American Friends Service Committee
Organization
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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
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
Nuclear Weapons Facilities Task Force Collected Records
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Nuclear Weapons Facilities Task Force
Abstract
Collection includes printed correspondence, flyers, newsletters, memos, booklets. Correspondents include Sam Day, Mike Jendrzejczyk and Pam Solo. This collection includes material about the Rocky Flats/Nuclear Weapons Facilities Project and other Rocky Flats related material.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1977-1984
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Edward F. Snyder Papers
Collection
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-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace movements -- United States 2
- African Americans -- Civil rights 1
- Antinuclear movement -- United States 1
- California -- Politics and government 1
- Civil rights -- United States 1
- Conscientious objection -- United States 1
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objectors -- United States 1
- Direct action -- History -- Sources 1
- Disarmament 1
- Disarmament -- History -- Sources 1
- Disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft -- United States 1
- Food supply 1
- Illinois -- Politics and government 1
- Indians of North America -- Civil rights 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
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence -- United States 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 -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 1
- Prisoners' writings, American 1
- Quakers -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Political activity 1
- Quakers -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- United States -- 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
- Tax protests and appeals -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Religious aspects 1
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
- War -- Religious aspects 1
- War tax resistance -- United States 1
- Wisconsin -- Politics and government 1
- Women -- Societies and clubs 1
- Women and peace -- History -- Sources 1
- Women journalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief -- Sources 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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