Call Number:

CDG-A.Peacemaker Movement

Repository:

Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Extent:

2.5 linear ft. (30 linear in.)

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of item], in the Peacemaker Movement Collected Records (CDG-A), Swarthmore College Peace Collection.

Date:

1948-1980 (inclusive)

Creator:

Peacemaker Movement, Bromley, Ernest, Bromley, Marion, -1996, Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967, Nelson, Juanita, Nelson, Wallace F., Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986, and Swann, Marjorie

Abstract:

A group working on nonviolence from the late 1940s through the 1970s, particularly as it was expressed through tax refusal.

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).