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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
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
Overview
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
Overview
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
Peace Action Center Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-093
Overview
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
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- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 3
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 3
- Direct action -- History -- Sources 2
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 2
- Society of Friends -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Tax protests and appeals -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Ballistic missiles -- United States 1
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights workers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Labor leaders -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- United States 1
- Peace movements -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- Sources 1
- Polaris (Missile) 1
- Poor People's Campaign 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- Radicalism -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Radicalism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Students -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Students -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Vietnam -- Politics and government -- 1945-1975 -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Civilian relief -- Sources 1
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- Names
- Lyttle, Bradford 3
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 3
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 3
- A Quaker Action Group 2
- American Friends Service Committee 2
- Boardman, Elizabeth Jelinek, 1917- 2
- Flanagan, Ross, 1934- 2
- Lens, Sidney 2
- Levering, Robert, 1944- 2
- Lynd, Staughton 2
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 2
- Parkman, Patricia 2
- Sterner, Beverly 2
- Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.) 2
- Uphaus, Willard E. (Willard Edwin), 1890-1983 2
- Walker, Charles C. 2
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 2
- Anderson, Ross W. 1
- Aptheker, Herbert, 1915-2003 1
- Bagley, Jack L. 1
- Beheiren 1
- Berg, Lloyd A. 1
- Bevel, James L. (James Luther), 1936- 1
- Bigelow, Albert, 1906- 1
- Bishop, Sarah 1
- Braxton, John Worth 1
- Buch, Peter 1
- Butterworth, Harrison 1
- Carpenter, Florence Y. 1
- Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors 1
- Champney, Horace 1
- Clergy and Laity Concerned (U.S.) 1
- Coffin, Jerry D. 1
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 1
- Congress of Racial Equality 1
- Cook, Cara 1
- Corson, Helen H. 1
- Cousins, Norman 1
- Cowley, Christopher 1
- Davidov, Marv 1
- Davis, Rennie 1
- Dawson, Kipp 1
- DeVault, Don 1
- Dellinger, David T., 1915-2004 1
- Desai, Narayan 1
- Dolci, Danilo 1
- Drath, Phillip 1
- Eaton, Robert Whittington 1
- Ede, Roderick 1
- Elkinton, J. Passmore (Joseph Passmore), 1887-1971 1
- Faust, Bertha, 1909- 1
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 1
- Fifth Avenue Peace Parade Committee 1
- Frankel, Morton 1
- Friends Peace Committee (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Fromm, Erich, 1900-1980 1
- Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 1
- Geiger, Nicola 1
- Geiger, Walton 1
- Gottwald, Norman K. (Norman Karol), 1926- 1
- Greenblatt, Robert, economist 1
- Hester, Hugh B. (Hugh Bryan), 1895-1983 1
- Horton, Robert, 1900-1991 1
- Jack, Homer A. (Homer Alexander), 1916-1993 1
- Kalish, Donald 1
- Kennan, George F. (George Frost), 1904-2005 1
- Lakey, George 1
- Lee, Kenneth, 1944- 1
- Legg, Samuel 1
- Levering, Susan Dworkin 1
- Martin, William R., 1938- 1
- Massar, Ivan 1
- McNeil, Gelston 1
- Meyer, Christopher (Business owner) 1
- Mimms, William R. 1
- Moody, Roger 1
- Nash, Vernon 1
- National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (U.S.) 1
- National Council for Prevention of War (U.S.) 1
- National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam 1
- Nelson, Beryl Herbert 1
- New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam 1
- Noell, Chuck 1
- Peace Action Center (Washington, D.C.) 1
- Peck, Sidney M. (Sidney Morris), 1926- 1
- People's Coalition for Peace and Justice 1
- Pfeiffer, Stephen D. 1
- Rapoport, Anatol, 1911-2007 1
- Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) 1
- Reynolds, Earle L. 1
- Rocket, Writer 1
- Roszak, Theodore, 1933-2011 1
- Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970 1
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 1
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 1
- Shivers, Lynne 1
- Smiley, Glenn E. 1
- Sobell, Morton 1
- Spring Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam 1
- Sutheim, Susan 1 + ∧ less
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