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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
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
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
Francoise W. Douwes Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Douwes, Francoise Wilhelmina
Abstract
Douwes was a member of the Philadelphia branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1985-2005
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Edward W. Evans Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-122
Overview
Edward Wyatt Evans (1882-1976) was a lifelong member of the Germantown (Pennsylvania) Monthly Meeting and was active in the Friends Peace Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Evans was instrumental in the founding of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (Fellowship of Reconcilation), and was the executive secretary from 1916-1919. During the 1920s, he was also active in educational and peace programs of the Society of Friends.
Dates:
1916-1922
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Edward W. Evans Quaker Concerns Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-237
Overview
Edward W. Evans (1882-1976) was a Quaker leader and lawyer active in the educational and peace concerns of the Society of Friends. The collection primarily contains papers compiled by Edward W. Evans during his time as Secretary of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Orthodox), from 1938-1946. Of particular interest are the materials concerning Civilian Public Service. The collection is significant in its documentation of pacifist attitudes and the ways in which the Society of Friends was active...
Dates:
1920, 1938-1951
Robin Harper Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Harper, Robin
Overview
Robin Harper is active in the peace movement. During the 1950s and 1960s he protested nuclear weapons and missile defense systems. The papers in this collection reflect that involvement.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1957-1967
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Pennsylvania Committee for Total Disarmament Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-030
Overview
The Pennsylvania Committee for Total Disarmament was active from 1930 to 1936, chiefly in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Through public opinion and personal contacts, PCTD supporters pressured Congress to support total disarmament, including passage of the Frazier Amendment outlawing war. Other objectives of the Committee included a Congressional investigation of the munitions industry, opposition to all preparations and training for war (including ROTC), and support for...
Dates:
1930-1938
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 3
- American Friends Service Committee 2
- Conference of All Friends (1920) (London, England) 2
- Evans, Edward W. (Edward Wyatt), 1882-1976 2
- Nicholson, Vincent D. (Vincent De Witt), 1890-1945 2
- Reynolds, Earle L. 2
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. International Office 2
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section 2
- A Quaker Action Group 1
- Allinson, Brent D. (Brent Dow) 1
- American Friends Reconstruction Unit 1
- Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) 1
- Babcock, Caroline L. (Caroline Lexow), 1882- 1
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 1
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 1
- Ballantyne, Edith 1
- Beaver, Gilbert A., -1952 1
- Beheiren 1
- Berrigan, Philip 1
- Biddle, William Canby, 1864-1942 1
- Boardman, Elizabeth Jelinek, 1917- 1
- Bourdet, Claude, 1909- 1
- Brainerd, Heloise, 1881-1969 1
- Braxton, John Worth 1
- Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 1
- Brockway, Fenner, 1888-1988 1
- Brown, H. Runham (Herbert Runham), 1879-1949 1
- Burritt, Elihu, 1810-1879 1
- Butterworth, Harrison 1
- Byrns, Elinor 1
- Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 1
- Camp, Kay 1
- Cederfeld, Benny 1
- Champney, Horace 1
- Coffin, Jerry D. 1
- Committee for a Quaker Peace Witness 1
- Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments (1932-1934) (Geneva, Switzerland) 1
- Conference of Christian Pacifists 1
- Cope, Eliza M. 1
- Cowley, Christopher 1
- Cox, Lucy A. 1
- Davidon, Ann Morrissett 1
- Davidon, William C. 1
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 1
- Douwes, Francoise W. (Francoise Wilhelmina), 1923- 1
- Drath, Phillip 1
- Drexel, Constance 1
- Dulles, Sophia H. 1
- Eaton, Robert Whittington 1
- Ede, Roderick 1
- Elderkin, Noble S. (Noble Strong), 1878-1966 1
- Eves, William 1
- Fifth Avenue Peace Parade Committee 1
- Five Years Meeting (Society of Friends: U.S.) 1
- Flanagan, Ross, 1934- 1
- Frazier, Lynn J. (Lynn Joseph), 1874-1947 1
- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 1
- Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.) 1
- Fry, A. Ruth (Anna Ruth), 1878-1962 1
- Fuller, Walter G. 1
- Furnas, Paul J. 1
- Geiger, Nicola 1
- Geiger, Walton 1
- Gordon, Lindley V. 1
- Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965 1
- Hardin, Floyd, 1890-1974 1
- Harper, Robin M., 1928- 1
- Harvey, William Brinton, 1862- 1
- Haverford College 1
- Hodgkin, Henry T. (Henry Theodore), 1877-1933 1
- Hoopes, Darlington, b. 1896 1
- Horton, Robert, 1900-1991 1
- Hull, William I. (William Isaac), 1868-1939 1
- Jones, Paul, 1880-1941 1
- Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 1
- Kalish, Donald 1
- Kelsey, Mary 1
- Kulka, Rosa 1
- Lakey, George 1
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 1
- Lee, Jennie, 1904- 1
- Lee, Kenneth, 1944- 1
- Legg, Samuel 1
- Levering, Robert, 1944- 1
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 1
- Lief, Alfred, 1901- 1
- Lyttle, Bradford 1
- Massar, Ivan 1
- Mayer, Milton, 1908-1986 1
- McAlister, Elizabeth 1
- McReynolds, David 1
- Mimms, William R. 1
- Moody, Roger 1
- National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (U.S.) 1
- Nearing, Scott, 1883-1983 1
- Nelson, Beryl Herbert 1
- Newton, Ray 1
- Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977 1
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