Walker, Charles C.
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Charles C. Walker Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-296
Abstract
Minutes, reports, writings, notes, photographs, and printed material from Walker's work as an activist and nonviolent resistance trainer. Materials have been place in series based on how the subjects were identified in their original boxes.
Dates:
1940-2000
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Peace Action Center Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-093
Overview
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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- Chester County (Pa.) 1
- Conscientious objectors 1
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Government, Resistance to 1
- Government, Resistance to -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifists 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County -- History -- Sources 1
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