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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
Another Mother for Peace Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-102
Abstract
Another Mother for Peace was a women's peace group born from the antipathy to the war in Vietnam, based in Los Angeles, California. The stated purpose of this non-partison, non-profit organization was "to educate women to take an active role in eliminating war as a means of solving disputes between nations, people and ideologies." AMP closed its offices in January 1986.
Dates:
1964-1978; Majority of material found within 1964-1978
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Center for Economic Conversion Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-215
Overview
The Center for Economic Conversion was a nonprofit organization which promoted the conversion of the military-based U.S. economy to a civilian-based, peace-oriented, and environmentally sustainable one. It was founded in 1975 as a project of the American Friends Service Committee. CEC was a leading advocate for using military base conversion as a tool to foster sustainable development.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1975-2000
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Charlotte Citizens for Peace Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Charlotte Citizens for Peace
Abstract
Correspondence, administrative files, financial records, flyers, newspaper clippings, reference files. Correspondents include Esther S. Frankel and Abraham Kaufman.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1982-1996
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Committee for a Quaker Peace Witness Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Committee for a Quaker Peace Witness
Abstract
Committee for a Quaker Peace Witness; organized the November 1960 Washington Pilgrimage and two-day vigil at the Pentagon; chaired by Henry J. Cadbury; also called the Quaker Peace Witness Committee; work was continued by the Friends Witness for World Order
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1960-1961
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-135
Overview
The Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice was initated in 1974 to "call for disarmament, a simultaneous shift of economic priorities away from militarism and toward meeting domestic and global human needs, and removal of the causes of war." When the Walk ended on October 18, 1976 at the Pentagon in Washington D.C., walkers had covered 8,000 miles through 34 states.
Dates:
1975-1978
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Council of Christian Associations Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Council of Christian Associations
Abstract
Includes pamphlets and other printed materials.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1925-1932
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Dorothy Detzer Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-086
Abstract
Dorothy Detzer was a peace activist, writer, and lobbyist. She served as the National Executive Secretary of the U.S. Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1924-1946.. Detzer influenced a Congressional investigation of the munitions industry, 1934-1936, and later wrote the book Appointment on the Hill, 1948, describing her two decades in Washington, D.C.
Dates:
1913-1981
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Educators for Social Responsibility Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-206
Abstract
Educators for Social Responsibility is a national, non-profit organization committed to helping teacher, school administrators, and parents respond positively, through education and resources to concerns about nuclear war, and other social justice issues. To this end they have developed community action/education projects to end the arms race, foster mutual respect among people with diverse opinions and different cultural backgrounds, and prepare students to be participating citizens in a...
Dates:
1985-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Exploratory Project on the Conditions of Peace Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-160
Abstract
The Exploratory Project on the Conditions of Peace, founded by W. H. Ferry, was established at Boston College in 1987 to explore the conditions for a sustainable peace. The group worked on concepts such as "peace systems" and "war systems", and its members developed the Citizens' Peace Treaty. After relocating to Washington, D.C., the organization ceased operation 1990 or 1991.
Dates:
1985-1991
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 2
- Brockway, Fenner, 1888-1988 2
- Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments (1932-1934) (Geneva, Switzerland) 2
- Deats, Richard L., 1932- 2
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 2
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- Gara, Larry 2
- Hutchinson, Dorothy H. (Dorothy Hewitt), 1905-1984 2
- Jendrzejczyk, Michael 2
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- Nuclear Weapons Facilities Task Force. Rocky Flats/Nuclear Weapons Facilities Project 2
- Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign 2
- Omaha Action (Project) 2
- Paschkis, V. (Victor) 2
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 2
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 2
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- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 2
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 2
- Walker, Charles C. 2
- Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987 2
- A Quaker Action Group 1
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- Angell, Stephen Ward, 1952- 1
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- Babcock, Caroline L. (Caroline Lexow), 1882- 1
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- Beaver, Gilbert A., -1952 1
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- Blake, Katherine Devereux, 1858-1950 1
- Blass, Dorothy 1
- Bliss, George I. 1
- Boardman, Elizabeth Jelinek, 1917- 1
- Boehmer, Peter J. 1
- Boss, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), 1888- 1
- Braxton, John Worth 1
- Brick, Allan 1
- Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 1
- Brown, George Edward, 1920-1999 1
- Brown, H. Runham (Herbert Runham), 1879-1949 1
- Buell, Raymond Leslie, 1896-1946 1
- Bussey, Gertrude Carman, 1888-1961 1
- Butterworth, Harrison 1
- Byrns, Elinor 1
- Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 1
- Californians for a Bilateral Nuclear Weapons Freeze 1
- Carner, Lucy Perkins, 1886-1983 1
- Carter, Nick (Minister) 1
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 1
- Center for Constitutional Rights (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Center for Economic Conversion (Calif.) 1
- Chalmers, Ruth 1
- Champney, Horace 1
- Charlotte Citizens for Peace (Port Charlotte, Fla.) 1
- Chavez, Daniel 1
- Chicago Area Faculty for a Freeze on the Nuclear Arms Race 1
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- Clark, Diane K. 1
- Clark, Gordon 1
- Clergymen's Emergency Committee for Vietnam 1
- Club of Rome 1
- Coffin, Jerry D. 1
- Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 1924-2006 1
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 1
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