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Polese, Richard

 Person

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-147
Abstract

In 1986 six hundred people marched across the United States to demonstrate their opposition to the world-wide nuclear arms race. The march took nine months from California to Washington, D.C. The marchers wrote: "we will create a non-violent focus for positive change; the imperative being that nuclear weapons are politically, socially, economically and morally unjustifiable, and that, in any number, they are unacceptable." The GPM was also a traveling intentional and communal society.

Dates: 1986 - Date; Majority of material found within 1986

Peace Pilgrim Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-104
Abstract

Peace Pilgrim was born Mildred Lisette Norman in 1908. Between 1953 and l964, she had walked 25,000 miles across the U.S. for peace. Peace Pilgrim eventually made seven pilgrimages, crossing North America. She was killed in an automobile accident on July 7, 1981, at the age of 71.

Dates: 1908-1986

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Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Disarmament -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
Nuclear disarmament -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
Nuclear weapons -- United States 1
Pacifists 1