Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967

Civil Defense Protest Committee Collected Records

Collection — Othertype CDG-A

Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Civil Defense Protest Committee

Abstract

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

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

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Fast for Peace Committee Collected Records

Collection — Othertype CDG-A

Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Fast for Peace Committee

Abstract

Includes correspondence, reports, printed materials, photographs, and a scrapbook.

Dates: 1950-1951

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

J. Stuart Innerst Papers

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-103

Overview J. Stuart Innerst was a United Brethren in Christ missionary to China in the 1920s. Innerst and his wife Marion Reachard Innerst left China in 1927 with great concerns about the influence of western imperialism in that country. J. Stuart Innerst served as pastor of several churches and joined the Society of Friends in 1943. In addition to his pastoral work, Innerst also served as the Director of the Quaker Friends in Washington Program (1960-1961, lobbied members of Congress regarding China,...

Dates: 1920-1975

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

A.J. Muste Papers

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-050

Overview A.J. Muste (1885-1967), was ordained a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, but later (1917), he became a member of the Society of Friends. During World War I, Muste's refusal to abandon his pacifist position led to his forced resignation from the Central Congregational Church in Newtonville, Massachusetts. Muste's involvement as a labor organizer began in 1919 when he led strikes in the textile mills of Lawrence, Massachusetts. He became the director of the Brookwood Labor College in...

Dates: 1920-1967

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Lawrence Scott Papers

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-090

Overview

Lawrence Scott was a construction engineer, Baptist clergyman, and Quaker activist. He worked as an activist against the testing of nuclear weapons and biological weapons research. He was the supervisor for the Friends Mississippi Project, project director of the Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick in Maryland, executive secretary of the Peace Action Center and a founder of A Quaker Action Group.

Dates: 1955-1965

Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Marjorie Swann and Robert Swann Papers

Collection

Identifier: SCPC-DG-264

Overview

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