A substantial Friends Peace Committee collection

Philadelphia: Friends Peace Committee, 1960s. This collection comprises nearly 100 bulletins, newsletters, flyers, press releases, brochures, event notices, reports, correspondence, meeting minutes, internal documents and other items related to the work of the Friends Peace Committee (FPC) during the early 1960s. The FPC was formed in 1933 by the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends to work on campaigns of peace and anti-militarism. The committee was then under the leadership of George Barton and included activists such as George Lakey and Tom Barton. This collection appears to have been from the papers of Tom Barton with some letters and envelopes addressed to him. Barton was involved in many radical peace and socialist organizations in Philadelphia during the late 1950s/early 1960s. As described in the biographical/historical note of Bryn Mawr’s Friends Peace Committee collection: “Fire partially destroyed files and literature in the FPC Offices on May 23, 1962; so much original FPC material dating from the late 1950's and early 1960's is missing.” This collection is primarily from that time period therefore filling a crucial gap. Item #9053

Price: $650.00