Friends Witness for World Order Collected Records
Overview
These records contain meeting minutes, financial records, correspondence, releases/literature, statistics, publicity and press coverage, address by Dorothy Hutchinson, delegation visits to President Kennedy and to ambassadors during Washington, D.C., and photographs.
Dates
- 1962
Creator
- Friends Witness for World Order (Organization)
Language of Materials
Materials are in English.
Limitations on Accessing the Collection
None.
Copyright and Rights Information
None.
Historical note
Friends Witness for World Order was formed in 1961 from the Committee for a Quaker Peace Witness. Friends Witness organized a major march focused on disarmament in Washington D.C. from April 28 to May 1, 1962 which included a meeting with President Kennedy.
Extent
0.42 Linear Feet (5 linear in.)
Other Finding Aids
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Custodial History
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the records of the Friends Witness for World Order.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of various resources.
Separated Materials
Photos of Washington D.C. Witness removed to Photograph Collection.
Legal Status
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Processing Information
Processed by SCPC staff. Checklist prepared by Anne M. Yoder, Archivist, May 1998.
- Disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Friends Witness for World Order
- Hutchinson, Dorothy H. (Dorothy Hewitt), 1905-1984 -- Opening address, Friends Witness for World Order, April 28, 1962
- Nuclear disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Peace walks and marches
- Society of Friends -- Peace testimony
Creator
- Friends Witness for World Order (Organization)
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
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