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Brandywine Peace Community 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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The Brandywine Peace Community was founded in April 1972 by Delaware County (Pennsylvania) and Chester County (Pennsylvania) citizens who formed "a nonviolent resistance community working for peace, disarmament, and a change of values and priorities...to an emphasis on peace, social justice, and the needs of the people." The group has always advocated nonviolent direct action by means of fasts, demonstrations, vigils, or principled trespass on private property; was especially active against nuclear weapons manufactured by the General Electric Company, and later the Lockheed Martin Marietta Company (located on the same site as GE). Originally called the Brandywine War Tax Resistance Fund, later (as of 1976) called the Brandywine Alternative Fund; name changed to the Brandywine Peace Community and Alternative Fund ca. 1978, then to Brandywine Peace Community in 1980. Issued a newsletter, 197?-1989. The BPC members and supporters have also participated in anti war activities during the Persian Gulf War, the Iraq war and the Afghanistan war. The group was originally headquartered in Media, Pennsylvania, then moved to Swarthmore, Pennsylvania in 1983.
Includes correspondence, flyers and handbills, newspaper clippings, periodicals, reference files and notes, and photographs. Correspondents include Robert M. Smith.
This collection is unprocessed and the files remain in the order in which they were received. This finding aid is organized by chronologically by date of receipt of material.
Acc. 91A-123 CDGA, 1992 Acc. 92A-109 Acc. 93A-089 Acc. 93A-104 Acc. 95A-095 Acc. 2016-043 Acc. 2017-042 Materials from Refile Box 1992-date
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is the official repository for these papers/records.
Gift of Brandywine Peace Community, 1991 [Acc. 91A-123]; 1992 [Acc. 92A-109]; 1993 [Acc. 93A-089, Acc. 93A-104]; 1995 [Acc. 95A-095].
Unprocessed; this finding aid was created by Andrew Ciampa and Wendy Chmielewski, July 2009.
Items removed to SCPC Collection: Photographs of various vigils, including at GE, King of Prussia, PA January 20, 1992, Good Friday, 1992.
Organization
- Brandywine Peace Community
- Brandywine Alternative Fund
- Brandywine Peace Community and Alternative Fund
- General Electric Company
Subject
- Peace Movements -- Brandywine Creek Valley (Pa. and Del.) -- History -- Sources
- Antinuclear movement -- Brandywine Creek Valley (Pa. and Del.) -- History -- Sources
- Direct action -- History -- Sources
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources
- Government, Resistance to -- History -- Sources
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- Sources
- Publisher
- Swarthmore College Peace Collection
- Access Restrictions
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None.
- Copyright to the Brandywine Peace Community records created by the organization has been transferred to the Swarthmore College Peace Collection. Copyright to all other materials is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
- Use Restrictions
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None.
Collection Inventory
includes "Walk-on"
includes 40th anniversary of first atomic bombings
Loan applications from various non-profit, alternative lifestyle and social activist organizations
folder 2
includes General Electric Pinellas plant
(2 folders)
(1 folder)
(1 folder)