Skip to main content

Peacemaker Movement

 Organization

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Horace Champney Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-166
Abstract

Horace Champney was a pacifist active in various causes from the late 1940s through the 1980s. He was a founder of The Peacemakers Movement in the 1950s and interested in civil rights, war tax refusal, and other social justice causes. Champney was a member A Quaker Action Group and a crew member of the ship the Phoenix, which sailed to North Vietnam with medical supplies, during the Vietnam war.

Dates: 1958-1990; Majority of material found within 1958-1979

Roy C. Kepler Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-185
Overview

Roy Kepler was a radical pacifist and conscientious objector during World War II, owner of Kepler Books in Menlo Park, California, involved for many years with the War Resisters League, one of the founders of the Pacifica Foundation and public radio in California.

Dates: 1940-1985

Juanita Morrow Nelson and Wallace F. Nelson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-262
Abstract

Juanita and Wally Nelson were civil rights activists, tax resisters, simple living proponents, farmers, and writers/speakers for peace.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1923-2015

Peacemaker Movement Collected Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Peacemaker Movement
Overview

A group working on nonviolence from the late 1940s through the 1970s, particularly as it was expressed through tax refusal.

Dates: 1948-1980

Marjorie Swann and Robert Swann Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-264
Overview

The Swanns were Quaker peace activitists who were particularly well known for their part in nonviolent direct action against nuclear weapons testing and deployment in the 1950s-1960s.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1949-1972

Additional filters:

Subject
Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 2
∨ more
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Draft resisters -- United States -- Sources 2
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 2
World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 2
African American civil rights workers -- History -- Sources 1
African American pacifists -- History -- Sources 1
African Americans -- Segregation -- History -- Sources 1
Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Civil rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Communal living -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Direct action -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Journey of Reconciliation, 1947 1
Peace walks and marches -- History -- Sources 1
Political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Political prisoners -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Psychologists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Public radio -- California -- Berkeley -- History -- Sources 1
Quaker women -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Quakers -- Ohio -- Yellow Springs -- History -- Sources 1
Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Radicalism -- California -- Berkeley -- History -- Sources 1
Radicalism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Segregation -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Simplicity -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Sustainable agriculture -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Tax protests and appeals -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Voluntary simplicity movement -- History -- Sources 1
You don't have to ride Jim Crow! 1995 1
+ ∧ less