:: Publications make up bulk of the holdings. Also includes extensive correspondence (1915-1939) of William I. Hull.

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

Extent:: 1.25 linear ft. (15 linear in.)
Abstract:: 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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