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A Quaker Action Group Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-074
Scope and Contents
A Quaker Action Group (AQAG) records in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection include minutes, correspondence (1966-1971), memoranda, financial records, subject files (organizations), research files (topics), project files, newsletters, press releases, statements of Quaker yearly meetings in various cities, clippings, photographs and sound recordings. The files were first processed in 1974, and then again in 1980. In 2004, archival intern, Joe Clark, sorted the papers into the present...
Dates:
1965-1973
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
Bradford Lyttle Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-079
Overview
Bradford Lyttle is a long time leading peace activist involved in the promotion of nonviolence for social change and the elimination of war and nuclear weapons. Lyttle was the organizer of the San Francisco to Moscow walk in the 1960-1961, to highlight the message of disarmament and nonviolent resistance and bringing together U.S. and Soviet citizens together during the height of the Cold War. He went on to organize and participate in other marches and protests, including the Quebec - ...
Dates:
1954-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Peace Action Center Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-093
Overview
The Peace Action Center began in 1961 as a continuation of the vigil at Fort Detrick, Md. Peace activists had sponsored a continuous vigil as early as 1959 seeking the abandonment of biological weapons and appealed for the conversion of the fort into a world health center. The Peace Action Center included cooperative living quarters for the staff of religious pacifists, mostly Quakers. PAC staff including Lawrence Scott, director, and Jack L. Bagley, Sarah Bishop, Florence Y. Carpenter,...
Dates:
1959-1965
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Lawrence Scott Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-090
Overview
Lawrence Scott was a construction engineer, Baptist clergyman, and Quaker activist. He worked as an activist against the testing of nuclear weapons and biological weapons research. He was the supervisor for the Friends Mississippi Project, project director of the Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick in Maryland, executive secretary of the Peace Action Center and a founder of A Quaker Action Group.
Dates:
1955-1965
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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- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 4
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 4
- A Quaker Action Group 3
- American Friends Service Committee 3
- Walker, Charles C. 3
- Bigelow, Albert, 1906- 2
- Boardman, Elizabeth Jelinek, 1917- 2
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 2
- Corson, Helen H. 2
- Flanagan, Ross, 1934- 2
- Golden Rule (Ketch) 2
- Lakey, George 2
- Levering, Robert, 1944- 2
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 2
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 2
- Parkman, Patricia 2
- Peace Action Center (Washington, D.C.) 2
- Pfeiffer, Stephen D. 2
- Reynolds, Earle L. 2
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 2
- Shivers, Lynne 2
- Young, Wilmer J. 2
- Anderson, Ross W. 1
- Anthony, Robert L. 1
- Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) 1
- Apsey, Lawrence S. 1
- Bagley, Jack L. 1
- Beheiren 1
- Bishop, Sarah 1
- Braxton, John Worth 1
- Butterworth, Harrison 1
- Carner, Lucy Perkins, 1886-1983 1
- Carpenter, Florence Y. 1
- Champney, Horace 1
- Civilian Public Service 1
- Coffin, Jerry D. 1
- Cowley, Christopher 1
- Davidov, Marv 1
- DeVault, Don 1
- Delaware Valley Land Trust 1
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 1
- Desai, Narayan 1
- Dolci, Danilo 1
- Drath, Phillip 1
- Eaton, Robert Whittington 1
- Ede, Roderick 1
- Enzer, Erica 1
- Faust, Bertha, 1909- 1
- Fifth Avenue Peace Parade Committee 1
- Friends Mississippi Project 1
- Friends Peace Committee (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 1
- Geiger, Nicola 1
- Geiger, Walton 1
- Gloor, Michele 1
- Gottwald, Norman K. (Norman Karol), 1926- 1
- Gregonis, Peter 1
- Hassler, Alfred, 1910-1991 1
- Heisler, Francis, 1895- 1
- Hester, Hugh B. (Hugh Bryan), 1895-1983 1
- Horton, Robert, 1900-1991 1
- Jack, Homer A. (Homer Alexander), 1916-1993 1
- Jamison, Jeannette 1
- Kalish, Donald 1
- Klein, Yvonne 1
- Lee, Kenneth, 1944- 1
- Legg, Samuel 1
- Levering, Susan Dworkin 1
- Lynd, Staughton 1
- Malz, Gertrude 1
- Martin, William R., 1938- 1
- Massar, Ivan 1
- McNeil, Gelston 1
- McReynolds, David 1
- Meyer, Christopher (Business owner) 1
- Miller, Lawrence McK. 1
- Mimms, William R. 1
- Moody, Roger 1
- Movement for a New Society 1
- Nash, Vernon 1
- Nelson, Beryl Herbert 1
- New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam 1
- Noell, Chuck 1
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization) 1
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization). European Project 1
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization). Nevada Project 1
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization). Pacific Project 1
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization). Washington Prayer Vigil 1
- Olson, Theodore, 1932- 1
- Omaha Action (Project) 1
- Paschkis, V. (Victor) 1
- Peace Brigades International 1
- Pendle Hill (School: Wallingford, Pa.) 1
- People's Coalition for Peace and Justice 1
- Pickus, Robert 1
- Polaris (Missile) 1
- Québec-Washington-Guantánamo Walk for Peace 1
- Raitt, Walton A. 1
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