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Friends Witness for World Order Collected Records

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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.Friends Witness for World Order
Repository:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Extent:
0.42 linear ft. (5 linear in.)
Language Note:
Materials are in English.
Preferred Citation:
Cite as: [Identification of item], in the Friends Witness for World Order Collected Records (CDG-A), Swarthmore College Peace Collection.
Date:
1962
Creator:
Friends Witness for World Order
Abstract:
These records contain meeting minutes, financial records, correspondence, releases/literature, statistics, publicity and press coverage, address by Dorothy Hutchinson, delegation visits to President Kennedy and to ambassadors during Washington, D.C., and photographs.

Friends Witness for World Order was formed in 1961 from the Committee for a Quaker Peace Witness. Friends Witness organized a major march focused on disarmament in Washington D.C. from April 28 to May 1, 1962 which included a meeting with President Kennedy.

Gift of various resources.

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

Committee for a Quaker Peace Witness Collected Records (CDG-A)

Photos of Washington D.C. Witness removed to Photograph Collection.

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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

Archival Resource Key. Meeting minutes.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Financial records.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Correspondence.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Releases/literature.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Address by Dorothy Hutchinson, 1962 (April 28).
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Delegation visits to President Kennedy and to Ambassadors during Washington, D.C. Witness.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Statistics re: Washington, D.C. Witness.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Publicity and press coverage re: Washington, D.C. Witness.
Box 1

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