Parkman, Patricia
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
A Quaker Action Group Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-074
Scope and Contents
A Quaker Action Group (AQAG) records in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection include minutes, correspondence (1966-1971), memoranda, financial records, subject files (organizations), research files (topics), project files, newsletters, press releases, statements of Quaker yearly meetings in various cities, clippings, photographs and sound recordings. The files were first processed in 1974, and then again in 1980. In 2004, archival intern, Joe Clark, sorted the papers into the present...
Dates:
1965-1973
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Peace Action Center Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-093
Abstract
The Peace Action Center began in 1961 as a continuation of the vigil at Fort Detrick, Md. Peace activists had sponsored a continuous vigil as early as 1959 seeking the abandonment of biological weapons and appealed for the conversion of the fort into a world health center. The Peace Action Center included cooperative living quarters for the staff of religious pacifists, mostly Quakers. PAC staff including Lawrence Scott, director, and Jack L. Bagley, Sarah Bishop, Florence Y. Carpenter,...
Dates:
1959-1965
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Direct action -- History -- Sources 1
- Disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- Sources 1
- Poor People's Campaign 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- Society of Friends -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Tax protests and appeals -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Civilian relief -- Sources 1
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