Omaha Action (Project)
Organization
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
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
Robin Harper Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Harper, Robin
Abstract
Robin Harper is active in the peace movement. During the 1950s and 1960s he protested nuclear weapons and missile defense systems. The papers in this collection reflect that involvement.
Dates:
1957 - 1988
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Bradford Lyttle Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-079
Abstract
Bradford [Brad] Lyttle is a long time leading peace activist involved in the promotion of nonviolence for social change and the elimination of war and nuclear weapons. Lyttle was the organizer of the San Francisco to Moscow walk in the 1960-1961, to highlight the message of disarmament and nonviolent resistance and bringing together U.S. and Soviet citizens together during the height of the Cold War. He went on to organize and participate in other marches and protests, including the Quebec...
Dates:
1954-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Omaha Action Collected Records
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Omaha Action
Scope and Contents
Collection includes printed correspondence, flyers, newsletters, booklets.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1959 - 1960
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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 4
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace walks and marches -- History -- Sources 2
- War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Antinuclear movement -- United States 1
- Atomic bomb -- Testing -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil disobedience -- Nebraska 1
- Civil disobedience -- United States 1
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Direct action -- History -- Sources 1
- Direct action -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Nuclear arms control -- United States 1
- Nuclear disarmament -- United States 1
- Nuclear nonproliferation -- Nebraska 1
- Nuclear nonproliferation -- United States 1
- Pacifists -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- Nebraska -- Omaha 1
- Peace movements -- United States 1
- Political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Prisoners' writings, American 1
- Quaker women -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- War tax resistance -- United States 1 + ∧ less
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