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Charles Bloomstein Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Bloomstein, Charles
Abstract
Charles Bloomstein (1913 - 2002) was involved in a number of organizations that promoted civil rights, as well as peace. He was a conscientious objector during World War II, and served in Civilian Public Service (CPS) for three years.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1938-2002
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
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- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Atomic bomb -- Testing -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights workers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Bigelow, Albert, 1906- 1
- Bloomstein, Charles 1
- CARE Inc. 1
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 1
- Davidov, Marv 1
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 1
- DiGia, Ralph 1
- Everyman (Ship) 1
- Gilmore, Robert Wallace, 1921-1988 1
- Golden Rule (Ketch) 1
- Harrington, Michael, 1928-1989 1
- Haworth, Neil D. 1
- Herrick, Scott 1
- Keyes, Gene 1
- Lazar, Edward 1
- Lyttle, Bradford 1
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 1
- New England Committee for Nonviolent Action 1
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization) 1
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization). Nevada Project 1
- Olson, Theodore, 1932- 1
- Omaha Action (Project) 1
- Phoenix (Yacht) 1
- Pickus, Robert 1
- Polaris Action 1
- Québec-Washington-Guantánamo Walk for Peace 1
- Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979 1
- Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) 1
- Reynolds, Earle L. 1
- Salstrom, F. Paul 1
- San Francisco to Moscow Walk for Peace 1
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 1
- Swann, Marjorie 1
- Swann, Robert S. 1
- Tatum, Lyle 1
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 1
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 1 ∧ less
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