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American Friends Service Committee

 Organization

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

Devere Allen Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-053
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1809-1978; Majority of material found within 1910-1955

American Interracial Peace Committee Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American Interracial Peace Committee
Scope and Contents

Contains pamphlets and leaflets. Five items.

Dates: 1928-

Ann Morrissett Davidon and William C. Davidon Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-144
Abstract Ann Morrissett Davidon (1925-2004), was a writer, editor, educator, pacifist and peace activist through her entire life. William Cooper Davidon(1927- 2013), was a professor of physics at Haverford College and (retired 1994), pacifist, peace activist. The two were married in 1963 and both continued to be very active in peace, pacifist, anti-Vietnam War, and social justice organizations. They advocated and practiced war-tax resistance. In 1971, William Davidon was named an "unindicted...
Dates: 1949-

Dorothy Detzer Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-086
Abstract

Dorothy Detzer was a peace activist, writer, and lobbyist. She served as the National Executive Secretary of the U.S. Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1924-1946.. Detzer influenced a Congressional investigation of the munitions industry, 1934-1936, and later wrote the book Appointment on the Hill, 1948, describing her two decades in Washington, D.C.

Dates: 1913-1981

Emergency Peace Campaign Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-012
Abstract Initiated in late 1935 by the American Friends Service Committee and other pacifists; originally planned as a two-year campaign to rally peace, religious, labor, African-American and student groups; aim was to organize a national campaign to promote peace principles in the face of preparation for war in Europe, and to keep the United States out of war; may have been preceded by the Emergency Peace Committee (1931-1933), though this has not been documented. The first EPC office opened in...
Dates: 1936-1937

Edward W. Evans Quaker Concerns Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-237
Overview Edward W. Evans (1882-1976) was a Quaker leader and lawyer active in the educational and peace concerns of the Society of Friends. The collection primarily contains papers compiled by Edward W. Evans during his time as Secretary of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Orthodox), from 1938-1946. Of particular interest are the materials concerning Civilian Public Service. The collection is significant in its documentation of pacifist attitudes and the ways in which the Society of Friends was active...
Dates: 1920, 1938-1951

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-

Robert Wallace Gilmore Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-163
Abstract

Robert W. Gilmore was a Quaker pacifist who was involved in a number of peace groups, either as a staffperson or as a Board member. His papers reflect these involvements through correspondence and other materials.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1960-1982

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-

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  • Subject: Peace movements -- United States X

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Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 10
Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 6
Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
Peace -- Societies, etc. 4
Peace movements -- United States 4
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 4
Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 3
Conscientious objection -- United States 2
Direct action -- History -- Sources 2
Pacifism -- History -- Sources 2
Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Peace movements -- History -- Sources 2
Tax protests and appeals -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
World War, 1939-1945 -- Moral and ethical aspects 2
World War, 1939-1945 -- Religious aspects 2
African Americans -- Civil rights 1
African Americans -- Political activity 1
Antinuclear movement -- United States 1
Atomic bomb victims -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi 1
Atomic bomb victims -- Japan -- Nagasaki-shi 1
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Sources 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
Connecticut -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950 -- Sources 1
Conscientious objection -- History -- Sources 1
Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
Conscientious objection -- Societies, etc. 1
Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Conscientious objectors -- United States 1
Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Disarmament 1
Disarmament -- History -- Sources 1
Disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Draft -- United States 1
Draft resisters -- History -- Sources 1
Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Educators -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Food supply 1
Harrisburg Seven Trial, Harrisburg, Pa., 1972 1
Illinois -- Politics and government 1
Indians of North America -- Civil rights 1
Journalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Labor leaders -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Lawyers -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
Lecturers -- United States -- Biography -- Sources 1
Lobbying -- California 1
Lobbying -- Illinois 1
Lobbying -- United States 1
Lobbying -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Lobbying -- Wisconsin 1
Lobbyists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
National service -- United States 1
Neutrality -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Nonviolence -- United States 1
Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Nuclear arms control -- United States 1
Nuclear disarmament -- History -- Sources 1
Nuclear disarmament -- United States 1
Nuclear facilities -- Environmental aspects -- United States 1
Nuclear nonproliferation -- United States 1
Pacifism -- United States 1
Pacifists -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
Peace -- History -- Sources 1
Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 1
Peace -- Religious aspects -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Peace movements -- Pennsylvania -- Main Line -- History -- Sources 1
Peace movements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
Periodical editors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Physicists -- United States -- 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 -- Congresses -- History -- Sources 1
Quakers -- History -- Sources 1
Quakers -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- Sources 1
Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
Quakers -- Political activity 1
Quakers -- Political activity -- 20th century -- History -- Sources 1
Quakers -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Socialist parties -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
Society of Friends -- Political activity 1
Society of Friends -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Society of Friends -- Societies, etc. 1
Society of Friends -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century 1
United States -- Race relations 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
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