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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
Overview
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
George Willoughby and Lillian Willoughby Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-236
Overview
George Willoughby (December 9, 1914 - January 5, 2010) and Lillian Willoughby (c. 1916 - January 15, 2009) were Quaker activists who took part in nonviolent protests against war, conducted nonviolence trainings in India and other countries, and advocated for preservation of land in New Jersey and elsewhere.
Dates:
1931-2010
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- A Quaker Action Group 2
- Golden Rule (Ketch) 2
- Lakey, George 2
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 2
- Shivers, Lynne 2
- American Friends Service Committee 1
- Beheiren 1
- Bigelow, Albert, 1906- 1
- Boardman, Elizabeth Jelinek, 1917- 1
- Braxton, John Worth 1
- Butterworth, Harrison 1
- Champney, Horace 1
- Civilian Public Service 1
- Coffin, Jerry D. 1
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 1
- Cowley, Christopher 1
- Davidov, Marv 1
- Delaware Valley Land Trust 1
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 1
- DiGia, Ralph 1
- Drath, Phillip 1
- Eaton, Robert Whittington 1
- Ede, Roderick 1
- Everyman (Ship) 1
- Fifth Avenue Peace Parade Committee 1
- Flanagan, Ross, 1934- 1
- Geiger, Nicola 1
- Geiger, Walton 1
- Haworth, Neil D. 1
- Herrick, Scott 1
- Horton, Robert, 1900-1991 1
- Kalish, Donald 1
- Keyes, Gene 1
- Lazar, Edward 1
- Lee, Kenneth, 1944- 1
- Legg, Samuel 1
- Levering, Robert, 1944- 1
- Massar, Ivan 1
- McReynolds, David 1
- Mimms, William R. 1
- Moody, Roger 1
- Movement for a New Society 1
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 1
- Nelson, Beryl Herbert 1
- New England Committee for Nonviolent Action 1
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization) 1
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization). Nevada Project 1
- Olson, Theodore, 1932-2020 1
- Omaha Action (Project) 1
- Parkman, Patricia 1
- Peace Brigades International 1
- Pendle Hill (School: Wallingford, Pa.) 1
- Phoenix (Yacht) 1
- Polaris Action 1
- Québec-Washington-Guantánamo Walk for Peace 1
- Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) 1
- Rocket, Writer 1
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 1
- Salstrom, F. Paul 1
- San Francisco to Moscow Walk for Peace 1
- Smiley, Glenn E. 1
- Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.) 1
- Swann, Marjorie 1
- Swann, Robert S. 1
- Tatum, Lyle 1
- United States. War Relocation Authority 1
- Vietnam Moratorium Committee (U.S.) 1
- Walker, Charles C. 1
- Warren, Emlyn 1
- Willoughby, Lillian, 1915-2009 1
- Wood, J. Duncan (John Duncan) 1
- Zietlow, Carl P. 1 + ∧ less
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