Committee for Nonviolent Action
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Roy C. Kepler Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-185
Overview
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
A.J. Muste Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-050
Overview
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
Steve Trimm Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-232
Overview
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
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- Subject: Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources X
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- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 2
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Draft resisters -- United States -- Sources 2
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 2
- Americans -- Canada -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Ballistic missiles -- United States 1
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights workers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- Labor leaders -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 1
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace walks and marches 1
- Persian Gulf War, 1991 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- Polaris (Missile) 1
- Public radio -- California -- Berkeley -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Radicalism -- California -- Berkeley -- History -- Sources 1
- Radicalism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Tax protests and appeals -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009 -- Sources 1
- United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Draft resisters -- Canada -- Sources 1
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- War resistance movements -- New York (State) -- Albany -- History -- Sources 1
- War resistance movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
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