Peck, James
Person
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Civil Defense Protest Committee Collected Records
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Civil Defense Protest Committee
Scope and Contents
Collection includes meeting minutes, correspondence, legal documents, pamphlets, publicity materials, and newspaper clippings; the bulk of the collection is from 1955.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1955-1962
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
David McReynolds Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-134
Abstract
David McReynolds (1929-2018), was an activist with the War Resisters League, the Socialist Party USA and the Democratic Socialists of America. He was an editor of Liberation magazine in the 1950s and a leader of the WRL from the 1950s until his retirement in 1999. McReynolds ran for Congress twice and for President of the U.S. twice, including a run in 2000. McReynolds has attempted to integrate anti-war and pacifist philosophy with Socialist economics. David McReynolds was openly gay and...
Dates:
1943-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Phoenix Defense Fund Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-072
Abstract
The Phoenix Defense Fund was established through the efforts of Norman Cousins and other supporters of Barbara and Earle Reynolds. The Reynolds sailed the yacht Phoenix into a nuclear test site, Eniwetok Proving Grounds, as a protest against nuclear war. They were arrested, tried, and acquitted (1958-1960). The organization was also known as Reynolds Defense Fund.
Dates:
1957-1961; Majority of material found within 1958-1959
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
WIN Magazine Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-077
Abstract
WIN Magazine was started in January 1966 by the New York Workshop in Nonviolence, a New York City pacifist direct action group which functioned as an affiliate of both the Committee for Nonviolent Action and the War Resisters League. In September 1966 full title of the magazine became WIN Peace and Freedom through Nonviolent Action. WIN solicited articles and poetry promoting many liberal and radical causes including disarmament, draft resistance, war tax refusal, and other pacifist concerns...
Dates:
1968-1984
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 2
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Antinuclear movement -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil defense -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Direct action -- History -- Sources 1
- Disarmament -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft registration -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Eniwetok Proving Grounds (Marshall Islands) -- History -- Sources 1
- Environmental protection -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Feminism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Nuclear disarmament -- History -- Sources 1
- Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- Sources 1
- Proving grounds, American -- Marshall Islands -- History -- Sources 1
- Tax protests and appeals -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Trials 1
- WIN (Periodical) 1
- WIN (Periodical) -- Archives 1 + ∧ less
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