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American Friends Service Committee Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American Friends Service Committee
Abstract
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) was set up 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.
Dates:
1917-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Horace Champney Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-166
Abstract
Horace Champney was a pacifist active in various causes from the late 1940s through the 1980s. He was a founder of The Peacemakers Movement in the 1950s and interested in civil rights, war tax refusal, and other social justice causes. Champney was a member A Quaker Action Group and a crew member of the ship the Phoenix, which sailed to North Vietnam with medical supplies, during the Vietnam war.
Dates:
1958-1990; Majority of material found within 1958-1979
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-048
Abstract
The Federal Council of Churches organized its Committee on the Conscientious Objector under its Department of International Justice and Goodwill in 1941. The Committee was interested in all aspects of conscientious objection, especially religious life in Civilian Public Service camps. Among the Committee's projects was the organizing of a program of visitation to CPS camps.
Dates:
1941-1946
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Friends Committee on National Legislation Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-047
Abstract
A Quaker lobbying group established in 1943 to bring conscience and spiritual values to the political process in Washington; it grew out of the work of the Friends War Problems Committee in 1940.
Dates:
1943-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
A. J. Muste Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-050
Overview
A.J. Muste (1885-1967), was ordained a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, but later (1917), he became a member of the Society of Friends. During World War I, Muste's refusal to abandon his pacifist position led to his forced resignation from the Central Congregational Church in Newtonville, Massachusetts. Muste's involvement as a labor organizer began in 1919 when he led strikes in the textile mills of Lawrence, Massachusetts. He became the director of the Brookwood Labor College in...
Dates:
1920-1967
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Daniel A. Seeger Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Seeger, Daniel A.
Overview
Seeger is best known for the 1965 Supreme Court court case regarding his conscientious objector claim without belief in a Supreme Being as grounds for C.O. status.
Dates:
1958-2008
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Norman J. Whitney Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-061
Overview
Norman Jehiel Whitney (1891-1967) was a Quaker teacher, writer and devoted peace worker. From 1919-1957 he helped establish, and directed for many years, the Syracuse Peace Council. He left Syracuse in 1957 to work for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in peace education. Whitney's major peace work was in the area of counseling conscientious objectors to war (COs), particularly those in Civilian Public Service (CPS) camps. In 1941 he helped establish the New York State Board for...
Dates:
1938-1967
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
George Willoughby and Lillian Willoughby Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-236
Overview
George Willoughby (December 9, 1914 - January 5, 2010) and Lillian Willoughby (c. 1916 - January 15, 2009) were Quaker activists who took part in nonviolent protests against war, conducted nonviolence trainings in India and other countries, and advocated for preservation of land in New Jersey and elsewhere.
Dates:
1931-2010
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 6
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- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 3
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 2
- War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- African Americans -- Civil rights 1
- Ballistic missiles -- United States 1
- California -- Politics and government 1
- Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights -- United States 1
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights workers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious Objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
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- Civilian Public Service 3
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 3
- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 3
- A Quaker Action Group 2
- Jack, Homer A. (Homer Alexander), 1916-1993 2
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 2
- Reynolds, Earle L. 2
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 2
- American Friends Service Committee. Committee on Rights of Conscience 1
- Angell, Stephen Ward, 1952- 1
- Anh, Le Thi 1
- Aptheker, Herbert, 1915-2003 1
- Ashley, Bruce 1
- Benoit, Emile 1
- Berg, Lloyd A. 1
- Bliss, George I. 1
- Boardman, Elizabeth Jelinek, 1917- 1
- Boss, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), 1888- 1
- Brethren Service Committee 1
- Bromley, Ernest 1
- Canadian Friends Service Committee 1
- Cary, Stephen G. 1
- Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors 1
- Champney, Beulah 1
- Champney, Horace 1
- Champney, Ken 1
- Clergy and Laity Concerned (U.S.) 1
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 1
- Congress of Racial Equality 1
- Cook, Cara 1
- Cooper, Wilmer A. (Wilmer Albert) 1
- Cousins, Norman 1
- Daniel Seeger Defense Fund of the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors 1
- Darlington, Charles J. (Charles Joseph), 1894-1966 1
- Delaware Valley Land Trust 1
- Elkinton, J. Passmore (Joseph Passmore), 1887-1971 1
- Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Committee on the Conscientious Objector 1
- Flanagan, Ross, 1934- 1
- Foulke, Thomas Albert, 1893-1962 1
- Frankel, Morton 1
- Freeman, Harrop A. (Harrop Arthur), 1907-1993 1
- Friends Committee on Legislation of Northern California 1
- Friends Committee on Legislation. Southern California Section 1
- Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.) 1
- Fromm, Erich, 1900-1980 1
- Furnas, Paul J. 1
- Golden Rule (Ketch) 1
- Hadley, Jeanette 1
- Harker, Charles H. 1
- Hartman, Grover L. 1
- Hester, Hugh B. (Hugh Bryan), 1895-1983 1
- Hutchinson, Dorothy H. (Dorothy Hewitt), 1905-1984 1
- Illinois-Wisconsin Friends Committee on Legislation 1
- Innerst, J. Stuart, 1894-1975 1
- Jacob, Philip E. 1
- Kennan, George F. (George Frost), 1904-2005 1
- Lakey, George 1
- Lens, Sidney 1
- Levering, Samuel R. 1
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 1
- Lynd, Staughton 1
- Lyttle, Bradford 1
- McReynolds, David 1
- Mennonite Central Committee 1
- Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors 1
- Morrison, Norman R., 1933-1965 1
- Movement for a New Society 1
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 1
- National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (U.S.) 1
- National Council for Prevention of War (U.S.) 1
- National Service Board for Religious Objectors 1
- Neely, Frances E. 1
- New York State Board for Civilian Public Service 1
- Niles, Mary Cushing Howard 1
- Noel-Baker, Philip, 1889-1982 1
- Pacifist Research Bureau 1
- Paschkis, V. (Victor) 1
- Peace Brigades International 1
- Peacemaker Movement 1
- Pendle Hill (School: Wallingford, Pa.) 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Civilian Public Service Fund Committee 1
- Phoenix (Yacht) 1
- Rapoport, Anatol, 1911-2007 1
- Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) 1
- Roszak, Theodore, 1933-2011 1
- Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970 1
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 1
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 1
- Seeger, Daniel A. 1
- Shivers, Lynne 1
- Snyder, Edward F. 1
- Sobell, Morton 1
- Squire, DeCourcy 1
- Stern, Lee, 1915-1992 1
- Sterner, Beverly 1
- Stewart, Annalee, 1900?- 1
- Swann, Marjorie 1
- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 1
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