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Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-048
Abstract
The Federal Council of Churches organized its Committee on the Conscientious Objector under its Department of International Justice and Goodwill in 1941. The Committee was interested in all aspects of conscientious objection, especially religious life in Civilian Public Service camps. Among the Committee's projects was the organizing of a program of visitation to CPS camps.
Dates:
1941-1946
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Ross Flanagan Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-064
Abstract
Ross Flanagan (1934- ), is Quaker pacifist and activist, has been involved in many Quaker-sponsored projects, peace, and civil rights activities. In the 1950s he served on the staff of the American Friends Service Committee. He was an early protestor against the Vietnam war and worked with A Quaker Action Group in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In the 1970s Flanagan was involved in neighborhood revitalization projects in West Philadelphia.
Dates:
1962-1993; Majority of material found within 1964-1978
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Friends Committee on National Legislation Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-047
Abstract
A Quaker lobbying group established in 1943 to bring conscience and spiritual values to the political process in Washington; it grew out of the work of the Friends War Problems Committee in 1940.
Dates:
1943-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Friends Girls' School, Tokyo letter
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-202
Abstract
This collection contains a copy of a letter written to the Friends Girls' School in Tokyo from the American Friends Service Committee.
Dates:
1938
Friends Medical Society
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-034
Abstract
Friends Medical Society is an informal association established in 1950 to voice Quaker concerns in the field of medicine, and, more specifically, to act as a medical and advisory resource for the American Friends Service Committee and other national and international medical programs. Its records contain minutes of the annual meetings, correspondence, and some miscellaneous papers.
Dates:
1950-1983
Friends Medical Society records
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1199
Abstract
The Friends Medical Society, a Quaker organization that was founded in 1950. The collection includes information about their programs around the world along with information on its members, predominantly medical doctors.
Dates:
1950-2006
Friends Meeting for Sufferings of Vietnamese Children Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-111
Abstract
The Friends Meeting for Sufferings of Vietnamese Children was founded in 1966, to bring injured and orphaned Vietnamese and Amerasian children to the United States for medical treatment. Some children were placed in foster homes or were permanent adopted. The organizers worked in cooperation with Welcome House in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, and with other organizations. The group disbanded in October 1969.
Dates:
1966-1969
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Friends National Peace Committee Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Friends National Peace Committee
Abstract
A short-lived Quaker organization that promoted peace during World War I.
Dates:
1915-1917
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Friends World Committee for Consultation. Section of the Americas Records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG1
Abstract
A Friends World Conference Committee, sponsored by the Fellowship Council of the American Friends Service Committee, was established in 1932 to promote better understanding among Friends world wide. The representatives at the Second World Conference of Friends, held at Swarthmore and Haverford Colleges, Pa., in 1937, approved the establishment of a continuing international organization, a Friends World Committee, to promote international contacts and cooperation among Friends. In 1958, it...
Dates:
1933-2010
Friends World Committee on Consultation records
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1004
Abstract
Three separate sets of records of Friends World Conferences, the first through the third, dated 1926-1952.
Dates:
1926-1929, 1934-1937, 1949-1952
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- Names: American Friends Service Committee X
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- Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections 45
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- Bryn Mawr College 1
- Subject
- Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 18
- correspondence 17
- Quakers 15
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 13
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 13
- 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
- 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
- Reconstruction (1914–1939) -- Poland 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
- Quakers -- Social service 3
- Social service -- France 3
- 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
- Quakers -- France 2 + ∧ less
- Language
- English 126
- German 1
- Names
- 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
- 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
- Innerst, J. Stuart, 1894-1975 2 + ∧ less
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