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Committee for a Quaker Peace Witness Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Committee for a Quaker Peace Witness
Abstract
Committee for a Quaker Peace Witness; organized the November 1960 Washington Pilgrimage and two-day vigil at the Pentagon; chaired by Henry J. Cadbury; also called the Quaker Peace Witness Committee; work was continued by the Friends Witness for World Order
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1960-1961
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Edward W. Evans Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-122
Overview
Edward Wyatt Evans (1882-1976) was a lifelong member of the Germantown (Pennsylvania) Monthly Meeting and was active in the Friends Peace Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Evans was instrumental in the founding of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (Fellowship of Reconcilation), and was the executive secretary from 1916-1919. During the 1920s, he was also active in educational and peace programs of the Society of Friends.
Dates:
1916-1922
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Friends National Peace Committee Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Friends National Peace Committee
Overview
A short-lived Quaker organization that promoted peace during World War I.
Dates:
1915-1917
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- American Friends Reconstruction Unit 1
- American Friends Service Committee 1
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 1
- Beaver, Gilbert A., -1952 1
- Biddle, William Canby, 1864-1942 1
- Committee for a Quaker Peace Witness 1
- Conference of All Friends (1920) (London, England) 1
- Conference of Christian Pacifists 1
- Elderkin, Noble S. (Noble Strong), 1878-1966 1
- Evans, Edward W. (Edward Wyatt), 1882-1976 1
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 1
- Friends National Peace Committee (U.S.) 1
- Fuller, Walter G. 1
- Hardin, Floyd, 1890-1974 1
- Hodgkin, Henry T. (Henry Theodore), 1877-1933 1
- Jones, Paul, 1880-1941 1
- Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 1
- Kelsey, Mary 1
- Lewis, Lucy Biddle, 1861- 1
- Nearing, Scott, 1883-1983 1
- Nicholson, Vincent D. (Vincent De Witt), 1890-1945 1
- Pennell, Anne Walton 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955). Peace Committee (1916-1933) 1
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 1
- Thomas, Wilbur K. (Wilbur Kelsey), 1882-1953 1
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