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Norman J. Whitney Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-061
Abstract
Norman Jehiel Whitney (1891-1967) was a Quaker teacher, writer and devoted peace worker. From 1919-1957 he helped establish, and directed for many years, the Syracuse Peace Council. He left Syracuse in 1957 to work for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in peace education. Whitney's major peace work was in the area of counseling conscientious objectors to war (COs), particularly those in Civilian Public Service (CPS) camps. In 1941 he helped establish the New York State Board for...
Dates:
1938 - 1967
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
George Willoughby and Lillian Willoughby Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-236
Abstract
George Willoughby (December 9, 1914 - January 5, 2010) and Lillian Willoughby (c. 1916 - January 15, 2009) were Quaker activists who took part in nonviolent protests against war, conducted nonviolence trainings in India and other countries, and advocated for preservation of land in New Jersey and elsewhere.
Dates:
1931-2010
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Dan Wilson Memoir: Relief, Rehabilitation and Hope: A.F.S.C Work in Germany and Austria
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-318
Abstract
Collection includes a typed copy of Dan Wilson's transcript of his memoir, "Relief, Rehabilitation and Hope: A.F.S.C. Work in Germany and Austria". Within the transcript includes his experiences and reflections on his time working for the AFSC post WWII relief effort in Germany and Austria from 1947 to 1950. There are also typed copies of correspondence he kept with his wife, Rosalie, his children, and many others during his time abroad. Included with the transcript are copies of official...
Dates:
circa 1947-1950
L. Hollingsworth Wood papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1175
Abstract
Primarily correspondence related to Wood's activities in areas of peace, civil rights, African American education, and Quaker education. Wood was founding member of American Civil Liberties Union, American Friends Service Committee, and National Urban League. He was president of the Urban League for 26 years; elected in 1917 to Fisk University Board of Trustees; and a member of Haverford College Board of Managers. Correspondents include Jane Addams, Roger N. Baldwin, W. E. B. DuBois, Rufus...
Dates:
1903-1953
World War I Reconstruction and Conscientious Objectors files
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1249
Abstract
Card files on Conscientious Objectors in World War I (of all faiths) and on workers and applicants to the Reconstruction Unit program overseen by the Society of Friends in Europe after World War I.
Dates:
1918-1923
Young Friends Movement papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1267
Abstract
This collection contains the papers of the Young Friends Movement, dating between 1916 and 1997. Included in the collection are materials published by the Young Friends, including their montly newspaper "The Quake," correspondence between members, and the papers of Clarence Pickett, the former secretary of the Young Friends Movement and executive secretary of the American Friends Service Committee, both relating to his time with the Young Friends and his time with the AFSC.
Dates:
1916-1997
Letters from Mildred Binns Young to W. Wendell Clepper
Collection — othertype: SC-170
Identifier: SFHL-SC-170
Abstract
This collection includes letters from Mildred Binns Young to W. Wendall Clepper. These letters relate to personal and family news, as well as news of the progress and concerns of the Delta Cooperative Farm, on which she was working at the time.
Dates:
1936-1941
Wilmer J. and Mildred Binns Young Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-289
Abstract
Wilmer J. Young (1887-1983), a Quaker teacher and peace activist born in Iowa, was involved in post World War I reconstruction in France and Poland. He married Mildred Binns in 1922, and together they worked with AFSC work camps and cooperative farms until he began to teach at Pendle Hill in 1955. The collection contains primarily journals and correspondence from his time in France.
Dates:
1909-2014
Wilmer J. and Mildred Binns Young photographs
Collection — othertype: PA-173
Identifier: SFHL-PA-173
Abstract
Wilmer J. Young (1887-1983), a Quaker teacher and peace activist born in Iowa, was involved in post World War I reconstruction in France and Poland. He married Mildred Binns in 1922, and together they worked with AFSC work camps and cooperative farms until he began to teach at Pendle Hill in 1955. This collection of photographs documents their work and personal life.
Dates:
1918 - 1990
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- Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 18
- correspondence 17
- Quakers 15
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 13
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- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 10
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 10
- Society of Friends -- International assistance -- Germany 8
- Quaker women 7
- Reconstruction (1914–1939) -- France 7
- World War, 1939-1945 7
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- United States 7
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 6
- International relief -- France 6
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 6
- Quakers -- History 6
- Quakers -- Social life and customs 6
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 6
- diaries 6
- letters (correspondence) 6
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
- International relief 5
- Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
- Reconstruction (1914–1939) -- Poland 5
- Society of Friends -- Japan 5
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief 5
- International relief -- Germany 4
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 4
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 4
- Peace movements -- United States 4
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania 4
- Society of Friends -- Societies, etc. 4
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 4
- World War, 1914-1918 4
- photographs 4
- Charities -- France 3
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- International relief -- Societies, etc 3
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 3
- Pacifism 3
- Peace movements -- History -- Sources 3
- Quaker missionaries 3
- Quakers -- 20th century -- Diaries 3
- Quakers -- Diaries 3
- Quakers -- Education 3
- Quakers -- Germany 3
- Quakers -- Indiana 3
- Quakers -- Japan 3
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- Social service -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 3
- Society of Friends -- Charities 3
- Society of Friends -- Germany 3
- Society of Friends -- International assistance 3
- Society of Friends -- United States 3
- Tax protests and appeals -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief 3
- World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- American Friends Service Committee 3
- lecture notes 3
- speeches (documents) 3
- African Americans -- Civil rights 2
- Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962 2
- Child welfare -- Germany 2
- Church and social problems -- Society of Friends 2
- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Conscientious objection -- History -- Sources 2
- Conscientious objection -- United States 2
- Diaries 2
- Direct action -- History -- Sources 2
- Disarmament -- History -- Sources 2
- Economic conversion -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- France -- History -- 1914-1940 2
- Germany 2
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Indians of North America 2
- Indians of North America -- Government relations 2
- International relief -- Europe 2
- International relief -- Poland 2
- International relief -- Russia 2
- Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 2
- Missionaries 2
- Nonviolence 2
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Nuclear disarmament 2
- Peace -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 2
- Photographs 2
- Poland -- Pictorial works 2
- Political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Prison reform -- Society of Friends 2
- Quaker businesspeople 2
- Quaker philanthropists 2
- Quaker photographers 2
- Quaker social reformers 2
- Quaker women -- 20th century 2
- Quakers -- Delaware 2 + ∧ less
- Language
- English 128
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- Civilian Public Service 13
- Haverford College 12
- Pendle Hill (School: Wallingford, Pa.) 11
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 9
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library 8
- Swarthmore College 8
- Pickett, Clarence, 1884-1965 7
- Brinton, Anna Cox 6
- Friends World Committee for Consultation 6
- Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 5
- Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.) 5
- Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 5
- Society of Friends 5
- Steere, Douglas V. (Douglas Van), 1901-1995 5
- Westtown Boarding School 5
- Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987 5
- A Quaker Action Group 4
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 4
- Brinton, Howard Haines, 1884-1973 4
- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 4
- Friends Girls School (Tokyo, Japan) 4
- Jones, Mary Hoxie 4
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 4
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955) 4
- Quaker United Nations Office 4
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 4
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 4
- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 3
- Bean, Hannah E. (Hannah Elliott), 1830-1909 3
- Bean, Joel, 1825-1914 3
- Bowles, Gilbert, 1869-1960 3
- Bowles, Minnie, 1868-1958 3
- Cary, Stephen G. 3
- Clark, Rebecca Timbres, 1896- 3
- Coleman, John Royston 3
- Davis, Bainbridge C., 1910-1993 3
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 3
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 3
- Earlham College 3
- Emergency Peace Campaign (U.S.) 3
- Furnas, Paul J. 3
- Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 3
- Harvard University 3
- Jones, Margaret E., 1895-1984 3
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 3
- Lyttle, Bradford 3
- Miles, Catharine Cox 3
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 3
- Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971 3
- Page, Kirby, 1890-1957 3
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 3
- Schneider, Louis W. 3
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 3
- Shipley family 3
- Snyder, Edward F. 3
- Timbres, Harry, 1899-1937 3
- War Resisters League 3
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. International Office 3
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section 3
- Young, Mildred Binns 3
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 2
- American Friends Service Committee. China Program 2
- American Friends Service Committee. Civilian Public Service 2
- Bacon family 2
- Bacon, Francis R. (Francis Rogers), 1888-1965 2
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 2
- Biddle, Clement M. (Clement Miller), 1876-1959 2
- Bowles, Gordon Townsend 2
- Bowles, Jane T. 2
- Brethren Service Committee 2
- Brinton family 2
- Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 2
- Brockway, Fenner, 1888-1988 2
- Brown family 2
- Cadbury family 2
- Canadian Friends Service Committee 2
- Carter family 2
- Chance, Harold J., 1898-1975 2
- Civilian Public Service. Camp (Big Flats, NY) 2
- Clergy and Laity Concerned (U.S.) 2
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 2
- Cox, Lydia Shipley Bean 2
- Darlington, Charles J. (Charles Joseph), 1894-1966 2
- Delta Cooperative Farm Project (Hillhouse, Miss.) 2
- Elkinton, J. Passmore (Joseph Passmore), 1887-1971 2
- Fey, Harold E. (Harold Edward), 1898-1990 2
- Five Years Meeting (Society of Friends: U.S.) 2
- Flanagan, Ross, 1934- 2
- Friends Ambulance Unit 2
- Friends General Conference (U.S.) 2
- Friends Medical Society 2
- Friends Mississippi Project 2
- Friends World Committee for Consultation. Section of the Americas 2
- Friends World Conference 2
- Golden Rule (Ketch) 2
- Graves, Anna Melissa, 1875-1964 2
- Harker, Charles H. 2
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 2
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 2 + ∧ less
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