Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984

Committee for Nonviolent Action Records

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-017

Abstract 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

Bradford Lyttle Papers

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-079

Abstract Bradford [Brad] Lyttle is a long time leading peace activist involved in the promotion of nonviolence for social change and the elimination of war and nuclear weapons. Lyttle was the organizer of the San Francisco to Moscow walk in the 1960-1961, to highlight the message of disarmament and nonviolent resistance and bringing together U.S. and Soviet citizens together during the height of the Cold War. He went on to organize and participate in other marches and protests, including the Quebec...

Dates: 1954-

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

David McReynolds Papers

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-134

Abstract David McReynolds (1929-2018), was an activist with the War Resisters League, the Socialist Party USA and the Democratic Socialists of America. He was an editor of Liberation magazine in the 1950s and a leader of the WRL from the 1950s until his retirement in 1999. McReynolds ran for Congress twice and for President of the U.S. twice, including a run in 2000. McReynolds has attempted to integrate anti-war and pacifist philosophy with Socialist economics. David McReynolds was openly gay and...

Dates: 1943-

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Mary Meigs papers

Collection

Identifier: BMC-M24

Abstract

Mary Meigs was born on April 27, 1917, and served in the U. S. Navy during World War II as a WAVE. She later became a painter, writer, and activist for elderly lesbians, and she had close ties with several other painters, writers, activists, and social commentators throughout her life. The collection is divided into four sections: Correspondence, Writings, Artwork, and Other Materials and includes letters from throughout her life, journals, manuscripts, research, reviews, and her artwork.

Dates: 1942 - 2000

Found in: Bryn Mawr College

Tracy D. Mygatt and Frances Witherspoon Papers

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-089

Abstract Tracy Dickinson Mygatt (1885-1973) and Frances May Witherspoon (1886-1973) were prolific writers and absolute pacifists who worked together in movements for women's rights, world peace, civil liberties, and civil rights. Both women authored plays, articles, poems, sermons, and stories, individually and in collaboration. They were founders of the War Resisters League and later served as honorary chairs. Frances Witherspoon was a co-founder and Executive Secretary of the New York Bureau of...

Dates: 1835-1973; Majority of material found within 1911-1974

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Steve Trimm Papers

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-232

Abstract In 1968 Steven Wayne Trimm was convicted for refusing induction into the armed services and served four years prison. Trimm fled to Canada in 1969 where he lived underground until 1974. Two years later he received clemency from the U.S. government under the Earned Re-entry Program and was pardoned. Steve Trimm is the author of Walking Wounded: Men's Lives During and Since the Vietnam War (1993) and other publications. Since the 1970s Steve Trimm has also been active with various peace and...

Dates: Majority of material found within 1963-2008

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Dates

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Committee for Nonviolent Action Records

Bradford Lyttle Papers

David McReynolds Papers

Mary Meigs papers

Tracy D. Mygatt and Frances Witherspoon Papers

Steve Trimm Papers

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