The Swarthmore College Peace Collection (SCPC) gathers, preserves, and makes accessible material that documents non-governmental efforts for non-violent social change, disarmament, and conflict resolution between peoples and nations. The Swarthmore College Peace Collection (SCPC) was established as a research library and archives in 1930 (circa), when Jane Addams of Hull-House in Chicago donated h
er books and papers related to peace and social justice to Swarthmore College. In addition, the organization she helped found -- the Woman's Peace Party, later called the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom -- began depositing its files at about the same time. From these two collections, the SCPC has grown to encompass the papers of many individuals and the records of numerous organizations, reflecting the spread of the peace movement (circa 1815 to the present), in the United States and around the world. The SCPC also holds material on such subjects as pacifism, women and peace, conscientious objection, nonviolence, civil disobedience, progressivism, the Vietnam era, African-American protest and civil rights, feminism, civil liberties, the history of social work, and other reform movements.
