Subject: Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources and Women and Peace -- United States -- History -- Sources - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Extent:: 12.75 linear ft. (12.75 linear feet.)
Abstract:: Dorothy Marder was a photographer and photojournalist, peace activist, Lesbian and Gay community member, counselor, and disabilities advocate. Her most extensive photographic work concerned women's peace activism (especially Women Strike for Peace), in the New York, New York area between the late 1960s through the 1980s Many of her photographs appeared in peace movement and alternative press publications. Marder photographed well-known peace activists, feminists, and political figures of the last quarter of the twentieth century including: Bella Abzug, Joan Baez, David Dellinger, Ron Dellums, Barbara Jordan, Coretta Scott King, Grace Paley, and Gloria Steinem.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Extent:: 6.5 linear ft. (6.5 linear feet.)
Abstract:: Jessie Wallace Hughan (December 25, 1875 – April 10, 1955) was an American educator, social activist, and a radical pacifist. During her college days she was one of four co-founders of Alpha Omicron Pi, a national sorority for university women. She also was a founder and the first Secretary of the War Resisters League, established in 1923. For over two decades, she was a perennial candidate for political office on the ticket of the Socialist Party of America in her home state of New York.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Extent:: 130 linear ft.
Abstract:: A world-famous social reformer; co-founded the first settlement house in America in 1889; championed many causes on behalf of the urban poor, such as protection of immigrants, child labor laws, industrial safety, juvenile courts, and recognition of labor unions; a leading figure in the movement for international peace; awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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]

Extent:: 0.5 linear ft. (6 linear in.)
Abstract:: Includes miscellaneous correspondence; two oversize scrapbooks (ca. 1914-1919) which contain correspondence (some with her relative, Kate Kelsey); articles and half-tone images from U.S. and foreign periodicals about World War I; small posters; sheet music; and material about Woodrow Wilson's 1916 presidential campaign and the Women's March for Woodrow Wilson in Washington D.C., ca. 1917; also small amounts of secondary material relating to the American Friends Service Committee, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the Arbitration and Peace Society of Pennsylvania, the American Union Against Militarism, the U.S. Democratic Party and the American Friends Reconstruction Unit.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Extent:: 3.3 linear ft. (3.3 linear ft.)
Abstract:: Milada Marsalka was a member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, U.S. Section, active with the New Haven, Connecticut Branch. Marsalka worked for American-Soviet friendship and conversion of economy from military to civilian production. She was born in Czechoslovakia and later moved to the United States. Marsalka died in 1999 or 2000.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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