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Omaha Action (Project)

 Organization

Found in 5 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

Robin Harper Collected Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Harper, Robin
Overview

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: Majority of material found within 1957-1967

Bradford Lyttle Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-079
Overview 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-

Omaha Action Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Omaha Action
Abstract

Collection includes printed correspondence, flyers, newsletters, booklets.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1959

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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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