Common Ground records, 1982-2006.

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Common Ground records, 1982-2006.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/776913993

Collection includes correspondence (1983-2006), administrative files (1983-2005), financial records, flyers and brochures, publicity materials, photographs; includes information about Annie Armstead Smart, who inspired the founders of Common Ground. Also includes information about a proposed periodical named Appalachian Journal which apparently was never published (not the same as the Appalachian Journal published in Boone, North Carolina).

2.5 linear feet

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Swarthmore College, Peace Collection, SCPC

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SNAC Resource ID: 8200930

Swarthmore College, Peace Collection, SCPC

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Oliver, Hoyt

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Quinlan, Lilith

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Swarthmore College. Peace Collection.

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Common Ground (Organization : Baton Rouge, La.)

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Common Ground; nonprofit organization; located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; a community of faith founded in 1982 by Quakers Lilith Quinlan and Hoyt Oliver, to break cycles of poverty, racism, and sexism and to teach active nonviolence; program work included organizing programs for children, providing services and a safe haven for refugees of violence, and holding conferences about nonviolence; providing sanctuary for Central American refugees; helping children to break the cycle of violence in the...

Smart, Annie Armstead.

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Oakdale Federal Alien Detention Center (Oakdale, La.)

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