Walker, Charles C.
Person
Found in 4 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
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
Lawrence Scott Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-090
Overview
Lawrence Scott was a construction engineer, Baptist clergyman, and Quaker activist. He worked as an activist against the testing of nuclear weapons and biological weapons research. He was the supervisor for the Friends Mississippi Project, project director of the Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick in Maryland, executive secretary of the Peace Action Center and a founder of A Quaker Action Group.
Dates:
1955-1965
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 2
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- African American churches -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources 1
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- Sources 1
- African Americans -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Biological warfare -- History -- Sources 1
- Chemical warfare -- History -- Sources 1
- Chester County (Pa.) 1
- Conscientious objectors 1
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Direct action -- History -- Sources 1
- Disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Eniwetok Proving Grounds (Marshall Islands) -- History -- Sources 1
- Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) -- History -- Sources 1
- Government, Resistance to 1
- Government, Resistance to -- History -- Sources 1
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 1
- Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifists 1
- Peace movements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- Sources 1
- Poor People's Campaign 1
- Quakers 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- Race relations -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources 1
- Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 1
- Society of Friends -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Tax protests and appeals -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- United States 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Civilian relief -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
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