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Peace Action, Inc. Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-219
Abstract
Peace Action, Inc. was founded about 1979 as the Disarmament Action Network (DAN). The name of the organization was changed name to Peace Action, Inc. about 1985. The group was begun informally by members of the American Friends Service Committee's Cambridge. Massachusetts office and was affiliated with the Walk for Peace, the Human Race/Runners Around the World, and Give Peace a Dance. Many of the organization's actions concerned the anti-nuclear movement of the period. Peace Action, Inc....
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1982-1989
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Peace Action Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-151
Abstract
The Peace Action collection is a continuation of the SANE and SANE Education Fund (DG 58) collection, which also resides at the SCPC (the papers of the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign are at the University of Missouri at St. Louis). It documents the merger of SANE and the NWFC, as well as the goals and work of the merged organization, through meeting minutes, correspondence, program files, press clippings and other publicity, statements and communications with Congress and other leaders, as...
Dates:
1986-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Peace Development Fund Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Peace Development Fund
Scope and Contents
The collection includes correspondence, statements, and meeting agendas, minutes, and flyers.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1985-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Peace Links Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Peace Links
Abstract
Collection consists primarily of folders of printed materials titled: Celebrate Peace kit; Global Awareness kit; How to Talk to Your Children About Nuclear War; Library Project kit; Understanding the Soviets; Women in the Soviet Union study guide; Reach for Peace high school kit.
Dates:
Majority of material found within ca. 1985-1988
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Physicians for Social Responsibility Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-175
Abstract
Founded in 1961 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by a group of physicians. PSR is an organization, and association of doctors concerned with the challenge of the nuclear age: "man's scientific knowledge now provides an unprecedented opportunity for medical and social advance; yet thermonuclear war poses a supreme threat to the health and survival of mankind." Since prevention is the only effective remedy, and therapy, these physicians are attempting to explore a new area of preventive medicine:...
Dates:
1970-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Piedmont Peace Resource Center Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Piedmont Peace Resource Center
Abstract
This collection consists of flyers, announcements, financial records, booklets, printed correspondence. Includes information about the "Alternatives to Military Service" project.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1984-1992
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Doug Rand Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Rand, Doug
Scope and Contents
This small collection comes from the files of Doug Rand and covers five topics related to local peace and political actions in Santa Cruz: the successful efforts to stop beach area development, the election victory that grew from public discontent with the development, the installation of "Collateral Damage" anti-war statue/s, the Aaron Ahearn trial, and visits of Navy warships to Santa Cruz.
Dates:
circa 1984-1998
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Resource Center for Nonviolence Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Resource Center for Nonviolence
Scope and Contents
This small collection covers general information regarding the Resource Center for Nonviolence.
Dates:
ca. 1979-1998
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
Kevin J. Shay Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Shay, Kevin
Abstract
Kevin J. Shay is a journalist, author, photographer, activist, and marcher for peace and justice.
Dates:
1983-2000
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Swarthmore College Peace Collection 80
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- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 38
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 38
- Antinuclear movement -- United States 13
- Peace movements -- United States 13
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 8
- Nuclear arms control -- United States 6
- Nuclear disarmament -- History -- Sources 6
- Nuclear disarmament -- United States 6
- Nuclear disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 6
- Nuclear nonproliferation -- United States 6
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 6
- Peace walks and marches -- History -- Sources 5
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 5
- Antinuclear movement -- History -- Sources 4
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 4
- Nuclear facilities -- Environmental aspects -- United States 4
- Peace movements -- History -- Sources 4
- Antinuclear movement 3
- Disarmament -- History -- Sources 3
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 3
- Peace -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 3
- Peace movements 3
- War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Women and peace 3
- Women and peace -- History -- Sources 3
- Amnesty -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Antinuclear movement -- Massachusetts -- History -- Sources 2
- Antinuclear movement -- New Jersey -- History -- Sources 2
- Arms control -- History -- Sources 2
- Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Civil rights workers -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Direct action -- History -- Sources 2
- Disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Lobbying -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Nuclear disarmament 2
- Peace -- Religious aspects 2
- Peace movements -- Massachusetts -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace movements -- New Jersey -- History -- Sources 2
- Political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Tax protests and appeals -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- United States 2
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 2
- Women and peace -- United States 2
- Women and peace -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Women political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- African American churches -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources 1
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- Sources 1
- African Americans -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- Brandywine Creek Valley (Pa. and Del.) -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- California -- Berkeley 1
- Antinuclear movement -- California -- Santa Cruz 1
- Antinuclear movement -- California -- Santa Cruz -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- Delaware -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- Europe -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- Florida -- Lee County -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- Florida -- Port Charlotte -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- France -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- Germany 1
- Antinuclear movement -- Germany (West) -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century 1
- Antinuclear movement -- Massachusetts -- Amherst -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- Merrimack River Valley (N.H. and Mass.) 1
- Antinuclear movement -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis 1
- Antinuclear movement -- Nevada 1
- Antinuclear movement -- New Jersey -- Princeton -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- New York (State) -- Greenwich Village (New York) -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- New York (State) -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- North Carolina -- Greenville -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- Pennsylvania -- Delaware County -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- Pennsylvania -- Harrisburg 1
- Antinuclear movement -- Pennsylvania -- Harrisburg -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- Pennsylvania -- Kennett Square 1
- Antinuclear movement -- Pennsylvania -- Main Line -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- Pennsylvania -- West Chester -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- South Carolina 1
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- Directories 1
- Antinuclear movement -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- Sources 1
- Arms control -- Economic aspects -- United States 1
- Arms control -- United States 1
- Arms control -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Arms race -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Arms race -- United States -- Economic policy -- Sources 1
- Atomic bomb -- Testing -- History -- Sources 1
- Ballistic missiles -- United States 1
- Biological warfare -- History -- Sources 1
- Chemical warfare -- History -- Sources 1
- Children and peace 1
- Civil defense -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil disobedience -- Nebraska 1
- Civil disobedience -- United States 1
- Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Civil rights -- United States 1
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
- Language
- English 79
- French 2
- German 1
- Names
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 6
- American Friends Service Committee 5
- Lyttle, Bradford 5
- Omaha Action (Project) 5
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 4
- Golden Rule (Ketch) 4
- Jack, Homer A. (Homer Alexander), 1916-1993 4
- Cousins, Norman 3
- Reynolds, Earle L. 3
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 3
- San Francisco to Moscow Walk for Peace 3
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 3
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 3
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 3
- Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) 2
- Berg, Lloyd A. 2
- Bigelow, Albert, 1906- 2
- Coalition for Peace Action (Princeton, N.J.) 2
- Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 1924-2006 2
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 2
- DiGia, Ralph 2
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 2
- Frank, Morton 2
- Fromm, Erich, 1900-1980 2
- Gottlieb, Sanford 2
- Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament (Organization) 2
- Hague Appeal for Peace 2
- Keys, Donald 2
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 2
- National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (U.S.) 2
- New England Committee for Nonviolent Action 2
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization) 2
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization). Nevada Project 2
- Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign 2
- Olson, Theodore, 1932-2020 2
- Peace Action (Organization) 2
- Québec-Washington-Guantánamo Walk for Peace 2
- SANE/FREEZE (Organization) 2
- Swann, Marjorie 2
- Swann, Robert S. 2
- Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) 2
- Walk for Peace (Project) 2
- Weiss, Cora, 1934- 2
- Women Strike for Peace 2
- A Quaker Action Group 1
- Abington Coalition for a Nuclear Arms Freeze (Pennsylvania) 1
- Access (Organization : Washington, D.C.) 1
- Accra Assembly (Organization) 1
- Affeldt, Allan 1
- Ahearn, Aaron 1
- Aicher, Paul J. 1
- Alabama Freeze Coalition 1
- Alabama Nuclear Freeze Campaign 1
- Alternatives to Violence Project 1
- Ames Bilateral Freeze Campaign (Iowa) 1
- Annual Training Institute in Non-Violence, Grindstone Island (Portland, Ontario, Canada) 1
- Another Mother for Peace (Association) 1
- Anthony, Robert L. 1
- April Action (Organization) 1
- Apsey, Lawrence S. 1
- Aptheker, Herbert, 1915-2003 1
- Ashly, Coleen 1
- Avedon, Barbara 1
- Axelrod, Beverly 1
- Backe, John 1
- Baez, Joan 1
- Ballantyne, Edith 1
- Bastian, Gert 1
- Beer, John Joseph, 1927- 1
- Bergen County Freeze Campaign (New Jersey) 1
- Berman, Aline 1
- Berrigan, Daniel 1
- Beyond Nuclear (Organization) 1
- Birchard, Bruce 1
- Blass, Dorothy 1
- Block, Bonnie 1
- Boylan, Kathy Shields 1
- Brandywine Alternative Fund 1
- Brandywine Peace Community 1
- Brandywine Peace Community and Alternative Fund 1
- Brown, George Edward, 1920-1999 1
- Caldwell, Samuel D. 1
- Californians for a Bilateral Nuclear Weapons Freeze 1
- Camp, Kay 1
- Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament 1
- Carner, Lucy Perkins, 1886-1983 1
- Cartel international de la paix 1
- Carter, Nick (Minister) 1
- Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors 1
- Charlotte Citizens for Peace (Port Charlotte, Fla.) 1
- Chavez, Daniel 1
- Chicago Area Faculty for a Freeze on the Nuclear Arms Race 1
- Chicago Council Against Racial and Religious Discrimination 1
- Christofferson, Bill 1
- Citizens Against Nuclear War (U.S.) 1
- Civil Defense Protest Committee (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Civilian Public Service 1
- Clark, Diane K. 1
- Clark, Gordon 1
- Clark, Joseph S. 1 + ∧ less
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