Subject: Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources and Peace Movements -- United States -- History -- Sources / Year: <span class="single" data-blrl-single="1974">1974</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Start Over Subject Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources Subject Peace Movements -- United States -- History -- Sources Year 1974

Extent:: 5 linear ft. (5 linear ft.)
Abstract:: The People's Coalition for Peace and Justice included various peace, anti-poverty, and labor groups. These groups worked together to confront the related issues of war in Southeast Asia and racism, sexism, poverty, and repression in the United States. The People's Coalition for Peace and Justice was founded in 1970 as National Coalition Against War, Racism, and Repression and organized several specific campaigns including People's Peace Treaty, Citizen's Action Pledge, and Nixon Eviction campaign; reports, speeches, and resolutions pertaining to the Assembly for Peace and Independence of the People of Indochina held at Versailles, France, February 1972.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Extent:: 5.5 linear ft. (5.5 linear ft.)
Abstract:: Another Mother for Peace was a women's peace group born from the antipathy to the war in Vietnam, based in Los Angeles, California. The stated purpose of this non-partison, non-profit organization was "to educate women to take an active role in eliminating war as a means of solving disputes between nations, people and ideologies." AMP closed its offices in January 1986.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Extent:: 45 linear ft. (45 linear ft.)
Abstract:: Women Strike for Peace came into existence on November 1, 1961, as a protest against atmospheric nuclear tests by the U.S. and the Soviet Union. By the late 1980s the national WSP office in Philadelphia closed, but the WSP legislative office and various WSP branches around the U.S. remained active through the 1990s.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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