Lynne Shivers Papers
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the personal papers of Lynne Shivers and her work from roughly the 1960s onward. It includes biographical and family material, material on her peace work in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, journals she kept from the 1960s until 2014, and information about her teaching career. This collection also includes correspondence to and from Lynne Shivers and literature she collected out of personal interest. Files concerning Shivers's work with Movement for a New Society may be found in that collection in the Peace Collection.
Dates
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1941-2015
Creator
- Shivers, Lynne (Person)
- Jones, Peter D. (Correspondent, Person)
- Rannels, Marion (Correspondent, Person)
- Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) (Correspondent, Person)
- Willoughby, George, pacifist (Correspondent, Person)
- Willoughby, Lillian, 1915-2009 (Correspondent, Person)
Language of Materials
Materials are in English and Japanese.
Conditions Governing Access
None.
Conditions Governing Use
None.
Biographical
Born in Camden, New Jersey on June 21, 1941, Lynne Shivers was an advocate of peace throughout her life until her death on February 3, 2015. She was a founding member of Movement for a New Society and its Philadelphia Life Center, through which she did work for social change, with an emphasis given to peace and nonviolence. She traveled for peace work often, to Iran and Northern Ireland and eventually to Japan, where her work led her to become director of Hiroshima's World Friendship Center in 1986. She also worked for the American Friends Service Committee on issues of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. She wrote about social issues and peace activism both for Movement for a New Society publications and for outside publications. In 1979, she began teaching American and English Literature at the Community College of Philadelphia's, where she incorporated literature about peace and nonviolence into her curriculum. She retired from her Assistant Professor position in 2005 and lived the rest of her life in Germantown, Pennsylvania.
Extent
8 linear ft. (8 linear feet.)
Abstract
Enid Lynne Shivers was a peace activist and prominent member of Movement for a New Society, for which she organized and wrote informational materials. This collection of her personal materials is primarily composed of journals dating from the 1960s until 2014 and materials from time she spent doing peace work in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Custodial History
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is the official repository for these papers.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Estate of Lynne Shivers, June 2015 [Acc. 2015-031].
Separated Materials
Items removed:
- Posters
- Photographs
- Audiovisual items
Legal Status
Copyright may have been transferred to the Swarthmore College Peace Collection or may have been retained by the creators/authors (or their descendants), in this collection, as stipulated by United States copyright law. Please contact the SCPC Curator for further information.
Processing Information
Processed by Grace Baker in Summer 2015.
Subject
- Shivers, Lynne (Person)
- American Friends Service Committee (Organization)
- British Withdrawal from Northern Ireland Campaign (Organization)
Topical
- Atomic bomb victims -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi
- Atomic bomb victims -- Japan -- Nagasaki-shi
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Peace Movements -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Quaker women -- United States -- History -- Sources
- 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.
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