Horton, Robert, 1900-1991
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
Robert Horton Collected Papers
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Horton, Robert
Abstract
Collection includes biographical information about Robert Horton; consists primarily of materials gathered for a manuscript titled The Power of the Powerless, a series of biographies and interviews of conscientious objectors to war and those imprisoned for their beliefs.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1948-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Prisoner Visitation and Support Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-223
Scope and Contents
This collection was partially processed by the archivist in 2006. The material came in looking like it was in good order, but it was discovered that the folder titles rarely matched what was in the folders themselves. This necessitated sorting nearly everything into new folders. Some prisoner correspondence was already designated as such before its arrival at the SCPC, but a great deal was also found mixed throughout the rest of the collection. This was removed and put with the rest of the...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1952-1991
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Additional filters:
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- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Methodist Church -- Clergy -- History -- Sources 2
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Church work with prisoners -- Society of Friends 1
- Church work with prisoners -- United States 1
- 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
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Poor People's Campaign 1
- Prison chaplains -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Prison reformers -- United States 1
- Prison reformers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Prison visits -- United States 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 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
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