Swann, Marjorie
Person
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Horace Champney Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-166
Abstract
Horace Champney was a pacifist active in various causes from the late 1940s through the 1980s. He was a founder of The Peacemakers Movement in the 1950s and interested in civil rights, war tax refusal, and other social justice causes. Champney was a member A Quaker Action Group and a crew member of the ship the Phoenix, which sailed to North Vietnam with medical supplies, during the Vietnam war.
Dates:
1958-1990; Majority of material found within 1958-1979
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
Goodwill Ambassadors: Hiroshima-Nagasaki World Peace Study Mission Collected Records
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Good-Will Ambassadors-Hiroshima-Nagasaki World Peace Study Mission
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1963 - 1965
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Peacemaker Movement Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Peacemaker Movement
Abstract
A group working on nonviolence from the late 1940s through the 1970s, particularly as it was expressed through tax refusal.
Dates:
1948-1980
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Marjorie Swann and Robert Swann Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-264
Abstract
The Swanns were Quaker peace activitists who were particularly well known for their part in nonviolent direct action against nuclear weapons testing and deployment in the 1950s-1960s.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1949-1972
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Atomic bomb -- Testing -- History -- Sources 1
- Atomic bomb victims -- Japan 1
- Direct action -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 1
- Nagasaki-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 1
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 1
- Nuclear disarmament 1
- Peace walks and marches -- History -- Sources 1
- Political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Psychologists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Quaker women -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Ohio -- Yellow Springs -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Draft resisters -- United States -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
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