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Peacemaker Movement Collected Records

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Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore 19081-1399

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Swarthmore College Peace Collection. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

Overview and metadata sections

The Peacemaker Movement, often simply called "Peacemakers," emerged from a call for a conference in Chicago following Mahatma Gandhi's death. The founders of Peacemakers were pacifists seeking to rally others to the ideals of nonviolence, based on a spiritual philosophy of life as an effective social technique. Local organizations were called "cells" and were considered the basis of the movement. In later years, its aim was to resist conscription and refuse war tax payment to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.

This material was gathered over the years through mailings or from various peoples' archival collections. Some of the Peacemakers' records, including correspondence and material from its tax refusal campaign, are in related collections (Bromley, Nelson, Swann).

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for these papers/records.

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Processed by Anne M. Yoder, Archivist, November 2011; added to May 2016.

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Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Access Restrictions

None.

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Use Restrictions

None.

Collection Inventory

Archival Resource Key. Removal forms.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. History.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Reunion, 1987 (August).
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Pamphlets / flyers.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Flyer "What Is Peacemakers?".
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Membership guidelines.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Continuations Committee: meeting minutes, 1948-1958.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Continuations Committee, 1960-1974, undated.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Executive Committee: meeting minutes, 1948-1949.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Executive Committee: meeting minutes, 1951-1965.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Publications Committee.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Tax Refusal Committee.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Financial records: miscellaneous, 1951-1970.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Financial records: Sharing Fund.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Financial records: donation list "Sharing and Projects", 1965-1970.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Financial records: donation list "The Peacemaker", 1969-1970.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Correspondence, 1950-1959.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Correspondence, 1960-1961.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Correspondence, 1962-1964.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Correspondence, 1965-1975.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Correspondence, undated.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Efforts, 1940s-1970s.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Efforts, undated, undated.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Efforts: war/draft resistance.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Efforts: war/draft resistance - statements and correspondence, 1957-1969.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Efforts: war/draft resistance - Saying 'No' To Military Conscription, 1967-1972.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

campaign; includes signatures

Archival Resource Key. Efforts: war/draft resistance -- prisoner assistance / C.O.s in prison.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Efforts: war/draft resistance -- amnesty.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Efforts: war/draft resistance -- Larry Gara, 1949.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Efforts: war/draft resistance -- Seymour Eichel, 1956.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Efforts: war/draft resistance -- Kevin ____ and hunger strike at Ashland prison, 1972.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Efforts: fighting McCarthy campaign, 1953-1954.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Efforts: support for Koinonia Farm, 1957.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Efforts: Marj Swann.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Efforts: war tax refusal campaign.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

includes correspondence

Archival Resource Key. Efforts: controversy about Peacemakers article by Arthur Harvey, 1958-1959.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Efforts: feminism and nonviolence, 1984.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. "Peacemakers Bulletin".
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Press releases.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Media coverage.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Items removed from oversized scrapbook re: Bromleys, etc.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

scrapbook and 80% of items (duplicates) discarded in 2015

Archival Resource Key. Items included with mailings; reference material.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Mailing list/s.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Song entered in songbook "It Could Be...", 1965.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Notes.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Events: miscellaneous.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Events: national conferences, 1948-1949.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Events: national conferences, 1950-1958.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Events: national conferences, 1960-1974, undated.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Events: Third Camp Conference [co-sponsored].
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Events: orientation programs, 1965-1977.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Events: training programs in nonviolence, 1957-1979.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Local groups: efforts in Alabama and California.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Local groups: efforts in District of Columbia.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Local groups: efforts in Illinois (Chicago).
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Local groups: efforts in Massachusetts.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Local groups: efforts in New Jersey.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Local groups: efforts in New York (NYC) -- Executive Committee.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Local groups: efforts in New York (NYC), 1940s.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Local groups: efforts in New York (NYC), 1950s.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Local groups: efforts in New York (NYC), undated.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Local groups: efforts in Ohio -- Ohio Area Peacemakers.
Box 5
Scope and Contents

includes Yellow Springs

Archival Resource Key. Local groups: efforts in Ohio -- Gano Peacemakers Inc.
Box 5
Archival Resource Key. Local groups: efforts in Ohio -- Gano Peacemakers Inc.: Articles of Incorporation; meeting minutes, 1952-1995.
Box 5
Archival Resource Key. Local groups: efforts in Ohio -- Gano Peacemakers Inc.: tax assessment reactions.
Box 5
Archival Resource Key. Local groups: efforts in Ohio -- Gano Peacemakers Inc. Support Fund.
Box 5
Archival Resource Key. Local groups: efforts in Pennsylvania.
Box 5
Archival Resource Key. Local groups: efforts in Virginia (Richmond) -- notes in shorthand.
Box 5
Archival Resource Key. Questionnaires filled out for Peacemakers Directory (by Continuations Committee).
Box 6
Scope and Contents

[7 folders]

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