Civil disobedience
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Albert Bigelow Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-076
Abstract
Albert S. Bigelow (1906-1993) was an artist, architect, former Navy commander, and Quaker. He served as captain of Golden Rule, a thirty foot ketch which he and colleagues attempted to sail into the Eniwetok Proving Grounds, the U.S. nuclear test site in the Marshall Islands of the Pacific in February 1958. The action was sponsored by the Committee for Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons.
Dates:
1956-1961
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
International Center on Nonviolent Conflict Collected Records
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-International Center on Nonviolent Conflict
Abstract
Collection includes background information about the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 2008-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
The Second American Revolution working papers
Collection
Identifier: HCL-003-010
Overview
Working papers from a conference held at Haverford in February, 1964 on the Civil Rights Movement.
Dates:
1964
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:
1923-2013
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
