American Friends Service Committee
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Henry Joel Cadbury Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-081
Abstract
Henry J. Cadbury (1883-1974) was a distinguished Biblical scholar, teacher, and a member of the Society of Friends. Cadbury was one of the founders of the American Friends Service Committee. He served as its chairman from both 1928 to 1934 and again from 1944 to 1960. Cadbury supervised famine relief both in the United States and in Europe.
Dates:
1917-1974
A.J. Muste Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-050
Overview
A.J. Muste (1885-1967), was ordained a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, but later (1917), he became a member of the Society of Friends. During World War I, Muste's refusal to abandon his pacifist position led to his forced resignation from the Central Congregational Church in Newtonville, Massachusetts. Muste's involvement as a labor organizer began in 1919 when he led strikes in the textile mills of Lawrence, Massachusetts. He became the director of the Brookwood Labor College in...
Dates:
1920-1967
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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A.J. Muste Papers
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-
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- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
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- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
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- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 2
- Ballistic missiles -- United States 1
- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights workers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Labor leaders -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Lobbying -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Loyalty oaths -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Militarism -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 1
- Nuclear disarmament -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 1
- Polaris (Missile) 1
- Quakers -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Society of Friends -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Society of Friends -- Societies, etc. 1
- Society of Friends -- United States 1
- Universities and colleges -- Faculty -- History -- Sources 1
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