Golden Rule (Ketch)
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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
William Huntington papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1181
Overview
The collection relates primarily to William Huntington, (1907-1990), a 20th century Quaker peace activist and the ship The Golden Rule which Huntington and others used to protest atomic testing in the South Pacific. Included are correspondence, photographs, conference papers, newspaper articles, memoranda, and minutes.
Dates:
1932-1984
Phoenix Defense Fund Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-072
Overview
The Phoenix Defense Fund was established through the efforts of Norman Cousins and other supporters of Barbara and Earle Reynolds. The Reynolds sailed the yacht Phoenix into a nuclear test site, Eniwetok Proving Grounds, as a protest against nuclear war. They were arrested, tried, and acquitted (1958-1960). The organization was also known as Reynolds Defense Fund.
Dates:
1957-1961; Majority of material found within 1958-1959
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Subject: Nonviolence -- History X
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- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 2
- Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962 1
- Antinuclear movement 1
- Antinuclear movement -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Atomic bomb -- Testing -- History -- Sources 1
- Direct action -- History -- Sources 1
- Eniwetok Proving Grounds (Marshall Islands) -- History -- Sources 1
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence 1
- Nonviolence -- History 1
- Nuclear disarmament 1
- Nuclear disarmament -- History -- Sources 1
- Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Proving grounds, American -- Marshall Islands -- History -- Sources 1
- Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 1
- Trials 1
- War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- United States 1 + ∧ less
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