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The Campaign for World Government, founded by Rosika Schwimmer and Lola Maverick Lloyd in December 1937, was among the first organizations to advocate a democratic federal world government. The Campaign was divided between two offices in separate cities, with the international campaign headquartered in New York City and the national campaign in Chicago. This collection consists of the records of the Chicago office, but documents both the Campaign's international and national efforts. Records of the New York office are described separately.

Papers of Seattle pacifist and proponent of nonviolent civil disobedience and cooperative distribution.

The collection consists primarily of correspondence, and also includes Deming's writings and material she collected, documenting her activities, thoughts, and friendships. Also included are family photographs and correspondence, financial records, and audiotapes. The papers provide an overview of her early writings and a complete view of her writing and attempts to publish after the late 1960s. The collection contains documents by and about numerous female and male writers, publishers, photographers, painters, and political activists from the early 1940s through the early 1980s, mostly in the United States. The papers document the peace movement and its use of nonviolent direct action in the 1960s, and shed light on the 1960s civil rights movement and on the women's movement and lesbian activism in the 1970s and 1980s. The papers also document Deming's long-term relationships, including those with Mary Meigs and Jane Gapen Watrous Verlaine, and provide some information about women ...

Correspondence, printed materials, and other papers from the files of the editors of the M̲i̲c̲h̲i̲g̲a̲n̲ F̲.̲O̲.̲R̲.̲ N̲e̲w̲s̲, largely relating to the peace movement and the problem of conscientious objection; also tape recording of Dr. Martin Niemoeller at the F.O.R. national conference in 1954. Correspondents include: Henry H. Crane, Homer Ferguson, Patrick V. McNamara, George Meader, Abraham J. Muste, Scott Nearing, Wallace F. Nelson, Martin Niemoeller, Charles E. Potter, Bayard Rustin, John N.

Correspondence, newsclippings, sermons, lectures, and nearprint material covering Rabbi Kaplan's relationship with his former teacher Stephen S. Wise, his work as the rabbi of Temple Anshe Anonim, Pittsfield, Mass. (1926-1935), and as Ohio State University Hillel director (1935-1969) -- Subjects and correspondents include American Jewish Congress, Lore Benjamin, P.H. Bloom, Louis D. Brandeis, Juda Cahn, Jehudah M. Cohen, George Ende, Victor Eppstein, Bernard Efraim Farber, Oscar Fleishaker, Newton J. Friedman, Norman E. Frimer, Julius Funk, Harold L. Gelfman, Joseph Gitin, Nelson Glueck, Robert E. Goldburg, Theodore Gordon, Joseph Gumbiner, Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America, Arthur Hertzberg, Herbert Honig, John Haynes Holmes, Jewish Institute of Religion Alumni Association, Harry Jolt, Louis A. Josephson, Alfred Jospe, Benjamin M. Kahn, William Kesselman, A. Lincoln Krohn, Arthur B. Lebowitz, Harry O.A. Levine, Ernst M. Lorge, Jacob R. Marcus, A. Elihu Michelson, ...

The records of the War Resisters League include minutes of its executive committee, correspondence, literature, releases, mailings, and annual peace calendars. There are committee files, branch records, material about projects including publication of its newspaper The Conscientious Objector, and the files of administrators Abraham Kaufman, Ralph DiGia, David McReynolds, and Grace Hedemann. Correspondents include: Sidney Aberman, Devere Allen, Rex M. Corfman, Julius Eichel, Edward P. Gottlieb, George W. Hartmann, Ed Hedemann, Grace Hedemann, Ammon A. Hennacy, John Haynes Holmes, Jessie Wallace Hughan, Abraham Kaufman, Roy Kepler, Frieda L. Lazarus, David McReynolds, A.J. Muste, Tracy Mygatt, Frank Olmstead, Bayard Rustin, Igal Roodenko, and Wendy Schwartz

The records of the Chicago office of the Campaign for World Government contain correspondence, office files and printed material -- The correspondence, dating from 1937-1995, is with individuals and organizations in the world government movement in the U.S. and abroad. Office files contain correspondence, speeches, memoranda, minutes, photographs and related materials, covering such topics as membership, federal legislation, legal status, publicity and funding. Other records concern international affairs, the United Nations, world federalism, peace and disarmament. Printed material includes press releases, brochures, surveys and bulletins, some of which is from other organizations, associations and committees involved in world federalism, peace and related issues

Letters, publications, appointment calendars and other papers (448 items) document McCain's involvement with local and national civil rights organizations; bulk of items evidence his interest in local issues such as illiteracy, integration of public schools, and low voter turnout in S.C.'s black communities; includes essays, keynote addresses re suffrage, "black power," etc.; many booklets, speeches, agendas, and other items document conferences around the U.S. which McCain attended