Barbara Leonard Reynolds

Barbara Leonard Reynolds (born Barbara Dorrit Leonard; Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 12, 1915 – February 11, 1990), was an American author who became a Quaker, peace activist and educator.

In 1951, Reynolds moved with her husband to Hiroshima where he conducted a three-year study on the effects of radiation on children who had survived the first atomic bomb. She and her family then became peace activists, sailing around the world to protest nuclear weapons. In the early 1960s, she traveled around the world with atomic bomb survivors to show world leaders, first-hand, the horrors of nuclear warfare. In 1965, she established the World Friendship Center in Hiroshima, Japan in order to introduce international visitor to atomic bombing sufferers (hibakusha) so that they could fully convey their experience of nuclear war to the global community. In 1975, Reynolds established the Peace Resource Center at Wilmington College to spread awareness of the nuclear threat and the experiences of hibakusha to the American public.

After this, she continued her peace and anti-nuclear activism, and after 1978, in California, she helped to resettle Cambodians fleeing Pol Pot, among other humanitarian pursuits.