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Albert Bigelow Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-076
Abstract
Albert S. Bigelow (1906-1993) was an artist, architect, former Navy commander, and Quaker. He served as captain of Golden Rule, a thirty foot ketch which he and colleagues attempted to sail into the Eniwetok Proving Grounds, the U.S. nuclear test site in the Marshall Islands of the Pacific in February 1958. The action was sponsored by the Committee for Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons.
Dates:
1956-1961
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Committee for Nonviolent Action Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-017
Abstract
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
Peace Action Center Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-093
Abstract
The Peace Action Center began in 1961 as a continuation of the vigil at Fort Detrick, Md. Peace activists had sponsored a continuous vigil as early as 1959 seeking the abandonment of biological weapons and appealed for the conversion of the fort into a world health center. The Peace Action Center included cooperative living quarters for the staff of religious pacifists, mostly Quakers. PAC staff including Lawrence Scott, director, and Jack L. Bagley, Sarah Bishop, Florence Y. Carpenter,...
Dates:
1959-1965
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
Lawrence Scott Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-090
Abstract
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
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- Golden Rule (Ketch) 4
- Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) 4
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 4
- Lyttle, Bradford 3
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 3
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization) 3
- Reynolds, Earle L. 3
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 3
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 3
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 2
- Corson, Helen H. 2
- Huntington, William R. 2
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 2
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- Olson, Theodore, 1932-2020 2
- Peace Action Center (Washington, D.C.) 2
- Pfeiffer, Stephen D. 2
- Phoenix (Yacht) 2
- Walker, Charles C. 2
- Young, Wilmer J. 2
- Anderson, Ross W. 1
- Anthony, Robert L. 1
- Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) 1
- Apsey, Lawrence S. 1
- Bagley, Jack L. 1
- Bigelow, Sylvia 1
- Bishop, Sarah 1
- Boardman, Elizabeth Jelinek, 1917- 1
- Carner, Lucy Perkins, 1886-1983 1
- Carpenter, Florence Y. 1
- Cassyd, Syd 1
- Charlton, Peter F. 1
- Clark, Joseph S. 1
- Cousins, Norman 1
- Davidov, Marv 1
- DeVault, Don 1
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 1
- Deutsch, Babette, 1895-1982 1
- DiGia, Ralph 1
- Dye, Arthur M. 1
- Everyman (Ship) 1
- Faust, Bertha, 1909- 1
- Flanagan, Ross, 1934- 1
- Friends Mississippi Project 1
- Gottwald, Norman K. (Norman Karol), 1926- 1
- Hassler, Alfred, 1910-1991 1
- Haworth, Neil D. 1
- Heisler, Francis, 1895- 1
- Herrick, Scott 1
- Herter, Christian Archibald, 1895-1966 1
- Hester, Hugh B. (Hugh Bryan), 1895-1983 1
- Jack, Homer A. (Homer Alexander), 1916-1993 1
- Jackson, Charles T. 1
- Jamison, Jeannette 1
- Keyes, Gene 1
- Langston, Beach, -1979 1
- Lasker, Gabriel Ward 1
- Lazar, Edward 1
- Lofton, John D., Jr., 1941-2014 1
- Malz, Gertrude 1
- Martin, William R., 1938- 1
- McNeil, Gelston 1
- Miller, Lawrence McK. 1
- Nash, Vernon 1
- New England Committee for Nonviolent Action 1
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization). European Project 1
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization). Pacific Project 1
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization). Washington Prayer Vigil 1
- Omaha Action (Project) 1
- Parkman, Patricia 1
- Paschkis, V. (Victor) 1
- Peck, James 1
- Phoenix Defense Fund 1
- Pickus, Robert 1
- Polaris Action 1
- Québec-Washington-Guantánamo Walk for Peace 1
- Raitt, Walton A. 1
- Salstrom, F. Paul 1
- San Francisco to Moscow Walk for Peace 1
- Sherwood, Orion W. 1
- Simon, Emily Parker 1
- Stewart, Annalee, 1900?- 1
- Swann, Marjorie 1
- Swann, Robert S. 1
- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 1
- Tatum, Lyle 1
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 1
- U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases 1
- Uphaus, Willard E. (Willard Edwin), 1890-1983 1
- Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) 1
- Wayland-Smith, Robert 1
- Whitney, Norman J. (Norman Jehiel), 1891-1967 1
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