Repository: Swarthmore College Peace Collection / Year: <span class="from" data-blrl-begin="1955">1955</span> to <span class="to" data-blrl-end="1959">1959</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Civil Defense Protest Committee Collected Records, 1955-1962 (bulk)

Extent:: 0.42 linear ft. (5 linear in.)
Abstract:: Collection includes meeting minutes, correspondence, legal documents, pamphlets, publicity materials, and newspaper clippings; the bulk of the collection is from 1955.

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Consultative Peace Council Collected Records, 1930-1969 (bulk)

Extent:: 0.83 linear ft. (10 linear in.)
Abstract:: Includes correspondence, reports, financial records, administrative files, minutes of meetings, publicity materials, brochures, newspaper clippings. Correspondents include: Devere Allen, Dorothy Detzer, Alfred Hassler, Jessie Wallace Hughan, Abe Kaufman, Frederick J. Libby, A.J. Muste, Ray Newton, Mildred Scott Olmsted, John Swomley, E. Raymond Wilson, and M.R. Zigler.

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Joseph Felmet Collected Papers, 1943-1994 (bulk)

Extent:: 0.21 linear ft. (2.5 linear inches.)
Abstract:: Collection includes two letters from Felmet; bulk of collection is photocopies regarding Felmet's draft resistance and civil rights work; also includes a photocopy of Felmet's FBI files.

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Charles E. Frantz Collected Papers, 1944-1949, 1978-1980 (bulk)

Extent:: 0.42 linear ft. (5 linear inches.)
Abstract:: Collection includes biographical information; letters from Frantz to his parents while he was in Civilian Public Service, 1944-1946, and 1947-1950; information about his refusal to register for the peacetime draft (Selective Service Act of 1948), and subsequent federal court proceedings and his 1949 imprisonment; newspaper clippings about draft refusers at Earlham College, 1949; a copy of Frantz's FBI file and correspondence relating to it, 1978-1980; and Frantz's writings about the Dukhobors, a pacifist sect.

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Alfred A. Fraser Collected Papers, 1917-1971 (bulk)

Extent:: 0.21 linear ft. (2.5 linear inches.)
Abstract:: Collection includes World War I draft cards of Alfred A. Fraser Jr., and a long memorandum about world affairs dated 1971 by A.A. Fraser, III.

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A. Fenner Brockway Collected Papers, 1915-1988 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.21 linear ft. (2.5 linear inches.)
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Daniel A. Seeger Collected Papers, 1958-2008 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2.9 linear ft. (35 linear in.; 7 boxes)
Abstract:: Seeger is best known for the 1965 Supreme Court court case regarding his conscientious objector claim without belief in a Supreme Being as grounds for C.O. status.

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Methodist Peace Fellowship Collected Records, 1950-1967, 1985 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.08 linear ft. (1 folder.)
Abstract:: Collection includes correspondence, minutes of meetings, flyers.

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Omaha Action Collected Records, 1959 (bulk)

Extent:: 0.04 linear ft. (.5 linear inches.)
Abstract:: Collection includes printed correspondence, flyers, newsletters, booklets.

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Marjorie Swann and Robert Swann Papers, 1949-1972 (bulk)

Extent:: 2.5 linear ft. (30 linear inches.)
Abstract:: The Swanns were Quaker peace activitists who were particularly well known for their part in nonviolent direct action against nuclear weapons testing and deployment in the 1950s-1960s.

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