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Edward F. Snyder Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-241
Overview
Edward Furnas Snyder is a Quaker lobbyist for peace, civil rights, and economic justice. He joined staff of Friends Committee on National Legislation in 1955 and retired in 1990 as Executive Secretary of the FCNL Snyder argued against legislation for a U.S. military draft and excessive military spending; worked for cultural and scientific exchanges between Soviet and U.S. citizens to lessen tensions of the Cold War. Edward and Dorothy Snyder have long been tax resisters arguing that the...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1950-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Student/Teacher Organization to Prevent Nuclear War Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Student/Teacher Organization-Prevent Nuclear War
Abstract
The collection includes correspondence, minutes of meetings, financial records, flyers, brochures, pamphlets.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1981-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Marjorie Swann and Robert Swann Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-264
Overview
The Swanns were Quaker peace activitists who were particularly well known for their part in nonviolent direct action against nuclear weapons testing and deployment in the 1950s-1960s.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1949-1972
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Topsfield Foundation Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-256
Overview
The Topsfield Foundation was founded by Paul J.Aicher in 1982. Aicher, a former engineer later turned philanthropist created a Foundation to aid grassroots citizens' groups in working against nuclear proliferation. In 1984 the Foundation began publishing the state-by-state Grassroots Peace Directories to provide networking information for these organizations and the larger peace movement. In the mid-1980s Aicher created two additional projects: ACCESS, a security information service based in...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1983-1997
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Unitarian Universalist Peace Network Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-159
Overview
Established in 1984 to strengthen peace work among Unitarian Universalists and interfaith communities, the goup was especially concerned with the international arms race and nuclear proliferation. Directors included Stephen M. Shick, Carol Powers, Stephanie Nichols. The headquarters were in Philadelphia, Pa. and sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Association. Unitarian Universalist Peace Fellowship, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, Unitarian Universalist United Nations Office,...
Dates:
1983-1991
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
United Pacifists of West Chester and Vicinity Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-United Pacifists of West Chester and Vicinity
Dates:
1952-1971
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Walk for Peace Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Walk for Peace
Dates:
1958
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Washington Peace Center Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-252
Overview
The Washington Peace Center was formed in 1963 upon the dissolution of the Peace Action Center of Washington, D.C. The organization seeks to educate the public on peace issues through youth programs, conscientious objector/draft counseling, film screenings, speakers, workshops on peace topics, discussions, and the publication of a newsletter. Its mission statement as of 2013 includes : "The Washington Peace Center is an anti-racist, grassroots, multi-issue organization working for peace,...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1960-2013
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Cora Weiss Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-222
Overview
Cora Weiss is a peace and social justice leader and activist. She is a supporter of the United Nations, an early member of Women Strike for Peace, a leader in the anti-Vietnam war movement in the United States. In the 1970s Weiss was the director of the Riverside Church (New York, NY) Disarmament Program. Weiss was also active with SANE, SANE/Freeze, Peace Action, and The Hague Appeal for Peace. Weiss became president of the International Peace Bureau in 2000. She has always been active in...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1960-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
George Willoughby and Lillian Willoughby Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-236
Overview
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
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- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 6
- American Friends Service Committee 5
- Lyttle, Bradford 5
- Omaha Action (Project) 5
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 4
- Golden Rule (Ketch) 4
- Jack, Homer A. (Homer Alexander), 1916-1993 4
- Cousins, Norman 3
- Reynolds, Earle L. 3
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 3
- San Francisco to Moscow Walk for Peace 3
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 3
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 3
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 3
- Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) 2
- Berg, Lloyd A. 2
- Bigelow, Albert, 1906- 2
- Coalition for Peace Action (Princeton, N.J.) 2
- Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 1924-2006 2
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 2
- DiGia, Ralph 2
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 2
- Frank, Morton 2
- Fromm, Erich, 1900-1980 2
- Gottlieb, Sanford 2
- Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament (Organization) 2
- Hague Appeal for Peace 2
- Keys, Donald 2
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 2
- National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (U.S.) 2
- New England Committee for Nonviolent Action 2
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization) 2
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization). Nevada Project 2
- Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign 2
- Olson, Theodore, 1932- 2
- Peace Action (Organization) 2
- Québec-Washington-Guantánamo Walk for Peace 2
- SANE/FREEZE (Organization) 2
- Swann, Marjorie 2
- Swann, Robert S. 2
- Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) 2
- Walk for Peace (Project) 2
- Weiss, Cora, 1934- 2
- Women Strike for Peace 2
- A Quaker Action Group 1
- Abington Coalition for a Nuclear Arms Freeze (Pennsylvania) 1
- Access (Organization : Washington, D.C.) 1
- Accra Assembly (Organization) 1
- Affeldt, Allan 1
- Ahearn, Aaron 1
- Aicher, Paul J. 1
- Alabama Freeze Coalition 1
- Alabama Nuclear Freeze Campaign 1
- Alternatives to Violence Project 1
- Ames Bilateral Freeze Campaign (Iowa) 1
- Annual Training Institute in Non-Violence, Grindstone Island (Portland, Ontario, Canada) 1
- Another Mother for Peace (Association) 1
- Anthony, Robert L. 1
- April Action (Organization) 1
- Apsey, Lawrence S. 1
- Aptheker, Herbert, 1915-2003 1
- Ashly, Coleen 1
- Avedon, Barbara 1
- Axelrod, Beverly 1
- Backe, John 1
- Baez, Joan 1
- Ballantyne, Edith 1
- Bastian, Gert 1
- Beer, John Joseph, 1927- 1
- Bergen County Freeze Campaign (New Jersey) 1
- Berman, Aline 1
- Berrigan, Daniel 1
- Beyond Nuclear (Organization) 1
- Birchard, Bruce 1
- Blass, Dorothy 1
- Block, Bonnie 1
- Boylan, Kathy Shields 1
- Brandywine Alternative Fund 1
- Brandywine Peace Community 1
- Brandywine Peace Community and Alternative Fund 1
- Brown, George Edward, 1920-1999 1
- Caldwell, Samuel D. 1
- Californians for a Bilateral Nuclear Weapons Freeze 1
- Camp, Kay 1
- Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament 1
- Carner, Lucy Perkins, 1886-1983 1
- Cartel international de la paix 1
- Carter, Nick (Minister) 1
- Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors 1
- Charlotte Citizens for Peace (Port Charlotte, Fla.) 1
- Chavez, Daniel 1
- Chicago Area Faculty for a Freeze on the Nuclear Arms Race 1
- Chicago Council Against Racial and Religious Discrimination 1
- Christofferson, Bill 1
- Citizens Against Nuclear War (U.S.) 1
- Civil Defense Protest Committee (New York, N.Y.) 1
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