Barbara Leonard Reynolds

Overview

Barbara Leonard Reynolds born Milwaukee, WI June 12, 1915 (d. 1990).  Quaker protester; anti-nuclear activist; tax resister. Sailed Phoenix into Eniwetok test zone, 1958; world tour with hibakusha (survivors of the atomic bombings), 1964; created World Friendship Center, Hiroshima, 1965.

Quotations

"They [the hibakusha] only wanted everyone in the world to know what had happened to them so that it would never happen again to anyone, anywhere. I wanted to do whatever I could to help the hibakusha. . . But I realized it would not be easy for I had learned that there are many problems to be solved if we are to make peace in a divided world." (Phoenix and the Dove, 1986; photo World Friendship Center)