Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.)
Organization
Found in 3 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
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
E. Raymond Wilson Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-070
Overview
E. Raymond Wilson (1896-1987), a Quaker peace lobbyist, helped found the Friends Committee on National Legislation in 1943 and served as its Executive Secretary until 1962. He also helped organize the Committee on Militarism in Education in 1925. From 1931 to 1943, he served as Field and Education Secretary of the Peace Section of the American Friends Service Committee. He was the author of two books.
The papers of E. Raymond Wilson contain personal and professional correspondence,...
Dates:
1914-1987
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Draft -- United States 1
- Food supply 1
- Illinois -- Politics and government 1
- Indians of North America -- Civil rights 1
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- Lobbying -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
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- National service -- United States 1
- Nonviolence -- United States 1
- Nuclear disarmament -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- United States 1
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 1
- Peace movements -- United States 1
- Peace movements -- United States -- 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 -- History -- Sources 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 -- Religious aspects 1
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
- War -- Religious aspects 1
- Wisconsin -- Politics and government 1
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- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors 1
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