Records, 1959-1964.

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Records, 1959-1964.

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The collection includes correspondence among leadership discussing policy, tactics, and organizational activity. There are also convention reports, minutes of the steering committee, and two SPU publications, the Discussion Bulletin and the Student Peace Union Bulletin. Philip G. Altbach was national chairman. Groups in touch with the SPU included the American Friends Service Committee, the War Resisters' League, and Students for a Democratic Society. The issues of most concern to the movement, and the main object of their protests, were: the arms race, nuclear weapons testing, racial segregation, the U.S. position during the Cuban Missile Crisis (October, 1962), and the U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

5 linear in. (1 box)

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College Peace Union.

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The College Peace Union was formed by the communities of nine New England colleges, aided by the American Friends Services Committee and the Fellowship of Reconciliation, to seek alternatives to war. From the description of Collection, 1960. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 27645227 ...

Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.)

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Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) is a radical student group that descended from the Intercollegiate Socialist Society (ISS) which was founded in 1905. The ISS changed its name in 1921 to the League for Industrial Democracy (LID), a social-democratic educational and organizational group. Its student branch, the Student League for Industrial Democracy (SLID), merged with National Student League in 1935 to form American Student Union (ASU) but soon split over ASUs alleged communist affiliati...

Student Peace Union (U.S.)

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Founded at University of Chicago in 1959 as an organization of young people who believed that neither war nor the threat of war can be successfully used to settle international disputes; headquartered in Chicago until 1964 when SPU office was closed down and re-opened in New York; Feb. 1967 merged with Campus Americans for Democratic Action to become Independent Student Union. From the description of Records, 1959-1967. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 1546...

War Resisters League

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The War Resisters League (WRL) was established in 1923 through the initiative of Jessie Wallace Hughan. It began as an organization for men and women willing to sign a pledge refusing to support war of any kind. During World War II, it lent both moral and legal support to conscientious objectors, especially absolute pacifists who refused to participate even in civilian alternative service, often for reasons other than religious beliefs. In 1968, the WRL merged with the Committee for Nonviolent A...

Altbach, Philip G.

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American friends service committee

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Quaker organization formed to promote peace and reconciliation through its social service and relief programs. From the description of American Friends Service Committee records, 1933-1988 (bulk 1933-1938). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983753 The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) was organized 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. A ...