Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967

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Committee for Nonviolent Action Records

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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

A.J. Muste Papers

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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

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Subject: Nonviolence -- History -- Sources X

Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

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