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Robert Levering Papers

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Call Number:
DG.080
Repository:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Extent:
.83 linear ft. (.83 linear feet)
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of item], in the Robert E. Levering Papers (DG 080), Swarthmore College Peace Collection.
Date:
1967-1972 (inclusive)
Creator:
Levering, Robert, 1944-, Davidov, Marv, Desai, Narayan, Dolci, Danilo, Levering, Susan Dworkin, Lynd, Staughton, Lyttle, Bradford, Meyer, Christopher (Business owner), Noell, Chuck, Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986, White, Simeon, and Young, Ronald J., 1942-
Abstract:
Robert E. Levering is a pacifist and Quaker. He has been the co-author of Fortune magazine's annual list of the "100 Best Companies to Work For," and a speaker on workplace trends and management strategies aimed at improving workplace productivity. Levering is a graduate of Swarthmore College and the Martin Luther King Jr. School of Social Change.

Robert E. Levering is a pacifist and Quaker. He has been the co-author of Fortune magazine's annual list of the "100 Best Companies to Work For," and a speaker on workplace trends and management strategies aimed at improving workplace productivity. Levering is a graduate of Swarthmore College and the Martin Luther King Jr. School of Social Change.

Reports, memoranda, nonviolent training materials, and publications, relating to Levering's work with A Quaker Action Group, American Friends Service Committee, Friends Peace Committee, New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, and People's Coalition for Peace and Justice; together with scattered correspondence, published and unpublished mss. of writings, notes on meetings and for speeches, clippings, peace buttons, and sound recording tapes. Includes material relating to Levering's meetings with representatives of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam, and other Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian groups, on behalf of the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice in Paris, 1972. Topics include draft resistance, anti-war movement, nonviolence, Gandhi, anti-corporate activities, and AQAG demonstrations against chemical and biological warfare. Speakers on the tapes include Marvin Davidov, Narayan Desai, Danilo Dolci, Susan Dworkin Levering, Staughton Lynd, Bradford Lyttle, Christopher Meyer, Chuck Noell, Lawrence Scott, Simeon White, and Ronald J. Young.

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is the official repository for these papers.

Acquisitions information is unknown.

Processed by SCPC staff. This finding aid was updated by Wendy E. Chmielewski, May 2010.

  1. A Quaker Action Group records (DG 074)
  2. People's Coalition for Peace and Justice records (DG 084)
  3. National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam records (DG 075)

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

Archival Resource Key. Checklist.
Box DG 080: 1
Archival Resource Key. Draft Counselor Training Materials, 1967-1968.
Box DG 080: 1
Archival Resource Key. Democratic National Convention Chicago, 1968.
Box DG 080: 1
Archival Resource Key. A Quaker Action Group, 1969-1970.
Box DG 080: 1
Archival Resource Key. Miscellaneous Papers, Draft Resistance, etc., 1968-1971.
Box DG 080: 1
Archival Resource Key. Training re Anti-Vietnam War Coalition Actions, 1969-1971.
Box DG 080: 1
Archival Resource Key. Training re Friends Peace Committee and American Friends Service Committee, 1968-1971.
Box DG 080: 1
Archival Resource Key. Spring Actions, 1971.
Box DG 080: 1
Scope and Contents

(4 folders)

Archival Resource Key. Spring Actions, 1971.
Box DG 080: 2
Scope and Contents

(2 folders)

Archival Resource Key. People's Coalition for Peace and Justice Fall Offensive, 1971.
Box DG 080: 2
Scope and Contents

(2 folders)

Archival Resource Key. Automated Air War Campaign, 1971-1972.
Box DG 080: 2
Archival Resource Key. Paris Trip for People's Coalition for Peace and Justice, Spring 1972.
Box DG 080: 2
Scope and Contents

(2 folders)

Archival Resource Key. Miscellaneous, 1972.
Box DG 080: 2

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