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Friends Coordinating Committee on Peace 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.

Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
CDG-A.Friends Coordinating Committee on Peace
Repository:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Extent:
0.42 linear ft. (5 linear in.)
Preferred Citation:
Cite as: [Identification of item], in the Friends Coordinating Committee on Peace Collected Records (CDGA), Swarthmore College Peace Collection.
Date:
1951-1987 (inclusive)
Creator:
Friends Coordinating Committee on Peace (U.S.)
Abstract:
By 1951, it was agreed that the Friends Coordinating Committee on Peace was strictly a consultative and coordinating group for the peace efforts of Yearly Meetings and such Quaker entities as the American Friends Service Committee, the Friends Committee on National Legislation, the Friends World Committee for Consultation, the Peace and Social Order Committee of the Friends General Conference, and the Friends Peace Committee of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. The annual meeting of the FCCP gave Quakers an opportunity to spend a day together sharing experiences and making proposals for cooperative projects. In 1986 it was decided that the role of the FCCP was no longer viable and was being taken over by other agencies, so that it was disbanded.

It is unclear from the records in this collection exactly when the Friends Coordinating Committee on Peace was organized. By 1951, it was agreed that the FCCP would be strictly a consultative and coordinating group for the peace efforts of Yearly Meetings and such Quaker entities as the American Friends Service Committee, the Friends Committee on National Legislation, the Friends World Committee for Consultation, the Peace and Social Order Committee of the Friends General Conference, and the Friends Peace Committee of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. The annual meeting of the FCCP gave Quakers an opportunity to spend a day together sharing experiences and making proposals for cooperative projects. The FCCP only got involved in actions that had a groundswell of support from the Friends Yearly Meetings: it held conferences on topics of interest to Friends, and helped the thousand Yearly Meetings in the U.S. to re-examine the Quaker stance on peace during the Vietnam conflict, among others. It had no paid staff, but relied on volunteers such as George Hardin, Lyle Tatum, Bob Rumsey and Bob Oldham. In 1986 it was decided that the role of the FCCP was no longer viable and was being taken over by other agencies, so that it was disbanded.

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

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Processed by SCPC staff. Checklist prepared by Anne M. Yoder, Archivist, April 1998.

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Publisher
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Access Restrictions

None.

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Use Restrictions

None.

Collection Inventory

History and goals.
Box 1
Meeting minutes, 1951 (June), 1952 (May), 1953 (September), 1957 (May), 1957 (September).
Box 1
Meeting minutes, 1965 - 1971, 1979 - 1987.
Box 1
Financial records, 1966 - 1969, 1981 - 1987.
Box 1
Correspondence, 1951 - 1971, 1980 - 1987.
Box 1
Program efforts, 1952 - 1960, 1965 - 1974, 1979 - 1987, undated.
Box 1
Booklets: "The Peace Testimony of Friends in the 20th Century" and "Quakers and the Draft: What Friends Are Saying About Selective Service", 1967, 1988.
Box 1
Self-Immolation of Norman Morrison, 1933-1965.
Box 1
Pendle Hill conference on disarmament, Wallingford, Pennsylvania, 1953 (February).
Box 1
Friends National Conference on World Order, Richmond, Indiana, 1961 (October 23-25).
Box 1
Conference and vigil re: Vietnam, Washington, D.C., 1966 (February 11-14).
Box 1
Friends National Conference on the Draft and Conscription, Richmond, Indiana, 1968 (October 11-13).
Box 1
First National Quaker Conference on Investments, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1972 (November 2).
Box 1
Stimulating and Nurturing Peacemaking Conference, Chelsea, Michigan, 1985 (September 4-11).
Box 1
Scope and Contents

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