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Bertha von Suttner Collected Papers, 1881-1917, 1993-1995 (inclusive)

Extent:
1.25 linear ft. (15 linear in.)
Abstract:
Bertha von Suttner was an Austrian peace activist and intellectual, and the author of one of the first international bestselling novels focused on peace ("Lay Down Your Arms") published in 1891. In her life-long correspondence on peace matters with Alfred Nobel she urged him to establish a prize for peace. Von Suttner was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1905, the first woman to be thus recognized.

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Robin Harper Collected Papers, 1957-1967 (bulk)

Extent:
0.42 linear ft. (5 linear in.)
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Robin Harper is active in the peace movement. During the 1950s and 1960s he protested nuclear weapons and missile defense systems. The papers in this collection reflect that involvement.

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Peter Weiss Collected Papers, 1949-1967 (inclusive)

Extent:
1.25 linear ft. (15 linear in.)
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Peter Weiss was born in Austria and moved to the U.S. in 1941. He worked has as a lawyer from 1955 to 2006 and is interested in nuclear policy and other human rights and peace issues. He is married to activist Cora Weiss.

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Reginald Reynolds Collected Papers, 1925-1955 (inclusive)

Extent:
.28 linear ft. (1 box)
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A British Quaker, author, journalist, field secretary for the Friends Service Committee, associate of Mohandas K. Gandhi, and conscientious objector during World War II.

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John Beer Collected Papers, 1954-1985 (bulk)

Extent:
2.08 linear ft. (25 linear in.)
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John Beer was a professor of the history of science and chemistry, as well as a Quaker peace and antinuclear activist.

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Papers of Kirby Page from the Honnold Library (Claremont College, California), ca. 1920-1957 (bulk)

Extent:
1 reels (1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.)
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Includes documents about Kirby Page, Reinhold Niebuhr, Sherwood Eddy, the Fellowship for a Christian Social Order, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the Christian Way, Keep America Out of War, the Emergency Peace Campaign, conscientious objection, the World Court, socialism, and pacifism.

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Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick Collected Records, 1959-1961; 1971-1973 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.08 linear ft. (3 folders)
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Collection includes brochures and flyers, printed correspondence, and pamphlets about the Appeal and Vigil; also includes two short unpublished histories of Fort Detrick, and news clippings about Fort Detrick's conversion in 1969 from offensive biological warfare to cancer research.

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Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft Collected Records, 1897-1991 (bulk)

Extent:
0.625 linear ft. (7.5 linear inches.)
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The Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft (German Peace Society) was founded in 1892 and still exists today as the Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft - Vereinigte Kriegsdienstgegnerinnen or DFG-VK.

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Warren W. Hoover Collected Papers, 1956-1970 (bulk)

Extent:
3 linear ft. (3 linear feet.)
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Collection includes typed and handwritten lists, clippings and notices about conscientious objectors that had been dismounted from a scrapbook compiled by Warren W. Hoover. Eight folders are arranged the home state of the conscientious objector; nine are arranged by the religious denomination supporting the COs; the remainder, about 2.5 linear feet, is arranged chronologically; includes conscientious objection to the Vietnam War; materials date from 1956 to 1970.

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Arthur E. Morgan Collected Papers, 1939-1962 (bulk)

Extent:
0.08 linear ft. (1 folder)
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Correspondence, pamphlets, articles by and about Arthur E. Morgan relating to Morgan's interest in progressive politics, education, and peace movements.

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Joseph C. Osborn Collected Papers, 1936-1986 (bulk)

Extent:
0.29 linear ft. (3.5 linear inches.)
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Collection includes biographical information, correspondence, information about Osborn's academic work at Purdue University, 1936-1942, and about his draft orders and conscientious objection status; and information about Osborn's time in Civilian Public Service and CPS reunions in 1983 and 1986.

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Peace Pledge Union Collected Records, 1934- (bulk)

Extent:
1.25 linear ft. (15 linear inches.)
Abstract:
This collection includes minutes of meetings, reports, group letters, newsletters, news releases, publication lists, pamphlets, leaflets and flyers.

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

Extent:
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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Muriel Lester Collected Papers, 1926-1968 (inclusive)

Extent:
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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Elkinton Family Doukhobor Papers, 1884- (inclusive)

Extent:
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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John McConnell Papers, 1950-2012 (inclusive)

Extent:
34.1 linear ft. (34.1 linear ft.)
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John McConnell was born in 1915, in Davis City, Iowa. He has been an minister, author, editor, advocate for the environment, and businessman. He organized Meals for Millions in 1962 in San Francisco to feed displaced Hong Kong refugees and organized the Minute for Peace radio broadcast in 1964. In 1968 McConnell designed the Earth Flag, depicting the planet as seen from space. McConnell proposed the idea of Earth Day in 1969 to celebrate a peaceful planet. He also proposed Sea Citizens in 1974, and Earth Trustees in 1995. John McConnell died in 2012.

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Concepción Picciotto Papers, 1936-2016 (inclusive)

Extent:
3.75 linear ft. (9 boxes)
Abstract:
Concepcion Picciotto maintained an anti-nuclear protest in Lafayette Park, across from the White House in Washington (D.C.) from 1981 until her death in 2016 -- which was the longest such vigil in U.S. history.

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Harold Taylor Collected Papers, 1959-1974 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.83 linear ft. (2 boxes)
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Dr. Harold A. Taylor (1914–1993) was the president of Sarah Lawrence College, known for his writing on education and philosophy, his involvement in peace organizations in the 1960s, and his stand against McCarthyism's interference with American education.

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Robert Hood Papers, 1936-1994 (inclusive)

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Robert Davis Hood (November 11, 1916 - July 24, 1994) was a Methodist pacifist and conscientious objector.

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Norman J. Whitney Papers, 1938-1967 (inclusive)

Extent:
7.5 linear feet (7.5 linear ft.)
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Norman Jehiel Whitney (1891-1967) was a Quaker teacher, writer and devoted peace worker. From 1919-1957 he helped establish, and directed for many years, the Syracuse Peace Council. He left Syracuse in 1957 to work for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in peace education. Whitney's major peace work was in the area of counseling conscientious objectors to war (COs), particularly those in Civilian Public Service (CPS) camps. In 1941 he helped establish the New York State Board for Civilian Public Service, which attempted to counsel and assist Conscientious Objectors in New York state.

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Archives of the Peace Pledge Union [microform], 1936-1986 (inclusive)

Extent:
27 reels (2 pts.)
Abstract:
Archives of the Peace Pledge Union and the Non-Violence Commission and associated youth organizations. Part 1: Annual reports, 1937-1985 and minute books , 1936-1972. Part 2: The Pacifist, the PPU Journal, PPU monthly; Bulletin of the Non-Violence Commission; pamphlets, leaflets and other publications, 1937-1985. Also includes the archives of the Campaign Against Arms Trade.

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Emily Greene Balch Papers, 1842-1961 (inclusive) 1875-1961 (bulk)

Extent:
25.75 linear ft. (58 boxes)
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Emily Greene Balch (1867-1961) was the second U.S. woman to have won the Nobel Peace Prize. Balch embarked on her academic career in the economics and sociology department at Wellesley College. Balch's extracurricular work with the Women's Trade Union League and opposition to World War I resulted in dismissal from Wellesley, and thereafter she helped lead the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Called a "Citizen of the World," Balch worked for peace throughout her life--through disarmament; internationalization of important waterways, aviation, and the polar regions; drug control; and the elimination of the causes of discontent and conflict among peoples.

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Elihu Burritt Papers, 1840-1965 (inclusive) 1841-1878 (bulk)

Extent:
1 linear ft. (1 linear ft.)
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Elihu Burritt was born on December 10, 1810, in New Britain, Connecticut, into a working class family. He attended school briefly, but was largely self-educated. Burritt became a blacksmith to support himself, but he continued to study languages at night. Word of his erudition spread; he became known as the "Learned Blacksmith", and was offered opportunities to speak in public. While writing a lecture on "The Anatomy of the Earth", he was so impressed by the interdependency of its parts that he ended with a plea for international peace. This became his lifelong passion. He became acquainted with other social reformers and began his career as a prophet for peace.

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Helene Stöcker Papers, 1897-1994 (inclusive) 1913-1943 (bulk)

Extent:
4 linear ft. (4 linear ft.)
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Dr. Helene Stöcker (1869-1943) was one of the first woman students to enter a German University. In the 1920s she helped found Germany's first woman suffrage organization, and later the Bund für Mutterschutz (Protection of Motherhood). Dr. Stöcker immigrated to the United States in 1941 under the sponsorship of friends and colleagues in the peace movement.

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Dorothy Medders Robinson Papers, 1946-1978 (inclusive)

Extent:
.5 linear ft. (.5 linear ft.)
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Dorothy Medders Robinson was president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, U.S. Section, from 1941 to 1946. She also served as the delegate to the WILPF International Congress in Luxembourg in 1946. Robinson was a chair of the Jane Addams Peace Association and the Jane Addams Hall of Fame Committee.

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Church Peace Mission Records, 1950-1967 (inclusive) 1959-1965 (bulk)

Extent:
5.4 linear ft. (5.4 linear ft.)
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The Church Peace Mission began as an outgrowth of a conference on the "Church and War," held in Detroit in May 1950, with its purpose being to disseminate the findings of the conference to as many churches and seminaries as possible in the next six months. Its objective was to challenge the various peace groups "to face anew their responsibility to Christ, to his Church, and to mankind," by appealing to Christians not to make or use weapons of war and to "devote their energies to the removal of the social, economic and moral causes of . . . war." Established religious peace groups, such as the Fellowship of Reconciliation was instrumental in the creation and continuation of the CPM. Affiliated groups included the American Friends Service Committee, the Brethren Service Committee, the Baptist Pacifist Fellowship, the Episcopal Peace Fellowship, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and the Friends General Conference. The CPM disbanded in 1967.

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Jessie Wallace Hughan Papers, 1870-1998 (inclusive)

Extent:
6.5 linear ft. (6.5 linear feet.)
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Jessie Wallace Hughan (December 25, 1875 – April 10, 1955) was an American educator, social activist, and a radical pacifist. During her college days she was one of four co-founders of Alpha Omicron Pi, a national sorority for university women. She also was a founder and the first Secretary of the War Resisters League, established in 1923. For over two decades, she was a perennial candidate for political office on the ticket of the Socialist Party of America in her home state of New York.

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Post-War World Council Records, 1942-1967 (inclusive)

Extent:
3.75 linear ft. (3.75 linear ft.)
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Founded in 1942 to continue the efforts begun by Keep America Out of War Congress; December 1941 KAOWC dissolved and reorganized as Provisional Committee Toward a Democratic Peace; February 1942 a more permanent group organized; ceased activities December 1967.

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