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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
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
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
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
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
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
Edward Smedley diary
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-073
Overview
Diary of Edward Smedley, written while at the conscript barracks in Philadelphia after being drafted for the American Civil War. Entries describe Smedley's experiences as a drafted soldier and non-combatant prisoner in Philadelphia, including religious reflection, visits from family members, and military preparations.
Dates:
1863
Lee Stern Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-170
Overview
Lee Stern (1915-1992), was a Quaker pacifist, conscientious objector to war, involved in peace groups and organizations, and a teacher of nonviolence.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1936-1992
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Charles C. Walker Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Walker, Charles C.
Abstract
Collection consists of biographical material about Charles Walker, correspondence (1975) "from somewhere in India" newsletters, pamphlets, and reports.
Dates:
1957-1983
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- American Friends Service Committee 6
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- Hester, Hugh B. (Hugh Bryan), 1895-1983 2
- Jack, Homer A. (Homer Alexander), 1916-1993 2
- Levering, Robert, 1944- 2
- Lynd, Staughton 2
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 2
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 2
- Parkman, Patricia 2
- Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) 2
- Reynolds, Earle L. 2
- Stern, Lee, 1915-1992 2
- Young, Wilmer J. 2
- Zietlow, Carl P. 2
- Ahimsa Farm 1
- Alternatives to Violence Project 1
- Anderson, Ross W. 1
- Angell, Stephen Ward, 1952- 1
- Anh, Le Thi 1
- Aptheker, Herbert, 1915-2003 1
- Ashley, Bruce 1
- Axford, Roger W. 1
- Bagley, Jack L. 1
- Beheiren 1
- Benoit, Emile 1
- Berg, Lloyd A. 1
- Bigelow, Albert, 1906- 1
- Bishop, Sarah 1
- Bliss, George I. 1
- Braxton, John Worth 1
- Bromley, Ernest 1
- Butterworth, Harrison 1
- Canadian Friends Service Committee 1
- Carpenter, Florence Y. 1
- Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors 1
- Champney, Beulah 1
- Champney, Ken 1
- Children's Creative Response to Conflict Program 1
- Clergy and Laity Concerned (U.S.) 1
- Coffin, Jerry D. 1
- Congress of Racial Equality 1
- Cook, Cara 1
- Cooper, Wilmer A. (Wilmer Albert) 1
- Corson, Helen H. 1
- Cousins, Norman 1
- Cowley, Christopher 1
- Darlington, Charles J. (Charles Joseph), 1894-1966 1
- Davidov, Marv 1
- DeVault, Don 1
- Delta Cooperative Farm Project (Hillhouse, Miss.) 1
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 1
- Desai, Narayan 1
- Dolci, Danilo 1
- Drath, Phillip 1
- Eaton, Robert Whittington 1
- Ede, Roderick 1
- Elkinton, J. Passmore (Joseph Passmore), 1887-1971 1
- Enzer, Erica 1
- Faust, Bertha, 1909- 1
- Fifth Avenue Peace Parade Committee 1
- Foulke, Thomas Albert, 1893-1962 1
- Frankel, Morton 1
- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 1
- Friends Committee on Legislation of Northern California 1
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- Geiger, Nicola 1
- Geiger, Walton 1
- Gloor, Michele 1
- Gottwald, Norman K. (Norman Karol), 1926- 1
- Gregonis, Peter 1
- Hadley, Jeanette 1
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- Hutchinson, Dorothy H. (Dorothy Hewitt), 1905-1984 1
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- Kalish, Donald 1
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- Klein, Yvonne 1
- Lakey, George 1
- Lee, Kenneth, 1944- 1
- Legg, Samuel 1
- Lens, Sidney 1
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