Committee for Nonviolent Action

Thalia Yaffey Stern Broudy Collected Papers

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Broudy, Thalia Yaffey Stern

Abstract

Papers of a woman who has been active in the peace movement from the 1950s to the present day.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1961-2004

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

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

Roy C. Kepler Papers

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-185

Abstract

Roy Kepler was a radical pacifist and conscientious objector during World War II, owner of Kepler Books in Menlo Park, California, involved for many years with the War Resisters League, one of the founders of the Pacifica Foundation and public radio in California.

Dates: 1940-1985

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

A.J. Muste Papers

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-050

Abstract A.J. Muste (1885-1967), was ordained a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, but later (1917), he became a member of the Society of Friends. During World War I, Muste's refusal to abandon his pacifist position led to his forced resignation from the Central Congregational Church in Newtonville, Massachusetts. Muste's involvement as a labor organizer began in 1919 when he led strikes in the textile mills of Lawrence, Massachusetts. He became the director of the Brookwood Labor College in...

Dates: 1920-1967

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Lawrence Scott Papers

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-090

Abstract

Lawrence Scott was a construction engineer, Baptist clergyman, and Quaker activist. He worked as an activist against the testing of nuclear weapons and biological weapons research. He was the supervisor for the Friends Mississippi Project, project director of the Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick in Maryland, executive secretary of the Peace Action Center and a founder of A Quaker Action Group.

Dates: 1955-1965

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Steve Trimm Papers

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-232

Abstract In 1968 Steven Wayne Trimm was convicted for refusing induction into the armed services and served four years prison. Trimm fled to Canada in 1969 where he lived underground until 1974. Two years later he received clemency from the U.S. government under the Earned Re-entry Program and was pardoned. Steve Trimm is the author of Walking Wounded: Men's Lives During and Since the Vietnam War (1993) and other publications. Since the 1970s Steve Trimm has also been active with various peace and...

Dates: Majority of material found within 1963-2008

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

War Resisters League Records

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-040

Abstract The War Resisters League is a pacifist organization whose members are against all war. Witnessing the establishment of the War Resisters' International in Europe in 1921, and sensing a need for a similar organization in the United States, Dr. Jessie Wallace Hughan established the War Resisters League as an independent organization. The War Resisters League membership pledge, which has remained essentially unchanged since its inception, reads: "The War Resisters League affirms that war is a...

Dates: 1923-2013

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

WIN Magazine Records

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-077

Abstract WIN Magazine was started in January 1966 by the New York Workshop in Nonviolence, a New York City pacifist direct action group which functioned as an affiliate of both the Committee for Nonviolent Action and the War Resisters League. In September 1966 full title of the magazine became WIN Peace and Freedom through Nonviolent Action. WIN solicited articles and poetry promoting many liberal and radical causes including disarmament, draft resistance, war tax refusal, and other pacifist concerns...

Dates: 1968-1984

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Thalia Yaffey Stern Broudy Collected Papers

Committee for Nonviolent Action Records

Roy C. Kepler Papers

Bradford Lyttle Papers

A.J. Muste Papers

Lawrence Scott Papers

Steve Trimm Papers

War Resisters League Records

WIN Magazine Records

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