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

Wilma L. Mosholder Collected Papers, 1945, 1963-2006 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.08 linear ft. (1 folder.)
Abstract:: Correspondence, newspaper clippings regarding Wilma Mosholder's career in librarianship and archives, primarily her time in Puerto Rico.

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C. Douglas Hostetter Papers, 1959- (bulk)

Extent:: 12.7 linear ft. (12.7 linear feet.)
Abstract:: 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)

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.

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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.

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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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Friends Service Council Collected Records, 1939-1969 (bulk)

Extent:: 0.42 linear ft. (5 linear inches.)
Abstract:: The collection includes minutes of meetings (May-December 1939), annual reports and yearbooks, periodicals, and pamphlets.

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Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War Collected Records, 1957-1961 (bulk)

Extent:: 0.21 linear ft. (2.5 linear inches.)
Abstract:: The collection includes memoranda, releases, printed correspondence, minutes of meetings, flyers, and pamphlets.

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Wilmer Brandt Collected Papers, 1952-2007 (bulk)

Extent:: 0.2 linear ft. (0.2 linear feet.)
Abstract:: Brandt was a conscientious objector to war, a Quaker, and interested in peace throughout his life.

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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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