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Philadelphia War Tax Resistance Records

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Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
DG.182
Repository:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Extent:
8.5 linear ft. (8.5 linear ft.)
Language Note:
Materials are in English.
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of item], in the Philadelphia War Tax Resistance Records (DG 182), Swarthmore College Peace Collection.
Date:
1967-1992 (inclusive)
Creator:
Philadelphia War Tax Resistance
Abstract:
The Philadelphia War Tax Resistance was an organization that advocated nonviolence in order to end war, racism, sexism, and human exploitation, as well as promoted nonpayment of taxes that funded war and defense. This collection includes correspondence, administrative files, court records, financial records, minutes of meetings, periodicals, and reference files.

The Philadelphia War Tax Resistance was an outgrowth of A Quaker Action Group, which was an associate member of the War Resisters League and of the Society of Friends. As part of a national movement known as War Tax Resistance, the local group became known as Philadelphia War Tax Resistance/War Resisters League in 1975. It was one of 190 centers for the national organization. The organization, using money donated by war tax resisters, created the Alternative Fund, which made loans to community organizations that shared its nonviolent values.

This collection includes correspondence, administrative files, court records, financial records, minutes of meetings, periodicals, and reference files of the Philadelphia War Tax Resistance.

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

Gift of Philadelphia War Tax Resistance, 1995 [Acc.95A-036].

This collection is unprocessed and remains in the order in which it was received. This finding aid was created by Amanda Cardillo on June 22, 2012.

  1. A Quaker Action Group (DG 074)
  2. War Resisters League (DG 040)

  1. Periodicals (Philadelphia War Tax Resistance Newsletter and others)
  2. Photographs

Organization
Subject

Publisher
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Access Restrictions

None.

Copyright to the Philadelphia War Tax Resistance 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

None.

Collection Inventory

Defense Committee.
Box DG 182: 1
Newsletters: Philadelphia War Tax Resistance.
Box DG 182: 1
Philadelphia War Tax Resistance/War Resisters League newsletter, 1979.
Box DG 182: 1
Philadelphia War Tax Resistance/War Resisters League Fund members.
Box DG 182: 1
Veterans Action Committee.
Box DG 182: 1
Stage East Repertory Company.
Box DG 182: 1
Philadelphia Association of Taxicab Owners and Operators.
Box DG 182: 1
Bail Fund.
Box DG 182: 1
Center on Law and Pacifism.
Box DG 182: 1
Clearinghouse.
Box DG 182: 1
Community Mailing Service.
Box DG 182: 1
SGA Credit Union.
Box DG 182: 1
Geno's Empty Foxhle, Inc.
Box DG 182: 2
Germantown Ecology.
Box DG 182: 2
Germantown Homes.
Box DG 182: 2
Human Interest Productions.
Box DG 182: 2
People's Alliance.
Box DG 182: 2
Women's Pentagon Action.
Box DG 182: 2
Repaid loans.
Box DG 182: 2
Trustees, 1980 (May).
Box DG 182: 2
Notebook.
Box DG 182: 2a
Philadelphia War Tax Resistance/War Resisters League, 1970-1975.
Box DG 182: 2a
Philadelphia War Tax Resistance/War Resisters League, 1976-.
Box DG 182: 2a
Pentagon Papers Film.
Box DG 182: 2a
Miscellaneous.
Box DG 182: 2a
Scope and Contents

[3 folders]

Signed statements of Christian Conscience.
Box DG 182: 2a
Legal files.
Box DG 182: 2a
Miscellaneous- articles, Hiroshima materials, tax information.
Box DG 182: 3
Public schools.
Box DG 182: 3
Fund statements and multiculturalism packets.
Box DG 182: 3
Miscellaneous- loan requests, memoranda.
Box DG 182: 3
Amnesty/CCCO.
Box DG 182: 3
Philadelphia War Tax Resistance/War Resisters League.
Box DG 182: 3
Philadelphia War Tax Resistance Newsletters.
Box DG 182: 3
Miscellaneous Philadelphia War Tax Resistance documents- Zero Nuclear Weapons.
Box DG 182: 4
Miscellaneous- correspondence, mailings, Charlie King event.
Box DG 182: 4
Fund statements.
Box DG 182: 4
Miscellaneous- correspondence, mailings, loan information.
Box DG 182: 4
Miscellaenous- correspondence, etc.
Box DG 182: 4
Miscellaneous- articles on Philadelphia War Tax Resistance, etc.
Box DG 182: 5
Miscellaneous.
Box DG 182: 5
Miscellaneous- correspondence, loan requests, etc.
Box DG 182: 5
Brochures and pamphlets.
Box DG 182: 5
Pamphlets, fliers, leaftlets, and Fund reports.
Box DG 182: 5
The Whole City Catalog.
Box DG 182: 6
Miscellaneous- Jane Fonda, Vietnam, feminism.
Box DG 182: 6
Miscellaneous.
Box DG 182: 6
Indochina Peace Campaign leaftletting file.
Box DG 182: 6
Miscellaneous- pamphlets, etc.
Box DG 182: 6
Germantown Homes, Inc.
Box DG 182: 6
Fundraising.
Box DG 182: 6
Philadelphia War Tax Resistance minutes of Steering Committee, 1976 (November) - 1980 (April).
Box DG 182: 6
Loan requests.
Box DG 182: 6
Loan application forms.
Box DG 182: 6
Alliance for the Liberation of Mental Patients.
Box DG 182: 6
News/Press releases.
Box DG 182: 6
Personal statements.
Box DG 182: 6
Public outreach.
Box DG 182: 6
Philadelphia People's Bail Fund.
Box DG 182: 7
Office business.
Box DG 182: 7
Loan repayment logs.
Box DG 182: 7
Scope and Contents

[2 folders]

Philadelphia War Tax Resistance correspondence.
Box DG 182: 7
Newsletters [loan information].
Box DG 182: 7
Closed accounts.
Box DG 182: 7
Philadelphia War Tax Resistance- Medical Aid for Indochina.
Box DG 182: 8
Philadelphia War Tax Resistance Retreat reports.
Box DG 182: 8
Responses to Angie's article.
Box DG 182: 8
Philadelphia War Tax Resistance clinics and demonstrations.
Box DG 182: 8
Philadelphia War Tax Resistance Fund- history.
Box DG 182: 8
Lawyers.
Box DG 182: 8
Continental Walk.
Box DG 182: 8
Scope and Contents

[2 folders]

Handbook on tax resistance.
Box DG 182: 8
Philadelphia War Tax Resistance Working Committee.
Box DG 182: 9
B-1 Bomber.
Box DG 182: 9
Registration Day.
Box DG 182: 9
Regional Conference.
Box DG 182: 9
Retreat centers.
Box DG 182: 9
Miscellaneous tax refusal documents.
Box DG 182: 9
Workshop programs.
Box DG 182: 9
Philadelphia War Tax Resistance fliers.
Box DG 182: 9
Philadelphia War Tax Resistance funds- other.
Box DG 182: 9
Philadelphia War Tax Resistance.
Box DG 182: 9
Rising Cry #1- Eastern Pennsylvania copy (unmounted) [Independence Day material].
Box DG 182: 9
Germantown Homes.
Box DG 182: 9
Philadelphia War Tax Resistance fund requests.
Box DG 182: 9
Loan applications, 1973-1974.
Box DG 182: 9
Loan applications.
Box DG 182: 9
Tax court cases.
Box DG 182: 10
Tax court.
Box DG 182: 10
Tax court press release.
Box DG 182: 10
Clinic packet materials.
Box DG 182: 10
Loan applications, 1971-1972.
Box DG 182: 10
Activities, 1975.
Box DG 182: 10
Third Wednesday study group.
Box DG 182: 10
Publicity.
Box DG 182: 10
Philadelphians Organizing for Nuclear Disarmament (POND).
Box DG 182: 10
War Tax Resistance National Conference.
Box DG 182: 10
Tax resistance.
Box DG 182: 10
Questionnaire returns, 1975 (October-November).
Box DG 182: 10
Personal statements, 1973-1974.
Box DG 182: 10
Personal statements, 1972 (April-December).
Box DG 182: 10
Personal statements, 1968 - 1972 (March).
Box DG 182: 10
War Tax Resistance Regional Conference.
Box DG 182: 10
Old loan application forms.
Box DG 182: 10
War Tax Resistance- national.
Box DG 182: 11
War Tax Resistance- other regions.
Box DG 182: 11
War Tax Resistance centers- correspondence.
Box DG 182: 11
News from War Tax Resistance centers.
Box DG 182: 11
Background- tax refusal.
Box DG 182: 11
Emergency phone network.
Box DG 182: 11
David Gracie.
Box DG 182: 11
Robin Harper.
Box DG 182: 11
Henry Braun.
Box DG 182: 11
Jack Malinowski.
Box DG 182: 11
Letters- tax refusal, 1969.
Box DG 182: 11
Philadelphia War Tax Resistance Fund members.
Box DG 182: 11
Tax forms.
Box DG 182: 11
Clippings and pictures.
Box DG 182: 11
Press.
Box DG 182: 11
Steering Committee.
Box DG 182: 11
Miscellaneous War Tax Resistance materials.
Box DG 182: 11
Miscellaneous.
Box DG 182: 12
War Resisters International.
Box DG 182: 12
Auctions.
Box DG 182: 12
War Tax Resistance in the news.
Box DG 182: 12
War Tax Resistance news items.
Box DG 182: 12
War Tax Resistance list.
Box DG 182: 12
Loan requests.
Box DG 182: 12
Outreach.
Box DG 182: 12
General Electric actionists.
Box DG 182: 12
National Service.
Box DG 182: 12
Tax Talk- main file.
Box DG 182: 12
Those who will support tax resisters.
Box DG 182: 12
Quaker radicals.
Box DG 182: 12
United Nations' Special Session on Disarmament II.
Box DG 182: 12
War tax concerns.
Box DG 182: 12
Citizen's Initiative.
Box DG 182: 12
War Resisters League- response.
Box DG 182: 12
Next War Tax Resistance/War Resisters League Newsletter.
Box DG 182: 12
War Resisters League action group.
Box DG 182: 12
Philadelphia People's Alliance for Human Needs.
Box DG 182: 12
Socialist Party USA.
Box DG 182: 12
Miscellaneous- loan requests, information on community organizations.
Box DG 182: 13
Miscellaneous War Tax Resistance materials.
Box DG 182: 13
Scope and Contents

[2 folders]

Cartoons and songs.
Box DG 182: 13
Taskforces.
Box DG 182: 13
Steve Gulick [White House Lawn Eleven].
Box DG 182: 13
Loan follow-ups.
Box DG 182: 13
Project Vote/Community Activist.
Box DG 182: 13
On racism.
Box DG 182: 13
War Resisters League Taskforce on Racism.
Box DG 182: 14
Tax Talk in WIN Magazine.
Box DG 182: 14
Next WIN column.
Box DG 182: 14
War brochure.
Box DG 182: 14
War Tax Resistance tax court cases.
Box DG 182: 14
Internal Revenue Service Forms.
Box DG 182: 14
People Power- War Tax Resistance.
Box DG 182: 14
Tape.
Box DG 182: 14
Chapter in guide to war tax resistance.
Box DG 182: 14
Miscellaneous documents.
Box DG 182: 14
Tax Talk materials- press releases.
Box DG 182: 14

Miscellaneous documents, 1998.
Box DG 182: Re-File Box: 1
Miscellaneous documents, 1997.
Box DG 182: Re-File Box: 1
War Tax Resistance newspaper, 1973 (January).
Box DG 182: Re-File Box: 1
War Tax Resistance centers- news and staff .
Box DG 182: Re-File Box: 1
War Tax Resistance letters, 1974.
Box DG 182: Re-File Box: 1
War Tax Resistance East- New York City.
Box DG 182: Re-File Box: 1
War Tax Resistance Fresno.
Box DG 182: Re-File Box: 1

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