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A Quaker Action Group Records
Irwin Abrams Collected Papers
Includes biographical and bibliographical information and photocopies of a small portion of Abrams published writings, including material about the Nobel Peace Prize, women Nobel Peace Prize winners, the Quaker peace testimony and the Nobel Peace Prize, Henri La Fontaine, and Carl von Ossietzky.
Horace Gundry Alexander Papers
Horace Alexander was born in England in 1889 and died in the United States in 1989. As a life-long member of the Religious Society of Friends, he was interested in Indian rights and worked with Gandhi and others for many years to lobby for it. He wrote books about Gandhi and other subjects.
All American Friends Conference (Oskaloosa, Ia.) Records
All American Friends Conference (1929) was a conference of Quakers from the United States and Canada which was held in Oskaloosa, Iowa, in September 1929. This collection contains a journal kept by Rebecca Thomas Miller, program, list of participants, pictures, and other records relating to the Conference.
Devere Allen Papers
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.
William Charles Allen Collected Papers
William C. Allen was born in 1857 in Chester County, Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Society of Friends. Allen was deeply opposed to war and wrote often about the problems of propaganda, censorship, conscription, imperialism, and the munitions industry. He traveled widely and wrote many articles about his experiences abroad.
American Friends Service Committee, Committee on Rights of Conscience Records
Contains the records of American Friends Service Committee, Committee on Rights of Conscience, 1955-1962, including minutes and other supporting documents. Persons represented include Faith Bissell, Miriam E. Brailey, Harrop Freeman, Frederick Fuges, Alan Howe, Mary Knowles, Patrick M. Malin, Roland Pennock, Sara Pickus, Harry B. Sprogell, Frederick B. Tolles, and John T. Watkins.
Bent Andresen Collected Papers
Bent Andresen registered as a conscientious objector (CO) during World War Two and was sent to a Civilian Public Service in 1944. Andresen participated in a guinea pig project in which he and several other COs lived in a refrigerated room for three months to test the impact of a high-protein diet on cold-weather conditions. He went AWOL in 1945 and was sentenced to two years in prison. Andreson was involved in various peace and justice groups throughout his lifetime.
Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick Collected Records
Collection includes brochures and flyers, printed correspondence, and pamphlets about the Appeal and Vigil; also includes two short unpublished histories of Fort Detrick, and news clippings about Fort Detrick's conversion in 1969 from offensive biological warfare to cancer research.
Atlantic City Conference for Peaceworkers Collected Records
Includes correspondence, minutes, and related printed materials.
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- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 4
- Reynolds, Earle L. 4
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 4
- Walker, Charles C. 4
- Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987 4
- Bigelow, Albert, 1906- 3
- Boardman, Elizabeth Jelinek, 1917- 3
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 3
- Freeman, Harrop A. (Harrop Arthur), 1907-1993 3
- Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.) 3
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- Hamm, Thomas D. 3
- Lakey, George 3
- Morrison, Norman R., 1933-1965 3
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 3
- Newton, Ray 3
- Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) 3
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 3
- Stern, Lee, 1915-1992 3
- Whitney, Norman J. (Norman Jehiel), 1891-1967 3
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- Alexander, Horace Gundry, 1889-1989 2
- Allen family 2
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- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 2
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- Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 2
- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 2
- Friends Mississippi Project 2
- Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 2
- Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879 2
- Horton, Robert, 1900-1991 2
- Jack, Homer A. (Homer Alexander), 1916-1993 2
- Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 2
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- Levering, Robert, 1944- 2
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 2
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- Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884 2
- Phoenix (Yacht) 2
- Pickus, Robert 2
- Quaker Project on Community Conflict of the New York Yearly Meeting 2
- Read, James Morgan, 1908-1985 2
- Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 2
- Shivers, Lynne 2
- Snyder, Edward F. 2
- Stewart, Annalee, 1900?- 2
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- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 2
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 2
- Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) 2
- War Resisters League 2
- Woodward, Walter Carleton, 1878-1942 2
- Zietlow, Carl P. 2
- Abrams, Irwin, 1914-2010 1
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- Albert, Alfred, 1908- 1
- Alford, Terry (Seller) 1
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- Allen, Horatio, 1802-1889 1
- Allen, Marie Hollister, 1893-1979 1
- Allen, William Charles, 1857-1938 1
- Allinson, Brent D. (Brent Dow) 1
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