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Archival collections are listed alphabetically below; see notes under each collection for restrictions, microfilm availability, and online finding aids
Friends march in Washington D.C., 1962
A Quaker Action
Group
Records, 1966-1971.
36.5 linear ft.
Founded in Philadelphia
in 1966 to apply nonviolent direct action as a witness against the war in Vietnam;
not an official body of the Society of Friends; in 1971 transformed into Movement
for a New Society. Officially
named "A Quaker Action Group,” nicknamed "AQAG.”
Minutes; correspondence (1966-1971); memoranda; financial records; subject files concerning organizations including Beheiren (Japan Peace for Vietnam Committee), Fifth Avenue Peace Parade Committee, Poor People's Campaign, Students for a Democratic Society, and Vietnam Moratorium Committee; project files including material relating to Cuba Project, Culebra Project (Culebra, P.R.), Panama Project (Fort Gulick, Canal Zone), and Phoenix (pictured above) and Vietnam projects; research files providing information on black liberation, chemical and biological warfare, draft resistance, human rights, nuclear radiation, peace movements in other countries, and war tax resistance; newsletters; press releases; statements of Quaker yearly meetings in various cities; clippings; sound recordings; and photos. Materials relating to the voyages of the Phoenix to North and South Vietnam with medical supplies include correspondence of the crews, clippings and scrapbooks, still photos, 16 mm. films including Voyage of the Phoenix, North Vietnamese photos, and mementoes of the trip.
Correspondents include Elizabeth J. Boardman, John Worth Braxton,
Harrison Butterworth, Horace Champney, Jerry D. Coffin, Christopher Cowley,
Phillip Drath, Robert Whittington Eaton, Roderick
Ede, Ross Flanagan, Nicola Geiger, Walton Geiger,
Robert Horton, Donald Kalish, George Lakey, Kenneth Lee,
Samuel Legg, Robert E. Levering, Bradford Lyttle, Ivan E. Massar, William R. Mimms, Roger
Moody, Beryl Herbert Nelson, Patricia Parkman, Earle L. Reynolds, Lawrence Scott,
Lynne Shivers, Glenn E. Smiley, Charles C. Walker, Emlyn
Warren, George Willoughby, J. Duncan Wood, and Carl P. Zietlow.
Abrams,
Irwin, b. 1914
Collection, 1948-[ongoing].
2.5 linear in.
Irwin Abrams; born in
San Francisco, Calif.; leading authority on the history of the Nobel Peace Prize;
theorist and practitioner of international education; Quaker; retired as Distinguished
University Professor Emeritus at Antioch University in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
Includes biographical and bibliographical information and photocopies of a small portion of Abrams’ published writings, including material about the Nobel Peace Prize, women Nobel Peace Prize winners, the Quaker peace testimony and the Nobel Peace Prize, Henri La Fontaine, and Carl von Ossietzky.
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official
repository for the papers of Irwin Abrams papers; they are deposited with the
Hoover Institution at
LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected Document Groups:
Papers, 1916-1983.
22 linear in.
Horace G. Alexander;
born in Croyden, England; life-long member of the Society of Friends(Quakers);
graduated with honors in history from Kings College, Cambridge University; director
of Woodbrooke College, Birmingham, England;
served as advisor to Mohandas K. Gandhi; wrote and published extensively about
India; worked throughout the world for Indian rights; d. 1989, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania,
USA.
Mainly correspondence relating to Alexander's interest in India;
includes published and unpublished writings including a small amount about Alexander's
bird-watching hobby; includes information about the Friends Ambulance Unit in
India, the Fellowship of Friends of Truth (India), and the World Peace Brigade
for Nonviolent Action (England). Originals
were sent by the Swarthmore College Peace Collection to Friends House Library
in
Allen, Devere, 1891-1955
Papers, 1809-1978; bulk 1910-1955.
138 linear ft.
Author,
editor, journalist and lecturer; advocate of internationalist pacifism; influential
member and officer of the 
Correspondence, biographical material, published and unpublished
manuscripts, notes for speeches, reference files, clippings, photos, and other
papers, including correspondence relating to Allen's tenure as managing editor
and editor of The World Tomorrow; correspondence, business
and financial records, operational files, serial publications, news releases,
clippings, and other records of Nofrontier News Service
(1933-1941) and Worldover Press (1942-1955); correspondence
and financial and membership records of Young Democracy and files of its publication
Young Democracy (1919-1922); extensive
correspondence and other papers relating to his work with the Socialist Party
(U.S.) in the 1930s including his involvement in Connecticut politics, especially
the Labor Party of Connecticut; and correspondence with and materials about
organizations in which Allen was interested, including American Committee for
the Defense of Leon Trotsky, the American Friends Service Committee, American
League Against War and Fascism, Emergency Peace Campaign, Fellowship of Reconciliation,
Labour and Socialist International, Keep America Out
of War Congress, League for Independent Political Action, the Swarthmore College
Peace Collection, War Resisters' International, War Resisters League, and the
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (U.S. Section). Reference
files include information about pacifism,
Allen, William
Charles, 1857-1938.
Collection, 1895-1937; bulk, 1913-1937.
10.5 linear in.
Born in Chester County,
Pennsylvania; member of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Arch Street) of the Society
of Friends; lived also in San Jose, California and Denver Colorado; deeply opposed
to war; wrote about problems of propaganda, imperialism, censorship, and the
munitions industry; established the Peace Committee of the Churches of the Pacific
Coast.
Collection consists of biographical information, correspondence, transcripts of his journals and war diary, manuscript articles, published pamphlets, manuscripts of his book International Anarchy in Action, and reference material.
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official
repository for the papers of this individual.
Alternatives to Violence Project
1 box (1.5 in):
Grew
out of The Quaker Project on Community Conflict’s non-violence training program
in New York prisons; incorporated 1980; affiliated with
Flyers, minutes, handbook, newsletters.
(Wilmington, Ohio : August 31-September 3, 1956 and Westtown, Pennsylvania,
August 29-September 1, 1958)
LOCATION: Friends Historical Library: Pamphlet Group 3
LOCATION: Friends Historical Library: Pamphlet Group 3
American Friends'
Peace Conference (1901 :
Collection, 1901.
1 linear in.
This conference was
organized by Benjamin F. Trueblood, Secretary of the American Peace Society,
and attended by twelve hundred Friends from both branches of
Includes minute book and a printed report of the proceedings.
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the records of this organization.
American Friends
Service Committee international service reference files
Friends International Service Reference Files, 1916-1944.
15 boxes ; 7.5 linear feet.
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
was founded in 1917 to provide conscientious objectors with an opportunity to
aid civilian victims during World War I. Today the AFSC sponsors programs that
focus on issues related to economic justice, peace-building and demilitarization,
social justice, and youth in the United States, Africa, Asia, Latin America,
and the Middle East. These reference files were collected and assembled by the
American Friends Service Committee to keep it informed of parallel service work
by British and Irish Friends in the years 1916-1944.
Includes minutes, reports, and related papers of Friends Centres
in Austria, Germany, France, Poland, Russia and Serbia, Friends' War Victims'
Relief Committee, Friends' Council for International Service, Friends Service
Council, and other Quaker relief agencies, mostly under the direction of London
and Dublin Yearly Meetings. Also includes some records of France Yearly Meeting
and the Yearly Meeting of Friends in
Records organized in eight series: 1. Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee; 2. Friends' Council for International Service; 3. Friends Service Council; 4. Other Relief and Related Agencies; 5. Quaker International Centres; 6. Quaker International Relief; 7. International Organizations and Conferences of Friends; 8. Quaker Yearly Meetings in Europe.
American Friends
Service Committee.
Civilian Public Service
Records, 1940-1947.
278 linear ft.
Organized to provide
alternative service for conscientious objectors, who were assigned "work
of national importance” under civilian direction; the historic peace churches
(Church of the Brethren, Religious Society of Friends and the Mennonite Church)
banded together to form the National Service Board for Religious Objectors (NISBRO)
which coordinated the civilian public service (CPS) program; the American Friends
Service Committee administered seventeen CPS camps and over thirty special service
units which provided an alternative service program for 3400 men between 1941
and 1946.
Organized (with the Prison Service Committee records) in 5 series plus appendices: Section 1. CPS administrative files; Section 2. Case files (including medical files) of men in CPS; Section 3. CPS camp publications (not restricted). Section 4. AFSC Prison Service Committee records; Section 5. Later accessions; Appendices: Reference lists of CPS camps, CPS project units, and religious denominations with number of men in CPS.
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is the official repository for the Civilian Public Service records and the Prison Service Committee records of the American Friends Service Committee. It is not the official repository for the records of the AFSC.
Restrictions apply. All series except Section
3 (CPS publications) are restricted; some boxes are stored off-site.
See also: Civilian Public Service personal papers and collected papers
American Friends
Service Committee.
Prison Service Committee
Records, 1943-1947.
5.75 linear ft.
Established by the AFSC on
Organized (with the Civilian Public Service records) in 5 series plus appendices: Section 1. CPS administrative files; Section 2. Case files (including medical files) of men in CPS; Section 3. CPS camp publications (not restricted). Section 4. AFSC Prison Service Committee records; Section 5. Later accessions; Appendices: Reference lists of CPS camps, CPS project units, and religious denominations with number of men in CPS.
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is the official repository for the Civilian Public Service records and the Prison Service Committee records of the American Friends Service Committee. It is not the official repository for the records of the AFSC.
Restrictions apply. All series except Section
3 (CPS publications) are restricted; some boxes are stored off-site.
American Interracial Peace Committee
1 folder (.25 in):
Began
Assorted manuscripts.
Collection, 1828-1956
10.75 linear ft.
Association of regional peace societies formed
1828 to promote permanent international peace through participation in international
peace congresses and support for the use of arbitration to settle international
disputes.
Chiefly papers of Benjamin F. Trueblood (1847-1916), a Quaker and absolute pacifist and general secretary of the American Peace Society (1892-1915); includes correspondence (1871-1915), articles, speeches, lecture notes, biographical information, pamphlets, scrapbooks, photos, and memorabilia, relating to his work with the society, as president of Wilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio, and Penn College, Oskaloosa, Iowa, and as representative of Christian Arbitration and Peace Society in Europe (1890-1891), and correspondence (1913-1956) of his wife, Sarah H. Trueblood, and his daughter and secretary, Lyra Wolkins, who gathered letters and other materials for a biography of Trueblood; together with records of the society including articles of incorporation (1848), scattered annual reports (1836-1924), minutes of the executive committee (1916-1917), pamphlets, leaflets, statements, speeches, and reprints. Correspondents in the Trueblood papers include Joseph G. Alexander, Hannah J. Bailey, Charles E. Beals, Nicholas Murray Butler, Arthur Deerin Call, Samuel T. Dutton, Anna B. Eckstein, James J. Hall, Seichi Ikemoto, Louis P. Lochner, Edwin D. Mead, Lucia Ames Mead.
Also available on microfilm (13 reels). Available
on interlibrary loan from Swarthmore College Peace Collection.
CONNECT
TO PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBIT
Andresen, Bent,
1908-1991
Collection, 1928-1991.
.5 linear in.
Objector to war, environmentalist, protester
against the death penalty and the nuclear arms race; Quaker; born Copenhagen,
Denmark, Jan. 14, 1908; attended Columbia University, 1932-1934; conscientious
objector during World War II, during which he took part in "guinea pig"
experiments on human subjects; walked away from Civilian Public Service as a
protest against the bombing of Hiroshima, was arrested, and served time in prison,
during which he was force-fed.
Includes biographical information, correspondence, his1945 diary, information about Andresen's hunger strikes, photographs, and reference materials.
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official
repository for the papers of this individual.
LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected Document Groups:
Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick
3 folders (1.5 in):
Initiated by the Fellowship of Reconciliation,
Mid-Atlantic Region, July 1, 1959; planned for 5 days, it lasted until March
30, 1961; many members of the Appeal and Vigil were Quakers, including Lawrence
Scott (see Lawrence Scott Papers); became the Peace Action Center in Washington
D.C.
Letters and invitations, appeals, news articles, newsletters.
Wilmer Atkinson Family Papers, 1881-1948.
4 boxes ; 1.75 linear ft.
Wilmer Atkinson (1840-1920)
of
The collection includes scrapbooks containing clippings and memorabilia concerning the Atkinson, Allen, Quimby, and related families, and a typed copy of a journal which Wilmer Atkinson kept in 1917 concerning World War I.
Records, 1985-
4.4 linear ft.
Began in 1985 under the care of the Social
Concerns Committee of the
Includes correspondence, reports, newsletters, flyers, reference files.
LOCATION: Peace Collection: Archives DG 180.
Bailey, Hannah
J. (Hannah Johnston), 1839-1923
Papers, 1858-1923.
2.5 linear ft.
Quaker pacifist, suffragist,
reformer, and temperance leader; superintendent of the Department of Peace
and Arbitration of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union from 1887
to 1916; president and business manager of the Woman's Temperance Publication
Association, the publishing arm of the WCTU; president of the Maine Woman Suffrage
Association (1891-1899), and a member of the National American Woman Suffrage
Association.
Papers concern her activities in the Department of Peace and
Arbitration of the national and world Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, her
work for social causes, her travels abroad, and her connection with the Society
of Friends (Quakers). Included are correspondence (1889-1920), published
and unpublished articles, speeches, diaries and journals, biographical information,
information about Benjamin F. Trueblood, photographs,
scrapbooks, peace flags, and memorabilia. Also in the collection are publications
of the Department of Peace and Arbitration, including reports (1888-1917), leaflets,
tracts, programs, and two periodicals edited by Bailey, The Pacific Banner and The Acorn. Financial and legal papers
of the Woman’s Temperance Publication Association, for which Bailey served as
president and business manager, are also found among her papers. Correspondents
and others in the collection include Cora Slocomb DiBrazza-Savorgnan (Countess DiBrazza),
Entire
collection excluding part of
Papers, 1842-1979, 1875-1961 (bulk)
25.75 linear ft.
from
Wellesley College teaching position because of opposition to World War I.
Correspondence (1875-1961); diaries (1876-1955); books and poetry by Balch;
draft of autobiography and interviews with Mercedes M. Randall (1951); articles
about Balch including Nobel Peace Prize publicity; research notes and subject
files.|bCorrespondents include Grace Abbott, Jane Addams, Gertrud Baer, Francis
Vergnies Balch, Katharine Lee Bates, Katherine Devereaux Blake, Kathleen D.
Courtney, Dorothy Detzer, Madeleine Z. Doty, Camille Drevet, Anna Melissa Graves,
Lida Gustava Heymann, Hannah Clothier Hull, Eleanor Daggett Karsten, Louis P.
Lochner, Kathleen J. Lowrie, Lucia Ames Mead, Mildred Scott Olmsted, Alice Thacher
Post, Edith M. Pye, Mercedes M. Randall, Vida D. Scudder, Mary Sheepshanks,
Rebecca Shelley, Mabel Vernon.
Organized in five series plus appendix. I. Biographical; II. Correspondence;
III. Writings by Emily Greene Balch; IV. Subject files; V. Peace literature/reference
material. Chronological arrangement in Series I, II, III, and V. Alphabetical
arrangement in Series IV.
Series I, I, III available in microfilm from Scholarly Resources Inc., 104 Greenhill Ave., Wilmington, DE 19805-1897, and on interlibrary loan from the Swarthmore College Peace Collection.
CONNECT TO EXHIBIT OF PHOTOGRAPHS FROM BALCH PAPERS
LOCATION: Peace Collection: Archives DG 006; use microfilm Reels 129.1-129.26
Biddle Family
Papers, 1793-1951
8 boxes ; 4 linear ft.
Lucy Biddle Lewis (1861-1941)
was the oldest child of Clement M. Biddle 
(1838-1902).
She was active in Quaker postwar relief work and the peace movement, serving
on the American Friends Service Committee, as National Chairman of the Women's
International League for Peace and Freedom, and from 1908-1941, on the Board
of Managers of Swarthmore College. Papers
of Lucy Biddle Lewis are important for association with the women's suffrage
movement and for early activities of the American Friends Service Committee
Organized into five series: 1. Owen Biddle;
2. Clement Biddle (1778-1856) and his family and friends; 3. Clement
Biddle (1838-1902) and his son, William C. Biddle; 4. Clement
Miller Biddle (1876-1959); 5. Lucy
Biddle Lewis and
Bigelow, Albert,
b. 1906
Papers, 1956-1961.
10 in.
Architect, former Navy
commander, and Quaker, who sailed the ketch Golden
Rule into the 
Bigelow
and his shipmates and their imprisonment in
Scattered correspondence (1956-1961), personal statements,
illustrations, and drawings, ms. draft and publisher's contract of Bigelow's
book, Voyage of the Golden Rule (1959), photos, and other papers, chiefly
relating to the voyage of the ketch Golden
Rule to Eniwetok Proving Grounds in the Marshall
Islands (1958), a protest against nuclear weapons sponsored by the Committee
for Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons, but also relating to Bigelow's
other activities including the Mercury Project vigil in Nevada (1957) and Alabama
freedom rides (1961). Includes scrapbook and ship’s log of
the Golden Rule, sketches made on
board the Golden Rule and in prison
in
Similar documents are together, i.e., correspondence, news clippings, audiovisual material. Documents are in chronological order. Unrestricted.
Binford, Raymond,
b. 1876, and Helen Binford
5 linear in.
Quakers and educators,
Raymond and Helen Binford served as camp directors of Civilian Public Service
Camp 19, Marion, North Carolina, and later of Camp 108, Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
Raymond Binford had been President of
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the papers of these individuals.
Collection, 1819-1868.
3 linear in.
Nineteenth century absolute
pacifist and abolitionist. Joined the
Published articles.
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official
repository for the papers of this individual.
Collection, 1961-1975.
2 linear in.
Quaker, sociologist and peace
activist, former Chairperson of the Women's International League for Peace and
Freedom.
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the papers of this individual.
Collection, 1938-1977, 1960-1977 (Bulk).
2.5 linear in.
Kenneth Ewart Boulding,
1910-1993, Quaker and economics professor, served with the League of Nations
and the Committee for Economic Development; founder of Journal of Conflict Resolution; director of the Center for Research in Conflict
Resolution at the University of Michigan; poet.
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the papers of this individual.
Bowles, Gilbert 1869-1960
1 folder (.125 in):
Part of Friend’s
Letters and pamphlets.
also FHL PG7
8 boxes (4 linear ft.).
Anna M. Jackson and
her daughter, Anna M. Theiss, were Quaker activists
in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Anna M. Davis was born in 1848 in New
York, the daughter of David H. Davis, a textile merchant, and Susan Price Davis.
She married William M. Jackson in 1869. Anna M. Jackson was very involved in
reform activities in
Correspondence, journals, and memorabilia of Anna M. Jackson and her
daughter, Anna M. Theiss. It also includes
related materials of the
Braxton, John Worth, b. 1948
1 box (5 in):
Participant in A Quaker
Action Group, Philadelphia Resistance, American Friends Service Committee, the
Quaker ship Phoenix which sailed to
North and South Vietnam in 1967 and 1968, the Vietnam Moratorium, and New Mobilization
Committee to End the War in Vietnam; served time in federal prisons in Lewisberg, PA, Allenwood, PA, and
Petersburg, PA.
Parole documents, correspondence, Freedom of Information Act files, U.S. Department of Justice files, FBI files, CIA files.
also FHL PG 7
Papers, 1895-1980 1933-1954.
10 linear in.
Quaker, feminist, internationalist,
and first curator (1935-1951) of the Jane Addams Peace Collection (later the
Personal correspondence (1935-1953), travel journals, address books,
notes, and manuscripts and typescripts of articles and related correspondence
and research notes. Includes material about a trip to
1 folder (25 in):
American Friends Service
Committee staff member from 1947; director of the Community Peace Education
Program; head of the Quaker International Centre in Delhi, India; traveled to
Jamaica, England, Mexico, and Japan; pastor of Grace Lutheran Church in Camden,
N.J. for eight years; imprisoned as a conscientious objector during World War
II; worked on Speak Truth to Power
and many pamphlets for AFSC.
Pamphlet, obituary, diary excerpts.
also FHL PG 7
1 box (2 in):
Conscientious
objector in World War I; repeatedly court-martialed; anti-imperialist and Socialist
activist; Member of Parliament both in the House of Commons and later the House
of Lords.
News articles, statements, official correspondence, pamphlets and other writings.
Papers of Marion Bromley and Ernest Bromley, 1945-1995.
3.3 linear ft.
Marion Coddington
Bromley: 1912 or 1913-Jan. 21, 1996; Ernest Bromley: Mar.14, 1912-Dec. 17, 1997;
absolute pacifists, war-tax resisters, Quakers; worked for racial integration
in the
Primarily correspondence of Marion Bromley, 1945-1995; also includes biographical material, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, two unpublished play scripts by Marion Bromley.
Papers, 1966-1989.
3 boxes (51 folders).
Quaker
peace activist and member of Doylestown Monthly Meeting in
Correspondence, notes, clippings, and other files concerning peace and justice issues. Includes material on Daniel Berrigan, Robert Whittington Eaton, the Plowshares Eight, Vietnamese conflict, Continental Walk for Disarmament, corporate divestiture, Central American refugees, and many other issues. Correspondents include Noam Chomsky, Alexander Calder, Theodore Friend, Kai Yutah Clouds, Father Paul Kabat, and others.
Papers, 1917-1974.
1 linear ft.
Henry J. Cadbury, a
distinguished Biblical scholar and teacher, was a founder of the American Friends
Service Committee. He served as its chairman from both 1928 to 1934 and from
1944 to 1960. Cadbury supervised famine relief both in the
Peace-related papers including mss. and
typescripts of Cadbury's published and unpublished writings, articles and pamphlets
by others, scattered related correspondence, and subject files on topics including
Quakerism, pacifism, conscientious objection, war tax refusal, militarism, peace
education, and civil liberties, especially academic loyalty oaths. Series are:
LOCATION: Peace Collection Archives, DG 81.
1918
1 folder
Member of
Papers, 1955-
10 linear ft. 
Katherine Lindsley Camp, born Mt. Kisco NY; Quaker; graduate of Swarthmore College (1940); elected president of the U.S. Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1967, and served as international president, 1974-1980; founder of the Citizens Bi-Racial Study Group; former president of the Pennsylvania Women's Political Caucus; made unsuccessful bid for Congress in 1972 on the Democratic ticket in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
Includes correspondence, manuscripts, minutes of meetings, newspaper clippings, reference files, and photographs. Correspondents include Edith Ballantyne.
Carner, Lucy Perkins, 1886-1983
Papers, 1953-1977.
5 linear in.
Lucy Perkins Carner,
born York, Pennsylvania; graduated from Bryn Mawr
College in 1908; received M.A. in sociology from Columbia University in 1924;
social worker; Quaker; pacifist and war-tax resister.
Includes biographical information, correspondence (1953, 1960-1977),
writings, and a scrapbook about
Catchpool,
Corder, 1883-1952
Collection, 1914-1952.
5 linear in.
Pacifist, conscientious
objector, British Quaker, engineer; decorated for service with Friends Ambulance
Unit while imprisoned in England for conscientious objection to World War I;
described war experiences in his book On
Two Fronts; arrested in Berlin in 1933 while a secretary for the International
Quaker Centre; worked for international understanding and release of conscientious
objectors.
Includes correspondence, documents related to Catchpool's military and conscientious objector status, newspaper clippings, and pamphlets.
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the papers of this individual.
Center for War/Peace Studies (
Collection, 1966-[ongoing].
2.5 linear in.
Organized
1966 by the New York Friends Group to carry out community and adult education
on world affairs and U.S foreign policy issues. The Center's name
was changed to Center for Global Perspectives in 1976, but a subsequent reorganization
restored the original name.
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the records of this organization.
Center on Conscience & War
Records, 1940-[ongoing].
648 linear ft.
Formed in 1940 as the
National Service Board for Religious Objectors; changed its name to National
Interreligious Service Board for Conscientious Objectors in
1970, and to The Center on Conscience & War (CCW) in December, 1999; works
to defend and extend the rights of conscientious objectors; founded by the historic
peace churches (the Society of Friends (Quakers), Brethren and Mennonites) to
provide a unified approach to the federal government in matters concerning conscientious
objection and alternative services; headquartered in Washington, D.C.
The collection includes minutes of the Board of Directors and
Consultative Council (1943-1969), correspondence (1940-1973), memoranda, literature
and releases, financial records, statistics, subject files, newspaper clippings,
photographs, and motion pictures. In addition to the administrative records
of the
Some restrictions apply.
1948-[ongoing]
131 linear ft.
Founded
in 1948 following passage of the Selective Service Act. Most active during
the Korean and
Includes draft and military counselors' case files & legal files; meeting minutes (1948- ); releases; statements; memoranda; manuals; staff members' files; photographs; A/V material; news clippings; subject & reference files pertaining to military service, conscientious objection & Selective Service regulations. Correspondents include Douglis Farnsworth, James Feldman, E. First, Steve Gulick, Jon Landau, Robert K. Musil, Robert A. Seeley, Arlo Tatum, George Willoughby, Irene Wren, & Eric E. Wright.
Papers, 1906-1990, Bulk 1958-1979.
8.25 lin. ft.
Horace
Champney; born Cleveland, Ohio; graduated from Antioch College in 1932; Ph.
D. 
from
Ohio State University; joined the Antioch Press as a printer and editor;
a founder of The Peacemakers, a movement of revolutionary pacifists begun in
Chicago in 1948; sailed to North Vietnam with other Quakers on the yacht Phoenix;
established a personal vigil and fast at the gates of the White House, protesting
the war; advocate of war-tax resistance; member of A Quaker Action Group, the
American Friends Service Committee, the Committee for Nonviolent Action, and
the Fellowship of Reconciliation; died in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
Papers consist of correspondence, diaries, journals, flyers, newspaper clippings, minutes of meetings; essays and newspaper and periodical articles by Champney; diaries, journals, manuscripts, correspondence, pamphlets, documents and memorabilia from the Phoenix mission to North Vietnam; includes material about imprisoned antiwar activists Bruce Ashley, DeCourcy Squire, and Marjorie Swann, and about pacifist martyr Norman Morrison; includes approximately 586 photos, mostly black and white snapshots taken during the Phoenix voyage. Major correspondents include: Le Thi Anh, Betty Boardman, Ernest Bromley, Marion Bromley, Beulah Champney, Ken Champney, Ross Flanagan, Barbara Reynolds, Earle Reynolds, Lee Stern, Christine Wise, and Carl Zietlow.
Organized in 8 series: A. Biographical information; B. Correspondence,
general; C. Champney family correspondence; D. Writings
of Horace Champney and Freeman Champney; E. Social activism of Horace Champney;
F. Phoenix mission to North Vietnam, general; G. Phoenix mission to North Vietnam,
diaries, journals; H. Phoenix mission to North Vietnam, accounts of the voyage,
publication of manuscripts.
Chance, Harold
Collection, 1943-1944.
.5 linear in.
Harold
Chance served as head of the Peace Section, American Friends Service Committee.
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the papers of this individual.
Children's Crusade
for Peace
Collection, 1915.
1 linear in.
Organized during World War I by Caroline S. Walter and Mrs. Jesse Philips (who were Quakers), the Crusade recruited children and spoke through them for "a better way" to peace than by means of war.
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the records of this organization.
Citizens
Conference on Ending the War in
Collection, 1971.
A project of the American
Friends Service Committee, Clergy and Laymen Concerned, and the Fellowship of
Reconciliation, the conference was attended by 170 Americans in
The Swarthmore Peace Collection is not the official repository for the records of this conference.
SEE American Friends Service Committee. Civilian Public Service.
Civilian
Public Service personal papers and collected papers
8.4 linear ft.
Civilian Public Service
(CPS) was set up to provide alternative service for conscientious objectors
during World War II. This unique church-state partnership established a program
in which over 12,000 men performed "work of national importance" primarily
in camps administered by the historic peace churches (the Brethren, Friends,
and Mennonites). Their work included firefighting, serving in mental hospitals
and as "guinea pigs" in medical experiments." In 1964,
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Chiefly the personal papers of conscientious objectors assigned to Civilian Public Service (CPS) camps during World War II, including correspondence, writings, and reference material about CPS. There is material relating to CPS projects including the Chicago Conference on Social Action (1943) and the Food for Europe Fund (1946). There are studies of the effects of CPS camps on conscientious objectors by Paul A. Wilhelm (1987-1989) and Cynthia Eller (1990). Correspondents include Howard W. and Mary Alice Alexander, Purnell H. Benson, Franklin H. Briggs, Samuel Cooper, Rex M. Corfman, Henry W. Dyer, William M. Fuson, Harold S. Guetzkow, Channing B. Richardson, Russel I. Smith, Richard S Sterne, Eugene S. and Louise Wilson, Harold P. Winchester, and Curtis Zahn.
Organized in three series: I. Personal papers; II. CPS Projects; III. CPS Recalled.
Some restrictions apply.
Civilian Training Unit for Women
Collection, 1941-1942.
.5 linear in.
The Committee, originally
called Women's Work Committee, prepared women for "service at home and
abroad." The Unit was set up at Highacres
Farm, Glen Mills,
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the records of this organization.
Papers, 1853-1999.
35 boxes ; 18 linear ft.
Rebecca Timbres
Correspondence, journals (1921-1922), biographical data, articles, speeches, reviews, poetry, pictures, and memorabilia, relating chiefly to relief work in eastern Europe, and especially Poland and Russia, undertaken by Clark and her first husband, Harry Garland Timbres, a Quaker physician, under the auspices of the American Friends Service Committee, but also relating to Clark's later medical and social work in India, where she served in a school founded by Rabindranath Tagore, and in Hawaii. Correspondents include Charles Freer Andrews and Horace Alexander. Previously cited as: Janney-Timbres Papers.
Papers, 1910-1955.
2 boxes (1 linear ft.).
Quaker author, reformer,
and pacifist of Manchester, Vermont and Philadelphia, Pa.; born in Norfolk,
Correspondence, biographical data, essays, pageants and poetry, clippings, memorabilia, and photographs. Includes a grangerized copy of Cleghorn's autobiography, Threescore, and her War Journal of a Pacifist. Correspondents include Emily Greene Balch, A.J. Muste, Scott Nearing, Clarence Pickett, Norman Thomas, and Muriel Lester.
Access to all or part
of the material is restricted. Consult Friends Historical Library for further
information.
Collection, 1960.
.25 linear in.
The College Peace
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the records of this organization.
Records, 1957-1968 (bulk)
18.75 linear ft.
The Committee for Nonviolent
Action was organized in 1957 by
Minutes (1957-1968), financial records (1957-1967), literature (1957-1967), correspondence (1962-1966), project files (1957-1967), branch records, and periodicals. Correspondents include Marv Davidov, Neil Haworth, Bradford Lyttle, A.J. Muste, Barbara Reynolds, Earle Reynolds, Lawrence Scott, Marjorie Swann, Robert Swann, George Willoughby
Organized in 15 series. Important
series are:
Committee for Quaker
Peace Witness
1 folder (.125 in):
Organized the November 1960 Washington Pilgrimage and two-day vigil
at the Pentagon; chaired by Henry J. Cadbury; also called the Quaker Peace Witness
Committee.
Pamphlets, news articles.
LOCATION: Friends Historical Library: Pamphlet Group 3
Committee to
Support South African War Resisters
1 folder (.125 in):
Group dedicated to supporting the opponents of apartheid in South Africa
and opposing the draft in the United States.
Flyer.
LOCATION: Friends Historical Library: Pamphlet Group 3
Conference on
Peace (Richmond, Indiana : Oct. 26-28, 1950)
1 folder (.125 in):
Conference which reaffirmed the absolute nature of the peace testimony.
Statement.
LOCATION: Friends Historical Library: Pamphlet Group 3
Conference
on Peace and Conscription (Richmond, Indiana : July 2-4, 1940)
1 folder (.25 in)
Goals included finding ways to bring World War II to a rapid, peaceful end and to keep the United States out of war.
Attendance list, news articles, minutes, reports, other documents.
LOCATION: Friends Historical Library: Pamphlet Group 3
Conference
on Peace and Reconstruction (Wilmington, Ohio : Aug. 31-Sept. 4, 1942)
1 folder (.25 in):
Focused on how to create a permanent peaceful world order.
Pamphlet.
LOCATION: Friends Historical Library: Pamphlet Group 3
Conference
on Young Friends and the Peace Testimony (Richmond, Indiana : June 12-13, 1946)
1 folder (.125 in):
Concerned with keeping the peace testimony clear and effective in the lives of young friends.
Report.
LOCATION: Friends Historical Library: Pamphlet Group 3
Cope, Paul Markley
1919
1 folder
Quaker, member of the Friends Reconstruction
Unit.
Papers, 1940-1947.
3.25 linear ft.
Julien
Cornell was a graduate of Swarthmore College, class of 1930, and a Quaker.
He was a lawyer who defended conscientious objectors and was notable for his
defense of civil rights, most notably as the defense attorney of Ezra Pound,
who was accused of treason during World War II.
Some restrictions apply.
DeRosa, Ulysses,
b. ca. 1892
1980
1 folder
Born in Italy; Socialist, convinced a Quaker,
June 1917; in Oct. 1918, sentenced to
life imprisonment; reduced to 25 years; imprisoned at
Papers Relating to Quaker History, 1756-1874.
28 folders.
Hi Doty was a convinced
Friend active in peace and justice issues in the
This collection includes original manuscripts collected by
Hi Doty relating to early Quaker involvement in Indian affairs from 1756 to
1821 and the Friendly Association. Of particular interest are documents concerning
the settlement at
Collected Papers, 1884-
15 linear in.
The Doukhobors
(also spelled Dukhobors) are a pacifist sect. They
originated in 
but
some also remained in
Includes correspondence between members of the Elkinton family and Doukhobors in Canada, 1899-1999; writings of Elkinton family members about the Doukhobors; biographical information about David Cope Elkinton; other correspondence by and about the Doukhobors; books, pamphlets, and manuscripts by and about the Doukhobors including books by Claude Laing Fisher, David C. Henderson, Basil Pozdynakov, Koozma J. Tarasoff, and Joseph S. Elkinton; administrative files of the Society of Friends' Doukhobor Committee (under the care of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting), 1903-1921; scrapbooks, photographs, and memorabilia.
Collection, 1931-1933.
3 linear in.
The Emergency Peace
Committee was sponsored by several peace organizations, including the Women's
International League for Peace and Freedom, the American Friends Service Committee,
and the Fellowship of Reconciliation, for the purpose of coordinating and furthering
peace ideas. Committee meetings were held in
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the records of this organization.
Papers, 1916-1922.
1.25 linear ft.
Quaker
leader and lawyer active in educational and peace programs of the Society of
Friends.
Scattered correspondence and miscellaneous records of various
peace organizations including American Friends Service Committee executive committee
minutes and bulletins; Fellowship of Reconciliation executive committee minutes,
memos, financial statements, and newsletters; completed applications for American
Friends Reconstruction Unit; and minutes (1919-1922) of Peace Committee of Philadelphia
Yearly Meeting. Much of the correspondence is by Evans and includes information
on American Friends Reconstruction Unit (1917-1918), Conference of Christian
Pacifists (1917-1918), All Friends Conference held in
Includes typescripts treating special concerns of Quakerism and material relating to the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Correspondents include Roger N. Baldwin, Gilbert A. Beaver, William C. Biddle, Henry J. Cadbury, Noble S. Elderkin, Walter G. Fuller, Floyd Hardin, Henry T. Hodgkin, Paul Jones, Rufus M. Jones, Mary Kelsey, Scott Nearing, Vincent D. Nicholson, Anne Garrett Walton Pennell, Norman Thomas, Wilbur K. Thomas, Robert Whitaker, L. Hollingsworth Wood, and Walter C. Woodward.
Papers, ca. 1788-ca. 1804.
2 boxes (7 vols.) ; 1 linear ft.
Joshua Evans, a Quaker
minister and abolitionist, was born in West Jersey, a member of Haddonfield
Monthly Meeting. About the year 1754, he experienced a religious conversion
and thereafter devoted his life to sharing his rigorous interpretation of the
Gospel through an ascetic and pious life style and simple ministry. Barely educated,
he nevertheless was acknowledged as a minister by Haddonfield Monthly Meeting
in 1759. Evans was a vegetarian and a fervent proponent of the peace testimony,
Quaker plainness, and ending slavery. In 1798, he traveled through the
southern states condemning slavery in the strongest terms. Returning to
This collection contains the autobiography (1731-1993) of Joshua
Evans and portions of the journals, kept while traveling in the ministry among
Friends in
at
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