Peace Action Center Records
Scope and Contents
The collection is unprocessed. It includes PAC administrative records: history of the organization; minutes of internal meetings; financial records; and correspondence. There is material about PAC connections with other peace groups and material about PAC activities.
Dates
- Creation: 1959-1965
Creator
- Peace Action Center (Washington, D.C.) (Organization)
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 (Correspondent, Person)
- Bagley, Jack L. (Correspondent, Person)
- Bishop, Sarah (Correspondent, Person)
- Carpenter, Florence Y. (Correspondent, Person)
- Faust, Bertha, 1909- (Correspondent, Person)
- Martin, William R., 1938- (Correspondent, Person)
- McNeil, Gelston (Correspondent, Person)
- Parkman, Patricia (Correspondent, Person)
- Anderson, Ross W. (Correspondent, Person)
- Bigelow, Albert, 1906- (Correspondent, Person)
- Boardman, Elizabeth Jelinek, 1917- (Correspondent, Person)
- Corson, Helen H. (Correspondent, Person)
- DeVault, Don (Correspondent, Person)
- Flanagan, Ross, 1934- (Correspondent, Person)
- Gottwald, Norman K. (Norman Karol), 1926- (Correspondent, Person)
- Hester, Hugh B. (Hugh Bryan), 1895-1983 (Correspondent, Person)
- Lyttle, Bradford (Correspondent, Person)
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 (Correspondent, Person)
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 (Correspondent, Person)
- Nash, Vernon (Correspondent, Person)
- Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) (Correspondent, Person)
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 (Correspondent, Person)
- Uphaus, Willard E. (Willard Edwin), 1890-1983 (Correspondent, Person)
- Walker, Charles C. (Correspondent, Person)
- Wayland-Smith, Robert (Correspondent, Person)
- Willoughby, George, pacifist (Correspondent, Person)
- Young, Wilmer J. (Correspondent, Person)
- Pfeiffer, Stephen D. (Correspondent, Person)
Language of Materials
Materials are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research use.
Physical Access Note
All or part of this collection is stored off-site. Contact Swarthmore College Peace Collection staff at peacecollection@swarthmore.edu at least two weeks in advance of visit to request boxes.
Conditions Governing Use
None.
Historical Note
The Peace Action Center began in 1961 as a continuation of the vigil at Fort Detrick, Md. Peace activists had sponsored a continuous vigil as early as 1959 seeking the abandonment of biological weapons and appealed for the conversion of the fort into a world health center. The Peace Action Center included cooperative living quarters for the staff of religious pacifists, mostly Quakers. PAC staff including Lawrence Scott, director, and Jack L. Bagley, Sarah Bishop, Florence Y. Carpenter, Bertha Faust, William R. Martin, Gelston McNeil, and Patricia Parkman. The PAC disbanded in the fall 1963.
Extent
6.25 linear ft. (20 boxes)
Abstract
The Peace Action Center began in 1961 as a continuation of the vigil at Fort Detrick, Md. Peace activists had sponsored a continuous vigil as early as 1959 seeking the abandonment of biological weapons and appealed for the conversion of the fort into a world health center. The Peace Action Center included cooperative living quarters for the staff of religious pacifists, mostly Quakers. PAC staff including Lawrence Scott, director, and Jack L. Bagley, Sarah Bishop, Florence Y. Carpenter, Bertha Faust, William R. Martin, Gelston McNeil, and Patricia Parkman. The PAC disbanded in the fall 1963.
Arrangement
The collection is loosely organized as follows: general information about PAC activities; financial records; general correspondence; information about contact with other peace groups; additional information about PAC activities.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Lawrence Scott in 1975. Gift of Washington Peace Center, 2010
Bibliographic References
Legal Status
Copyright to the Peace Action Center records created by the organization has been transferred to the Swarthmore College Peace Collection. Copyright to all other materials is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Processing Information
This collection is unprocessed.
Subject
- Peace Action Center (Washington, D.C.) (Organization)
- U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (Organization)
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- 2018: The file list was standardized in Summer 2017 by Min Cheng in preparation for importing into ArchivesSpace. Elisabeth Miller added the notes in Fall 2017. This finding aid was updated by Wendy E. Chmielewski in September 2020.
Find It at the Library
Most of the materials in this catalog are not digitized and can only be accessed in person. Please see our website for more information about visiting or requesting repoductions from Swarthmore College Peace Collection Library
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