Meacham, Stewart
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Vietnam Summer Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-067
Overview
Vietnam Summer was a nationwide project designed to reach concerned citizens throughout the United States and to weld them into an organized and active constituency against the war in Vietnam. Martin Luther King, Jr., Benjamin Spock and others launched the project nationally on April 23, 1967. From headquarters in Cambridge, Mass. co-directors Richard R. Fernandez and Lee D. Webb coordinated the efforts of 500 paid staff members and over 26,000 volunteers in about 700 local projects. Vietnam...
Dates:
1967
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
World Conference on Religion and Peace, USA Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-059
Abstract
In the early 1960s religious leaders, Rabbi Maurice Eisendrath and Dana McLean Greeley (Unitarian-Universalist) independently saw the need for national confernce on religion and peace. The organized the National Inter-religious Conference on Peace held March 15-17, 1966, in Washington, D.C., which brought together clergymen and laymen from all peace oriented viewpoints to discuss the relation of religion to peace. Minister and peace activist Homer A. Jack was also involved in organizing the...
Dates:
1962-1989
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Subject: Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources X
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- Clergy -- Congresses -- History -- Sources 1
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- College teachers -- Political activity -- History -- Sources 1
- College teachers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Congresses and conventions -- Japan -- History -- Sources 1
- Congresses and conventions -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- Sources 1
- Demonstrations -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Laity -- Congresses -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Congresses -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
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