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Horace Champney Papers, 1958-1990 (inclusive) 1958-1979 (bulk)

Extent:
8.25 linear ft. (8.25 lin. ft.)
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Horace Champney was a pacifist active in various causes from the late 1940s through the 1980s. He was a founder of The Peacemakers Movement in the 1950s and interested in civil rights, war tax refusal, and other social justice causes. Champney was a member A Quaker Action Group and a crew member of the ship the Phoenix, which sailed to North Vietnam with medical supplies, during the Vietnam war.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee Records, 1982- (bulk)

Extent:
9 linear ft. (22 boxes)
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The National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee was formed in September 1982 at a National Action Conference of the War Resisters League and the Center on Law and Pacifism. Its supporters promote war tax resistance on the national level. The NWTRC is not to be confused with the organization War Tax Resistance, begun in New York, New York in 1969.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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War Tax Resister's Penalty Fund Records, 1981-1996 (inclusive)

Extent:
2.7 linear ft. (2.7 linear ft.)
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The War Tax Resisters Penalty Fund began in 1982 as a volunteer project of the North Manchester, Indiana Fellowship of Reconciliation. It supported and encouraged conscientious war tax resisters in the U.S. As of 1994, the group had worked with about 1000 tax resisters and supporters, and numbered 500 members nationally.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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Marion Bromley and Ernest Bromley Papers, 1920-1997 (inclusive)

Extent:
20.4 linear ft. (20.4 linear ft.)
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Marion Coddington Bromley and Ernest Bromley were active members of the Society of Friends, absolute pacifists, war tax resisters, and worked for racial integration in the United States. They are best remembered as founders of the Peacemakers, and as war tax resisters.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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Alice Niles Lynd and Staughton Lynd Papers, 1965-1995 (inclusive)

Extent:
8.33 linear ft. (8.33 linear feet.)
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Staughton Lynd and Alice Niles Lynd, Quakers, authors, and activists in the civil rights and peace movements, who worked individually and collaborated on many labor and pacifist projects.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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Robin Harper Collected Papers, 1957-1967 (bulk)

Extent:
0.42 linear ft. (5 linear in.)
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Robin Harper is active in the peace movement. During the 1950s and 1960s he protested nuclear weapons and missile defense systems. The papers in this collection reflect that involvement.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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Nonviolent Action Community of Cascadia Records, 1981-2008 (bulk)

Extent:
3.75 linear ft. (9 boxes)
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This collection includes correspondence (1981-1985), administrative files, financial records, minutes of Board of Directors' meetings (1990-2008), and publicity materials. Much of the correspondence is to, or from, Ed Pearson, a founder and National Coordinator of CMTC. The collection includes information about international war tax resistance efforts, nonviolent direct action campaigns, and grants made from interest on the escrow account.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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Roberta Dickinson Collected Papers, 1969-1974 (bulk)

Extent:
0.21 linear ft. (2.5 linear inches.)
Abstract:
Collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, documents relating to Dickinson's arrests, information about resistance to the Vietnam War and the Harrisburg Eight, war tax resistance, Dickinson's letters to congress and to editors, specifications for her "My Lai" sculpture; collection also includes photographs.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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