A Quaker Action Group records, 1965-1973.

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A Quaker Action Group records, 1965-1973.

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Minutes; correspondence (1965-1971); memoranda; financial records; subject files concerning organizations including Beheiren (Japan Peace for Vietnam Committee), Fifth Avenue Peace Parade Committee, Poor People's Campaign, Students for a Democratic Society, and Vietnam Moratorium Committee; project files including material relating to Cuba Project, Culebra Project (Culebra, P.R.), Panama Project (Fort Gulick, Canal Zone), and Phoenix and Vietnam projects; research files providing information on black liberation, chemical and biological warfare, draft resistance, human rights, nuclear radiation, peace movements in other countries, and war tax resistance; newsletters; press releases; statements of Quaker yearly meetings in various cities; clippings; sound recordings; and photos. Materials relating to the voyages of the Phoenix to North and South Vietnam with medical supplies include correspondence of the crews, clippings and scrapbooks, still photos, 16 mm. films including Voyage of the Phoenix, North Vietnamese photos, and mementoes of the trip. Correspondents include Elizabeth J. Boardman, John Worth Braxton, Harrison Butterworth, Horace Champney, Jerry D. Coffin, Christopher Cowley, Phillip Drath, Robert Whittington Eaton, Roderick Ede, Ross Flanagan, Nicola Geiger, Walton Geiger, Robert Horton, Donald Kalish, George Lakey, Kenneth Lee, Samuel Legg, Robert E. Levering, Bradford Lyttle, Ivan E. Massar, William R. Mimms, Roger Moody, Beryl Herbert Nelson, Patricia Parkman, Earle L. Reynolds, Lawrence Scott, Lynne Shivers, Glenn E. Smiley, Charles C. Walker, Emlyn Warren, George Willoughby, J. Duncan Wood, and Carl P. Zietlow.

19.75 linear ft.

Swarthmore College, Peace Collection, SCPC

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SNAC Resource ID: 6998616

Swarthmore College, Peace Collection, SCPC

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Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.)

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Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) is a radical student group that descended from the Intercollegiate Socialist Society (ISS) which was founded in 1905. The ISS changed its name in 1921 to the League for Industrial Democracy (LID), a social-democratic educational and organizational group. Its student branch, the Student League for Industrial Democracy (SLID), merged with National Student League in 1935 to form American Student Union (ASU) but soon split over ASUs alleged communist affiliati...

Nelson, Beryl,

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Smiley, Glenn E.

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Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986

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Construction engineer, Baptist clergyman, and Quaker activist; worked against testing of nuclear weapons and biological weapons research; supervised Friends Mississippi Project; project director of the Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick in Maryland; executive secretary of the Peace Action Center; a founder of A Quaker Action Group. From the description of Papers, 1955-1965. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 20438839 ...

Butterworth, Harrison

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Kalish, Donald.

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Donald Kalish was born Dec. 4, 1919 in Chicago, IL; BA, University of California, Berkeley, 1943; MA University of California, Berkeley, 1945; Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley; lecturer, assistant professor, associate professor, and professor of philosophy, UCLA, 1949-1990; chairman, UCLA Dept. of Philosophy, 1964-1970; helped create UCLA program in logic and semantics; founder Concerned Faculty of UCLA; member University Committee on Vietnam; vice chairman Peace Action Council, Los Ange...

Shivers, Lynne

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Eaton, Robert Whittington

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Mimms, William R.

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Geiger, Walton

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Coffin, Jerry D.

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Willoughby, George, pacifist

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George W. Willoughby: born in 1914 in Wyoming; Quaker peace activist; World War II conscientious objector; worked for eight years with the Iowa regional section of the American Friends Service Committee, and served as an official with the Fellowship of Reconciliation. In 1958, he took part in the voyages of the Phoenix and Golden Rule, yachts which disrupted atomic testing in the Pacific Ocean. He and his wife, Lillian, travelled to India in peace action projects, and to the former Soviet Union,...

Moody, Roger

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Roger Moody: British peace activist and death penalty opponent; author of 'Handbook on Hunger' (1976) and other publications; from 1977 Moody worked for Colonialism and Indigenous Minorities Research and Action (CIMRA); CIMRA: British organization which denounced western interests as responsible for the annihilation of indigenous people; supported Aboriginals, Indians and other people defending their rights. From the description of Collection (1901) 1957-1984 (1990). (Unknown). World...

Geiger, Nicola

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Wood, J. Duncan (John Duncan)

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Flanagan, Ross, 1934-

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Champney, Horace

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B. Cleveland, Ohio, 1905; graduated from Antioch College in 1932; Ph. D. from Ohio State University; joined the Antioch Press as a printer and editor; a founder of The Peacemakers, a movement of revolutionary pacifists begun in Chicago in 1948; sailed to North Vietnam with other Quakers on the yacht Phoenix; established a personal vigil and fast at the gates of the White House, protesting the war; advocate of war-tax resistance; member of A Quaker Action Group, the American Friends Service Commi...

Ede, Roderick

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Levering, Robert, 1944-

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Cuba Project.

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Lakey, George.

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George Lakey combined the roles of pacifist, activist, teacher, and writer. He was imprisoned for civil rights sit-ins; he taught at the Martin Luther King School of Social Change, Haverford College, and the University of Pennsylvania. He co-chaired A Quaker Action Group and was project director of the voyage of the Phoenix, a sailing ship which transported medical supplies to North and South Vietnam during the Vietnamese Conflict. From the description of Collection, 1974-1984. (Swar...

A Quaker Action Group

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Founded in Philadelphia in 1966 to apply nonviolent direct action as a witness against the war in Vietnam; not an official body of the Society of Friends; in 1971 transformed into Movement for a New Society. From the description of A Quaker Action Group records, 1965-1973. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 20402069 ...

Warren, Emlyn

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Boardman, Elizabeth Jelinek, 1917-

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Walker, Charles C.

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Zietlow, Carl P.

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Massar, Ivan

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Lyttle, Bradford

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Parkman, Patricia

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Legg, Samuel

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Reynolds, Earle Landry, 1910-

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Braxton, John Worth

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Horton, Robert, 1900-1991

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Cowley, Christopher,

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Swarthmore College. Peace Collection.

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Drath, Phillip

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Lee, Kenneth, 1944-

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Fifth Avenue Peace Parade Committee.

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Vietnam Moratorium Committee (U.S.)

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Operating out of Washington, D.C. and New York City, the Vietnam Moratorium Committee was an ad hoc group formed to encourage broad-based public actions against the war in Vietnam. The first moratorium date was October 15, 1969. From the description of Collection, 1969-1970. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 29491696 ...

Beheiren

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