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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
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
Robin Harper Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Harper, Robin
Overview
Robin Harper is active in the peace movement. During the 1950s and 1960s he protested nuclear weapons and missile defense systems. The papers in this collection reflect that involvement.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1957-1967
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
George Willoughby and Lillian Willoughby Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-236
Overview
George Willoughby (December 9, 1914 - January 5, 2010) and Lillian Willoughby (c. 1916 - January 15, 2009) were Quaker activists who took part in nonviolent protests against war, conducted nonviolence trainings in India and other countries, and advocated for preservation of land in New Jersey and elsewhere.
Dates:
1931-2010
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
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- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Antinuclear movement 1
- Antinuclear movement -- Nevada -- History -- Sources 1
- Atomic bomb -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
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- Civil disobedience 1
- Civil disobedience -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights demonstrations 1
- Civil rights demonstrations -- Alabama -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Eniwetok Proving Grounds (Marshall Islands) 1
- Government, Resistance to 1
- Government, Resistance to -- History -- Sources 1
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- Nuclear weapons -- Testing 1
- Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- History -- Sources 1
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- Golden Rule (Ketch) 3
- Bigelow, Albert, 1906- 2
- Lyttle, Bradford 2
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization) 2
- Omaha Action (Project) 2
- Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) 2
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 2
- A Quaker Action Group 1
- American Friends Service Committee 1
- Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) 1
- Bigelow, Sylvia 1
- Civilian Public Service 1
- Clark, Joseph S. 1
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 1
- Committee for a Quaker Peace Witness 1
- Davidov, Marv 1
- Delaware Valley Land Trust 1
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 1
- DiGia, Ralph 1
- Dye, Arthur M. 1
- Everyman (Ship) 1
- Harper, Robin M., 1928- 1
- Haworth, Neil D. 1
- Herrick, Scott 1
- Herter, Christian Archibald, 1895-1966 1
- Huntington, William R. 1
- Keyes, Gene 1
- Lakey, George 1
- Langston, Beach, -1979 1
- Lazar, Edward 1
- McReynolds, David 1
- Movement for a New Society 1
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 1
- New England Committee for Nonviolent Action 1
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization). Nevada Project 1
- Olson, Theodore, 1932- 1
- Peace Brigades International 1
- Pendle Hill (School: Wallingford, Pa.) 1
- Phoenix (Yacht) 1
- Polaris Action 1
- Prayer and Conscience Vigil, Washington, D.C., 1957 1
- Québec-Washington-Guantánamo Walk for Peace 1
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 1
- Salstrom, F. Paul 1
- San Francisco to Moscow Walk for Peace 1
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 1
- Shivers, Lynne 1
- Swann, Marjorie 1
- Swann, Robert S. 1
- Tatum, Lyle 1
- United States. War Relocation Authority 1
- Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) 1
- Walk for Peace (Project) 1
- Whitney, Norman J. (Norman Jehiel), 1891-1967 1
- Willoughby, Lillian, 1915-2009 1 ∧ less
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