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Lynne Shivers Papers
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Born in Camden, New Jersey on June 21, 1941, Lynne Shivers was an advocate of peace throughout her life until her death on February 3, 2015. She was a founding member of Movement for a New Society and its Philadelphia Life Center, through which she did work for social change, with an emphasis given to peace and nonviolence. She traveled for peace work often, to Iran and Northern Ireland and eventually to Japan, where her work led her to become director of Hiroshima's World Friendship Center in 1986. She also worked for the American Friends Service Committee on issues of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. She wrote about social issues and peace activism both for Movement for a New Society publications and for outside publications. In 1979, she began teaching American and English Literature at the Community College of Philadelphia's, where she incorporated literature about peace and nonviolence into her curriculum. She retired from her Assistant Professor position in 2005 and lived the rest of her life in Germantown, Pennsylvania.
This collection contains the personal papers of Lynne Shivers and her work from roughly the 1960s onward. It includes biographical and family material, material on her peace work in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, journals she kept from the 1960s until 2014, and information about her teaching career. This collection also includes correspondence to and from Lynne Shivers and literature she collected out of personal interest. Files concerning Shivers's work with Movement for a New Society may be found in that collection in the Peace Collection.
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is the official repository for these papers.
Gift of Estate of Lynne Shivers, June 2015 [Acc. 2015-031].
Processed by Grace Baker in Summer 2015.
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- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Quaker women -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Peace Movements -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Atomic bomb victims -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi
- Atomic bomb victims -- Japan -- Nagasaki-shi
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- Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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Collection Inventory
Notebook: Lynne Shivers - Interviews I.
Box 1
Notebook: Lynne Shivers - Volume 2 Interviews.
Box 1
Notebook: Lynne Shivers - Volume 3 Interviews.
Box 1
Birth and Death Certificate.
Box 1
Family Genealogy and Isaac Barrow.
Box 1
Lynne's Grandparents [photos removed].
Box 1
Personal.
Box 1
Mindfulness Lilac Breeze Sangha #2.
Box 1
Laughing Pixies Sangha.
Box 1
Miscellaneous Mindfulness.
Box 1
Masters for Star Power.
Box 1
Genealogy.
Box 1
Correspondence.
Box 2
Letters to Marion Rannels.
Box 2
Email Correspondence Miscellaneous.
Box 2
Lynne Shivers – Letters.
Box 2
Letters Movement for a New Society.
Box 2
Letters, Articles to Wine.
Box 2
Willoughby Letters.
Box 2
Letters from (and to) Peter.
Box 2
Printed email correspondence.
Box 2
British Withdrawal from Northern Ireland Campaign - correspondence and letters of support.
Box 2
Printed email correspondence.
Box 2
Quotations, clippings.
Box 3
Printed reading.
Box 3
To Do's.
Box 3
Strategy.
Box 3
Shivers: Notes, etc.
Box 3
University of Alberta, 1985 (July).
Box 3
Sharp Stuff.
Box 3
Essays.
Box 3
Packets.
Box 3
Community College of Philadelphia copies.
Box 3
Willoughby Papers.
Box 3
India Trip, 2004.
Box 3
Freire.
Box 3
Correspondence.
Box 3
My teaching.
Box 3
ML King.
Box 3
Nonviolent Pledge.
Box 3
Nature.
Box 3
China.
Box 3
Middle East American Friends Service Committee Trip, 1975.
Box 3
Northern Ireland.
Box 3
I Ching.
Box 3
Iran Trip.
Box 3
Essays.
Box 3
Publications on activism.
Box 3
Atomic Bomb/Hydrogen Bomb.
Box 4
Atomic Bomb.
Box 4
Nagasaki Article (new).
Box 4
Hiroshima/Nagasaki.
Box 4
Nagasaki.
Box 4
Translations.
Box 4
Pope's visit.
Box 4
Hiroshima/Nagasaki.
Box 4
Hiroma morishata poems about Hiroshima.
Box 4
Miscellaneous Hiroshima/Nagasaki.
Box 4
Japanese/Korean Newspapers in English.
Box 4
Japan Trip, 1995.
Box 5
Accounts of Hiroshima.
Box 5
Hibakusha Stats.
Box 5
Hiroshima/Nagasaki.
Box 5
Scope and Contents
[2 folders]
Articles on atomic bomb survivors.
Box 5
My research.
Box 5
Nagasaki.
Box 5
Miscellaneous Hiroshima/Nagasaki.
Box 5
Book: Hiroshima Mon Amour.
Box 5
Hiroshima/Nagasaki Info/Articles.
Box 5
Teaching materials.
Box 5
"Nagasaki Dust" Play manuscript.
Box 5
Hiroshima/Nagasaki Book.
Box 6
Articles.
Box 6
Packet: Day One: Before Hiroshima and After.
Box 6
Religion and Hiroshima/Nagasaki.
Box 6
[omega] to nuclear war.
Box 6
Hiroshima/Nagasaki Clips.
Box 6
Literature.
Box 6
Miscellaneous.
Box 6
Nagasaki.
Box 6
Hiroshima/Nagasaki Exhibit Smithsonian.
Box 6
Hibakusha.
Box 6
Barbara Reynolds.
Box 6
Miscellaneous Nagasaki.
Box 6
Official Hiroshima/Nagasaki Statements.
Box 6
Hiroshima Harada etc.
Box 6
General.
Box 6
Hiroshima/Nagasaki memorial collection catalogues.
Box 6
Hibakusha.
Box 6
Hiroshima/Nagasaki.
Box 6
Hiroshima/Nagasaki 102.
Box 6
Calendars, 1972, 1977-1978.
Box 7
Calendars, 1979-1980.
Box 7
Calendars, 1981.
Box 7
Calendars, 1982-1983.
Box 7
Calendars, 1984.
Box 7
Calendars, 1985-1986.
Box 7
Calendars, 1987-1988.
Box 8
Calendars, 1989-1990.
Box 8
Calendars, 1991, 1994.
Box 8
Calendars, 1996-1997.
Box 8
Calendars, 1998, 2003.
Box 8
Calendars, 2004, 2006.
Box 8
Calendars, 2007.
Box 9
Address Books.
Box 9
Scope and Contents
[2 folders]
Journals, 1966-1967.
Box 9
Journals, 1978-1979.
Box 9
Journals, 1969, 1971, 1984.
Box 9
Journals, 1985.
Box 10
Journals, 1985-1986.
Box 10
Journals, 1987, 1989.
Box 10
Journals, 1989-1990.
Box 10
Journals, -1991.
Box 10
Journals, 1991-1992.
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Journals, 1995.
Box 11
Journals, 1996.
Box 11
Journals, 1997.
Box 11
Journals, 1999.
Box 11
Scope and Contents
[2 folders]
Journals, 2001, 2006.
Box 12
Journals, 2006.
Box 12
Journals, 2006, 2010.
Box 12
Journals, 2010.
Box 12
Journals, 2011.
Box 13
Journals, 2011-2012.
Box 13
Journals, 2013.
Box 13
Journals, 2013-2014.
Box 13
Stenographer's books, undated.
Box 13
Scope and Contents
[3 folders]
Journal, undated.
Box 14
Journal China/Japan Seminar.
Box 14
Scope and Contents
[2 folders]
Journal, undated.
Box 14
Journal "BREADLOAF", "Freire Notes".
Box 14
Diary, typewritten L. Shivers Poetry book, postcards from Nagasaki, 1976.
Box 15
Journals: Memo book, "Getting Published" seminar, undated.
Box 15
Journals: Journalism, New Bedford Training Notes.
Box 15
Teaching Materials: Nuclear Studies Literature and Culture.
Box 15
Collected Essays and Speeches.
Box 15
Reports of Training sessions.
Box 15
Reprinted Book: A World Peace Guard.
Box 16
Star Power.
Box 16
Iran.
Box 16
Translations.
Box 16
Barbara Reynolds Monument.
Box 16
Willoughby Memories.
Box 16
Willoughby Article.
Box 16
Rachel.
Box 16
[Binder of L. Shivers's Notes].
Box 16
Hare reports.
Box 17
Chestnut Hill Retreat.
Box 17
Samples – Leaflets and Pamphlets.
Box 17
Manuals.
Box 17
Iran, 1979.
Box 17
116 additional papers.
Box 17
Check Lists.
Box 17
Clippings.
Box 17
Community College of Philadelphia Conflict Resolution committee papers.
Box 17
Lynne Shivers – Papers.
Box 17
Movement Action Plan.
Box 17
Printers.
Box 17
Barbara Reynolds.
Box 17
Whitman.
Box 17
Northern Ireland.
Box 17
Miscellaneous.
Box 17
Herz/Shibata.
Box 17
Funding requests.
Box 17
Barbara Reynolds U.S. Trip, 1982.
Box 17
Bibliographies.
Box 17
Movement for a New Society Network Meeting, 1988.
Box 17
Miscellaneous Notes.
Box 18
Scope and Contents
[2 folders]
Packet: Macro skills sharing weekend.
Box 18
Co-Counseling notebooks: My Notebook as a Counselor.
Box 18
Co-Counseling notebooks: My Notebook as a Client.
Box 18
The Mindfulness Bell, Summer-Fall 1992.
Box 18
The Mindfulness Bell, Winter 2005-2006.
Box 18
Insight, Spring 2002.
Box 18
Booklet: The Official Catalogue of the Contents of Dove Cottage.
Box 18
Booklet: Violence, Nonviolence, and the Struggle for Social Justice.
Box 18
Booklet: The Songs of Hiroshima, An Anthology.
Box 18
Booklet: The songs of Hiroshima, when Hiroshima is spoken of.
Box 18
Booklet: The songs of Hiroshima, when Hiroshima is spoken of (aldonajo) esperanta trad 2.
Box 18
Pamphlet: World Friendship Center.
Box 18
Pamphlet: Organization and Strategy: Organizational lessons from SDS and Critique of a Mass Party Strategy by Bob Irwin.
Box 18
Booklet: Plan of Daisen-in and Daitoku-ji.
Box 18
Booklet: Information briefing – Jerusalem.
Box 18
Booklet: Appeals from Nagasaki.
Box 18
Booklet: This is how A-Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Box 18
Booklet: Saplings of Gandhi on Western Soil.
Box 18
Booklet: My Mother Died in Hiroshima.
Box 18
Booklet: Pilgrimage to a Gingko Tree.
Box 18
Booklet: A Collection of Messages by Distinguished Visitors to Hiroshima.
Box 18
Booklet: Author Index of the Commonweal Collection.
Box 18
Reference file: Intentional communities.
Box 18
Biographical information; media coverage.
Box 19
Correspondence, 1966-1980.
Box 19
Writings: published articles, 1969-1979.
Box 19
Writings: published articles, 1980-2000.
Box 19
Writings: article "Why Quaker Action Groups" ("The Friend" England), July 1971.
Box 19
Writings: article "The Philadelphia Life Centre" ("The Friend" England), August 1972.
Box 19
Writings: article "Saidie Patterson: Peacemaker" ("daughters of Sarah"), March/April 1979.
Box 19
Writings: article "Leadership and Meeting Facilitation, and Conflict Resolution", 1983.
Box 19
Writings: article "An Open Letter to Gandhi" ("Ghandi Marg #60"), March 1984.
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Writings: book reviews.
Box 19
Writings: response included in booklet "Where Do We Go From Here..." (A.J. Muste Memorial Institute), 1985.
Box 19
Writings: editing of "Directory of Trainers" (North American Nonviolence Training Network), 1979.
Box 19
Writings: co-authorship of pamphlet "Training for Nonviolent Action" (WR1), 1970.
Box 19
Writings: co-authorship of pamphlet "Training für gewaltlose Aktionen" (WR1), 1971.
Box 19
Writings: papers "Analysis of Conflict Situation within a Quaker Action Group" , 1967-1968.
Box 19
Writings: paper "Analysis of a Peace Agency: A Quaker Action Group", 1968.
Box 19
Writings: paper "WIN Magazine (1966-1983)", circa 1984.
Box 19
Writings: papers; unpublished articles and reports [see also correspondence folder].
Box 19
Notebook of notes from seminar on nonviolence "Anatomy of Metropolis", 1967.
Box 19