Smiley, Glenn E.

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

Church Peace Mission Records

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-177

Abstract The Church Peace Mission began as an outgrowth of a conference on the "Church and War," held in Detroit in May 1950, with its purpose being to disseminate the findings of the conference to as many churches and seminaries as possible in the next six months. Its objective was to challenge the various peace groups "to face anew their responsibility to Christ, to his Church, and to mankind," by appealing to Christians not to make or use weapons of war and to "devote their energies to the removal...

Dates: 1950-1967; Majority of material found within 1959-1965

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

John D'Emilio Collected Papers

Collection — Othertype CDG-A

Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-D'Emilio, John

Abstract Audiocassettes and typed transcripts of interviews with Bayard Rustin, his friends and co-workers for D'Emilio's book Lost Prophet: the Life and Times of Bayard Rustin. Rustin was an African-American conscientious objector, civil rights worker, pacifist, Quaker. Interviews were between 1992 and 2002. Interviewees include: Bayard Rustin, Charles Bloomstein, Ernest Bromley, Marion Bromley, Stephen Carey, Ralph DiGia, Roy Finch, Caleb Foote, Larry Gara, Norman Hill, Rachelle Horowitz, George...

Dates: Majority of material found within 1992-2002

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) Records

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-013

Abstract

The Fellowship of Reconciliation in the U.S. was founded in 1915 by Christian pacifists. The organization, whose members are now drawn from many religious groups, seeks to apply principles of peace and social justice and non-violent social change to issues such as disarmament, conscription, race relations, economic justice, and civil liberties.

Dates: 1915-

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection