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A Quaker Action Group Records

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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

Edward W. Evans Quaker Concerns Papers

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Identifier: SFHL-RG5-237
Abstract Edward W. Evans (1882-1976) was a Quaker leader and lawyer active in the educational and peace concerns of the Society of Friends. The collection primarily contains papers compiled by Edward W. Evans during his time as Secretary of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Orthodox), from 1938-1946. Of particular interest are the materials concerning Civilian Public Service. The collection is significant in its documentation of pacifist attitudes and the ways in which the Society of Friends was active...
Dates: 1920, 1938-1951

Pennsylvania Committee for Total Disarmament Records

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Identifier: SCPC-DG-030
Abstract The Pennsylvania Committee for Total Disarmament was active from 1930 to 1936, chiefly in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Through public opinion and personal contacts, PCTD supporters pressured Congress to support total disarmament, including passage of the Frazier Amendment outlawing war. Other objectives of the Committee included a Congressional investigation of the munitions industry, opposition to all preparations and training for war (including ROTC), and support for...
Dates: 1930-1938

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A Quaker Action Group 1
Allinson, Brent D. (Brent Dow) 1
American Friends Service Committee 1
Babcock, Caroline L. (Caroline Lexow), 1882- 1
Beheiren 1
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Boardman, Elizabeth Jelinek, 1917- 1
Braxton, John Worth 1
Brockway, Fenner, 1888-1988 1
Brown, H. Runham (Herbert Runham), 1879-1949 1
Butterworth, Harrison 1
Byrns, Elinor 1
Champney, Horace 1
Coffin, Jerry D. 1
Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments (1932-1934) (Geneva, Switzerland) 1
Conference of All Friends (1920) (London, England) 1
Cope, Eliza M. 1
Cowley, Christopher 1
Cox, Lucy A. 1
Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 1
Drath, Phillip 1
Drexel, Constance 1
Dulles, Sophia H. 1
Eaton, Robert Whittington 1
Ede, Roderick 1
Evans, Edward W. (Edward Wyatt), 1882-1976 1
Eves, William 1
Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 1
Fifth Avenue Peace Parade Committee 1
Five Years Meeting (Society of Friends: U.S.) 1
Flanagan, Ross, 1934- 1
Frazier, Lynn J. (Lynn Joseph), 1874-1947 1
French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 1
Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.) 1
Furnas, Paul J. 1
Geiger, Nicola 1
Geiger, Walton 1
Gordon, Lindley V. 1
Harvey, William Brinton, 1862- 1
Hoopes, Darlington, b. 1896 1
Horton, Robert, 1900-1991 1
Hull, William I. (William Isaac), 1868-1939 1
Kalish, Donald 1
Lakey, George 1
Lazarus, Frieda Langer 1
Lee, Jennie, 1904- 1
Lee, Kenneth, 1944- 1
Legg, Samuel 1
Levering, Robert, 1944- 1
Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 1
Lief, Alfred, 1901- 1
Lyttle, Bradford 1
Massar, Ivan 1
Mimms, William R. 1
Moody, Roger 1
Nelson, Beryl Herbert 1
Newton, Ray 1
Nicholson, Vincent D. (Vincent De Witt), 1890-1945 1
Parkman, Patricia 1
Pennsylvania Committee for Total Disarmament 1
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955) 1
Pickett, Clarence, 1884-1965 1
Reynolds, Earle L. 1
Rocket, Writer 1
Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 1
Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 1
Shivers, Lynne 1
Smiley, Glenn E. 1
Smith, Tucker P. 1
Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.) 1
Van Kirk, Walter W. (Walter William), 1891-1956 1
Vietnam Moratorium Committee (U.S.) 1
Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949 1
Walker, Charles C. 1
Warren, Emlyn 1
Wentworth, Lydia G., 1858- 1
Williams, H. Justice 1
Willoughby, George, pacifist 1
Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987 1
Winsor, Mary, 1869-1956 1
Wood, J. Duncan (John Duncan) 1
World Alliance for International Friendship through Religion 1
World Council of Churches 1
Wright, Edward Needles, 1897- 1
Zietlow, Carl P. 1
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