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Ahimsa Farm Collected Records

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Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore 19081-1399

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Swarthmore College Peace Collection. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

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Call Number:
CDG-A.Ahimsa Farm
Repository:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Extent:
0.08 linear ft. (1 linear in.)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of item] in the Ahimsa Farm Collected Records (CDG-A), Swarthmore College Peace Collection.
Date:
1940-1942 (inclusive)
Abstract:

Ahimsa Farm was an independent, self-sustaining project founded by six Antioch College students whose purpose was to practice "aggressive pacifism." Most participants were members of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. Projects included desegregation of a Cleveland, Ohio swimming pool, and the Non-Violent Expeditionary Force to India.

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the records of this organization.

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Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Collection Inventory

Documents, 1940-1941.
Box 1
Correspondence, 1940-1942.
Box 1
Summer school and conferences, 1942.
Box 1
Projects: Food for Europe Pilgrimages, 1940-1941.
Box 1
Projects: Garfield Park swimming pool (Cleveland, Ohio), Summer 1941.
Box 1
Projects: Nonviolent Expedition Force to India, 1942.
Box 1
Periodical articles, 1940-1941.
Box 1
History: reminiscence "A Gandhian Experiment in Ohio" by Larry Gara and Lenna Mae Gara, 1986.
Box 1
History: biographies "What Ahimsa Meant to Me" (etc.), 1966, 1986-1992.
Box 1
Reunion: members and addresses; report, 1989.
Box 1
Paul Smith material.
Box 1
Information about photographs [photos removed].
Box 1

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