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Turn Toward Peace Collected Records

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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

Call Number:
CDG-A.Turn Toward Peace
Repository:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Extent:
2.7 linear ft. (2.7 linear ft.)
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of item], in the Turn Toward Peace Collected Records (CDG-A), Swarthmore College Peace Collection.
Date:
1961-1970 (inclusive)
Creator:
Turn Toward Peace (Organization)
Abstract:
Turn Toward Peace was founded in 1961 as a cooperative national effort of about 60 peace and liberal internationalist organizations; Norman Thomas was Chairman of TTP, and Robert Gilmore was the Executive Director. There eventually were offices in several large cities and 38 national organizations were affiliated with the organization. But by 1963, serious discord divided TTP and several years later a group split off to became the World Without War Council; some regional offices retained the name of "Turn Toward Peace."

The group was founded in 1958 as Acts for Peace, by Robert Pickus. The name was changed to Turn Toward Peace in 1961, and became a cooperative national effort of about 60 peace and liberal internationalist organizations. Norman Thomas served as Chairman of TTP, and Robert Gilmore was the Executive Director. There eventually were offices in New York, Washington, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and other cities. By 1962, 38 national organizations were affiliated with Turn Toward Peace. In 1963 the organization held its first "Voluntary Organizations and a World Without War Conference,"; from these conferences emerged the Center for War/Peace Studies. But soon serious discord divided TTP and it essentially ended around 1967, when a group split off and became the World Without War Council. Some regional offices retained the name of "Turn Toward Peace."

This material is arranged loosely as: general organizational records, programmatic efforts, conferences sponsored, literature developed, and regional efforts.

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

This collection came to the SCPC through various sources, especially from the papers of Robert W. Gilmore (removed in October 2006).

Processed, and finding aid, by Anne M. Yoder, Archivist, November 2006

  1. Robert W. Gilmore Papers (DG 163)
  2. World Without War Council Collected Records (CDG-A)
  3. World Without War Council Midwest Records (DG 128)
  4. Center for War/Peace Studies Collected Records (CDG-A)

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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. History; purpose; by-laws.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. AFSC involvement in the beginnings of TTP, 1961 (September) - 1962 (February).
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Financial records, 1962-1966.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Meeting minutes, 1961 (September) - 1962.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Meeting minutes, 1962-1963.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Meeting minutes, 1964-1967.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Issues Committee: meeting minutes, 1964-1965.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. National Staff meeting, 1964 (October).
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. International Liaison Committee, 1963.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Youth Committee, 1962-1964.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Correspondence, 1962-1966.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

mostly removed from SANE and FCNL files re: TTP

Archival Resource Key. Correspondence by Homer A. Jack (SANE).
Box 1
Scope and Contents

including disarmament resolutions of organizations for TTP

Archival Resource Key. Programmatic efforts [folder 1], 1961.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Programmatic efforts [folder 2], 1961.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Programmatic efforts [folder 1], 1962.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Programmatic efforts [folder 2], 1962.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Programmatic efforts [folder 1], 1963.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Programmatic efforts [folder 2], 1963.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Programmatic efforts, 1964 (January-April).
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Programmatic efforts, 1964 (May-July).
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Programmatic efforts, 1964 (August-December).
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Programmatic efforts [folder 1], 1965.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Programmatic efforts [folder 2], 1965.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Programmatic efforts, 1966-1967.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Programmatic efforts: Committee for Free Elections in the Dominican Republic, 1966.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Programmatic efforts, undated.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Programmatic efforts: Interne Program.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Sponsorship of Voluntary Organizations and A World Without War Conference, 1963.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Sponsorship of Voluntary Organizations and A World Without War Conference, 1964.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Sponsorship of Voluntary Organizations and A World Without War Conference, 1965-1966.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Literature developed: "A Short Introduction to Turn Toward Peace".
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Literature developed: "Handbook for Community Peace Centers", 1962.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Literature developed: additions to "Handbook for Community Peace Centers", 1963 (April).
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Literature developed: booklets in Questions for the Peace Movement series ("Congressional Investigations and the Peace Movement"; "Electoral Politics and the Work for Peace").
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Literature developed: "Peace and the American Community".
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Literature developed: misc. newsletters (national and regional).
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Midwest Office, Chicago (Illinois): by-laws.
Box 5
Archival Resource Key. Midwest Office, Chicago (Illinois): programmatic efforts, 1965.
Box 5
Archival Resource Key. Midwest Office, Chicago (Illinois): programmatic efforts, 1966.
Box 5
Archival Resource Key. Midwest Office, Chicago (Illinois): programmatic efforts, 1967 (January-May).
Box 5
Archival Resource Key. Midwest Office, Chicago (Illinois): programmatic efforts, 1967 (June-December).
Box 5
Archival Resource Key. Midwest Office, Chicago (Illinois): programmatic efforts, 1968-1969.
Box 5
Archival Resource Key. Midwest Office, Chicago (Illinois): programmatic efforts, 1970.
Box 5
Archival Resource Key. Midwest Office, Chicago (Illinois): programmatic efforts, n.d.
Box 5
Archival Resource Key. Midwest Office, Chicago (Illinois): World Without War conferences/seminars -- Leadership Institutes.
Box 5
Archival Resource Key. Midwest Office, Chicago (Illinois): reference material.
Box 5
Archival Resource Key. New England Region: programmatic efforts, 1961-1962.
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. New England Region: programmatic efforts, 1963.
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. New England Region: programmatic efforts, 1964-1965.
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. New England Region: programmatic efforts, 1966-1967, n.d.
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. New England Region: literature developed -- A Guide to Mass Media Work in the Community Peace Center", n.d.
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. New England Region: literature developed -- A Literature Program Guide for Use in Community Peace Centers", n.d.
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Western Area: Robert Pickus (Director) -- correspondence, etc.
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. West Coast Central Region.
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Pacific Central Region, Berkeley (California): programmatic efforts.
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Peace Center of Marin (California): cooperation with TTP.
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Sacramento Peace Center (California): cooperation with TTP.
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Pacific Northwest Region, Seattle (California): programmatic efforts.
Box 7
Archival Resource Key. Pacific Northwest Region, Seattle (California): literature developed -- packet " Viet Nam: Education and Action Guide".
Box 7
Archival Resource Key. Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) area: programmatic efforts.
Box 7
Archival Resource Key. Other regions: programmatic efforts.
Box 7

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