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Henry Joel Cadbury Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-081
Abstract
Henry J. Cadbury (1883-1974) was a distinguished Biblical scholar, teacher, and a member of the Society of Friends. Cadbury was one of the founders of the American Friends Service Committee. He served as its chairman from both 1928 to 1934 and again from 1944 to 1960. Cadbury supervised famine relief both in the United States and in Europe.
Dates:
1917-1974
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
Friends National Peace Committee Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Friends National Peace Committee
Overview
A short-lived Quaker organization that promoted peace during World War I.
Dates:
1915-1917
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Robert Levering Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-080
Abstract
Robert E. Levering is a pacifist and Quaker. He has been the co-author of Fortune magazine's annual list of the "100 Best Companies to Work For," and a speaker on workplace trends and management strategies aimed at improving workplace productivity. Levering is a graduate of Swarthmore College and the Martin Luther King Jr. School of Social Change.
Dates:
1967-1972
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
Rockland County Peace Association Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-121
Overview
The Rockland County Peace Association was a small local peace group begun in 1930 to stimulate popular education and public opinion with a view to the prevention of war. It carried on relief work during World War II through the American Friends Service Committee.
Dates:
1930-1950
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
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- Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 2
- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 2
- Jack, Homer A. (Homer Alexander), 1916-1993 2
- Lynd, Staughton 2
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 2
- A Quaker Action Group 1
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- Cooper, Wilmer A. (Wilmer Albert) 1
- Cousins, Norman 1
- Darlington, Charles J. (Charles Joseph), 1894-1966 1
- Davidov, Marv 1
- Desai, Narayan 1
- Dolci, Danilo 1
- Elkinton, J. Passmore (Joseph Passmore), 1887-1971 1
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 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
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- Fromm, Erich, 1900-1980 1
- Furnas, Paul J. 1
- Gamble, Ralph A. (Ralph Abernathy), 1885-1959 1
- Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 1
- Hadley, Jeanette 1
- Harker, Charles H. 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
- Leiper, McCarrell H. 1
- Lens, Sidney 1
- Levering, Robert, 1944- 1
- Levering, Samuel R. 1
- Levering, Susan Dworkin 1
- Lewis, Lucy Biddle, 1861- 1
- Lyttle, Bradford 1
- MacKellar, Walter 1
- Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors 1
- Meyer, Christopher (Business owner) 1
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 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
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- Neely, Frances E. 1
- New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam 1
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- Niles, Mary Cushing Howard 1
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- O'Day, Caroline, 1875-1943 1
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- Paschkis, V. (Victor) 1
- People's Coalition for Peace and Justice 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Civilian Public Service Fund Committee 1
- Rapoport, Anatol, 1911-2007 1
- Rockland County Peace Association (Rockland County, N.Y.) 1
- Roszak, Theodore, 1933-2011 1
- Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970 1
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 1
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- Snyder, Edward F. 1
- Sobell, Morton 1
- Sterner, Beverly 1
- Stewart, Annalee, 1900?- 1
- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 1
- Syracuse Peace Council 1
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 1
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 1
- Van Dusen, Henry P. (Henry Pitney), 1897-1975 1
- Vogel, Robert S. 1
- War Resisters League 1
- White, Simeon 1
- Whitney, Mildred C. 1
- Whitney, Norman J. (Norman Jehiel), 1891-1967 1
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 1
- Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987 1
- Winchester, Harold P. 1
- Young, Ronald J., 1942- 1
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