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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
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
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- Annual Training Institute in Non-Violence, Grindstone Island (Portland, Ontario, Canada) 1
- Bigelow, Albert, 1906- 1
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 1
- Davidov, Marv 1
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 1
- DiGia, Ralph 1
- Everyman (Ship) 1
- Haworth, Neil D. 1
- Herrick, Scott 1
- Keyes, Gene 1
- Lazar, Edward 1
- Lyttle, Bradford 1
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization) 1
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization). Nevada Project 1
- Olson, Theodore, 1932- 1
- Peacemaker Movement 1
- Phoenix (Yacht) 1
- Polaris Action 1
- Québec-Washington-Guantánamo Walk for Peace 1
- Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) 1
- Reynolds, Earle L. 1
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 1
- Salstrom, F. Paul 1
- San Francisco to Moscow Walk for Peace 1
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 1
- Tatum, Lyle 1
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 1 ∧ less
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