New England Committee for Nonviolent Action
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Acc. 01A-056, 1958 - 1977
Series
Abstract
The New England CNVA was based in Connecticut and there is sometimes little distinction between its work and the "national" CNVA.
Dates:
1958 - 1977
Committee for Nonviolent Action Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-017
Abstract
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
Photographs
Series
Marjorie Swann and Robert Swann Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-264
Abstract
The Swanns were Quaker peace activitists who were particularly well known for their part in nonviolent direct action against nuclear weapons testing and deployment in the 1950s-1960s.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1949-1972
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Atomic bomb -- Testing -- History -- Sources 1
- Direct action -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace walks and marches -- History -- Sources 1
- Political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Quaker women -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
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