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

Alice Herz and Helga Herz Collected Papers, 1941-2002 (bulk)

Extent:: 0.42 linear ft. (5 linear inches.)
Abstract:: Papers of a German mother and daughter who emigrated to the United States and were peace activists in the Detroit area; mother was the first American to immolate herself in protest of the Vietnam War.

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Friends Relief Service Collected Records, 1943- (bulk)

Extent:: 0.08 linear ft. (1 folder.)
Abstract:: Collection includes pamphlets and periodicals.

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Philadelphia Youth Council to Oppose Conscription Collected Records, 1947-1948 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.08 linear ft. (1 linear in.)
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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.

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Edward Thomas and Margaret Loring Thomas Collected Papers, 1917-1952 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.25 linear ft. (3 linear in.)
Abstract:: Edward Thomas was a chemist and chemical patent lawyer in New York City. His wife Margaret Loring Thomas had been active in settlement work and a teacher of home economics before marriage. Both were activist, pacifist Quakers.

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Society for Social Responsibility in Science Collected Records, 1949-1976 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.21 linear ft. (2.5 linear in.)
Abstract:

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Unitarian Pacifist Fellowship Collected Records, 1942-1950 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.08 linear ft. (1 linear in.)
Abstract:

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United Nations Council of Philadelphia Collected Records, 1945-1951 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.17 linear ft. (2 linear in.)
Abstract:

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Peacemaker Movement Collected Records, 1948-1980 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2.5 linear ft. (30 linear in.)
Abstract:: A group working on nonviolence from the late 1940s through the 1970s, particularly as it was expressed through tax refusal.

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Ada Wardlaw Collected Papers, 1937-1963 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.17 linear ft. (2 linear in.)
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