American Friends Service Committee
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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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A.J. Muste Papers
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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- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
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- Ballistic missiles -- United States 1
- Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights workers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Direct action -- 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 -- Societies, etc. 1
- Peace movements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History 1
- Polaris (Missile) 1
- Political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Prisoners' writings, American 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- Tax protests and appeals -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- War tax resistance -- United States 1
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