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Peace walks and marches

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Committee for a Quaker Peace Witness Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Committee for a Quaker Peace Witness
Abstract

Committee for a Quaker Peace Witness; organized the November 1960 Washington Pilgrimage and two-day vigil at the Pentagon; chaired by Henry J. Cadbury; also called the Quaker Peace Witness Committee; work was continued by the Friends Witness for World Order

Dates: Majority of material found within 1960-1961

Friends Witness for World Order Collected Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Friends Witness for World Order
Overview

These records contain meeting minutes, financial records, correspondence, releases/literature, statistics, publicity and press coverage, address by Dorothy Hutchinson, delegation visits to President Kennedy and to ambassadors during Washington, D.C., and photographs.

Dates: 1962

General Strike for Peace Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-General Strike for Peace
Abstract

Collection includes leaflets, printed correspondence and notices.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1961-1963

June Miller Thompson and Justine Miller Merritt papers

 Collection — Othertype DG 291
Identifier: SCPC-DG-291
Overview This collection contains materials given to the donor by her aunt, June Miller Thompson. Materials include photos, media, audiotapes, and diaries related to the Great Peace March. Her writings related to peace, peaceful civil disobedience, nuclear war, and nuclear energy are also included. Her engagement in the Ribbon prior to and during August 1985, included her participation and presence (and that of her husband, Bill Willard Thompson) in Hiroshima while the Ribbon was unfolding in...
Dates: Majority of material found in 1985

Dale Malleck Collected Papers

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Malleck, Dale
Abstract

Includes printed materials, some correspondence and pamphlets, mainly information about Malleck and the Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament (1985); includes poetry and other writings about peace by Malleck. Collection includes photos and t-shirts from various marches.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1985-1994

New York State Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission and Institute for Nonviolence Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-New York State Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission-Institute for Nonviolence
Abstract

Collection includes, leaflets, fact sheets, printed correspondence.

Dates: Majority of material found in 1993

Steve Trimm Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-232
Overview 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