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American Friends Service Committee

 Organization

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Horace Champney Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-166
Abstract

Horace Champney was a pacifist active in various causes from the late 1940s through the 1980s. He was a founder of The Peacemakers Movement in the 1950s and interested in civil rights, war tax refusal, and other social justice causes. Champney was a member A Quaker Action Group and a crew member of the ship the Phoenix, which sailed to North Vietnam with medical supplies, during the Vietnam war.

Dates: 1958-1990; Majority of material found within 1958-1979

Friends Committee on National Legislation Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-047
Abstract

A Quaker lobbying group established in 1943 to bring conscience and spiritual values to the political process in Washington; it grew out of the work of the Friends War Problems Committee in 1940.

Dates: 1943-

William Huntington papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1181
Overview

The collection relates primarily to William Huntington, (1907-1990), a 20th century Quaker peace activist and the ship The Golden Rule which Huntington and others used to protest atomic testing in the South Pacific. Included are correspondence, photographs, conference papers, newspaper articles, memoranda, and minutes.

Dates: 1932-1984

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

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

Lynne Shivers Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-263
Overview

Enid Lynne Shivers was a peace activist and prominent member of Movement for a New Society, for which she organized and wrote informational materials. This collection of her personal materials is primarily composed of journals dating from the 1960s until 2014 and materials from time she spent doing peace work in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1941-2015

Wilmer J. and Mildred Binns Young Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-289
Overview

Wilmer J. Young (1887-1983), a Quaker teacher and peace activist born in Iowa, was involved in post World War I reconstruction in France and Poland. He married Mildred Binns in 1922, and together they worked with AFSC work camps and cooperative farms until he began to teach at Pendle Hill in 1955. The collection contains primarily journals and correspondence from his time in France.

Dates: 1909-2014

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Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
Peace -- Societies, etc. 4
Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 3
Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 3
Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Direct action -- History -- Sources 2
Nonviolence 2
Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Peace movements -- United States 2
African Americans -- Civil rights 1
Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962 1
Antinuclear movement 1
Atomic bomb victims -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi 1
Atomic bomb victims -- Japan -- Nagasaki-shi 1
Ballistic missiles -- United States 1
California -- Politics and government 1
Civil rights -- United States 1
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Civil rights workers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Conscientious objection -- United States 1
Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Conscientious objectors -- United States 1
Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Disarmament 1
Disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Draft -- United States 1
Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Food supply 1
Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Illinois -- Politics and government 1
Indians of North America -- Civil rights 1
Labor leaders -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Lobbying -- California 1
Lobbying -- Illinois 1
Lobbying -- United States 1
Lobbying -- Wisconsin 1
National service -- United States 1
Nonviolence -- History 1
Nonviolence -- United States 1
Nuclear disarmament 1
Pacifism -- United States 1
Pacifists -- United States 1
Peace -- Religious aspects -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Peace movements -- History -- Sources 1
Polaris (Missile) 1
Political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Prisoners' writings, American 1
Psychologists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Quaker women -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Quakers -- Ohio -- Yellow Springs -- History -- Sources 1
Quakers -- Pennsylvania 1
Quakers -- Political activity 1
Reconstruction (1914–1939) -- France 1
Reconstruction (1914–1939) -- Poland 1
Society of Friends -- Political activity 1
Society of Friends -- Societies, etc. 1
Society of Friends -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 1
Tax protests and appeals -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century 1
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 1
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Draft resisters 1
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Draft resisters -- United States -- Sources 1
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Religious aspects 1
War -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 1
War -- Religious aspects 1
War tax resistance -- United States 1
War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Wisconsin -- Politics and government 1
Women -- Societies and clubs 1
Work camps -- Pennsylvania 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- United States 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Religious aspects 1
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