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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

American Interracial Peace Committee Collected Records

Collection — othertype: CDG-A

Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American Interracial Peace Committee

Scope and Contents

Contains pamphlets and leaflets. Five items.

Dates: 1928-

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Ellen Starr Brinton Papers

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-051

Abstract

Ellen Starr Brinton (1886-1954), Quaker, feminist and internationalist, served as the first curator of the Jane Addams Peace Collection (later the Swarthmore College Peace Collection) from 1935 until her retirement in 1951.

Dates: 1895-1980; Majority of material found within 1933-1954

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Kay Camp Papers

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-169

Abstract Katherine Lindsley Camp was born in 1918 [1919?], Mt. Kisco New York. She was a graduate of Swarthmore College (Class of 1940). Camp was elected president of the U.S. Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1967, and served as international president, 1974-1980. In addition Camp was founder of the Citizens Bi-Racial Study Group; former president of the Pennsylvania Women's Political Caucus; made unsuccessful bid for Congress in 1972 on the Democratic ticket in...

Dates: 1955-2006

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Children's Crusade for Peace Collected Records

Collection — othertype: CDG-A

Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Children's Crusade for Peace

Dates: 1915

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Ann Morrissett Davidon and William C. Davidon Papers

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-144

Abstract Ann Morrissett Davidon (1925-2004), was a writer, editor, educator, pacifist and peace activist through her entire life. William Cooper Davidon(1927- 2013), was a professor of physics at Haverford College and (retired 1994), pacifist, peace activist. The two were married in 1963 and both continued to be very active in peace, pacifist, anti-Vietnam War, and social justice organizations. They advocated and practiced war-tax resistance. In 1971, William Davidon was named an "unindicted...

Dates: 1949-

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Delaware County Peace Action Collected Records

Collection — othertype: CDG-A

Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Delaware County Peace Action

Dates: 1967-1975

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Delaware County Pledge of Resistance Records

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-242

Abstract

Delaware County [Pennsylvania] Pledge of Resistance (aka Delco Pledge of Resistance) was organized in the Fall of 1986. It was originally founded as a response to the threat of a U.S. invasion into Nicaragua and U.S. government's policies toward Central America. Delaware County Pledge of Resistance persisted as a local group, working for economic and social justice for oppressed people in the United States and abroad. The group disbanded in winter 2008.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1985-2002

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection