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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
Abraham Egnal Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-136
Dates:
1949-1968; Majority of material found within 1960-1968
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Joseph Miller Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-193
Abstract
Joseph Miller was a mortgage banker; founder and president of Barco, Inc. He was an activist for peace and social justice causes such as welfare rights, including the Philadelphia Urban Finance Corporation and the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy.
Dates:
1960-1980
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
New Society Publishers Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-189
Abstract
New Society Publishers was a cooperative business based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded by members of Movement for a New Society in the late 1980s. New Society Publishers produced books on peace, social justice, and ecological topics. The Philadelphia office closed in December 1996 and a smaller for of the New Society Publishers business moved to British Columbia, Canada.
Dates:
1990-1996
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Peace Council of Northeast Philadelphia Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Peace Council of Northeast Philadelphia
Dates:
1935-1944
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Philadelphia Peace Council Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Philadelphia Peace Council-(1937-ca. 1943)
Abstract
Includes constitution (1938), minutes (1937-1943), correspondence (1937-1943), form letters, financial records, leaflets, speeches, releases, membership lists, bulletins (1938-1941), clippings, and other records. Correspondents include Maria Biasone, Orton S. Clark, Frederick J. Libby, Allen S. Olmsted, Daniel A. Poling, and Richard R. Wood.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1937-1943
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Philadelphia Peace Council Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Philadelphia Peace Council-(1925-ca. 1932)
Abstract
Includes scattered minutes (1924-1932), scattered correspondence (1924-1928), form letters, statements, membership lists, bulletins (1925-1928) and materials relating to several conferences on the teaching of history, and other records, of the first Philadelphia Peace Council (1922-ca. 1932), earlier known as Philadelphia Council for World Peace. Correspondents include J. Howard Branson, Sophia H. Dulles, Harold Evans, Agnes M. Irwin, Frederick J. Libby, Allen S. Olmsted, and Richard R....
Dates:
1924-1931
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
United Peace Chest of Philadelphia Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-194
Abstract
The United Peace Chest of Philadelphia coordinated and integrated Philadelphia organizations interested in promoting international peace. The name was often shortened to "United Peace Chest." The UPC was founded in 1938, though it was conceptualized in 1936 at a meeting of the Pennsylvania Branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Dates:
1935-1955
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
Youth Committee for Total Disarmament Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Youth Committee for Total Disarmament
Dates:
1934-1938; Majority of material found within 1934-1936
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Names
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 3
- A Quaker Action Group 2
- Lakey, George 2
- Lyttle, Bradford 2
- Movement for a New Society 2
- Olmsted, Allen S. (Allen Seymour), 1888-1977 2
- Reynolds, Earle L. 2
- Shivers, Lynne 2
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 2
- Wood, Richard R. (Richard Reeve), 1897-1982 2
- American Friends Service Committee 1
- Beheiren 1
- Biasone, Maria 1
- Boardman, Elizabeth Jelinek, 1917- 1
- Branson, J. Howard 1
- Braxton, John Worth 1
- Butterworth, Harrison 1
- Champney, Horace 1
- Civilian Public Service 1
- Clark, Joseph S. 1
- Clark, Orton S. 1
- Coffin, Jerry D. 1
- Cousins, Norman 1
- Cowley, Christopher 1
- Delaware Valley Land Trust 1
- Drath, Phillip 1
- Dulles, Sophia H. 1
- Eaton, Robert Whittington 1
- Ede, Roderick 1
- Egnal, Abraham, 1908- 1
- Eldredge, David 1
- Evans, Harold, 1928- 1
- Fifth Avenue Peace Parade Committee 1
- Flanagan, Ross, 1934- 1
- Frankford Peace Council 1
- Geiger, Nicola 1
- Geiger, Walton 1
- Golden Rule (Ketch) 1
- Gottlieb, Sanford 1
- Hardin, George C. 1
- Hirshkowitz, Barbara 1
- Horton, Robert, 1900-1991 1
- Irwin, Agnes M. 1
- Jack, Homer A. (Homer Alexander), 1916-1993 1
- Kalish, Donald 1
- Keys, Donald 1
- Lee, Kenneth, 1944- 1
- Legg, Samuel 1
- Lester, Muriel, 1883-1968 1
- Levering, Robert, 1944- 1
- Massar, Ivan 1
- McReynolds, David 1
- Miller, Joseph, 1912-1997 1
- Mimms, William R. 1
- Moody, Roger 1
- National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (U.S.). Greater Philadelphia Council (Pa.) 1
- National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (U.S.). West Philadelphia-Main Line Committee 1
- Nelson, Beryl Herbert 1
- New Society Publishers. Philadelphia Office 1
- Parkman, Patricia 1
- Peace Brigades International 1
- Peace Council of Northeast Philadelphia 1
- Pendle Hill (School: Wallingford, Pa.) 1
- Philadelphia Council for World Peace 1
- Philadelphia Mobilization Committee 1
- Philadelphia Peace Council (1925-approximately 1932) 1
- Philadelphia Peace Council (1937-ca. 1943) 1
- Philadelphia People's Bail Fund 1
- Philadelphia Urban Finance Corporation 1
- Pickett, Clarence, 1884-1965 1
- Poling, Daniel A. (Daniel Alfred), 1884-1968 1
- Rocket, Writer 1
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 1
- Smiley, Glenn E. 1
- Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.) 1
- United Peace Chest of Philadelphia 1
- United States. War Relocation Authority 1
- Vietnam Moratorium Committee (U.S.) 1
- Vietnam Summer (Organization) 1
- Walker, Charles C. 1
- Warren, Emlyn 1
- Willoughby, Lillian, 1915-2009 1
- Wood, J. Duncan (John Duncan) 1
- Youth Committee for Total Disarmament 1
- Zietlow, Carl P. 1 + ∧ less
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