Keyes, Gene
Person
Found in 2 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
Gene Keyes Collected Papers
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Keyes, Gene
Abstract
Collection consists of printed materials, including information about Keyes' draft resistance during the Vietnam War, antiwar and anti-nuclear activities.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1963-1966
