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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
Albert Einstein Institution Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-220
Abstract
The Albert Einstein Institution was founded in 1983 and is dedicated to advancing the study and use of strategic nonviolent action in conflicts throughout the world. It is committed to the defense of freedom, democracy, and the reduction of political violence through the use of nonviolent action. The principle founder of the Albert Einstein Institution is Dr. Gene Sharp. To further its mission, the Institution has supported research projects, actively consulted with resistance and...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1974 -
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Fellowship of Reconciliation Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-Fellowship of Reconciliation
Abstract
The Fellowship of Reconciliation was established in December of 1914, during a meeting at Cambridge, England. It is still in existence today.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1915-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-013
Abstract
The Fellowship of Reconciliation in the U.S. was founded in 1915 by Christian pacifists. The organization, whose members are now drawn from many religious groups, seeks to apply principles of peace and social justice and non-violent social change to issues such as disarmament, conscription, race relations, economic justice, and civil liberties.
Dates:
1915-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Friends Committee on National Legislation Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-047
Abstract
A Quaker lobbying group established in 1943 to bring conscience and spiritual values to the political process in Washington; it grew out of the work of the Friends War Problems Committee in 1940.
Dates:
1943-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Friends Peace and International Relations Committee Collected Materials
Collection — othertype: CDG-B
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-Friends Peace and International Relations...
Abstract
Collection consists primarily of printed material: form letters, minutes of meetings, newsletters, reports, news articles, and pamphlets.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1890-1976
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
International Peace Society Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-International Peace Society
Abstract
The Society for the Promotion of Universal and Permanent Peace, also known as the London Peace Society, was founded June 14, 1816. Members were primarily Protestant, especially Quaker. Although its official platform was based on an absolutist pacifist stance, its members included peace workers who did not accept the full pacifist position. By 1930 it had taken the name of International Peace Society, having become incorporated with the International Christian Peace Fellowship.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1817-1948
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
A.J. Muste Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-050
Abstract
A.J. Muste (1885-1967), was ordained a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, but later (1917), he became a member of the Society of Friends. During World War I, Muste's refusal to abandon his pacifist position led to his forced resignation from the Central Congregational Church in Newtonville, Massachusetts. Muste's involvement as a labor organizer began in 1919 when he led strikes in the textile mills of Lawrence, Massachusetts. He became the director of the Brookwood Labor College in...
Dates:
1920-1967
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-075
Abstract
The National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam was a conference of groups opposed to the United States' involvement in Vietnam. This groups in1966 and its first major undertaking at that time was to organize a mass rally on April 15, 1967, both in New York City and in San Francisco.
The Mobe's chief aim was to mobilize public opinion against the Vietnamese War and against such other injustices of society as black inequality. It sought to weld a coalition of existing peace...
Dates:
1966-1969
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Flanagan, Ross, 1934- 2
- Hester, Hugh B. (Hugh Bryan), 1895-1983 2
- Jack, Homer A. (Homer Alexander), 1916-1993 2
- Levering, Robert, 1944- 2
- Lynd, Staughton 2
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 2
- Parkman, Patricia 2
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 2
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 2
- Smiley, Glenn E. 2
- Sterner, Beverly 2
- Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.) 2
- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 2
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 2
- Uphaus, Willard E. (Willard Edwin), 1890-1983 2
- War Resisters League 2
- Young, Ronald J., 1942- 2
- Young, Wilmer J. 2
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- Aptheker, Herbert, 1915-2003 1
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- Bigelow, Albert, 1906- 1
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- Brick, Allan 1
- Brown, H. Runham (Herbert Runham), 1879-1949 1
- Buch, Peter 1
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- Cooper, Wilmer A. (Wilmer Albert) 1
- Cornell, Thomas C. (Thomas Charles), 1934- 1
- Corson, Helen H. 1
- Cousins, Norman 1
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- Curry, A. Stauffer (Abram Stauffer), 1913- 1
- Dai Dong (Organization) 1
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- Davidov, Marv 1
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- DeVault, Don 1
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- Dolci, Danilo 1
- Drath, Phillip 1
- Drinan, Robert F. 1
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- Evans, Edward W. (Edward Wyatt), 1882-1976 1
- Faust, Bertha, 1909- 1
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- Fifth Avenue Peace Parade Committee 1
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- Forest, Jim (James H.) 1
- Foulke, Thomas Albert, 1893-1962 1
- Frankel, Morton 1
- Freeman, Harrop A. (Harrop Arthur), 1907-1993 1
- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 1
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