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Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 67 Collections and/or Records:

Francoise W. Douwes Collected Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Douwes, Francoise Wilhelmina
Abstract

Douwes was a member of the Philadelphia branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1985-2005

Fast for Peace Committee Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Fast for Peace Committee
Abstract

Includes correspondence, reports, printed materials, photographs, and a scrapbook.

Dates: 1950-1951

Libby Frank and Morton Frank Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-247
Abstract

The papers of a married couple, both of whom have worked for peace and justice organizations throughout the second half of the twentieth century and into the first decades of the twenty-first century. Libby Frank served as the executive director of the U.S. Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom from 1981-1986.

Dates: 1966-2012

Freeze Campaigns Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Freeze Campaigns
Abstract

Collection includes brochures and flyers, printed correspondence, and pamphlets about the nuclear freeze movement.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1980-1988

Freeze Campaigns (State and Local) Collected Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Freeze Campaigns-state and local
Overview

These are collected records of state and local nuclear freeze campaigns. Freeze was a grassroots movements which called for a bilateral freeze on the nuclear weapons buildup by the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1980s.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1980-1989

Freeze Voter Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-156
Abstract In 1983, supporters of the nuclear freeze founded Freeze Voter, an independent Political Action Committee (PAC). In response to the growing threat of nuclear war and the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the PAC's main goal was to "elect a President and Congress who will enact a nuclear weapons Freeze between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. The Committee [will] achieve this goal through the electoral process." The organization worked on the grass-roots level to identify supporters of a nuclear...
Dates: 1983-1988

Louis A. Friedman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-238
Overview Louis A. Friedman has worked internationally with Promoting Enduring Peace, EarthKind, People's Action for Clean Energy (PACE), and other organizations on peace and environmental issues. Along with his wife, Judi Friedman, environmentalist and award-winning children's book author, he traveled as a citizen-diplomat and also brought several Soviet/Russian delegations to the United States to further communication on these issues. Friedman has organized peace river cruises and trips through...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1973-2003

Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-147
Abstract

In 1986 six hundred people marched across the United States to demonstrate their opposition to the world-wide nuclear arms race. The march took nine months from California to Washington, D.C. The marchers wrote: "we will create a non-violent focus for positive change; the imperative being that nuclear weapons are politically, socially, economically and morally unjustifiable, and that, in any number, they are unacceptable." The GPM was also a traveling intentional and communal society.

Dates: 1986 - Date; Majority of material found within 1986

Ground Zero Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Ground Zero
Abstract

Includes printed letters (dated 1981-1983), flyers, brochures.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1981-1983

Robin Harper Collected Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Harper, Robin
Overview

Robin Harper is active in the peace movement. During the 1950s and 1960s he protested nuclear weapons and missile defense systems. The papers in this collection reflect that involvement.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1957-1967