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War Control Planners Collected Records, 1955-1990 (inclusive)

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0.42 linear ft. (5 linear in.)
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War Control Planners, chartered in 1963 in New York State, was organized by Harriet B. Kurtz and Howard G. Kurtz. Its purpose was to foster exploration and discussion of scientific and technical achievements to facilitate the protection of all nations against future wars.

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Horace Champney Papers, 1958-1990 (inclusive) 1958-1979 (bulk)

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8.25 linear ft. (8.25 lin. ft.)
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Horace Champney was a pacifist active in various causes from the late 1940s through the 1980s. He was a founder of The Peacemakers Movement in the 1950s and interested in civil rights, war tax refusal, and other social justice causes. Champney was a member A Quaker Action Group and a crew member of the ship the Phoenix, which sailed to North Vietnam with medical supplies, during the Vietnam war.

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Kay Camp Papers, 1955-2006 (inclusive)

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17.5 linear ft. (17.5 linear ft.)
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Katherine Lindsley Camp was born in 1918 [1919?], Mt. Kisco New York. She was a graduate of Swarthmore College (Class of 1940). Camp was elected president of the U.S. Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1967, and served as international president, 1974-1980. In addition Camp was founder of the Citizens Bi-Racial Study Group; former president of the Pennsylvania Women's Political Caucus; made unsuccessful bid for Congress in 1972 on the Democratic ticket in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; member of the Society of Friends. Her papers include biographical information, personal correspondence, and involvement with numerous peace groups, as well as political activities.

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Congress of Racial Equality Collected Records, 1942-1972 (inclusive)

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0.83 linear ft. (10 linear in.)
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The Congress of Racial Equality was organized circa 1942 by an interracial group of University of Chicago students and theological seminary students, together with members of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.). The purpose of the organization was to eliminate all racial segregation and discrimination by means of interracial, direct nonviolent action. By 1966, CORE's official policy shifted to Black power and Black separatism while rejecting the former principles of non-violence. This small collection of records reflects the work done in CORE by George Houser.

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Lucy Perkins Carner Collected Papers, 1953-1977 (inclusive)

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0.42 linear ft. (5 linear in.)
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Lucy Perkins Carner served on the board of such organizations as the American Friends Service Committee, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the War Resisters League, and the United World Federalists. She also joined the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. In many ways Carner worked for civil rights, protesting discrimination in businesses, and joining organizations such as the Congress on Racial Equality and the NAACP. She was also a war tax resister and protested against the Vietnam war.

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Charles Schumacher Collected Papers, 1930-2003 (inclusive)

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1.88 linear ft. (22.5 linear in.)
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Charles Schumacher was a chemist, chemical engineer and conscientious objector to World War II. He entered Civilian Public Service in 1944 and served in three CPS camps.

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Charles Chatfield Papers, 1958-2006 (bulk)

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15.6 linear ft. ((37 boxes))
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Charles E. Chatfield was professor of history at Wittenberg University (Springfield, Ohio), from 1961-1999. Chatfield was an authority on peace history and international affairs, and has written or edited numerous books and articles on peace and antiwar movements, including Peace/MIR a collaborative effort between U.S. and Soviet academics. Chatfield taught courses at Wittenberg that focused on historical methodology and on U.S. progressive, urban and diplomatic history. He also directed the institution's International Education program and organized and directed the "Global Issues and World Churches" study abroad program. Chatfield was a founder of the Peace History Society (formerly the Council on Peace Research in History), and has been especially influential in creating ties between U.S., European, and Soviet historians of peace and international relations. Charles Chatfield died on January 15, 2015.

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Mennonite Central Committee Collected Records, 1940- (inclusive)

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0.42 linear ft. (5 linear in.)
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Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) was formed when representatives of various Mennonite conferences met July 27-28, 1920, in Elkhart (Indiana), and pledged to aid hungry people, including Mennonites, in Russia and Ukraine.Since then thousands have served with MCC worldwide on relief, peace and development projects.

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Gandhian Foundation Records, 1958-2000 (bulk)

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1 linear ft. (1 linear ft.)
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Founded in 1958 in New York City as a trust fund exclusively for religious, charitable, and educational purposes. On December 20, 1990 the Foundation was reorganized and moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to provide fiscal sponsorship to the Scholarship Project of Training for Change, a Philadelphia-based social change training center.

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Edward F. Snyder Papers, 1950- (bulk)

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3 linear ft. (3 linear feet.)
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Edward Furnas Snyder is a Quaker lobbyist for peace, civil rights, and economic justice. He joined staff of Friends Committee on National Legislation in 1955 and retired in 1990 as Executive Secretary of the FCNL Snyder argued against legislation for a U.S. military draft and excessive military spending; worked for cultural and scientific exchanges between Soviet and U.S. citizens to lessen tensions of the Cold War. Edward and Dorothy Snyder have long been tax resisters arguing that the government was using taxpayers' money illegally to fund war in Vietnam, El Salvador, and Nicaragua.

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

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27 reels (2 pts.)
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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)

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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)

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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)

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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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