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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
Horace Gundry Alexander Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-140
Abstract
Horace Alexander was born in England in 1889 and died in the United States in 1989. As a life-long member of the Religious Society of Friends, he was interested in Indian rights and worked with Gandhi and others for many years to lobby for it. He wrote books about Gandhi and other subjects.
Dates:
1915-1989
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Devere Allen Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-053
Abstract
Author, editor, journalist and lecturer; advocate of internationalist pacifism; influential member of the Socialist Party in the 1930s; genealogist; recorder of Rhode Island history and lore; named Harold Devere Allen.
Dates:
1809-1978; Majority of material found within 1910-1955
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
William Charles Allen Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Allen, William Charles
Overview
William C. Allen was born in 1857 in Chester County, Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Society of Friends. Allen was deeply opposed to war and wrote often about the problems of propaganda, censorship, conscription, imperialism, and the munitions industry. He traveled widely and wrote many articles about his experiences abroad.
Dates:
1895-1937; Majority of material found within 1913-1937
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Bent Andresen Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Andreson, Bent
Abstract
Bent Andresen registered as a conscientious objector (CO) during World War Two and was sent to a Civilian Public Service in 1944. Andresen participated in a guinea pig project in which he and several other COs lived in a refrigerated room for three months to test the impact of a high-protein diet on cold-weather conditions. He went AWOL in 1945 and was sentenced to two years in prison. Andreson was involved in various peace and justice groups throughout his lifetime.
Dates:
1928-1991
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Albert Bigelow Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-076
Abstract
Albert S. Bigelow (1906-1993) was an artist, architect, former Navy commander, and Quaker. He served as captain of Golden Rule, a thirty foot ketch which he and colleagues attempted to sail into the Eniwetok Proving Grounds, the U.S. nuclear test site in the Marshall Islands of the Pacific in February 1958. The action was sponsored by the Committee for Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons.
Dates:
1956-1961
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Elise Boulding Collected Papers
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Boulding, Elise
Dates:
1961-1975
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Wilmer Brandt Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Brandt, Wilmer
Overview
Brandt was a conscientious objector to war, a Quaker, and interested in peace throughout his life.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1952-2007
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Marion Bromley and Ernest Bromley Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-214
Abstract
Marion Coddington Bromley and Ernest Bromley were active members of the Society of Friends, absolute pacifists, war tax resisters, and worked for racial integration in the United States. They are best remembered as founders of the Peacemakers, and as war tax resisters.
Dates:
1920-1997
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Broomell-Cleghorn-Fisher Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-278
Overview
This collection contains material collected by Anna Pettit Broomell and primarily consists of the writings and correspondence of Broomell, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, and Sarah Cleghorn.
Dates:
1876-1967
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- Swarthmore College Peace Collection 57
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- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 29
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 15
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 10
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 9
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 8
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 8
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 7
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 6
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 5
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 5
- United States 5
- War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
- Quaker women -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
- Quakers 4
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- Sources 3
- Conscientious objection -- History -- Sources 3
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Direct action -- History -- Sources 3
- Disarmament -- History -- Sources 3
- Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Government, Resistance to -- History -- Sources 3
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 3
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 3
- Society of Friends -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Tax protests and appeals -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Civilian relief -- Sources 3
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 3
- Women and peace -- History -- Sources 3
- African American churches -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources 2
- African Americans -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources 2
- Antinuclear movement -- History -- Sources 2
- Disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Government, Resistance to 2
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- History -- Sources 2
- Pacifists 2
- Peace -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace movements -- History -- Sources 2
- Political prisoners -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Prisoners' writings, American 2
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 2
- Race relations -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources 2
- Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 2
- Adoption -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Adoption -- Vietnam -- History -- Sources 1
- African American Quakers 1
- African Americans -- History -- Sources 1
- American Literature -- New England 1
- American Poetry -- Women authors 1
- American fiction 1
- American fiction -- Women authors 1
- American poetry 1
- American poetry -- 20th century 1
- Antinuclear movement 1
- Antinuclear movement -- Germany (West) -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- Nevada -- History -- Sources 1
- Arbitration (International law) 1
- Arbitration (International law) -- History -- Sources 1
- Arbitration, Industrial 1
- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Architects -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Atomic bomb -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
- Atomic bomb -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- Atomic bomb -- Testing 1
- Atomic bomb -- Testing -- History -- Sources 1
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence 1
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Ballistic missiles -- United States 1
- Biological warfare -- History -- Sources 1
- Bird watching -- Great Britain 1
- Caricatures and cartoons -- Political aspects 1
- Charities -- Vietnam 1
- Chemical warfare -- History -- Sources 1
- Chester County (Pa.) 1
- Child soldiers 1
- Child soldiers -- History -- Sources 1
- Children and war 1
- Children and war -- History -- Sources 1
- Children's literature 1
- Civil disobedience 1
- Civil disobedience -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights 1
- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights demonstrations 1
- Civil rights demonstrations -- Alabama -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights workers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Clergy -- California -- History -- Sources 1
- Collective settlements -- New York (State) -- Rifton -- History -- Sources 1
- College chaplains -- Ohio -- History -- Sources 1
- College teachers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Communal living -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Connecticut -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950 -- Sources 1
- Conscientious Objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1 ∧ less
- Language
- English 57
- Spanish; Castilian 1
- Undetermined 1
- Names
- American Friends Service Committee 13
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 7
- A Quaker Action Group 6
- Lyttle, Bradford 6
- Civilian Public Service 5
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 5
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 5
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 5
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 5
- Flanagan, Ross, 1934- 4
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 4
- Reynolds, Earle L. 4
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 4
- Walker, Charles C. 4
- Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987 4
- Bigelow, Albert, 1906- 3
- Boardman, Elizabeth Jelinek, 1917- 3
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 3
- Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.) 3
- Golden Rule (Ketch) 3
- Lakey, George 3
- Morrison, Norman R., 1933-1965 3
- Newton, Ray 3
- Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) 3
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 3
- Stern, Lee, 1915-1992 3
- Whitney, Norman J. (Norman Jehiel), 1891-1967 3
- Young, Wilmer J. 3
- Alexander, Horace Gundry, 1889-1989 2
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 2
- American Friends Service Committee. Peace Section 2
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 2
- Bromley, Ernest 2
- Canadian Friends Service Committee 2
- Champney, Horace 2
- Corson, Helen H. 2
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 2
- Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 2
- Freeman, Harrop A. (Harrop Arthur), 1907-1993 2
- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 2
- Friends Mississippi Project 2
- Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 2
- Horton, Robert, 1900-1991 2
- Jack, Homer A. (Homer Alexander), 1916-1993 2
- Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 2
- Kaufman, Abraham 2
- Levering, Robert, 1944- 2
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 2
- Lynd, Staughton 2
- Macedonia Cooperative Community 2
- Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors 2
- National Council for Prevention of War (U.S.) 2
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 2
- Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971 2
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization) 2
- Page, Kirby, 1890-1957 2
- Parkman, Patricia 2
- Paschkis, V. (Victor) 2
- Peace Action Center (Washington, D.C.) 2
- Pfeiffer, Stephen D. 2
- Phoenix (Yacht) 2
- Pickus, Robert 2
- Quaker Project on Community Conflict of the New York Yearly Meeting 2
- Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 2
- Shivers, Lynne 2
- Snyder, Edward F. 2
- Stewart, Annalee, 1900?- 2
- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 2
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 2
- War Resisters League 2
- Woodward, Walter Carleton, 1878-1942 2
- Zietlow, Carl P. 2
- Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971 1
- Adler, Friedrich 1
- Ahimsa Farm 1
- Albert, Alfred, 1908- 1
- Allen, Horatio, 1802-1889 1
- Allen, Marie Hollister, 1893-1979 1
- Allen, William Charles, 1857-1938 1
- Allinson, Brent D. (Brent Dow) 1
- Alternatives to Violence Project 1
- American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky 1
- American League against War and Fascism 1
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers 1
- Anderson, Ross W. 1
- Andresen, Bent, 1908-1991 1
- Andrews, Fannie Fern, 1867-1950 1
- Angell, Ernest, 1889-1973 1
- Anh, Le Thi 1
- Anthony, Robert L. 1
- Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) 1
- Apsey, Lawrence S. 1
- Aptheker, Herbert, 1915-2003 1
- Ashley, Bruce 1
- Axford, Roger W. 1
- Ayusawa, Iwao, 1894-1972 1
- Baer, Gertrude 1
- Bagley, Jack L. 1
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 1
- Baltimore Monthly Meeting of Friends (Stony Run) 1 ∧ less
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