Repository: Swarthmore College Peace Collection / Year: <span class="from" data-blrl-begin="1900">1900</span> to <span class="to" data-blrl-end="1949">1949</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

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.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Phyllis B. Taylor and Richard K. Taylor Papers, circa 1940-2016 (inclusive)

Extent:: 7.5 linear ft. (20 boxes)
Abstract:: Phyllis B. Taylor and Richard K. Taylor are Philadelphia-based activists who have been involved with numerous social causes.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Lynne Shivers Papers, 1941-2015 (bulk)

Extent:: 8 linear ft. (8 linear feet.)
Abstract:: 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.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Juanita Morrow Nelson and Wallace F. Nelson Papers, 1923-2015 (bulk)

Extent:: 8.3 linear ft. (20 boxes)
Abstract:: Juanita and Wally Nelson were civil rights activists, tax resisters, simple living proponents, farmers, and writers/speakers for peace.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Center on Conscience and War Records, 1940-2015 (inclusive)

Extent:: 670 linear ft. (papers only)
Abstract:: Organization still in existence that was formed to aid conscientious objectors in World War II.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

War Resisters League Records, 1923-2013 (inclusive)

Extent:: 35.4 linear ft. (series a = 37 boxes and 15.22 linear feet; series b = 49 boxes and 20.22 linear feet)
Abstract:: The War Resisters League is a pacifist organization whose members are against all war. Witnessing the establishment of the War Resisters' International in Europe in 1921, and sensing a need for a similar organization in the United States, Dr. Jessie Wallace Hughan established the War Resisters League as an independent organization. The War Resisters League membership pledge, which has remained essentially unchanged since its inception, reads: "The War Resisters League affirms that war is a crime against humanity. We therefore are determined not to support any kind of war, international or civil, and to strive non-violently for the removal of all causes of war." The League seeks to end war and social injustice through pacifist and nonviolent tactics.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Sallie Marx Papers, 1948-2012 (inclusive)

Extent:: 5.83 linear ft. (5.83 linear feet)
Abstract:: 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.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Duncan Bassett Murphy, Jr. Papers, 1920-2012 (inclusive)

Extent:: 14.25 linear ft. (36 boxes)
Abstract:: Duncan Murphy Jr. was greatly concerned for Native American rights, and was an activist against the U.S. war in Central America and the U.S. build-up of a nuclear weapons arsenal.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

International Fellowship of Reconciliation Collected Records, 1919- current (inclusive)

Extent:: 3.33 linear ft. (8 manuscript boxes)
Abstract:: The International Fellowship of Reconciliation was founded in 1922, though international work under the umbrella name "Fellowship of Reconciliation" began as early as 1915.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Jeannette Rankin Collected Papers, 1917-2011 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.42 linear ft. (5 linear in.)
Abstract:: Jeannette Rankin (1880-1973), was the first woman to serve in Congress (1917-1919). She was an active suffragist and later worked in peace organizations such as the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and the National Council for Prevention of War. Rankin founded the Georgia Peace Society in the 1940s, and led the Jeannette Rankin Brigade, an all-women's protest march against the Vietnam war shortly before her death.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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