Horace Champney papers, 1906-1990, bulk 1958-1979.

Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.)

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The Fellowship of Reconciliation was established in December of 1914, during a meeting at Cambridge, England. Its members believed that Christians were forbidden to wage war, and that instead they should work positively to establish a new world order of peace and justice. The F.O.R. had its office in London. It produced and distributed literature, including its monthly magazine Reconciliation; worked with youth; fostered groups of members throughout the country; and supported the work of the Int...

Flanagan, Ross, 1934-

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Wise, Christine

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Bromley, Ernest

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Morrison, Norman R., 1933-1965

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Norman Morrison (1933-1965) became interested in the religious ideals and principles of the Society of Friends while studying in Scotland. In 1962, as a convinced Friend, he became the Executive Secretary of the Baltimore Monthly Meeting. Morrison was distraught as the pace of U.S military involvement and the bombing of civilians in Vietnam escalated; he chose to immolate himself in front of the Pentagon on November 2, 1965. His was one of only three such deaths in the United States, though many...

Ashley, Bruce

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Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard)

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Barbara Reynolds was a Quaker and pacifist who founded the World Friendship Center in Hiroshima, Japan. She was highly regarded in the Japanese peace movement; after her return to the U.S. she helped establish the Hiroshima/Nagasaki Memorial Collection in the Wilmington College Peace Resource Center, Wilmington, Ohio. In 1958, she sailed with Earle Reynolds on the yacht Phoenix into a nuclear bomb testing area of the Pacific. In 1962 she conducted the Hiroshima Peace Pilgrimage, a year-long worl...

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 ...

Anh, Le Thi,

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Swarthmore College. Peace Collection.

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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, ...

Canadian Friends Service Committee

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Squire, DeCourcy.

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Swann, Marjorie (Marjorie E.)

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Champney, Ken,

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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...

Phoenix (Yacht)

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Boardman, Elizabeth Jelinek, 1917-

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Stern, Lee, 1915-1992

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Lee Stern; Quaker pacifist; b. 1915 in Cleveland, Ohio; was a founder in 1940 of Ahimsa Farm (near Cleveland, Ohio) which promoted pacifism and racial integration; imprisoned as a conscientious objector during World War II; while in prison, he refused to follow rules on segregation and sat with black prisoners, which led to integration in that prison; Stern was a prominent member of New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), including its Peace Secretary and administr...

Champney, Beulah,

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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 ...

Peacemaker Movement

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The Peacemaker Movement, often simply called "Peacemakers," emerged from a call for a conference in Chicago following Mahatma Gandhi's death. In 1959 they described themselves as a "grass roots group which emphasizes fundamental radical action to undermine the war system. We advocate non-registration to the draft, war tax refusal, economic sharing, community living, personal revolution." The founders of Peacemakers were pacifists seeking to rally others to the ideals of nonviolence, based on a s...

Zietlow, Carl P.

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