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Dorothy Day Collected Papers, 1915- (bulk)

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0.08 linear ft. (1 linear in.)
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Collection consists of printed materials: leaflets, pamphlets, reprints, and a postcard reproduction of a wood-carved sculpture by Charles Wells (b. 1935) titled "Dorothy Day.".

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Nonviolent Action Community of Cascadia Records, 1981-2008 (bulk)

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3.75 linear ft. (9 boxes)
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This collection includes correspondence (1981-1985), administrative files, financial records, minutes of Board of Directors' meetings (1990-2008), and publicity materials. Much of the correspondence is to, or from, Ed Pearson, a founder and National Coordinator of CMTC. The collection includes information about international war tax resistance efforts, nonviolent direct action campaigns, and grants made from interest on the escrow account.

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John D'Emilio Collected Papers, 1992-2002 (bulk)

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0.42 linear ft. (5 linear inches.)
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Audiocassettes and typed transcripts of interviews with Bayard Rustin, his friends and co-workers for D'Emilio's book Lost Prophet: the Life and Times of Bayard Rustin. Rustin was an African-American conscientious objector, civil rights worker, pacifist, Quaker. Interviews were between 1992 and 2002. Interviewees include: Bayard Rustin, Charles Bloomstein, Ernest Bromley, Marion Bromley, Stephen Carey, Ralph DiGia, Roy Finch, Caleb Foote, Larry Gara, Norman Hill, Rachelle Horowitz, George Houser, Homer Jack, David McReynolds, Walter Naegle, Davis Platt, Glenn Smiley, John Swomley, Margie Carpenter Swomley, and George Willoughby.

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Delaware County Pledge of Resistance Records, 1985-2002 (bulk)

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4 linear ft. (4 linear feet.)
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Delaware County [Pennsylvania] Pledge of Resistance (aka Delco Pledge of Resistance) was organized in the Fall of 1986. It was originally founded as a response to the threat of a U.S. invasion into Nicaragua and U.S. government's policies toward Central America. Delaware County Pledge of Resistance persisted as a local group, working for economic and social justice for oppressed people in the United States and abroad. The group disbanded in winter 2008.

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Citizens Against Nuclear War Records, 1982-2012 (inclusive)

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3.1 linear ft. (3.1 linear feet.)
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Citizens Against Nuclear War was a coalition of 61 national organizations formed in 1982 as an initiative of the National Education Association. It had the goal of educating citizens about efforts to prevent nuclear war. Organizations which belonged to CAN encouraged their individual members to become informed about issues related to nuclear war. Among the members were professional associations, religious communities, women's and minority organizations, and labor unions. Programs included information and commentary for members' publications, speakers, seminars and legislative bulletins.

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Albert and Frank Dietrich Collected Papers, 1939-1946, 1988-1998 (inclusive) 1939-1946 (bulk)

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1.04 linear ft. (12.5 linear inches.)
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Collection consists of correspondence between the two brothers and their letters to their parents and to Frank's wife, Christine; topics include war, peace, patriotism, daily life in the army and Civilian Public Service, and arguments about the use of military force and pacifist nonviolence in the face of Nazi Germany and expansionist Japan; Frank's letters from the Philippines offer descriptions of life there, and the challenges of wartime marriages and parenthood.

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Howard W. Hallman Papers, 1984-2009 (bulk)

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17.9 linear ft. (17.9 linear feet.)
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Howard W. Hallman has been a peace and social justice activist since the 1950s. He was a conscientious objector during the Korean War and opposed the Vietnam war. Hallman has worked for nuclear disarmament since the 1980s, especially in an interfaith context. He is a founder of Methodists United for Peace With Justice and associated with the Interfaith Committee for Nuclear Disarmament. Hallman has been long worked for civil rights and has worked professionally as a housing and neighborhood advocate. He is author of more than 250 publications including nine books, such as Small and Large Together: Governing the Metropolis and Neighborhoods: Their Place in Urban Life.

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Zena Posever Collected Papers, 1978-1993, 1998 (inclusive)

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0.42 linear ft. (5 linear in.)
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Zena Goldin Posever founded Artists Speak for Peace in South Florida in 1979(?) and organized their exhibitions in Greater Miami. In the mid-1980s, she advocated for the U.S. postal stamp honoring Paul Robeson. Posever has been a life-long member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

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Coalition for a Nuclear-Free Harbor Records, 1984-1990 (bulk)

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0.83 linear ft. (10 linear in.)
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Correspondence, newsletters, reports, flyers and handbills, manuscripts, minutes of meetings, newspaper clippings, publicity materials, subject/reference files, audio and video cassettes, one computer diskette, posters, photographs, slides, andbumper stickers; correspondents include Frans Verhagen; includes information from the Committee for a Nuclear-Free Island and the Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy.

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Charlotte Citizens for Peace Records, 1982-1996 (bulk)

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0.21 linear ft. (2.5 linear in.)
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Correspondence, administrative files, financial records, flyers, newspaper clippings, reference files. Correspondents include Esther S. Frankel and Abraham Kaufman.

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Codepink Collected Records, 2003-2011 (bulk)

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1.88 linear ft. (4 hollinger boxes and 1 photo box of processed materials. an additional 5.5 linear feet are accessioned but unprocessed [2024-02-08].)
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Includes letters, flyers, reports, printed emails, and materials from local branches.

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

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0.83 linear ft. (10 linear in.)
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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)

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0.21 linear ft. (2.5 linear inches.)
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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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Robert J. Gwyn Collected Papers, 1960- (bulk)

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2.5 linear ft. (2.5 linear feet.)
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Collection includes extensive information about the San Francisco to Moscow Walk for Peace (1960-1961), including material from a dismounted scrapbook; also includes three folders about the Committee of Correspondence (New York).

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Lucy Haessler Collected Papers, 1986- (bulk)

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0.21 linear ft. (2.5 linear inches.)
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Collection consists of one folder of biographical information about Lucy Haessler; the remainder is a typewritten transcription of taped interviews, 1986-1987, by Anthony von der Muhll (Haessler's grandson) for his thesis, Fighting Her Way : an Oral History of Lucy Haessler (B.A. thesis, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1987); in later years she lived in Santa Cruz, California, where she died.

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Harlem Ashram Collected Papers, 1942-1946 (bulk)

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0.08 linear ft. (1 folder.)
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Collection consists of one printed letter from Jay Holmes Smith"A Call to a World Brotherhood Mobilization" by Smith, one issue of Play Coop News, and an undated letter from Agnes Ryan to David R. Clark about her plans to open a School of Non-Violence.

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

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0.42 linear ft. (5 linear inches.)
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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)

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0.21 linear ft. (2.5 linear inches.)
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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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Anne Guthrie Collected Papers, 1932-1947 (bulk)

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0.13 linear ft. (1.5 linear inches.)
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Collection includes 18 letters written between 1932 and 1947 from Anne Guthrie to "Dear Friends Everywhere" giving accounts of her travels. Two letters are typewritten, 16 are mimeographed.

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Jerome D. Gorman and Donna Gorman Collected Papers, 1984-1991 (bulk)

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0.21 linear ft. (2.5 linear inches.)
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Collection contains extensive correspondence between the Gormans and VEPCO, the Virginia Electric and Power Company; also includes information about the organizations Penny Resistance and People Abolish the Death Penalty, and about Jerome Gorman's interest in attempts to extradite Jens Söring to Europe and his work to improve conditions for Death Row prisoners in Virginia.

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Daniel A. Seeger Collected Papers, 1958-2008 (inclusive)

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2.9 linear ft. (35 linear in.; 7 boxes)
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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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George Houser Collected Papers, 1942- (bulk)

Extent:
0.21 linear ft. (2.5 linear inches.)
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Collection is primarily correspondence between Houser and others regarding amnesty for war objectors (1945-1947), the Break With Conscription committee (1946-1947), correspondence with conscientious objectors (1942-1946), the Labour Pacifist Fellowship (Britain) (1945), Civilian Public Service strike (1946), the Peace Now Movement (1943-1944), and the Resist Conscription Committee (1948).

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Martin Niemöller Collection, 1960- (bulk)

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0.08 linear ft. (1 folder.)
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Collection includes a two-page draft by Niemöller (in German) of a statement on world peace written for the second Conference of European Churches in Nyborg, Denmark, on October 7, 1960; the document is accompanied by a written statement of Richard K. Ullmann, Secretary in charge of the Conference which verifies it to have been written in Niemöller's hand. The collection also includes an undated mimeographed address by Niemöller to the World Assembly of Peace, and an undated statement "How I Became a Pacifist" as told by Niemöller to the Wellington, New Zealand Fellowship of Reconciliation. Collection also includes printed articles and news clippings by and about Niemöller.

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INFACT Collected Records, 1982-1992 (bulk)

Extent:
0.08 linear ft. (1 folder.)
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This collection includes only material about the campaign against nuclear weapons and the General Electric Company boycott while the organization was still named INFACT. The collection consists of printed materials: reports, memoranda, press releases, news clippings.

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Iowa Peace Network Collected Records, 1979- (bulk)

Extent:
0.08 linear ft. (1 folder.)
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Collection is primarily printed materials, including: correspondence, reports, flyers, newspaper clippings, publicity materials, reference files.

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Iranian Students Association of America Collected Records, 1976-1979 (bulk)

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0.08 linear ft. (1 folder.)
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Collection includes: correspondence, reports, flyers, newspaper clippings, publicity materials, serials, and reference files. Correspondents include Mary Bye on behalf of the Committee on Peace and Service of the Bucks Quarterly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Bucks County, Pennsylvania).

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Gene Keyes Collected Papers, 1963-1966 (bulk)

Extent:
0.08 linear ft. (1 folder.)
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Collection consists of printed materials, including information about Keyes' draft resistance during the Vietnam War, antiwar and anti-nuclear activities.

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Keystone Alliance Collected Records, 1977-1981 (bulk)

Extent:
0.63 linear ft. (7.5 linear inches.)
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Collection includes proposals, correspondence, meeting notes, financial records, newspaper clippings, flyers, and subject/reference files.

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Frieda Langer Lazarus Collected Papers, 1943-1946 (bulk)

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0.42 linear ft. (5 linear inches.)
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Collection consists of correspondence and printed matter related to Lazarus's involvement as Chair of the War Resisters League's Conscientious Objector Problems Committee, 1943-1946.

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Military Families Speak Out Records, 2005-2013 (bulk)

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15 linear ft. (36 boxes)
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Military Families Speak Out was formed by two families in November of 2002. It is made up of persons opposed to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who have loved ones currently in the military, or who had served in the military since the fall of 2002. Membership in 2014 included nearly 4,000 military families from the United States and abroad.

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Friends War Relief Service Collected Records, 1943 (bulk)

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0.08 linear ft. (1 folder.)
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Collection consists of pamphlets and correspondence, including one 1943 letter which documents, as part of the letterhead, the name change from Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee to Friends War Relief Service: "Friends War Relief Service, incorporating F.W.V.R.C. and Civilian Relief Section of F.A.U." [Friends Ambulance Unit].

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John Paul Lederach Collected Papers, 1985-1993 (bulk)

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0.21 linear ft. (2.5 linear in.)
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Collection includes manuscript (some photocopies) and published articles by Lederach, including: "Mediation in North America: an Examination of the Profession's Cultural Premises (1985); "Transformation From Within: Peacemaking in the East Coast of Nicaragua" (1989); Pacifism in Contemporary Conflict: a Christian Perspective (1993); and other writings, 1989-1993.

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New Jewish Agenda Collected Records, 1980-1989 (bulk)

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0.29 linear ft. (3.5 linear inches.)
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Collection includes, flyers, newsletters, published correspondence; includes folders for the National Office, Connecticut (New Haven), District of Columbia (Washington D.C.), Massachusetts (Boston), Michigan (Ann Arbor), New York (Queens).

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John J. Logue Collected Papers, 1947, 1986-2004 (bulk)

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0.08 linear ft. (1 linear in.)
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Collection includes correspondence, Logue's resume (1990), flyers, newsletters, commentary by Logue, including "A Plan of Action for the Philadelphia Chapter of United World Federalists" and "A History of the Main Line Petition Campaign" which would have granted police power to the United Nations.

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MADRE Collected Records, 1984- (bulk)

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0.17 linear ft. (2 linear inches.)
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Collection includes printed correspondence, pamphlets, newsletters, flyers.

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Sallie Marx Papers, 1948-2012 (inclusive)

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5.83 linear ft. (5.83 linear feet)
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Sallie Marx (1929 - 2013), was a long time activist in New York City and was a war tax resister for over four decades. Marx was a co-founder of the New York Peoples Life Fund in 1971. The NYPLF redirected funds to social justice and community building efforts in New York.

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Medgar Evers Fund Collected Records, 1969-1971 (bulk)

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0.08 linear ft. (1 folder.)
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Collection includes a pamphlet:"We're On Our Way : a progress report on the Fayette Experiment"; newspaper clippings, and the first issue (June 1970) of The Medgar Evers Fund News.

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Search for Justice and Equality in Palestine/Israel Records, 1960-2006 (bulk)

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7.5 linear ft. (7.5 linear feet.)
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Search for Justice and Equality in Palestine/Israel was a national non-profit human rights and educational organization, founded in 1972, which sought a just Israeli-Palestinian peace based on the inalienable rights of both peoples. Its founder, Edmund R. Hanauer died in 2006 and the organization closed down with his death.

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Stanley Murphy Collected Papers, 1947 (bulk)

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1 items (1 item.)
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This collection consists of one item, a magazine article undated but published around 1947, titled "Why Murphy Wouldn't Fight." There is no identification as to the name or publisher of the magazine, or the author.

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C. Douglas Hostetter Papers, 1959- (bulk)

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12.7 linear ft. (12.7 linear feet.)
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C. Douglas Hostetter (1944 - ), has been an peace activist since the 1960s. He was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam war and performed alternative service for the Mennonite Central Committee in rural Vietnam.Following his work in Vietnam Hostetter worked for the United Methodist Church at the United Nations on international affairs. From the mid 1980s through the end of the decade Hostetter served as the executive secretary of the American Friends Service Committee in their New England regional office. He served as the Executive Secretary of the Fellowship of Reconcilation from 1987-1993. During the 1990s Hostetter was the international/interfaith secretary of the FOR and directed the Bosnian Student Project for the organization. In 2003 he was ordained as Peace Pastor at the Evanston, Illinois Mennonite Church. Since 2006 Hostetter has been the director of the Mennonite Central Committee at the United Nations. Throughout his life Hostetter has been heavily involved in...(see more)

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Lynne Shivers Papers, 1941-2015 (bulk)

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8 linear ft. (8 linear feet.)
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Enid Lynne Shivers was a peace activist and prominent member of Movement for a New Society, for which she organized and wrote informational materials. This collection of her personal materials is primarily composed of journals dating from the 1960s until 2014 and materials from time she spent doing peace work in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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Nonviolent Peaceforce Records, 1994- (bulk)

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20 linear ft. (48 boxes)
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Co-founded by peace activisits David Hartsough and Mel Duncan in 2002, the Nonviolent Peaceforce is an unarmed civilian peace force that works internationally by protecting civilians in conflicts and helping to resolve conflicts peacefully through dialogue. Records include the early development and planning of the organization, funding and financing, media and publicity attention the organization received, committee minutes, international trip reports, and training of the civilian peacekeepers. There are also papers dealing with activities of the co-founders prior to the Nonviolent Peaceforce from the 1990s, with a focus on Bosnia and Yugoslavia.

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Ribbon [Project] Collected Records, 1985- (bulk)

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0.21 linear ft. (2.5 linear inches.)
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The collection includes printed correspondence, brochures, and newsclippings; it includes information about Delaware County, Pennsylvania participation, New York participation, and national and international activities. Also includes one folder on the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, June, 1993.

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Nuclear Weapons Facilities Task Force Collected Records, 1977-1984 (bulk)

Extent:
0.17 linear ft. (2 linear inches.)
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Collection includes printed correspondence, flyers, newsletters, memos, booklets. Correspondents include Sam Day, Mike Jendrzejczyk and Pam Solo. This collection includes material about the Rocky Flats/Nuclear Weapons Facilities Project and other Rocky Flats related material.

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Peace Publishing Company Records, 1970-1971 (bulk)

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0.63 linear ft. (7.5 linear inches.)
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The collection includes correspondence, memoranda, certificate of incorporation, financial records, minutes of meetings, petitions, information about local (New York state) legislators. Correspondents include Bernard A. Weisberger. The collection also includes information about the Lawyers Committee for Effective Action to End the War, and a manuscript of "Rats in a Box" by Serge Lang.

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

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2.5 linear ft. (30 linear inches.)
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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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