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American Peace Test Records, 1985-1994 (bulk)

Extent:

6.875 linear ft. ((17 containers))

Abstract:

In 1985 six members of the National FREEZE Campaign founded American Peace Test as a direct, non violent action campaign to protest the testing of nuclear weapons at the Nevada Test Site, near Las Vegas, Nevada. The first large scale action took place in 1986, drawing large crowds of protesters. Protests throughout the 1980s continued to draw larger numbers of protesters and the support of some nationally known celebrities and politicians. In the early 1990s American Peace Test regrouped, but eventually the organization foundered. Protests at the Nevada Test Site continued through the 1990s, sometimes sponsored by other organizations and groups of protesters.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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American Friends Service Committee Collected Records, 1917- (inclusive)

Extent:

1.6 linear ft. (4 boxes)

Abstract:

The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) was set up in June 1917 as an outgrowth of and coordination point for the anti-war and relief activities of various bodies of the Religious Society of Friends in the United States.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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Mennonite Central Committee Collected Records, 1940- (inclusive)

Extent:

0.42 linear ft. (5 linear in.)

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Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) was formed when representatives of various Mennonite conferences met July 27-28, 1920, in Elkhart (Indiana), and pledged to aid hungry people, including Mennonites, in Russia and Ukraine.Since then thousands have served with MCC worldwide on relief, peace and development projects.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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Association for World Education Collected Records, 1970-1983 (bulk)

Extent:

0.21 linear ft. (1 box)

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Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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Gandhian Foundation Records, 1958-2000 (bulk)

Extent:

1 linear ft. (1 linear ft.)

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Founded in 1958 in New York City as a trust fund exclusively for religious, charitable, and educational purposes. On December 20, 1990 the Foundation was reorganized and moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to provide fiscal sponsorship to the Scholarship Project of Training for Change, a Philadelphia-based social change training center.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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Alexander Wilson and Edith J. Wilson Collected Papers, 1916-1922 (inclusive)

Extent:

0.42 linear ft. (5 linear in.)

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Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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Charles Fisher Collected Papers, 1964-1971 (bulk)

Extent:

1.67 linear ft. (20 linear in.)

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Charles Fisher was a draft counselor for the Boston Draft Resistance Group (BDRG), and involved with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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Steve Trimm Papers, 1963-2008 (bulk)

Extent:

3.5 linear ft. (9 boxes)

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In 1968 Steven Wayne Trimm was convicted for refusing induction into the armed services and served four years prison. Trimm fled to Canada in 1969 where he lived underground until 1974. Two years later he received clemency from the U.S. government under the Earned Re-entry Program and was pardoned. Steve Trimm is the author of Walking Wounded: Men's Lives During and Since the Vietnam War (1993) and other publications. Since the 1970s Steve Trimm has also been active with various peace and anti-war organizations, including Witness for Peace.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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Doug Rand Papers, circa 1984-1998 (inclusive)

Extent:

3.2 linear ft. (45 linear inches)

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Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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Edward F. Snyder Papers, 1950- (bulk)

Extent:

3 linear ft. (3 linear feet.)

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Edward Furnas Snyder is a Quaker lobbyist for peace, civil rights, and economic justice. 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 arguing that the government was using taxpayers' money illegally to fund war in Vietnam, El Salvador, and Nicaragua.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]