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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
American Friends Service Committee, Committee on Rights of Conscience Records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-006
Overview
Contains the records of American Friends Service Committee, Committee on Rights of Conscience, 1955-1962, including minutes and other supporting documents. Persons represented include Faith Bissell, Miriam E. Brailey, Harrop Freeman, Frederick Fuges, Alan Howe, Mary Knowles, Patrick M. Malin, Roland Pennock, Sara Pickus, Harry B. Sprogell, Frederick B. Tolles, and John T. Watkins.
Dates:
1955-1962
Baltimore Yearly Meeting draft epistles collection
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-269
Abstract
Collection of manuscript drafts of epistles prepared by Baltimore Yearly Meeting to send to the Yearly Meetings of Philadelphia, New York, Rhode Island, and North Carolina. Most concern the education and treatment of Indians, African Americans, and Quaker children; also, opposition to war and the production of liquor by Friends. All are handwritten with corrections.
Dates:
1776-1815
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
T. Atkinson Jenkins Research for Friends World Conference (London, 1920)
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-075
Overview
T. Atkinson Jenkins (1868-1935) was a Quaker and a university professor. The collection contains chiefly correspondence, questionnaires, notes, clippings, and other papers, relating to Jenkins's collection of information on Friends' attitudes to the Mexican and Civil wars, information which was designed to be part of the reassessment of the Quaker peace testimony in preparation for the first Friends World Conference (London, 1920). Also includes bibliography of Jenkins' writings on French...
Dates:
1917-1919
Robert Levering Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-080
Abstract
Robert E. Levering is a pacifist and Quaker. He has been the co-author of Fortune magazine's annual list of the "100 Best Companies to Work For," and a speaker on workplace trends and management strategies aimed at improving workplace productivity. Levering is a graduate of Swarthmore College and the Martin Luther King Jr. School of Social Change.
Dates:
1967-1972
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Macedonia Cooperative Community Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-071
Overview
The Macedonia Cooperative Community was formed in 1937 northern Georgia by Morris Randolph Mitchell (1895-1976), an educator who later served as the first president of Friends World College. The Macedonia Cooperative Community, which took its name from a nearby Baptist Church, was comprised of families who worked collectively on dairy, agricultural, forestry, and woodworking projects that provided the economic underpinnings of the community. Originally established as an economic cooperative,...
Dates:
1937-1958
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Drath, Phillip 1
- Dyer, Henry W. 1
- Eaton, Robert Whittington 1
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- Fifth Avenue Peace Parade Committee 1
- Flanagan, Ross, 1934- 1
- Freeman, Harrop A. (Harrop Arthur), 1907-1993 1
- Friends Peace Committee (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
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- Fuges, Frederick 1
- Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 1
- Geiger, Nicola 1
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- Howe, Alan R. 1
- Hutterian Brethren 1
- Infield, Henrik F. 1
- Jackson, Elmore, 1910-1989 1
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- Lasserre, Henri, 1875-1945 1
- Lee, Kenneth, 1944- 1
- Legg, Samuel 1
- Levering, Susan Dworkin 1
- Lynd, Staughton 1
- Macedonia Cooperative Community 1
- Malin, Patrick Murphy, 1903-1964 1
- Massar, Ivan 1
- Meany, George, 1894-1980 1
- Meyer, Christopher (Business owner) 1
- Miller, Edward R. 1
- Mimms, William R. 1
- Mitchell, Barbara Jaynes 1
- Moody, Roger 1
- Nelson, Beryl Herbert 1
- New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam 1
- Newton, David, 1914- 1
- Noell, Chuck 1
- Parkman, Patricia 1
- Pennock, J. Roland (James Roland), 1906-1995 1
- People's Coalition for Peace and Justice 1
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- Reynolds, Earle L. 1
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- Rocket, Writer 1
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- Smiley, Glenn E. 1
- Sprogell, Harry E. (Harry Edward), 1911-1972 1
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- Walker, Charles C. 1
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- Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987 1
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