Records, 1950-1967, bulk 1959-1965.

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Records, 1950-1967, bulk 1959-1965.

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Includes correspondence, minutes of meetings, financial records, administrative files, and reports; little material survives from the early years; much of the material was generated while Paul Peachey was Executive Secretary (1962-1964). Correspondents include John Heidbrink, A.J. Muste, John Oliver Nelson, Paul Peachey, John Nevin Sayre, J. Harold Sherk, Glenn Smiley, and John Howard Yoder.

5.4 linear ft.

Swarthmore College, Peace Collection, SCPC

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SNAC Resource ID: 7242955

Swarthmore College, Peace Collection, SCPC

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Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.)

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The Fellowship of Reconciliation was established in December of 1914, during a meeting at Cambridge, England. Its members believed that Christians were forbidden to wage war, and that instead they should work positively to establish a new world order of peace and justice. The F.O.R. had its office in London. It produced and distributed literature, including its monthly magazine Reconciliation; worked with youth; fostered groups of members throughout the country; and supported the work of the Int...

Peachey, Paul, 1918-

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Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977

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Episcopalian minister, pacifist and internationalist; staff member of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, American Section, 1924-1967, served as chair, 1935-1940; worked with the International Fellowship of Reconciliation and served as chair, 1935-1955; served as editor of The World Tomorrow (1922-1924) and Fellowship magazine 1940-1945); a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union and the Committee on Militarism in Education. From the description of Papers, 1885-1982 1922-1967 (bu...

Heidbrink, John

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Swarthmore College. Peace Collection.

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Muste, A. J. (Abraham John), 1885-1967

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Clergyman, pacifist. From the description of Reminiscences of Abraham John Muste : oral history, 1954. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309741542 From the description of Reminiscences of Abraham John Muste : oral history, 1965. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122681124 A.J. Muste (1885-1967). Muste's involvement as a labor organizer began in 1919. When he led strikes in the textile mills of Lawrenc...

Church Peace Mission (U.S.)

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Began in 1950; objective was to challenge peace groups and denominations to "devote their energies to the removal of the social, economic and moral causes of ... war"; the Fellowship of Reconciliation was instrumental in the creation and continuation of the CPM; other affiliated groups included the American Friends Service Committee, the Brethren Service Committee, the Baptist Pacifist Fellowship, the Episcopal Peace Fellowship, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and the Friends General Conferenc...

Sherk, J. Harold,

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Nelson, John Oliver, 1909-1990

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Smiley, Glenn E.

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Yoder, John Howard

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