George Willoughby and Lillian Willoughby papers, 1931-2010.

Swarthmore College. Peace Collection.

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Civilian Public Service

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Peace Brigades International

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Pendle Hill (School : Wallingford, Pa.)

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Pendle Hill is a Quaker study center located in Wallingford, Pennsylvania. It was established in 1930 out of an earlier Quaker institution, the Woolman School. The Woolman School was established in 1915 under the care of the General Conference Committee of the Seven Yearly Meetings (Hicksite). In 1917, it was reorganized as a joint enterprise of Hicksite and Orthodox Friends, and was governed by a Board of Managers. The Woolman School was incorporated in 1918. In 1928, i...

Movement for a New Society

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Began in 1971 in Philadelphia, Pa.; superseded A Quaker Action Group; a national network of activists committed to building a nonviolent revolution; provided training in nonviolent direct action; committed to decentralized organization and decision-making. For the first ten years, collectives in Philadelphia encouraged the formation of regional groups, including collectives in the Boston/Northeast Region, the Mid-Atlantic Region, Tucson, Seattle, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Chicago, etc.; after 1981 e...

McReynolds, David K.

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David McReynolds; b. 1929 in Los Angeles, Calif.; pacifist, and leader of the War Resisters League and the Socialist Party in the United States; has several times been Socialist Party candidate for the U.S. presidency. From the description of David McReynolds papers, 1943-1978. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 21396359 ...

Golden Rule (Ketch)

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Lyttle, Bradford

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American friends service committee

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Quaker organization formed to promote peace and reconciliation through its social service and relief programs. From the description of American Friends Service Committee records, 1933-1988 (bulk 1933-1938). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983753 The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) was organized in June 1917 as an outgrowth of and coordination point for the anti-war and relief activities of various bodies of the Religious Society of Friends in the United States. A ...

United States. War Relocation Authority

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From 1942 to 1946, Edward H. Spicer, Anthropology professor at the University of Arizona, was Head of the Community Analysis Section of the War Relocation Authority, in Washington, D.C. From the description of United States War Relocation Authority collection, 1942-1947. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 29305373 Biography / Administrative History On February 19, 1942 President Roosevelt signed Executive Order ...

Delaware Valley Land Trust.

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Shivers, Lynne

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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 ...

Willoughby, Lillian, 1915-

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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...

Reynolds, Earle L.

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Biography Earle Reynolds began his career as a physical anthropologist. In 1951 his life was forever changed after he went to Hiroshima to study the effects of the atomic bomb. When he embarked with his family on a world voyage aboard their yacht, The Phoenix of Hiroshima, fate set him on a path that would lead him to his life's work--the struggle for peace. The Earle Reynolds Archive is located in the Special Collections of McHenry Library, ...

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,...