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American Friends Service Committee

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Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

J. Stuart Innerst Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-103
Overview J. Stuart Innerst was a United Brethren in Christ missionary to China in the 1920s. Innerst and his wife Marion Reachard Innerst left China in 1927 with great concerns about the influence of western imperialism in that country. J. Stuart Innerst served as pastor of several churches and joined the Society of Friends in 1943. In addition to his pastoral work, Innerst also served as the Director of the Quaker Friends in Washington Program (1960-1961, lobbied members of Congress regarding China,...
Dates: 1920-1975

Bradford Lyttle Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-079
Overview 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-

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

Edward F. Snyder Papers

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Identifier: SCPC-DG-241
Overview Edward Furnas Snyder is a Quaker lobbyist for peace, civil rights, and economic justice. He joined staff of Friends Committee on National Legislation in 1955 and retired in 1990 as Executive Secretary of the FCNL Snyder argued against legislation for a U.S. military draft and excessive military spending; worked for cultural and scientific exchanges between Soviet and U.S. citizens to lessen tensions of the Cold War. Edward and Dorothy Snyder have long been tax resisters arguing that the...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1950-

George Willoughby and Lillian Willoughby Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-236
Overview

George Willoughby (December 9, 1914 - January 5, 2010) and Lillian Willoughby (c. 1916 - January 15, 2009) were Quaker activists who took part in nonviolent protests against war, conducted nonviolence trainings in India and other countries, and advocated for preservation of land in New Jersey and elsewhere.

Dates: 1931-2010

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Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
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Tax protests and appeals -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Ballistic missiles -- United States 1
Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Civil rights workers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Clergy -- California -- History -- Sources 1
College chaplains -- Ohio -- History -- Sources 1
Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Direct action -- History -- Sources 1
Disarmament -- History -- Sources 1
Disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Labor leaders -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Lobbying -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Lobbyists -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- Sources 1
Missionaries -- China -- History -- Sources 1
Nuclear disarmament -- History -- Sources 1
Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Peace -- Religious aspects -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Peace -- Societies, etc. 1
Peace movements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History 1
Polaris (Missile) 1
Political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Prisoners' writings, American 1
Quakers -- California -- History -- Sources 1
Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
Quakers -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Society of Friends -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- United States -- Sources 1
War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 1
War tax resistance -- United States 1
War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Women political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
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