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Henry Joel Cadbury Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-081
Abstract
Henry J. Cadbury (1883-1974) was a distinguished Biblical scholar, teacher, and a member of the Society of Friends. Cadbury was one of the founders of the American Friends Service Committee. He served as its chairman from both 1928 to 1934 and again from 1944 to 1960. Cadbury supervised famine relief both in the United States and in Europe.
Dates:
1917-1974
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Committee for a Quaker Peace Witness Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
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
Edward W. Evans Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-122
Overview
Edward Wyatt Evans (1882-1976) was a lifelong member of the Germantown (Pennsylvania) Monthly Meeting and was active in the Friends Peace Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Evans was instrumental in the founding of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (Fellowship of Reconcilation), and was the executive secretary from 1916-1919. During the 1920s, he was also active in educational and peace programs of the Society of Friends.
Dates:
1916-1922
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Friends National Peace Committee Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Friends National Peace Committee
Overview
A short-lived Quaker organization that promoted peace during World War I.
Dates:
1915-1917
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
National Council Against Conscription Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-052
Overview
The National Council Against Conscription had its first official meeting on December 13, 1945 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Nation Council Against Conscription worked to defeat various legislative measures which promoted universal military training and peacetime conscription, by lobbying Congress, public speaking, publishing detailed analyses of proposed legislation, corresponding with magazine and newspaper editors about their coverage of Universal Military Training, and producing...
Dates:
1944-1960
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 1
- Barton, Bruce, 1886-1967 1
- Beaver, Gilbert A., -1952 1
- Biddle, William Canby, 1864-1942 1
- Boss, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), 1888- 1
- Bromfield, Louis, 1896-1956 1
- Committee for a Quaker Peace Witness 1
- Conference of All Friends (1920) (London, England) 1
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- Conkling, Roscoe S. (Roscoe Seely), 1884-1956 1
- Dewey, John, 1859-1952 1
- Einstein, Albert 1
- Elderkin, Noble S. (Noble Strong), 1878-1966 1
- Evans, Edward W. (Edward Wyatt), 1882-1976 1
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 1
- Fosdick, Harry Emerson 1
- Friends National Peace Committee (U.S.) 1
- Fuller, Walter G. 1
- Hardin, Floyd, 1890-1974 1
- Hodgkin, Henry T. (Henry Theodore), 1877-1933 1
- Holdridge, Herbert C. (Herbert Charles), 1892-1974 1
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 1
- Jones, Paul, 1880-1941 1
- Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 1
- Kelsey, Mary 1
- Lewis, Lucy Biddle, 1861- 1
- National Council Against Conscription (U.S.) 1
- National Council Against Peacetime Conscription Now (U.S.) 1
- Nearing, Scott, 1883-1983 1
- Newton, Ray 1
- Nicholson, Vincent D. (Vincent De Witt), 1890-1945 1
- Pennell, Anne Walton 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955). Peace Committee (1916-1933) 1
- Reuter, Richard W. (Richard Ward), 1918- 1
- Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 1
- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 1
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 1
- Thomas, Wilbur K. (Wilbur Kelsey), 1882-1953 1
- Weaver, E. Paul 1
- Whitaker, Robert, 1863-1944 1 + ∧ less
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