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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
War Resisters League Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-040
Overview
The War Resisters League is a pacifist organization whose members are against all war. Witnessing the establishment of the War Resisters' International in Europe in 1921, and sensing a need for a similar organization in the United States, Dr. Jessie Wallace Hughan established the War Resisters League as an independent organization. The War Resisters League membership pledge, which has remained essentially unchanged since its inception, reads: "The War Resisters League affirms that war is a...
Dates:
1923-1994
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Atomic bomb -- Testing -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil defense -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil disobedience 1
- Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection 1
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism 1
- Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- Sources 1
- War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 2
- Finch, Henry Le Roy 2
- Hennacy, Ammon, 1893-1970 2
- Roodenko, Igal 2
- Aberman, Sidney 1
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 1
- Barr, Allen H. 1
- Bigelow, Albert, 1906- 1
- Brooks, R. Boland 1
- Brown, H. Runham (Herbert Runham), 1879-1949 1
- Civil Defense Protest Committee (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Corfman, Rex 1
- Davidov, Marv 1
- Day, Dorothy, 1897-1980 1
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 1
- Dunbar, Olivia Howard, 1873-1953 1
- Eichel, Julius, 1896- 1
- Everyman (Ship) 1
- Golden Rule (Ketch) 1
- Gottlieb, Edward P. 1
- Hartmann, George W. (George Wilfried), 1904-1955 1
- Haworth, Neil D. 1
- Hedemann, Ed 1
- Hedemann, Grace 1
- Herrick, Scott 1
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 1
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 1
- Kaufman, Abraham 1
- Kepler, Roy C. 1
- Keyes, Gene 1
- Lazar, Edward 1
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 1
- Lyttle, Bradford 1
- Malina, Judith, 1926- 1
- McReynolds, David 1
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 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
- Olmstead, Frank 1
- Olson, Theodore, 1932- 1
- Omaha Action (Project) 1
- Peck, James 1
- Pell, Orlie, 1900- 1
- Phoenix (Yacht) 1
- Polaris Action 1
- Provisional Defense Committee (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Québec-Washington-Guantánamo Walk for Peace 1
- Ransom, Frances Rose 1
- Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) 1
- Reynolds, Earle L. 1
- Richards, Edward C. M., 1886-1974 1
- Salstrom, F. Paul 1
- San Francisco to Moscow Walk for Peace 1
- Schaum, Winifred W. 1
- Schwartz, Wendy (Editor) 1
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 1
- Swann, Marjorie 1
- Swann, Robert S. 1
- Tatum, Lyle 1
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 1
- War Resisters League 1
- Wentworth, Lydia G., 1858- 1
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 1
- Witherspoon, Frances, 1886-1973 1 ∧ less
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