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Larry Gara Collected Papers
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Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore 19081-1399
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Larry Gara; conscientious objector to World War II, served three-year prison term as a result; professor of history and government at Bluffton College (Ohio) and Wilmington College (Ohio); Quaker; writes on war resistance, history of dissent, and anti-slavery movements.
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the papers of this individual.
People
- Gara, Larry
- Gara, Larry -- Amnesty and reconciliation
- Gara, Larry -- Peace testimony, root and branch
- Gara, Larry -- Active nonviolence
Subject
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- United States -- Sources
- Conscientious Objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Political prisoners -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Society of Friends -- Sources. -- Peace testimony -- History
- Publisher
- Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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