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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
Brandywine Peace Community Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-158
Abstract
The Brandywine Peace Community was founded in April, 1972 by Delaware County (Pennsylvana.) and Chester County (Pennsylvania) citizens who advocated nonviolent direct action. The group was especially active against nuclear weapons manufactured by the General Electric Company, and later Lockheed Martin Marietta.. The Brandywine Peace Community was headquartered in Media, Pennsylvania. until 1983, then moved to Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.
Dates:
1976-
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
Nonviolent Action Community of Cascadia Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-239
Overview
This collection includes correspondence (1981-1985), administrative files, financial records, minutes of Board of Directors' meetings (1990-2008), and publicity materials. Much of the correspondence is to, or from, Ed Pearson, a founder and National Coordinator of CMTC. The collection includes information about international war tax resistance efforts, nonviolent direct action campaigns, and grants made from interest on the escrow account.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1981-2008
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Phoenix Defense Fund Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-072
Overview
The Phoenix Defense Fund was established through the efforts of Norman Cousins and other supporters of Barbara and Earle Reynolds. The Reynolds sailed the yacht Phoenix into a nuclear test site, Eniwetok Proving Grounds, as a protest against nuclear war. They were arrested, tried, and acquitted (1958-1960). The organization was also known as Reynolds Defense Fund.
Dates:
1957-1961; Majority of material found within 1958-1959
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 5
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 3
- Disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Society of Friends -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Tax protests and appeals -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Antinuclear movement -- Brandywine Creek Valley (Pa. and Del.) -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Endowments -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Eniwetok Proving Grounds (Marshall Islands) -- History -- Sources 1
- Government, Resistance to -- History -- Sources 1
- Nuclear disarmament -- History -- Sources 1
- Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- Brandywine Creek Valley (Pa. and Del.) -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- United States 1
- Peace movements -- Washington (State) -- Seattle -- History -- Sources 1
- Poor People's Campaign 1
- Prisoners' writings, American 1
- Proving grounds, American -- Marshall Islands -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 1
- Tax protests and appeals -- History -- Sources 1
- Trials 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Civilian relief -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Draft resisters 1
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- Names
- Lyttle, Bradford 3
- A Quaker Action Group 2
- American Friends Service Committee 2
- Levering, Robert, 1944- 2
- Reynolds, Earle L. 2
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 2
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 2
- Beheiren 1
- Bigelow, Albert, 1906- 1
- Boardman, Elizabeth Jelinek, 1917- 1
- Brandywine Alternative Fund 1
- Brandywine Peace Community 1
- Brandywine Peace Community and Alternative Fund 1
- Braxton, John Worth 1
- Butterworth, Harrison 1
- Cassyd, Syd 1
- Champney, Horace 1
- Charlton, Peter F. 1
- Coffin, Jerry D. 1
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 1
- Conscience & Military Tax Campaign-U.S 1
- Cousins, Norman 1
- Cowley, Christopher 1
- Davidov, Marv 1
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 1
- Desai, Narayan 1
- Deutsch, Babette, 1895-1982 1
- Dolci, Danilo 1
- Drath, Phillip 1
- Eaton, Robert Whittington 1
- Ede, Roderick 1
- Enzer, Erica 1
- Fifth Avenue Peace Parade Committee 1
- Flanagan, Ross, 1934- 1
- Friends Peace Committee (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 1
- Geiger, Nicola 1
- Geiger, Walton 1
- General Electric Company 1
- Gloor, Michele 1
- Golden Rule (Ketch) 1
- Gregonis, Peter 1
- Horton, Robert, 1900-1991 1
- Huntington, William R. 1
- Jackson, Charles T. 1
- Kalish, Donald 1
- Klein, Yvonne 1
- Lakey, George 1
- Lasker, Gabriel Ward 1
- Lee, Kenneth, 1944- 1
- Legg, Samuel 1
- Levering, Susan Dworkin 1
- Lofton, John D., Jr., 1941-2014 1
- Lynd, Staughton 1
- Massar, Ivan 1
- Meyer, Christopher (Business owner) 1
- Mimms, William R. 1
- Moody, Roger 1
- Nelson, Beryl Herbert 1
- New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam 1
- Noell, Chuck 1
- Nonviolent Action Community of Cascadia 1
- Omaha Action (Project) 1
- Parkman, Patricia 1
- Pearson, Ed 1
- Peck, James 1
- People's Coalition for Peace and Justice 1
- Phoenix (Yacht) 1
- Phoenix Defense Fund 1
- Polaris (Missile) 1
- Québec-Washington-Guantánamo Walk for Peace 1
- Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) 1
- Rocket, Writer 1
- San Francisco to Moscow Walk for Peace 1
- Sherwood, Orion W. 1
- Shivers, Lynne 1
- Smiley, Glenn E. 1
- Smith, Robert McNeil 1
- Stephens, John, pacifist 1
- Stevens, Carolyn 1
- Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.) 1
- United States Pacifist Party 1
- University Friends Meeting (Seattle, Wash.) 1
- Vietnam Moratorium Committee (U.S.) 1
- Walker, Charles C. 1
- Warren, Emlyn 1
- White, Simeon 1
- Wood, J. Duncan (John Duncan) 1
- Yamada, George Kiyoshi 1
- Young, Ronald J., 1942- 1
- Zietlow, Carl P. 1 ∧ less
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