Spock, Benjamin, 1903-1998
Person
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Fair Lawn Committee for Peace in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Fair Lawn Committee for Peace-Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia
Abstract
The Fair Lawn community in New Jersey founded the Committee for Peace in Vietnam on March 1, 1967. The organization began building local support for alternative solutions to the conflict in Vietnam. The organization's membership grew to 200+ families in the six years that followed. On October 26, 1973, the group announced its plans to disband.
Dates:
1967-1973
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Mobilization for Survival Collected Records
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Mobilization for Survival
Dates:
1977-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
SANE, Inc. Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-058
Abstract
Materials from national offices in New York, N.Y., and Washington, D.C., including minutes (1957-1987), correspondence (1957-1987), memoranda, reports, statements, literature, releases, newspaper advertisements, financial records, membership lists, clippings, photos, slides, motion pictures, and sound recordings; material on coalitions in which SANE was involved including Coalition for a New Foreign and Military Policy and National Campaign to Stop the MX (1981-1984) and Arms Control...
Dates:
1957-1987
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Benjamin Spock Collected Papers
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Spock, Benjamin
Abstract
Collection consists of photocopied material released under the Freedom of Information Act for the years 1964-1972, with the bulk of the material from 1968. Includes informants' reports, transcripts of personal conversations, writings by and about Spock, and transcripts of Spock's media appearances.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1964-1972
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Vietnam Summer Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-067
Overview
Vietnam Summer was a nationwide project designed to reach concerned citizens throughout the United States and to weld them into an organized and active constituency against the war in Vietnam. Martin Luther King, Jr., Benjamin Spock and others launched the project nationally on April 23, 1967. From headquarters in Cambridge, Mass. co-directors Richard R. Fernandez and Lee D. Webb coordinated the efforts of 500 paid staff members and over 26,000 volunteers in about 700 local projects. Vietnam...
Dates:
1967
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 3
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Nuclear disarmament -- History -- Sources 2
- Arms control -- History -- Sources 1
- Biological warfare -- History -- Sources 1
- Chemical warfare -- History -- Sources 1
- College students -- Political activity -- History -- Sources 1
- College students -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- College teachers -- Political activity -- History -- Sources 1
- College teachers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Demonstrations -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Disarmament -- Congresses -- History -- Sources 1
- Disarmament -- Economic aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- Disarmament -- History -- Sources 1
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- MX (Weapons system) -- History -- Sources 1
- Nuclear weapons -- Congresses -- History -- Sources 1
- Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- New Jersey -- Fair Lawn -- History -- Sources 1
- Pediatricians -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Radiation -- History -- Sources 1
- Radioactive fallout -- History -- Sources 1
- United States -- Armed Forces -- Finance -- History -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Draft resisters -- United States -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- New Jersey -- Fair Lawn -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Sources 1
- War -- Economic aspects -- History -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
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