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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

Ross Flanagan Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-064
Abstract

Ross Flanagan (1934- ), is Quaker pacifist and activist, has been involved in many Quaker-sponsored projects, peace, and civil rights activities. In the 1950s he served on the staff of the American Friends Service Committee. He was an early protestor against the Vietnam war and worked with A Quaker Action Group in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In the 1970s Flanagan was involved in neighborhood revitalization projects in West Philadelphia.

Dates: 1962-1993; Majority of material found within 1964-1978

Friends Meeting for Sufferings of Vietnamese Children Records

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Identifier: SCPC-DG-111
Abstract

The Friends Meeting for Sufferings of Vietnamese Children was founded in 1966, to bring injured and orphaned Vietnamese and Amerasian children to the United States for medical treatment. Some children were placed in foster homes or were permanent adopted. The organizers worked in cooperation with Welcome House in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, and with other organizations. The group disbanded in October 1969.

Dates: 1966-1969

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A Quaker Action Group 2
American Friends Service Committee 2
Flanagan, Ross, 1934- 2
Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 2
Willoughby, George, pacifist 2
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Beheiren 1
Block Association of West Philadelphia 1
Boardman, Elizabeth Jelinek, 1917- 1
Braxton, John Worth 1
Burr, Barbara R. 1
Butterworth, Harrison 1
Canadian Friends Service Committee 1
Champney, Horace 1
Citizens Local Alliance for a Safer Philadelphia 1
Coffin, Jerry D. 1
Committee of Responsibility to Save War-Burned and War-Injured Vietnamese Children 1
Cowley, Christopher 1
De Hartog, Jan, 1914-2002 1
De Hartog, Marjorie 1
De Leeuw, Rachel 1
Dietze, Carla 1
Drath, Phillip 1
Eaton, Robert Whittington 1
Ede, Roderick 1
Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 1
Fifth Avenue Peace Parade Committee 1
Friends Committee for Reconciliation and Church Reconstruction 1
Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.) 1
Friends Meeting for Sufferings of Vietnamese Children 1
Friends Mississippi Project 1
Fulford, Dawn B. 1
Geiger, Nicola 1
Geiger, Walton 1
Grant, Wendy 1
Graves, Mary L. 1
Hartsough, Ruth 1
Horton, Robert, 1900-1991 1
Huffman, Herbert 1
Interfaith Peacemakers Association 1
International Social Service 1
Kalish, Donald 1
Lakey, George 1
Lee, Kenneth, 1944- 1
Legg, Samuel 1
Levering, Robert, 1944- 1
Lyttle, Bradford 1
Massar, Ivan 1
Meacham, Stewart 1
Mimms, William R. 1
Moody, Roger 1
Neely, Frances E. 1
Nelson, Beryl Herbert 1
New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 1
Newlands, David L., 1938- 1
Ortloff, C. Frank 1
Pacific Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 1
Parkman, Patricia 1
Peace in Vietnam Committee of the New York Yearly Meeting 1
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library 1
Phoenix (Yacht) 1
Physicians for Social Responsibility (U.S.) 1
Quaker Project on Community Conflict of the New York Yearly Meeting 1
Reynolds, Earle L. 1
Rocket, Writer 1
Safer Neighborhoods are Possible (Organization) 1
Shivers, Lynne 1
Sibbett, Morgan 1
Smiley, Glenn E. 1
Stern, Lee, 1915-1992 1
Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.) 1
Vietnam Moratorium Committee (U.S.) 1
Walker, Charles C. 1
Warren, Emlyn 1
Wegener, Ellie 1
Welcome House (Adoption agency) 1
Wilson, Robert D. (Poet) 1
Wood, J. Duncan (John Duncan) 1
Zietlow, Carl P. 1
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