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Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-102
Abstract
Another Mother for Peace was a women's peace group born from the antipathy to the war in Vietnam, based in Los Angeles, California. The stated purpose of this non-partison, non-profit organization was "to educate women to take an active role in eliminating war as a means of solving disputes between nations, people and ideologies." AMP closed its offices in January 1986.
Dates:
1964-1978
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Beer, John
Scope and Contents
Collection includes correspondence and notes about Beer's work for peace and social justice including: a typescript account of conscientious objector David Emerson's hearing in 1954 in Danville, Illinois; peace involvements in Delaware, 1960s-1980s, including opposition to the Vietnam War and to nuclear weapons; accounts of Western Quarterly Friends (Quakers) visits to the Pentagon to protest the arms race, 1979-1981, including correspondence with Brig. General Richard T. Boverie; opposition...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1954-1985
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-169
Abstract
Katherine Lindsley Camp was born in 1918 [1919?], Mt. Kisco New York. She was a graduate of Swarthmore College (Class of 1940). Camp was elected president of the U.S. Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1967, and served as international president, 1974-1980. In addition Camp was founder of the Citizens Bi-Racial Study Group; former president of the Pennsylvania Women's Political Caucus; made unsuccessful bid for Congress in 1972 on the Democratic ticket in...
Dates:
1955-2006
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Charlotte Citizens for Peace
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, administrative files, financial records, flyers, newspaper clippings, reference files. Correspondents include Esther S. Frankel and Abraham Kaufman.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1982-1996
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-245
Abstract
Citizens Against Nuclear War was a coalition of 61 national organizations formed in 1982 as an initiative of the National Education Association. It had the goal of educating citizens about efforts to prevent nuclear war. Organizations which belonged to CAN encouraged their individual members to become informed about issues related to nuclear war. Among the members were professional associations, religious communities, women's and minority organizations, and labor unions. Programs included...
Dates:
1982-2012
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Civil Defense Protest Committee
Scope and Contents
Collection includes meeting minutes, correspondence, legal documents, pamphlets, publicity materials, and newspaper clippings; the bulk of the collection is from 1955.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1955-1962
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Coalition for Peace Action
Scope and Contents
Collection includes printouts from emails, and publicity materials.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 2004 - 2005
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
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Douglass, James and Shelley
Abstract
Collection is primarily printed materials, including pamphlets, reprints, photocopies of interviews with and letters to various correspondents, including Ramsey Clark, Glenda Grabow, Pope John Paul II, and Cardinal Roger Etchegaray.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1990-
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Douwes, Francoise Wilhelmina
Scope and Contents
This collection of papers is primarily about Douwes' activism with WILPF and other organizations.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1985-2005