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Edward F. Snyder Papers

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Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore 19081-1399

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Edward Furnas Snyder is a Quaker lobbyist for peace, civil rights, and economic justice. He was born in 1925 in Iowa and raised in Maine. He later married Dorothy Snyder. Edward Snyder received his law degree (1951) from Yale Law School. He joined staff of Friends Committee on National Legislation in 1955 and retired in 1990 as Executive Secretary of the FCNL Snyder argued against legislation for a U.S. military draft and excessive military spending; worked for cultural and scientific exchanges between Soviet and U.S. citizens to lessen tensions of the Cold War. Edward and Dorothy Snyder have long been tax resisters; and withheld those taxes during the Vietnam War which would have gone to military purposes. In 1990 they filed suit against the U.S. government, arguing that the government was using taxpayers' money illegally to fund war in El Salvador and Nicaragua.

This collection contains the papers of Edward Snyder and his work for the Friends Committee on National Legislation and the American Friends Service Committee from the 1950s onward.

This collection is unprocessed and remains in the order in which it was donated.

Gift of Edward F. Snyder, 2011 [Acc. 11A-029]

This collection is unprocessed. This finding aid was created by Declan White in June, 2011.

  1. Photographs
  2. Periodicals
  3. Audio cassette
  4. Bumper sticker

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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

FBI/CIA Freedom of Information.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 1
"Frivolous" Tax Case IRS, 1985-1993.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 1
Clarke/Snyder vs. IRS.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 1
Some American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) Connections.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 1
Connections with other Organizations.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 1
Miscellaneous Pictures Momentos.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 1
Ed Snyder (Personal), 1957-1966.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 1
Moscow, 1986.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 1
London Quaker Disarmament Conference, 1985 (January).
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 1
Paris UNESCO, 1982.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 1
Sweden, 1981.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 1
Hill Contacts, 1978-1990.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 1
Cuba, 1981.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 2
Cambodia- Khmer Rouge, 1979.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 2
Poland, 1971.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 2
Cambodia, 1970.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 2
Singapore Reports.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 2
Southeast Asia Trip Reports, 1967-1969.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 2
Singapore American Friends Service Committee Conference, 1967-1969.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 2
Moscow Sochi, 1966 (December 8-20).
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 3
Peace Conference, Czech/Moscow, 1964.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 3
Miscellaneous.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 3
Quakers International Conference in Southeast Asia, 1968.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 3
Sochi Seminar, 1966 (December).
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 3
Judge Thomas W. Swan.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 3
Cummings and Lockwood, 1951-1955.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 3
Legal Documents.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 3
Cambodia, 1969.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 3
Postcards and Correspondence.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 3
Press/Articles, 1950's-1960's.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 4
Press/Articles, 1968.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 4
Press/Articles, 1970s.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 4
Press/Articles, 1980s.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 4
Press/Articles, 1990 (January).
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 4
Press/Articles, 1990s.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 4
Friends Committee on National Legislation, 1955-1957.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 4
Friends Committee on National Legislation, 1958-1959.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 4
Friends Committee on National Legislation, 1960-1963.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 5
Friends Committee on National Legislation, 1964-1969.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 5
Friends Committee on National Legislation, 1970-1974.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 5
Friends Committee on National Legislation, 1975-1979.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 5
Friends Committee on National Legislation, 1980-1983.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 5
Friends Committee on National Legislation, 1984-1989.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 5
Retirement Party Guest Book, 1990.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 5
Letters and Responses from Members of Congress, 1991-1995.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 6
Letters and Responses from Members of Congress, 1996-1999.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 6
Letters and Responses from Members of Congress, 2000-2007.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 6
Slow Down for Peace.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 6
9/11 Reactions and Statements, 37145.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 6
Bosnian Student Project.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 6
Edward Raymond Wilson Biography for Oxford University Press.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 7
Quaker Institute Future.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 7
Haverford.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 7
Letters to the Editor.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 7
Acadia Senior College.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 7
Maine Indian Tribal-State Commission, 1998.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 7
Friends Committee on Maine Public Policy.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 7
Mount Desert Island Restorative Justice Program.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 7
Information on Quaker Visit to JFK, 2006 (April).
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 7
Personal Writings.
Box DG 241: Acc. 11A-029: 7

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