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New England Committee for Nonviolent Action

 Organization

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Acc. 01A-056, 1958 - 1977

 Series
Overview

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
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

Marjorie Swann and Robert Swann Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-264
Overview

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

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Archival Record 2
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Subject
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