American Friends Service Committee
Organization
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
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-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 3
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 3
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Direct action -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace movements -- United States 2
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 2
- African Americans -- Civil rights 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
- 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 -- United States 1
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- 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
- Quaker women -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Political activity 1
- Society of Friends -- Political activity 1
- Society of Friends -- Societies, etc. 1
- Society of Friends -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Tax protests and appeals -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Draft resisters 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
- Wisconsin -- Politics and government 1
- Women -- Societies and clubs 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Religious aspects 1 + ∧ less
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