Lynd, Alice
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 | Coalition for Peace in the Middle East. | corporateBody |
associatedWith | Denison, Paul Bert, | person |
associatedWith | Dodge, Richard K., | person |
associatedWith | Eichel family. | family |
correspondedWith | Eichel, Julius, 1896- | person |
associatedWith | Faulkner, Stanley, | person |
associatedWith | Ferber, Michael. | person |
associatedWith | Ginger, Ann Fagan, | person |
associatedWith | Haessler, Carl, 1888-1972, | person |
associatedWith | Hartsough, David, | person |
associatedWith | Heisler, Francis, 1895- | person |
associatedWith | Lynd, Staughton. | person |
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associatedWith | Swarthmore College. Peace Collection. | corporateBody |
associatedWith | Tatum, Arlo, | person |
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Birth 1930