Friends Historical Library

Note

This page contains links to documents from the Friends Historical Library concerning divestment. I requested these and other files. I was not able to access all of the files concerning divestment, but I have included a link to all of those documents here. I have arranged the documents below in roughly chronological order.

Open Documents

  • “Would You Allow Your Money to Support Apartheid?” by Swarthmore Alumni for Total Divestment. Link
  • September 1978: Letter from Mary Bye et. al to Theodore Friend. Link
  • November 14, 1978: Letter from Theodore Friend to Mary Bye et. al. Link
  • January 9, 1979: Letter from Mary Bye to Raymond Wilson. Link
  • 1985: Ad Hoc Committee on Ethical Investment Recommendations. Link
  • December 17, 1985: Letter from Janet Smith Dickerson and James W. England to Members of the College Community. Link
  • December 16, 1985: Letter from Gregory L. Florant et. al to James W. England and Janet Smith Dickerson. Link
  • December 20, 1985: Letter from William Poole to Kendall Landis. Link
  • December 30, 1985: Letter from Kendall Landis to William Poole. Link
  • January 1986: Memorandum on Financial Costs of Gradual Total Divestment, by Loren Hart. Link
  • January 13, 1986: Letter from David W. Fraser to the Swarthmore College Community. Link
  • March 5, 1985: Letter from James W. England to Members of the Faculty. Link
  • March 10, 1986: Letter from David Fraser to the Swarthmore College Community. Link
  • March 24, 1985: Letter from Students for Total Divestment. Link
  • April 6, 1986: Letter from Richard W. Lyman and Jing Lyman to David Fraser. Link
  • April 22, 1986: Letter From David Fraser to Richard W. Lyman and Jing Lyman. Link
  • May 4, 1984: Letter from Richard W. Lyman and Jing Lyman to David Fraser. Link
  • May 13, 1986: Board Action on South Africa, by David Fraser. Link
  • 1997: Swarthmore College Endowment Fund Statement of Objectives and Policies. Link