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Friends Peace and International Relations Committee Collected Materials, 1890-1976 (bulk)

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1.25 linear ft. (15 linear in.)

Abstract:

Collection consists primarily of printed material: form letters, minutes of meetings, newsletters, reports, news articles, and pamphlets.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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Bella Abzug Collected Papers, circa 1966-1980 (bulk)

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0.67 linear ft. (1.5 boxes)

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Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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Americans Committed to World Responsibility Collected Records, 1960-1961 (bulk)

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0.21 linear ft. (2.5 linear in.)

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Collection is primarily printed material; includes correspondence, training manuals, conference proceedings.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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Center for Economic Conversion Records, 1975-2000 (bulk)

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11.708 linear ft. ((23 containers))

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The Center for Economic Conversion was a nonprofit organization which promoted the conversion of the military-based U.S. economy to a civilian-based, peace-oriented, and environmentally sustainable one. It was founded in 1975 as a project of the American Friends Service Committee. CEC was a leading advocate for using military base conversion as a tool to foster sustainable development.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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Mary Jo and Walter Uphoff Collected Papers, 1934-1991 (inclusive)

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1.25 linear ft. (15 linear inches.)

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Mary Jo Uphoff was involved with Youth Committee Against War (of the Keep America Out of War Congress). Walter Uphoff was a labor historian and author of Kohler On Strike.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament Records, 1986 - date (inclusive) 1986 (bulk)

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39 linear ft. (39 linear ft.)

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In 1986 six hundred people marched across the United States to demonstrate their opposition to the world-wide nuclear arms race. The march took nine months from California to Washington, D.C. The marchers wrote: "we will create a non-violent focus for positive change; the imperative being that nuclear weapons are politically, socially, economically and morally unjustifiable, and that, in any number, they are unacceptable." The GPM was also a traveling intentional and communal society.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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Roland F. Smith Collected Papers, 1939-1946, 1981,1987-1990 (inclusive)

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1.25 linear ft.

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Papers of Roland F. Smith documenting his service in Civilian Public Service as a conscientious objector during WWII, as well as family papers.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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Hague Appeal for Peace Records, 1997-2007 (bulk)

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18.5 linear ft. (18.5 linear ft.)

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The Hague Appeal for Peace is an organization with a global campaign to create a "culture of peace" through the following means: by strengthening humanitarian and human rights laws and institutions, by advancing the prevention, peaceful resolution, and transformation of conflicts, by abolishing nuclear weapons and develop disarmament campaigns, and identifying the root causes of war. More than 800 organizations--human rights, environmental, gender, disarmament-- have endorsed the HAP campaign.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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American Peace Test Records, 1985-1994 (bulk)

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6.875 linear ft. ((17 containers))

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In 1985 six members of the National FREEZE Campaign founded American Peace Test as a direct, non violent action campaign to protest the testing of nuclear weapons at the Nevada Test Site, near Las Vegas, Nevada. The first large scale action took place in 1986, drawing large crowds of protesters. Protests throughout the 1980s continued to draw larger numbers of protesters and the support of some nationally known celebrities and politicians. In the early 1990s American Peace Test regrouped, but eventually the organization foundered. Protests at the Nevada Test Site continued through the 1990s, sometimes sponsored by other organizations and groups of protesters.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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American Friends Service Committee Collected Records, 1917- (inclusive)

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1.6 linear ft. (4 boxes)

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The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) was set up in June 1917 as an outgrowth of and coordination point for the anti-war and relief activities of various bodies of the Religious Society of Friends in the United States.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]