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Phyllis B. Taylor and Richard K. Taylor Papers

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Phyllis B. Taylor and Richard K. Taylor are co-founders of Witness for Peace, an organization that seeks to support peace and justice in Latin America and the Caribbean.Together, they have won numerous awards recognizing their dedication to human rights and their service in their faith communities. Phyllis is trained as a nurse, and has used her background to support and advocate for the poor, the aging, those addicted to drugs and alcohol, and other neglected or oppressed communities. She has served as an Auxiliary Chaplain at the Philadelphia Prison System, specializing in grief and bereavement and counseling terminally ill men and women -- often as a foreruner in this field. Phyllis identified herself as being Jewish. With a background in sociology/anthropology, theology, and social work, Richard has authored many books, articles, and training manuals, and he has been heavily involved with organizations fighting for justice and peace. Richard was a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) when he also joined the Catholic Church. He became involved in issues related to Catholic women in ministry and other topics, and has been very active with the St. Vincent de Paul Church in Philadelphia.

These papers were sorted into five categories: Series A: Biographical Information Series B: Correspondence Series C: Writings / Study and Notes Series D: Public Life Series E: Reference Material

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

Gift of Phyllis B. Taylor and Richard K. Taylor, 2018-2019 [acc. 2018-062, acc. 2019-027]

This collection was processed, and this finding aid created, by Anne M. Yoder, Archivist, April-May 2019.

Books removed to the Book Collection [1 set of Richard's books kept in the Taylor Papers] Photos removed to the Photograph Collection AV items were removed to the Audiovisual Collection

Publisher
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research use.

Copyright to the resources created by Phyllis Taylor and Richard Taylor 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.

All or part of this collection is stored off-site. Contact Swarthmore College Peace Collection staff at peacecollection@swarthmore.edu at least two weeks in advance of visit to request boxes.

Use Restrictions

None.

Collection Inventory

Archival Resource Key. Phyllis: biographical information.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis: biographical information (continued).
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Scope and Contents

includes oral interview

Archival Resource Key. Richard: biographical information.
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Archival Resource Key. Articles by others re: Taylors.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis and Richard: honors/awards.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: Draft Board notices; decision re: C.O. service location (correspondence), 1951-1956.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: report cards, 1940s.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: diploma, 1950.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: studying at Haverford College, 1950-1954-19.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: studying at Yale Divinity School, 1956-1957.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: studying at Cornell University Graduate School, 1957-1958.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: studying at Bryn Mawr College Graduate School, 1960-1962.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: studying at Martin Luther King Jr. Institute and School of Social Change, 1969-1970.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: arrests, 1966-1970.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: arrests, 1972.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: arrests, 1983-2007.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: service in El Salvador, ca. 1983.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: transfer from Abington Friends Meeting to Coulter Street Friends Meeting, 1967.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: dual membership in Quaker and Catholic churches.
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Archival Resource Key. FOIA request to FBI and CIA for documents.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis and Richard: residents at Windcall for a week, 1996.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: notebook "Catholic Journey".
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: notebook "Catholic Journey" (continued #1).
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: notebook "Catholic Journey" (continued #2).
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: journal, 1976-1980.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: notebook "Strategic Plan".
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: spirituality/prayer notebook.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: spirituality/prayer notebook (continued).
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: weekly planner, 1992.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: desk calendars, 1989-1992.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: desk calendars, 1993-1994.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: desk calendars, 1995-1996.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: desk calendars, 1997-1998.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis: pocket calendars, 2017-2018.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: pocket calendars, 1999-2007.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: pocket calendars, 2008-2016.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis and Richard: correspondence, 1958-1969.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis and Richard: correspondence, 1972-1999.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis and Richard: correspondence, 2000-2007.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis and Richard: correspondence, 2010-2016.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: correspondence with government officials -- miscellaneous.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: correspondence with government officials -- U.S. Senate.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: correspondence with government officials -- White House.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: letters written while in El Salvador doing alternative service, ca. 1954-1956.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: correspondence re: Cuba, 1992, 1995.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: "dialogue with skeptics" -- correspondence, etc., 2005-2011.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis: writings -- articles published, 1973-1989.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis: writings -- articles published, 1990-1999.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis: writings -- articles published, 2000-2017 and undated.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis: writings -- books; pamphlets.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- publication of book "Blockade! A Guide to Nonviolent Intervention" by Orbis Books, 1976.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- publication of book "Blockade! A Guide to Nonviolent Intervention" -- contract; finances; etc.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- endorsements of handbook "Love in Action".
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- marketing of handbook "Love in Action".
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- press packet for handbook "Love in Action".
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- production of handbook "Love in Action".
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- production of handbook "Love in Action" - images for book.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- production of handbook "Love in Action" - publicity.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- production of handbook "Love in Action" - sales.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- finances re: book/s written.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- articles published, 1960s.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- articles published, 1970s.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis and Richard: writings -- articles published, 1980s.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- article "Of Peace and Polity" and correspondence, October 1983.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- articles published, 1990s.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- article "The Mass Is the Prayer of the People", 1996.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- article "To Release the Fire Within", 1996.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- article "Law and Conscience" and correspondence, July-August 1996.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- article "7 Ways to Keep Conflict from Dividing Your Church" and correspondence, July-August 1997.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- article "Nonviolence in a Dark Alley" and correspondence, January-February 1998.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- articles published, 2000s.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- article "Is Church's Code Just or Unjust?", August 8, 2006.
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Scope and Contents

includes responses received

Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- article "An Amazing Show…" and correspondence, October 19, 2006.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings – article "Aiding Our Torture Victims" (re: Liberty Center for Survivors of Torture") and correspondence, Decemer 2006.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- article/essay "A Scientist Makes 'A Case for God'" and correspondence, 2008-2011.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- articles published, 2010s and undated.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- unpublished articles.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis: writings re: civil disobedience [unpublished].
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- book reviews written.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis and Richard: writings -- book review of "Waging Peace" by David Hartsough, 2017.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- booklet "A Community of Stewards: A Congregational Guide to the Stewardship re: Consumption", 1978.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- booklet "God's Love is Fire" and correspondence, August 2000.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis and Richard: writings -- booklet "The Practice of Peace: A Manual and Video for Nonviolence Training," 1987.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- Letters to the Editor [published], 1970s-1980s.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- Letters to the Editor [published], 2001-2009.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- Letters to the Editor [published], 2010-2016.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- Letters to the Editor [unpublished].
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- newsletter "The Sheep Talk Back".
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- high school paper re: Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" [draft], 1953.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- school paper "Credo" [for Systematic Theology course], 1957.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- items written for St. Vincent's Church/Parish, Germantown (PA).
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- model role-plays and decision-making exercises.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- Pendle Hill Pamphlet #172 "Friends and the Racial Crisis".
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- Pendle Hill Pamphlet 424 "Nonviolent Direct Action as a Spiritual Path", 2002.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- report on a Welcome House Research Trip to Peru and El Salvador [co-written by Eve Gutnajer].
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings; co-authorship of Moving Toward Racial Hierarchy [2nd edition], 2002.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- "Economics and the Gospel".
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- "Nuclear Holocaust and Christian Hope".
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- "Nonviolent Direct Action as a Spiritual Path".
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- "Friends and the Racial Crisis".
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- "Blockade! A Guide to Nonviolent Intervention".
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- "Peace and Justice Ministry: A Practical Guide".
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- "A Peace Ministry in Practice".
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- "God's Love is Fire".
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: writings -- "Love in Action".
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: study/correspondence re: aging.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: study/notes re: Chester (PA).
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: study/notes re: the history and philosophy of nonviolence (by country, etc.).
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: study/correspondence re: homosexuality.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: study/notes/correspondence re: infallibility of the Pope.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: study/notes re: Jewish-Christian relations.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: study/notes re: Liberation Theology.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: study/email discussion re: nonviolence vs. violence, 2001-2002, 2012.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: study/notes re: socialism.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: study/notes re: U.S. Bishops; pastoral letter re: American economic system, 1985-1987.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: study/notes re: the World Bank.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: notes.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: notes for talks given, 1970s.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: notes for talks given, 1992-1997.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis: involvement/efforts -- training material re: prison and grief ministry, etc.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis: involvement/efforts -- Journey of Compassion photo album.
Box 9 [SCPC-6292]
Scope and Contents

original photos removed

Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement/efforts with the Catholic Church -- writings "Aspects of Catholic Spirituality" [unpublished], 1987.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement/efforts with the Catholic Church -- correspondence.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement/efforts with the Catholic Church -- articles written and correspondence re: Catholic women.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement/efforts with the Catholic Church -- women's ordination and excommunication of Eileen DiFranco, 2008.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement/efforts with the Catholic Church -- Bishop's pastoral letter on war and peace.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement/efforts with the Catholic Church -- Vatican's statement on the superiority of Catholicism, 2000.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement/efforts with the Catholic Church -- involvement to influence 10th Archdiocesan Synod re: work against racism, 2001-2003.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement/efforts with the Catholic Church -- involvement to influence 10th Archdiocesan Synod re: work against racism (continued #1), 2001-2003.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement/efforts with the Catholic Church -- involvement to influence 10th Archdiocesan Synod re: work against racism (continued #2), 2001-2003.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement/efforts with the Catholic Church -- sign-on letters.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement/efforts with the Catholic Church -- correspondence with Cardinal Charles Chaput.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement/efforts with the Catholic Church -- dialogue/meetings with Catholic Bishops.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement/efforts with the Catholic Church -- meeting with Bishop Geoffrey Robinson of Australia, 2008.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement/efforts with the Catholic Church -- Commission on World Peace and Justice (ACWJ) - meeting minutes, 1984-1992.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement/efforts with the Catholic Church -- Commission on World Peace and Justice (ACWJ) - Philadelphia.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement/efforts with the Catholic Church -- Commission on World Peace and Justice (ACWJ) - Central America crisis.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis and Richard: involvement/efforts with the Catholic Church -- leadership of Catholics for Women's Equality, 2008-2009.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis and Richard: involvement/efforts with the Catholic Church -- leadership of Catholics for Women's Equality - sign-on letter to Cardinal Will Levada re: excommunication of women.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement/efforts with the Catholic Church -- changing the Catholic liturgy, 2003-2010.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement/efforts with the Catholic Church -- stance on homosexuality - seminary vigil against scapegoating, 2003-2005.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis and Richard: involvement/efforts with the Catholic Church -- leadership of Christians and Jews against Scapegoating - demonstration at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, November 2005.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis and Richard: involvement/efforts with the Catholic Church -- November 5 vigil at Cardinal Rigali Mansion, November 5, 2005.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement/efforts with the Catholic Church -- St. Vincent De Paul Church - staff meetings, etc., 2000-2006.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement/efforts with the Catholic Church -- St. Vincent De Paul Church - gifted and called fundraising, etc., 2002-2005.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement/efforts with the Catholic Church -- St. Vincent De Paul Church - new members, discussion papers re: why to stay Catholic.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement/efforts with the Catholic Church -- St. Vincent De Paul Church - Peace Ministry, 1980s; meeting minutes, journal, etc.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement/efforts with the Catholic Church -- St. Vincent De Paul Church - examinations of conscience for parish.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement/efforts with the Catholic Church -- St. Vincent De Paul Church - parish closings.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement/efforts with the Catholic Church -- St. Vincent De Paul Church - as parish services coordinator, etc.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis and Richard: involvement/efforts with the Catholic Church -- St. Vincent De Paul Church - African American Leadership Ministry.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement/efforts with the Catholic Church -- St. Vincent De Paul Church - plan for racial healing zone and healing process.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement/efforts with the Catholic Church -- St. Vincent De Paul Church - gay/straight alliance, 2003-2004.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis: participation in Journey of Compassion trip to USSR, 1990.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis: participation in Journey of Compassion trip to USSR -- photo album [original photos removed to the Photograph Collection], 1990. .25 linear ft..
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Physical Description

.25 linear ft.

Archival Resource Key. Richard: attendance at Washington Campaign Against Torture.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: attendance at Latin American Conference on Nonviolence, Colombia, February 1974.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: attendance at Ecumenical Development Education Consultation, October 1975.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: attendance at White House Interreligious Consultation on Religion and Energy in the 1980's, January 10, 1980.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: attendance at White House Briefing on Central America, March 16, 1984.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: attendance at Call to Action Conference re: anti-racism, November 2007.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: participation in YFNA trip to USSR: correspondence, 1957-1959.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis and Richard: participation against Chase Manhattan Bank's investment in South Africa, 1967.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: participation in SCLC march in Philadelphia (PA), February 1968.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: participation at White House Vigil, April 25, 1971.
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Scope and Contents

includes arrests

Archival Resource Key. Phyllis and Richard: participation in action to stop ammunition from being loaded on ships from railroad.
Box 12 [SCPC-6295]
Scope and Contents

includes arrests

Archival Resource Key. Richard: participation in White House Vigil, April 25, 1972.
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Scope and Contents

includes arrests

Archival Resource Key. Richard: talks given re: racism, 1960-1968.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis and Richard: talks given re: peace and nonviolence, 1978-1986.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: talks re: Nicaragua/Witness for Peace, 1985-1986.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis and Richard: talks given re: nonviolence, 1985-1988.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: talk and book-signing for "Love in Action", April 23, 2008.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: talk given at event "White Allies in the Struggle for Racial Justice", June 11, 2016.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis: summary of talk "Family, Community, Lifestyle and Nonviolence".
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: leadership of workshop/retreat on prayer and peacemaking, March 1987.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis and Richard: teaching of nonviolent workshops at the Holden Village, August 1990.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: leading of conflict resolution workshops in Philadelphia prisons, 1998.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: leadership of nonviolence trainings, 1998.
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Scope and Contents

includes journal

Archival Resource Key. Phyllis and Richard: leadership of Peacekeeper Training, July 22, 2000.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis and Richard: leadership of Nonviolence Training at Foundation for Islamic Education, March 23, 2002.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: leadership of Training for Trainers Conference, March 24-26, 2006.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: leadership of workshop "Love in Action" at Voice of the Faithful National Conference, October 2007.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis and Richard: leadership of small group meeting/s at their Germantown apartment, ca. 2010.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: leadership of workshop on homelessness, undated.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis and Richard: miscellaneous involvements.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement with African American Leadership Ministry, 2002.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement with African American Leadership Ministry, 2003-2005.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement with American Friends Service Committee [AFSC] Board of Directors, 1973-1975.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement with American Friends Service Committee [AFSC] Board of Directors: affirmative action.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement with American Friends Service Committee [AFSC] Board of Directors: vigils at White House; testifying at Quaker Action trial.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement with American Friends Service Committee [AFSC] Planning Committee, 1993.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement with Bethesda Project re: homelessness, 1988-1991.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis and Richard: involvement with Earth Quaker Action Team [EQAT].
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis and Richard: involvement with the Fair Housing Council of Delaware County, 1961-1968.
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Scope and Contents

includes arrest of Phyllis

Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement with Friends Properties Study Group, 1970-1973.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement with Friends' Race Relations Committee, 1963.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement with Mass Incarceration Working Group (Germantown monthly meeting group), 2011-2012.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement with Mass Incarceration Working Group and Decarcerate PA.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement with Movement for a New Society [MNS].
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis and Richard: involvement with Nonviolent Peaceforce, 2000-2012.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement with Nonviolent Peaceforce -- discussions re: structure, etc., 2000-2002.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement with Nonviolent Peaceforce -- discussion re: setting up organization as "International Peaceforce", 1999-2002.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis and Richard: involvement with Nonviolent Peaceforce -- proposals.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement with Philadelphia Yearly Meeting: Committee on Racial Relations, 1950s-1960s.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement with Philadelphia Yearly Meeting: Committee on Racial Relations -- Friend's children's homes, etc., 1963-1964.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement with Project F.R.E.E. (For Real Estate Equity).
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement with Quaker Interracial Committee, 1964-1965.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement with Racial Justice Committee, 2011-2012.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis and Richard: involvement with Training for Change, 2011-2012.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis and Richard: involvement with Voice of Faithful and Greater Philadelphia, 2005-2006.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement with Voice of the Faithful, 2002-2007.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement with Witness for Peace -- Atlantic Coast program, 1988-1989.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement (as chair) with Philosophy and Strategy Committee of Witness for Peace, 1984.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement (as chair) with Philosophy and Strategy Committee of Witness for Peace, 1985 - April 1986.
Box 16 [SCPC-6299]
Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement (as chair) with Philosophy and Strategy Committee of Witness for Peace, September 1986 - September 1987.
Box 16 [SCPC-6299]
Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement with Witness for Peace -- notebook #1, 1983-1986.
Box 16 [SCPC-6299]
Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement with Witness for Peace -- notebook #2, 1983-1986.
Box 16 [SCPC-6299]
Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement with Witness for Peace -- notebook #1 re: Nicaragua, etc., 1983-1984.
Box 16 [SCPC-6299]
Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement with Witness for Peace -- notebook #2 re: Nicaragua, etc., 1983-1984.
Box 16 [SCPC-6299]
Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement with Witness for Peace.
Box 17 [SCPC-6300]
Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement Witness for Peace -- San Juan River witness ("Peace Flotilla"), 1985.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement Witness for Peace -- San Juan River witness (continued).
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Scope and Contents

includes kidnapping of peace activists

Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement Witness for Peace -- media coverage—television/read radio scripts.
Box 17 [SCPC-6300]
Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement Witness for Peace -- media coverage—news articles.
Box 17 [SCPC-6300]
Scope and Contents

especially re: kidnapping of peace activists

Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement Witness for Peace -- press releases [especially re: kidnapping of peace activists].
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement with YFCNA -- writing of pamphlet "Young Quakers…".
Box 16 [SCPC-6299]
Scope and Contents

includes journal

Archival Resource Key. Phyllis: efforts re: case of Lazo family, ca. 1982-1987.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: efforts re: anti-racism.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: involvement in and leadership of anti-racism workshops and retreats.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: efforts to desegregate Folcroft (PA) neighborhood.
Box 18 [SCPC-6301]
Archival Resource Key. Richard: efforts re: funding from the Chace Fund Committee for Spring Seminar, 1969-1973.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: efforts re: Jewish-Catholic relations, 1995-2008.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis and Richard: efforts re: Marta Panero (tortured in Argentina), 1978-1979.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: efforts on behalf of the Nitro 8 (Bengali crew of U.S.S. Nitro), 1972.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: efforts re: Wyneva House/Hostel.
Box 18 [SCPC-6301]
Archival Resource Key. Richard: efforts re: polling of consultation participants re: WCC venues for church conferences, ca. 1970s.
Box 18 [SCPC-6301]
Archival Resource Key. Richard: efforts as commentator for the "Philadelphia Inquirer", 2006-2007.
Box 18 [SCPC-6301]

Archival Resource Key. Reference Material: report "The Church and the Riots: Guidelines for Diocesan Strategy in Northern Urban Areas" by The Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity.
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Archival Resource Key. Reference Material: manuscript by V. Nikolaev "America Without Advertising", 1959.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis: Efforts as Consultant for Philadelphia Prison System.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis: "End-of-Life Care in Corrections: A Handbook for Caregivers and Managers", undated.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis: Booklet "Quality Guidelines for Hospice and End-of-Life Care in Correctional Settings", 2009.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis: Booklet "Angola Hospice: A National Model", 2000.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis: Booklet "Training Manual" by Hospice of Louisiana State Penitentiary.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis: Booklet "Hospice Information", circa 2000.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis: Involvement with the Grace Project.
Box Acc. 2019-050: 2 [SCPC-6303]
Archival Resource Key. Richard: Correspondence, 1942-1943, 1949.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: Correspondence, 1950-1951.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: Correspondence while at Sitio del Nino (American Friends Service Committee Workcamp), Mexico, 1953-1954.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: Correspondence, 1953-1958 and undated.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: Trip to El Salvador, 1954, 1956-1957.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: Trips to England and Norway -- journal, Summer 1952.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: America Friends Service Committee Workcamp, Mexico -- journal, 1954.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: Trip to El Salvador -- journal, 1954.
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Archival Resource Key. Richard: Writing -- Letters to the Editor, 1960's, 1990's.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis and Richard: Miscellaneous Writings and Involvements.
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Archival Resource Key. Phyllis and Richard: Housing Discrimination in Philadelphia and Guest from Ghana, 1967.
Box Acc. 2019-050: 2 [SCPC-6303]
Scope and Contents

photos removed

Archival Resource Key. Phyllis and Richard: Involvement with and Participation in Witness for Peace, 1983.
Box Acc. 2019-050: 2 [SCPC-6303]
Scope and Contents

includes 1995 retrospective article

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