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Henry Joel Cadbury Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-081
Abstract

Henry J. Cadbury (1883-1974) was a distinguished Biblical scholar, teacher, and a member of the Society of Friends. Cadbury was one of the founders of the American Friends Service Committee. He served as its chairman from both 1928 to 1934 and again from 1944 to 1960. Cadbury supervised famine relief both in the United States and in Europe.

Dates: 1917-1974

Horace Champney Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-166
Abstract

Horace Champney was a pacifist active in various causes from the late 1940s through the 1980s. He was a founder of The Peacemakers Movement in the 1950s and interested in civil rights, war tax refusal, and other social justice causes. Champney was a member A Quaker Action Group and a crew member of the ship the Phoenix, which sailed to North Vietnam with medical supplies, during the Vietnam war.

Dates: 1958-1990; Majority of material found within 1958-1979

Harold Chance Collected Papers

 Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Chance, Harold
Dates: 1943-1944

Charles C. Walker Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-296
Abstract

Minutes, reports, writings, notes, photographs, and printed material from Walker's work as an activist and nonviolent resistance trainer. Materials have been place in series based on how the subjects were identified in their original boxes.

Dates: 1940-2000

Julien D. Cornell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-010
Abstract

Julien Cornell (1910-1994) practiced law in New York City, with a special interest in civil liberties. During World War II, he handled many cases for conscientious objectors, as well as advising many other COs about their various problems with the legal system. He was considered an expert on legal issues regarding conscientious objection and Civilian Public Service, and was consulted by many lawyers throughout the country for his opinions.

Dates: 1940-1947

Roberta Dickinson Collected Papers

 Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Dickinson, Roberta
Abstract

Collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, documents relating to Dickinson's arrests, information about resistance to the Vietnam War and the Harrisburg Eight, war tax resistance, Dickinson's letters to congress and to editors, specifications for her "My Lai" sculpture; collection also includes photographs.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1969-1974

Ross Flanagan Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-064
Abstract

Ross Flanagan (1934- ), is Quaker pacifist and activist, has been involved in many Quaker-sponsored projects, peace, and civil rights activities. In the 1950s he served on the staff of the American Friends Service Committee. He was an early protestor against the Vietnam war and worked with A Quaker Action Group in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In the 1970s Flanagan was involved in neighborhood revitalization projects in West Philadelphia.

Dates: 1962-1993; Majority of material found within 1964-1978

Charles E. Frantz Collected Papers

 Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Frantz, Charles E.
Abstract Collection includes biographical information; letters from Frantz to his parents while he was in Civilian Public Service, 1944-1946, and 1947-1950; information about his refusal to register for the peacetime draft (Selective Service Act of 1948), and subsequent federal court proceedings and his 1949 imprisonment; newspaper clippings about draft refusers at Earlham College, 1949; a copy of Frantz's FBI file and correspondence relating to it, 1978-1980; and Frantz's writings about the...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1944-1949, 1978-1980

Friends Meeting for Sufferings of Vietnamese Children Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-111
Abstract

The Friends Meeting for Sufferings of Vietnamese Children was founded in 1966, to bring injured and orphaned Vietnamese and Amerasian children to the United States for medical treatment. Some children were placed in foster homes or were permanent adopted. The organizers worked in cooperation with Welcome House in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, and with other organizations. The group disbanded in October 1969.

Dates: 1966-1969

Larry Gara Collected Papers

 Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Gara, Larry
Dates: Majority of material found within 1949-1972

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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
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Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 5
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War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
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Quakers 4
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Names
American Friends Service Committee 13
Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 7
A Quaker Action Group 6
Lyttle, Bradford 6
Civilian Public Service 5
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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
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