American Friends Service Committee
Organization
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
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
Norman J. Whitney Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-061
Overview
Norman Jehiel Whitney (1891-1967) was a Quaker teacher, writer and devoted peace worker. From 1919-1957 he helped establish, and directed for many years, the Syracuse Peace Council. He left Syracuse in 1957 to work for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in peace education. Whitney's major peace work was in the area of counseling conscientious objectors to war (COs), particularly those in Civilian Public Service (CPS) camps. In 1941 he helped establish the New York State Board for...
Dates:
1938-1967
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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- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 9
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 6
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 5
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 3
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 3
- War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Conscientious objection -- History -- Sources 2
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 2
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 2
- Political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Tax protests and appeals -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- 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
- Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 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 Objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objectors -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Direct action -- History -- Sources 1
- Disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- History -- Sources 1
- Educators -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Government, Resistance to -- History -- Sources 1
- Harrisburg Seven Trial, Harrisburg, Pa., 1972 1
- Journalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Labor leaders -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Lecturers -- United States -- Biography -- Sources 1
- Loyalty oaths -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Militarism -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Research -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 1
- Peace movements -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- Pennsylvania -- Main Line -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History 1
- Periodical editors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Physicists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Polaris (Missile) 1
- Prisoners' writings, American 1
- Psychologists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Quaker women -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Ohio -- Yellow Springs -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Political activity -- 20th century -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Socialist parties -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Society of Friends -- Charities 1
- Society of Friends -- Societies, etc. 1
- Society of Friends -- United States 1
- Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 1
- Universities and colleges -- Faculty -- History -- Sources 1
- Universities and colleges -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Draft resisters -- United States -- Sources 1
- War finance -- History -- Sources 1
- War tax resistance -- United States 1
- Women and peace -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Women political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- World tomorrow (Periodical) 1
- Young democracy (Periodical) 1
- Youth and peace -- History -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
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