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American Friends Service Committee

 Organization

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Horace Champney Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-166
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1958-1990; Majority of material found within 1958-1979

Robert Levering Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-080
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1967-1972

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  • Subject: Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Draft resisters X
  • Subject: Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Draft resisters X

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Direct action -- History -- Sources 1
Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 1
Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 1