Committee for Nonviolent Action
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
War Resisters League Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-040
Overview
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
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- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil disobedience 1
- Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection 1
- Direct action -- History -- Sources 1
- Disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism 1
- Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Prisoners' writings, American 1
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
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