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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
Committee for Nonviolent Action Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-017
Abstract
CNVA was one of the first American peace groups to focus on nonviolentdirect action including civil disobedience. Its purpose of organizing imaginative and dramatic protest demonstrations on both land and sea attracted radical pacifists and called the attention of the American public to the atrocities of nuclear warfare. CNVA's first protest action was a vigil held outside the atomic weapons test grounds in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1957. In the second half of its existence CNVA efforts began to...
Dates:
1958-1968
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Homer A. Jack Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-063
Abstract
Homer A. Jack (1916-1993) was a Unitarian Universalist clergyman and denominational official who sought to apply religious values to national and international affairs. Jack was executive secretary of the Chicago Council Against Racial and Religious Discrimination (1943-1948), executive director of SANE (1960-1964), and secretary general of the World Conference on Religion and Peace (1970-1983). He had been minister of churches in Lawrence, Kansas (1942-1943), Evanston, Illinois (1948-1959),...
Dates:
1930-1995
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
Peace Action Center Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-093
Abstract
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
Abstract
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
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- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 4
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- Chemical warfare -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights workers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Eniwetok Proving Grounds (Marshall Islands) -- History -- Sources 1
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- Willoughby, George, pacifist 4
- Bigelow, Albert, 1906- 3
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 3
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 3
- Walker, Charles C. 3
- A Quaker Action Group 2
- Boardman, Elizabeth Jelinek, 1917- 2
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 2
- Corson, Helen H. 2
- Davidov, Marv 2
- Flanagan, Ross, 1934- 2
- Golden Rule (Ketch) 2
- Jack, Homer A. (Homer Alexander), 1916-1993 2
- Levering, Robert, 1944- 2
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 2
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization) 2
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization). Nevada Project 2
- Olson, Theodore, 1932-2020 2
- Parkman, Patricia 2
- Peace Action Center (Washington, D.C.) 2
- Pfeiffer, Stephen D. 2
- Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) 2
- Reynolds, Earle L. 2
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 2
- Young, Wilmer J. 2
- American Friends Service Committee 1
- 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
- Chicago Council Against Racial and Religious Discrimination 1
- Coffin, Jerry D. 1
- Cousins, Norman 1
- Cowley, Christopher 1
- DeVault, Don 1
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 1
- Desai, Narayan 1
- DiGia, Ralph 1
- Dolci, Danilo 1
- Drath, Phillip 1
- Eaton, Robert Whittington 1
- Ede, Roderick 1
- Everyman (Ship) 1
- Faust, Bertha, 1909- 1
- Fernandes, Angelo 1
- Fifth Avenue Peace Parade Committee 1
- Friends Mississippi Project 1
- Friends Peace Committee (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Fromm, Erich, 1900-1980 1
- Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 1
- Gandhi, Manilal, 1892-1956 1
- Geiger, Nicola 1
- Geiger, Walton 1
- Gottlieb, Sanford 1
- Gottwald, Norman K. (Norman Karol), 1926- 1
- Greeley, Dana McLean, 1908-1986 1
- Harrington, Donald Szantho 1
- Hassler, Alfred, 1910-1991 1
- Haworth, Neil D. 1
- Heisler, Francis, 1895- 1
- Herrick, Scott 1
- Hester, Hugh B. (Hugh Bryan), 1895-1983 1
- Hoagland, Robert S. 1
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 1
- Horton, Robert, 1900-1991 1
- Houser, George M. 1
- Hunnius, F. C. 1
- Jamison, Jeannette 1
- Kalish, Donald 1
- Keyes, Gene 1
- Keys, Donald 1
- Lakey, George 1
- Lazar, Edward 1
- Lee, Kenneth, 1944- 1
- Legg, Samuel 1
- Levering, Susan Dworkin 1
- Lloyd, William Bross, 1908- 1
- Lynd, Staughton 1
- Mahadevan, T. K. 1
- Malz, Gertrude 1
- Martin, William R., 1938- 1
- Massar, Ivan 1
- McNeil, Gelston 1
- Meyer, Christopher (Business owner) 1
- Miller, Lawrence McK. 1
- Mimms, William R. 1
- Moody, Roger 1
- Nash, Vernon 1
- National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (U.S.) 1
- Nelson, Beryl Herbert 1 + ∧ less
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