Committee for Nonviolent Action
Organization
Found in 3 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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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
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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- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Pacifists -- 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
- Atomic bomb -- Testing -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace walks and marches 1
- Persian Gulf War, 1991 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- Public radio -- California -- Berkeley -- History -- Sources 1
- Radicalism -- California -- Berkeley -- History -- Sources 1
- Radicalism -- 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 resistance movements -- New York (State) -- Albany -- History -- Sources 1
- War resistance movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
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