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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
Committee for Nonviolent Action Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-017
Overview
CNVA was one of the first American peace groups to focus on nonviolentdirect action including civil disobedience. Its purpose of organizing imaginative and dramatic protest demonstrations on both land and sea attracted radical pacifists and called the attention of the American public to the atrocities of nuclear warfare. CNVA's first protest action was a vigil held outside the atomic weapons test grounds in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1957. In the second half of its existence CNVA efforts began to...
Dates:
1958-1968
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Ross Flanagan Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-064
Overview
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
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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- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 3
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- African American churches -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources 2
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- Sources 2
- African Americans -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources 2
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 2
- Race relations -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources 2
- Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 2
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Civilian relief -- Sources 2
- African Americans -- Civil rights 1
- Antinuclear movement -- History -- Sources 1
- Atomic bomb -- Testing -- History -- Sources 1
- Biological warfare -- History -- Sources 1
- California -- Politics and government 1
- Chemical warfare -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights -- United States 1
- Conscientious objection -- United States 1
- Conscientious objectors -- United States 1
- Crime prevention -- Citizen participation -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Direct action -- History -- Sources 1
- Disarmament 1
- Disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft -- United States 1
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Eniwetok Proving Grounds (Marshall Islands) -- History -- Sources 1
- Food supply 1
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- Illinois -- Politics and government 1
- Indians of North America -- Civil rights 1
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- Peace -- Societies, etc. 1
- Peace movements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- United States 1
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- Poor People's Campaign 1
- Quakers -- Canada -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Political activity 1
- Society of Friends -- Political activity 1
- Society of Friends -- Societies, etc. 1
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- Tax protests and appeals -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century 1
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- Wisconsin -- Politics and government 1
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- Lyttle, Bradford 4
- Bigelow, Albert, 1906- 3
- Flanagan, Ross, 1934- 3
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 3
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 3
- Walker, Charles C. 3
- A Quaker Action Group 2
- American Friends Service Committee 2
- Boardman, Elizabeth Jelinek, 1917- 2
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 2
- Corson, Helen H. 2
- Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.) 2
- Friends Mississippi Project 2
- Golden Rule (Ketch) 2
- Hester, Hugh B. (Hugh Bryan), 1895-1983 2
- Jack, Homer A. (Homer Alexander), 1916-1993 2
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 2
- Neely, Frances E. 2
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization) 2
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization). Nevada Project 2
- Olson, Theodore, 1932- 2
- Parkman, Patricia 2
- Paschkis, V. (Victor) 2
- Peace Action Center (Washington, D.C.) 2
- Pfeiffer, Stephen D. 2
- Phoenix (Yacht) 2
- Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) 2
- Reynolds, Earle L. 2
- Stewart, Annalee, 1900?- 2
- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 2
- Young, Wilmer J. 2
- Anderson, Ross W. 1
- Angell, Stephen Ward, 1952- 1
- Anthony, Robert L. 1
- Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) 1
- Apsey, Lawrence S. 1
- Bagley, Jack L. 1
- Beheiren 1
- Benoit, Emile 1
- Bishop, Sarah 1
- Bliss, George I. 1
- Block Association of West Philadelphia 1
- Braxton, John Worth 1
- Butterworth, Harrison 1
- Canadian Friends Service Committee 1
- Carner, Lucy Perkins, 1886-1983 1
- Carpenter, Florence Y. 1
- Champney, Horace 1
- Citizens Local Alliance for a Safer Philadelphia 1
- Coffin, Jerry D. 1
- Cooper, Wilmer A. (Wilmer Albert) 1
- Cowley, Christopher 1
- Darlington, Charles J. (Charles Joseph), 1894-1966 1
- Davidov, Marv 1
- DeVault, Don 1
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 1
- DiGia, Ralph 1
- Drath, Phillip 1
- Eaton, Robert Whittington 1
- Ede, Roderick 1
- Everyman (Ship) 1
- Faust, Bertha, 1909- 1
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 1
- Fifth Avenue Peace Parade Committee 1
- Foulke, Thomas Albert, 1893-1962 1
- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 1
- Friends Committee for Reconciliation and Church Reconstruction 1
- Friends Committee on Legislation of Northern California 1
- Friends Committee on Legislation. Southern California Section 1
- Geiger, Nicola 1
- Geiger, Walton 1
- Gottwald, Norman K. (Norman Karol), 1926- 1
- Hadley, Jeanette 1
- Harker, Charles H. 1
- Hassler, Alfred, 1910-1991 1
- Haworth, Neil D. 1
- Heisler, Francis, 1895- 1
- Herrick, Scott 1
- Horton, Robert, 1900-1991 1
- Huffman, Herbert 1
- Hutchinson, Dorothy H. (Dorothy Hewitt), 1905-1984 1
- Illinois-Wisconsin Friends Committee on Legislation 1
- Innerst, J. Stuart, 1894-1975 1
- Interfaith Peacemakers Association 1
- Jamison, Jeannette 1
- Kalish, Donald 1
- Keyes, Gene 1
- Lakey, George 1
- Lazar, Edward 1
- Lee, Kenneth, 1944- 1
- Legg, Samuel 1
- Levering, Robert, 1944- 1
- Levering, Samuel R. 1
- Malz, Gertrude 1
- Martin, William R., 1938- 1
- Massar, Ivan 1
- McNeil, Gelston 1
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