American Friends Service Committee
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Horace Champney Papers
Horace Champney was a pacifist active in various causes from the late 1940s through the 1980s. He was a founder of The Peacemakers Movement in the 1950s and interested in civil rights, war tax refusal, and other social justice causes. Champney was a member A Quaker Action Group and a crew member of the ship the Phoenix, which sailed to North Vietnam with medical supplies, during the Vietnam war.
Friends Committee on National Legislation Records
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.
William Huntington papers
The collection relates primarily to William Huntington, (1907-1990), a 20th century Quaker peace activist and the ship The Golden Rule which Huntington and others used to protest atomic testing in the South Pacific. Included are correspondence, photographs, conference papers, newspaper articles, memoranda, and minutes.
Robert Levering Papers
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.
Bradford Lyttle Papers
A.J. Muste Papers
Lynne Shivers Papers
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.
Wilmer J. and Mildred Binns Young Papers
Wilmer J. Young (1887-1983), a Quaker teacher and peace activist born in Iowa, was involved in post World War I reconstruction in France and Poland. He married Mildred Binns in 1922, and together they worked with AFSC work camps and cooperative farms until he began to teach at Pendle Hill in 1955. The collection contains primarily journals and correspondence from his time in France.
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- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
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- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 3
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- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 3
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Direct action -- History -- Sources 2
- Nonviolence 2
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace movements -- United States 2
- African Americans -- Civil rights 1
- Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962 1
- Antinuclear movement 1
- Atomic bomb victims -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi 1
- Atomic bomb victims -- Japan -- Nagasaki-shi 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
- Conscientious objection -- United States 1
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objectors -- United States 1
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Disarmament 1
- Disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft -- United States 1
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Food supply 1
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Illinois -- Politics and government 1
- Indians of North America -- Civil rights 1
- Labor leaders -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Lobbying -- California 1
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- National service -- United States 1
- Nonviolence -- History 1
- Nonviolence -- United States 1
- Nuclear disarmament 1
- Pacifism -- United States 1
- Pacifists -- United States 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- History -- Sources 1
- Polaris (Missile) 1
- Political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Prisoners' writings, American 1
- Psychologists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Quaker women -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Ohio -- Yellow Springs -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 1
- Quakers -- Political activity 1
- Reconstruction (1914–1939) -- France 1
- Reconstruction (1914–1939) -- Poland 1
- Society of Friends -- Political activity 1
- Society of Friends -- Societies, etc. 1
- Society of Friends -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 1
- Tax protests and appeals -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Draft resisters 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Draft resisters -- United States -- Sources 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
- War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Wisconsin -- Politics and government 1
- Women -- Societies and clubs 1
- Work camps -- Pennsylvania 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- United States 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
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