American Friends Service Committee
Organization
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
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
Nuclear Weapons Facilities Task Force Collected Records
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Nuclear Weapons Facilities Task Force
Abstract
Collection includes printed correspondence, flyers, newsletters, memos, booklets. Correspondents include Sam Day, Mike Jendrzejczyk and Pam Solo. This collection includes material about the Rocky Flats/Nuclear Weapons Facilities Project and other Rocky Flats related material.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1977-1984
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Lynne Shivers Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-263
Overview
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.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1941-2015
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
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- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 10
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 6
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 4
- Peace movements -- United States 4
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 4
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 3
- Conscientious objection -- United States 2
- Direct action -- History -- Sources 2
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 2
- Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace movements -- History -- Sources 2
- Tax protests and appeals -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Moral and ethical aspects 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Religious aspects 2
- African Americans -- Civil rights 1
- African Americans -- Political activity 1
- Antinuclear movement -- United States 1
- Atomic bomb victims -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi 1
- Atomic bomb victims -- Japan -- Nagasaki-shi 1
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Sources 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
- Connecticut -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950 -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
- Conscientious objection -- Societies, etc. 1
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objectors -- United States 1
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Disarmament 1
- Disarmament -- History -- Sources 1
- Disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft -- United States 1
- Draft resisters -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Educators -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Food supply 1
- Harrisburg Seven Trial, Harrisburg, Pa., 1972 1
- Illinois -- Politics and government 1
- Indians of North America -- Civil rights 1
- Journalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Labor leaders -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Lawyers -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Lecturers -- United States -- Biography -- Sources 1
- Lobbying -- California 1
- Lobbying -- Illinois 1
- Lobbying -- United States 1
- Lobbying -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Lobbying -- Wisconsin 1
- Lobbyists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- National service -- United States 1
- Neutrality -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence -- United States 1
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Nuclear arms control -- United States 1
- Nuclear disarmament -- History -- Sources 1
- Nuclear disarmament -- United States 1
- Nuclear facilities -- Environmental aspects -- United States 1
- Nuclear nonproliferation -- United States 1
- Pacifism -- United States 1
- Pacifists -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- Pennsylvania -- Main Line -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Periodical editors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Physicists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Polaris (Missile) 1
- Political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Prisoners' writings, American 1
- Quaker women -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Congresses -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Political activity 1
- Quakers -- Political activity -- 20th century -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Socialist parties -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Society of Friends -- Political activity 1
- Society of Friends -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Society of Friends -- Societies, etc. 1
- Society of Friends -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century 1
- United States -- Race relations 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Draft resisters 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 + ∧ less
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