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Civil Defense Protest Committee Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Civil Defense Protest Committee
Abstract
Collection includes meeting minutes, correspondence, legal documents, pamphlets, publicity materials, and newspaper clippings; the bulk of the collection is from 1955.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1955-1962
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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
Fast for Peace Committee Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Fast for Peace Committee
Abstract
Includes correspondence, reports, printed materials, photographs, and a scrapbook.
Dates:
1950-1951
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Lawrence Scott Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-090
Overview
Lawrence Scott was a construction engineer, Baptist clergyman, and Quaker activist. He worked as an activist against the testing of nuclear weapons and biological weapons research. He was the supervisor for the Friends Mississippi Project, project director of the Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick in Maryland, executive secretary of the Peace Action Center and a founder of A Quaker Action Group.
Dates:
1955-1965
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- African American churches -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources 1
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- Sources 1
- African Americans -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- History -- Sources 1
- Atomic bomb -- Testing -- History -- Sources 1
- Biological warfare -- History -- Sources 1
- Chemical warfare -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil defense -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- Sources 1
- Eniwetok Proving Grounds (Marshall Islands) -- History -- Sources 1
- Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) -- History -- Sources 1
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Hydrogen bomb -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 1
- Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Race relations -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources 1
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- Names
- Bigelow, Albert, 1906- 2
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 2
- Day, Dorothy, 1897-1980 2
- DiGia, Ralph 2
- Golden Rule (Ketch) 2
- Lyttle, Bradford 2
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization) 2
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization). Nevada Project 2
- Olson, Theodore, 1932- 2
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 2
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 2
- Anthony, Robert L. 1
- Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) 1
- Apsey, Lawrence S. 1
- Carner, Lucy Perkins, 1886-1983 1
- Civil Defense Protest Committee (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Corson, Helen H. 1
- Davidov, Marv 1
- Dellinger, David T., 1915-2004 1
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 1
- Everyman (Ship) 1
- Fast for Peace Committee (U.S.) 1
- Finch, Henry Le Roy 1
- Friends Mississippi Project 1
- Hassler, Alfred, 1910-1991 1
- Haworth, Neil D. 1
- Heisler, Francis, 1895- 1
- Hennacy, Ammon, 1893-1970 1
- Herrick, Scott 1
- Jack, Homer A. (Homer Alexander), 1916-1993 1
- Jamison, Jeannette 1
- Keyes, Gene 1
- Lazar, Edward 1
- Malina, Judith, 1926- 1
- Malz, Gertrude 1
- Miller, Lawrence McK. 1
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 1
- Nelson, Wallace F. 1
- New England Committee for Nonviolent Action 1
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization). European Project 1
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization). Pacific Project 1
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization). Washington Prayer Vigil 1
- Omaha Action (Project) 1
- Paschkis, V. (Victor) 1
- Peace Action Center (Washington, D.C.) 1
- Peck, James 1
- Pell, Orlie, 1900- 1
- Pfeiffer, Stephen D. 1
- Phoenix (Yacht) 1
- Pickus, Robert 1
- Polaris Action 1
- Provisional Defense Committee (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Québec-Washington-Guantánamo Walk for Peace 1
- Raitt, Walton A. 1
- Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) 1
- Reynolds, Earle L. 1
- Roodenko, Igal 1
- Salstrom, F. Paul 1
- San Francisco to Moscow Walk for Peace 1
- Simon, Emily Parker 1
- Stewart, Annalee, 1900?- 1
- Swann, Marjorie 1
- Swann, Robert S. 1
- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 1
- Tatum, Lyle 1
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 1
- Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) 1
- Walker, Charles C. 1
- Young, Wilmer J. 1 ∧ less
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