Peace Collection

Resources (11)

• Time did not permit a thorough search, but it is probable that in various record groups in the Peace Collection, such as the American Friends Service Committee, 1917–47, 9 ft., the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1919 to date, 100 ft., and A. Ruth Fry (1918–1962), 2 ft., there is additional Russian-related material. In addition, Collective Document Group B (secondary material) includes 5 document boxes of USSR material relating to Leo Tolstoi, Jan Gotlieb Bloch, Catharine Breshkovsky, Russian Reconstruction Farms (famine relief), international affairs, peaceful coexistence, and miscellaneous.

• A. Ruth Fry

  Papers, 1905-1957. 1.1 linear feet [papers only]. [Anna] Ruth Fry was an activist and a writer born into a prominent Quaker family in England. From 1914-1924, she served as general secretary of the Friends Relief Commission, which provided help for refugees and others ravaged by World War I. Fry wrote about her experiences in A Quaker Adventure (1926). She was also the first chairman of the Russian Famine Relief Fund in 1921. Fry went on to write numerous books, pamphlets and tracts, on a variet of Quaker and peace topics. She died on April 26, 1962. The Fry Papers contain biographical information; correspondence (1918-1948); a scrapbook (1925-1942); photographs; hand-drawn maps of Friends' relief work in Poland and the Soviet Union; and her writings. The latter consist of books, numerous peace tracts, articles and reports that were printed in newspapers and periodicals, and manuscript reports and journals about her trips to France, Holland, Belgium, Austria, the Soviet Union, Germany, the United States, Switzerland, and South Africa (with her father and alone). Finding aid available: http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/DG026-050/DG046ARFry.html

• Abraham Johannes Muste (1885-1967)

  Papers, 1930–67, ca. 24 ft. Pacifist, minister, labor leader. Director of Brookwood Labor College, 1921–33. Materials concerning atomic energy questions relate in part to the Soviet Union. He had many other contacts with the USSR including the U.S.-USSR peace leadership exchange project.

• Anna Melissa Graves (1875-1964)

  Papers, 1919–47, 10 ft. Pacifist and worker for liberal causes. Includes correspondence from Angelica Balabanoff and Bertram Wolfe. (NUCMC 61–3533)

• Dorothy Detzer

  Papers, 1913-1981. 3 linear feet [papers only]. Chiefly correspondence (1924-1980), much of it related to Detzer's leadership in Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; together with speeches, congressional testimony, and writings by her, oral history interview, thesis, articles, and clippings about her, biographical material, and memorabilia. Includes material relating to her book Appointment on the Hill, relief work in Austria for American Friends Service Committee after World War I, work as AFSC famine relief administrator in the Volga Valley of Russia, work as national executive secretary of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, work for disarmament and economic justice, work focusing attention on exploitation of African countries particularly Ethiopia and Liberia by U.S. business concessions, and work as a freelance foreign correspondent. Correspondents include Jane Addams, Emily Greene Balch, Roger N. Baldwin, A. Fenner Brockway, Raymond Leslie Buell, Kathleen D. Courtney, W.E.B. DuBois, Morris L. Ernst, Felix Frankfurter, Mitchell Gordon, Anna Melissa Graves, Louis Arthur Grimes, Sidney L. Gulick, Holman Hamilton, H.L. Mitchell, Mildred Scott Olmsted, Drew Pearson, Rosemary Rainbolt, Mercedes M. Randall, Huldah W. Randell, Meta Riseman, Izetta Robb, Barbara Sicherman, Jessica Smith, George Weller, Sumner Welles, and Walter White. Finding aid available: https://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/DG051-099/DG086Detzer.html
  

• Emily Greene Balch (1867-1961)

  Papers, 1893–1961, 52 ft. Economist and sociologist, shared the Nobel Peace Prize with John R. Mott in 1946. Includes scattered items relating to Russia/USSR ca. 1917. (NUCMC 60–1200)

• Helene Stocker (1869-1943)

  Papers, 1896–1943, 5 ft. Pacifist and feminist in preHitler Germany and abroad. Correspondents include Emma Goldman and William Henry Chamberlin. (NUCMC 61–3543)

• International Peace Walk Records (1986-)

  5.5 linear feet. The IPW was begun in January, 1987 by individuals who had participated in the Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament. IPW members organized marches across the United States and the Soviet Union in 1987 and 1988, with marches planned for future years. The purpose was to create a climate of trust between American and Soviet citizens in which arms control and reductions would become increasingly easier, and to focus attention on the costs of the U.S.-Soviet arms race. The IPW was headquartered in Washington, D.C., with regional U.S. offices. The collection includes correspondence, administrative files, marcher applications, newspaper clippings, photographs, slides, and banners. Among the correspondents are: Allan Affeldt, Allen Smith, and Franklin Folsom. Finding aid available: https://www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/DG100-150/dg150ipw.htm

• Jane Addams (1860-1935)

  Papers, 1838–1935, 90 ft. Social worker, co-founder of Hull House, a founder of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient. Includes materials on American reactions to the Russian revolutions of 1917 and other scattered items pertaining to Russia. (NUCMC 60–2187)

• Lawrence Scott

  Papers, 1955-1965. 7.5 linear feet. Chiefly materials from the Vigil at Fort Detrick, Frederick, Maryland, protesting the U.S. Army biological weapons research and testing center, including correspondence, memos, statements by members of the vigil, financial records, newsletters, bound notebooks, press releases, clippings, and photos; together with materials relating to Scott's work as supervisor of the Friends Mississippi Project to rebuild fire-bombed churches of black congregations in Mississippi, including reports by Scott, scattered correspondence, financial records, news items, and fused glass and bell fragments; and papers relating to his activities against nuclear weapons and chemical and biological warfare with Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (later Committee for Nonviolent Action), Nevada Project, Washington Prayer Vigil, Pacific Project which sponsored the voyage of the Golden Rule to Eniwetok Proving Grounds, European Project which focused on nuclear testing by British and Soviet governments, and Peace Action Center. Finding aid available: https://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/DG051-099/dg090LScott.html
  
  

• Sydney Dix Strong (1860-1940)

  Papers, 1914–40, 2 ft. Includes papers of his daughter, Anna Louise Strong (1885–1970), journalist, educator, and Russian publicist. (NUCMC 61–3544)