American Friends Service Committee
Organization
Found in 3 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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Ann Morrissett Davidon and William C. Davidon Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-144
Abstract
Ann Morrissett Davidon (1925-2004), was a writer, editor, educator, pacifist and peace activist through her entire life. William Cooper Davidon(1927- 2013), was a professor of physics at Haverford College and (retired 1994), pacifist, peace activist. The two were married in 1963 and both continued to be very active in peace, pacifist, anti-Vietnam War, and social justice organizations. They advocated and practiced war-tax resistance. In 1971, William Davidon was named an "unindicted...
Dates:
1949-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Bradford Lyttle Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-079
Overview
Bradford [Brad] Lyttle is a long time leading peace activist involved in the promotion of nonviolence for social change and the elimination of war and nuclear weapons. Lyttle was the organizer of the San Francisco to Moscow walk in the 1960-1961, to highlight the message of disarmament and nonviolent resistance and bringing together U.S. and Soviet citizens together during the height of the Cold War. He went on to organize and participate in other marches and protests, including the Quebec...
Dates:
1954-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
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- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Direct action -- History -- Sources 1
- Disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Educators -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Harrisburg Seven Trial, Harrisburg, Pa., 1972 1
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- Pennsylvania -- Main Line -- History -- Sources 1
- Physicists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Prisoners' writings, American 1
- Psychologists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Ohio -- Yellow Springs -- History -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 1
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