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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
Elkinton Family Doukhobor Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-133
Overview
The Doukhobors are a pacifist sect. They originated in Russia but were forced to emigrate to Canada in 1898 due to their refusal to bear arms for the Tsar. In the late 1930s their leader, Peter P. Verigin, created an organization known as the Union of Spiritual Communities of Christ, also known as the Orthodox Doukhobors, which has maintained the tradition of Doukhobor cultural activities. The Elkinton Family, a prominent Philadelphia (Pa.) Quaker family, and other members of the Society of...
Dates:
1884-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Thomas Evans papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC.1324
Overview
This collection contains over 240 mainly incoming manuscript letters addressed to Thomas Evans, a Philadelphia druggist, author, editor, Orthodox Quaker minister of Philadelphia and, in 1833, one the founders of Haverford College. The letters, 1823-1859, contain material on his very active role in the Society of Friends and the problems of religious doctrine before and during the Hicksite and Wilburite schisms within the Quaker faith. The collection also includes papers and legal documents...
Dates:
1704 - 1868; Majority of material found within 1823 - 1859
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
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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- Disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
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- Direct action -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Dukhobors -- Canada -- History -- Sources 1
- Mentally ill -- Care -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
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- Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
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- Society of Friends -- Relations -- Dukhobors -- History -- Sources 1
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- Names
- A Quaker Action Group 2
- Lakey, George 2
- Lyttle, Bradford 2
- Reynolds, Earle L. 2
- Shivers, Lynne 2
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 2
- Allinson, Brent D. (Brent Dow) 1
- American Friends Service Committee 1
- Babcock, Caroline L. (Caroline Lexow), 1882- 1
- Beheiren 1
- Boardman, Elizabeth Jelinek, 1917- 1
- Braithwaite, Anna, 1788-1859 1
- Braxton, John Worth 1
- Brockway, Fenner, 1888-1988 1
- Brown, H. Runham (Herbert Runham), 1879-1949 1
- Butterworth, Harrison 1
- Byrns, Elinor 1
- Champney, Horace 1
- Civilian Public Service 1
- Coffin, Jerry D. 1
- Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments (1932-1934) (Geneva, Switzerland) 1
- Cope, Eliza M. 1
- Cowley, Christopher 1
- Cox, Lucy A. 1
- Delaware Valley Land Trust 1
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 1
- Drath, Phillip 1
- Drexel, Constance 1
- Dulles, Sophia H. 1
- Eaton, Robert Whittington 1
- Ede, Roderick 1
- Elkinton family 1
- Elkinton, David Cope, 1915- 1
- Elkinton, Howard W. (Howard West), 1892-1955 1
- Elkinton, J. Passmore (Joseph Passmore), 1887-1971 1
- Elkinton, J. Russell 1
- Elkinton, Joseph, 1859-1920 1
- Evans, Thomas, 1798-1868 1
- Eves, William 1
- Fifth Avenue Peace Parade Committee 1
- Flanagan, Ross, 1934- 1
- Frazier, Lynn J. (Lynn Joseph), 1874-1947 1
- Geiger, Nicola 1
- Geiger, Walton 1
- Golden Rule (Ketch) 1
- Gordon, Lindley V. 1
- Gurney, Joseph John, 1788-1847 1
- Harvey, William Brinton, 1862- 1
- Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 1
- Hoopes, Darlington, b. 1896 1
- Horton, Robert, 1900-1991 1
- Hull, William I. (William Isaac), 1868-1939 1
- Kalish, Donald 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
- Massar, Ivan 1
- McReynolds, David 1
- Mimms, William R. 1
- Moody, Roger 1
- Movement for a New Society 1
- Nelson, Beryl Herbert 1
- Newton, Ray 1
- Nicholson, Vincent D. (Vincent De Witt), 1890-1945 1
- Parkman, Patricia 1
- Peace Brigades International 1
- Pendle Hill (School: Wallingford, Pa.) 1
- Pennsylvania Committee for Total Disarmament 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Doukobor Committee 1
- Rocket, Writer 1
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 1
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 1
- Smiley, Glenn E. 1
- Smith, Tucker P. 1
- Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.) 1
- Union of Spiritual Communities of Christ 1
- United States. War Relocation Authority 1
- Van Kirk, Walter W. (Walter William), 1891-1956 1
- Vietnam Moratorium Committee (U.S.) 1
- Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949 1
- Walker, Charles C. 1
- Warren, Emlyn 1
- Wentworth, Lydia G., 1858- 1
- Williams, H. Justice 1
- Willoughby, Lillian, 1915-2009 1
- Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987 1
- Winsor, Mary, 1869-1956 1
- Wood, J. Duncan (John Duncan) 1
- Wright, Edward Needles, 1897- 1
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