Lynd, Alice

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Alice Lynd was a graduate of Radcliffe College and the author of We Won't Go: Personal Accounts of War Objectors (1968).

From the description of Letter of Alice Lynd, 1969. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 421927611

Staughton Lynd and Alice Niles Lynd, Quakers, authors, lawyers, and activists in the civil rights and peace movements, have worked individually and have collaborated on many labor and pacifist projects. Alice Lynd, draft counsellor, nursery school teacher, and writer, worked with the American Friends Service Committee and directed day care and health center projects in Chicago. Staughton Lynd (b. 1929), historian and community organizer, taught at Spelman College and Yale University. He directed freedom schools during the Mississippi Summer Project (1964) and was chairman of the first march against the Vietnam War in Washington D.C. on April 17, 1965. Later that year he visited Hanoi, North Vietnam. He graduated from law school in 1976, then practiced labor law. In the Youngstown, Ohio, area they helped workers to create a variety of grassroots organizations. After retirement, they became advocates for prisoners who were sentenced to death or confined under supermaximum security conditions.

From the description of Alice Niles Lynd and Staughton Lynd papers, 1965-1995. 1965 (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 28411817

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creatorOf Eichel family. Collection, 1916- Swarthmore College, Peace Collection, SCPC
creatorOf Southern Student Organizing Committee (Nashville, Tenn.). Papers of the Southern Student Organizing Committee and Thomas N. Gardner [manuscript], 1948-1994 (bulk 1958-1975). University of Virginia. Library
referencedIn Eichel, Julius, 1896-. Papers, 1917-1980. Swarthmore College, Peace Collection, SCPC
creatorOf Lynd, Alice. Letter of Alice Lynd, 1969. Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
creatorOf Lynd, Alice. Papers, 1965-1971. Swarthmore College, Peace Collection, SCPC
creatorOf Lynd, Alice. Alice Niles Lynd and Staughton Lynd papers, 1965-1995. Swarthmore College, Peace Collection, SCPC
creatorOf Lynd, Staughton. Staughton and Alice Lynd papers, 1965-1971. Swarthmore College, Peace Collection, SCPC
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associatedWith Ginger, Ann Fagan, person
associatedWith Haessler, Carl, 1888-1972, person
associatedWith Hartsough, David, person
associatedWith Heisler, Francis, 1895- person
associatedWith Lynd, Staughton. person
associatedWith Rodd, Thomas, person
associatedWith Salstrom, F. Paul, person
associatedWith Shero, Jeffrey, person
associatedWith Southern Student Organizing Committee (Nashville, Tenn.) corporateBody
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United States
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Civil rights workers
Conscientious objection
Conscientious objectors
Draft
Draft resisters
Nonviolence
Pacifists
Political activists
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
War tax resistance
Women political activists
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Birth 1930

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