Boardman, Elizabeth Jelinek, 1917-
Person
Found in 3 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
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
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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- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 2
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 2
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 2
- Direct action -- History -- Sources 1
- Disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence -- 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
- Psychologists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Ohio -- Yellow Springs -- History -- Sources 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
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Draft resisters -- United States -- Sources 1
- War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
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