Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard)
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Committee for Nonviolent Action Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-017
Overview
CNVA was one of the first American peace groups to focus on nonviolentdirect action including civil disobedience. Its purpose of organizing imaginative and dramatic protest demonstrations on both land and sea attracted radical pacifists and called the attention of the American public to the atrocities of nuclear warfare. CNVA's first protest action was a vigil held outside the atomic weapons test grounds in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1957. In the second half of its existence CNVA efforts began to...
Dates:
1958-1968
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Lynne Shivers Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-263
Overview
Enid Lynne Shivers was a peace activist and prominent member of Movement for a New Society, for which she organized and wrote informational materials. This collection of her personal materials is primarily composed of journals dating from the 1960s until 2014 and materials from time she spent doing peace work in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1941-2015
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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