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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
Devere Allen Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-053
Abstract
Author, editor, journalist and lecturer; advocate of internationalist pacifism; influential member of the Socialist Party in the 1930s; genealogist; recorder of Rhode Island history and lore; named Harold Devere Allen.
Dates:
1809-1978; Majority of material found within 1910-1955
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Robert Wallace Gilmore Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-163
Abstract
Robert W. Gilmore was a Quaker pacifist who was involved in a number of peace groups, either as a staffperson or as a Board member. His papers reflect these involvements through correspondence and other materials.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1960-1982
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
George Lakey Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-259
Dates:
1974-1984
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
Bradford Lyttle Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-079
Abstract
Bradford [Brad] Lyttle is a long time leading peace activist involved in the promotion of nonviolence for social change and the elimination of war and nuclear weapons. Lyttle was the organizer of the San Francisco to Moscow walk in the 1960-1961, to highlight the message of disarmament and nonviolent resistance and bringing together U.S. and Soviet citizens together during the height of the Cold War. He went on to organize and participate in other marches and protests, including the Quebec...
Dates:
1954-
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
October 6 Witness Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-October 6 Witness
Abstract
Includes correspondence (1983-1984), minutes of meetings, financial records, mailing lists, planning reports, publicity, press coverage, newspaper clippings, and follow-up notes. Correspondents include Bruce Birchard, Samuel D. Caldwell, and Morton Frank.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1983-1984
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Peace Association of Friends in America Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-027
Abstract
The Peace Association of Friends in America was organized in 1867 by Orthodox Friends in the New York, Baltimore, North Carolina, Ohio, Indiana, Western and Iowa Yearly Meetings in reaction to the Civil War, with its mission being to convince Friends and others that war was unchristian, inhumane and unnecessary.
Dates:
1868-1944
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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- American Friends Service Committee 5
- Lyttle, Bradford 4
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 3
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 3
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 3
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 3
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 3
- A Quaker Action Group 2
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 2
- Jack, Homer A. (Homer Alexander), 1916-1993 2
- Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 2
- Lakey, George 2
- Levering, Robert, 1944- 2
- Lynd, Staughton 2
- Newton, Ray 2
- Pickus, Robert 2
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 2
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 2
- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 2
- Walker, Charles C. 2
- War Resisters League 2
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- Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971 1
- Adler, Friedrich 1
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 1
- Allen, Horatio, 1802-1889 1
- Allen, Marie Hollister, 1893-1979 1
- American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky 1
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- Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) 1
- Apsey, Lawrence S. 1
- Aptheker, Herbert, 1915-2003 1
- Baer, Gertrude 1
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 1
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 1
- Beard, Charles A. (Charles Austin), 1874-1948 1
- Beheiren 1
- Berg, Lloyd A. 1
- Berg, Russel O. 1
- Bigelow, Albert, 1906- 1
- Birchard, Bruce 1
- Boardman, Elizabeth Jelinek, 1917- 1
- Bolling, Landrum Rymer 1
- Brainerd, Heloise, 1881-1969 1
- Braxton, John Worth 1
- Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 1
- Brittain, Vera, 1893-1970 1
- Brockway, Fenner, 1888-1988 1
- Broun, Heywood, 1888-1939 1
- Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 1
- Burritt, Elihu, 1810-1879 1
- Butterworth, Harrison 1
- Caldwell, Samuel D. 1
- Carner, Lucy Perkins, 1886-1983 1
- Cary, John R. 1
- Catchpool, Corder, 1883-1952 1
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 1
- Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors 1
- Ceresole, Pierre, 1879-1945 1
- Champney, Horace 1
- Chase, E. Dixwell 1
- Clergy and Laity Concerned (U.S.) 1
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- Committee of Correspondence (New York, N.Y. : 1960-1962) 1
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- Crozer Theological Seminary 1
- Curti, Merle (Merle Eugene), 1897-1996 1
- Davidov, Marv 1
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 1
- Desai, Narayan 1
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- Dolci, Danilo 1
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- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 1
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- Eaton, Robert Whittington 1
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- Einstein, Albert 1
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- Engelbrecht, H. C. (Helmuth Carol), 1895-1939 1
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- Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 1
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