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Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Nukewatch
Scope and Contents
Collection includes printed correspondence, flyers, newsletters, booklets. Correspondents include Bill Christofferson, executive director.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1981-1988
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-October 6 Witness
Abstract
Includes correspondence (1983-1984), minutes of meetings, financial records, mailing lists, planning reports, publicity, press coverage, newspaper clippings, and follow-up notes. Correspondents include Bruce Birchard, Samuel D. Caldwell, and Morton Frank.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1983-1984
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Omaha Action
Scope and Contents
Collection includes printed correspondence, flyers, newsletters, booklets.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1959 - 1960
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Pacific Life Community
Abstract
Includes leaflets, one clipping.
Dates:
1976-1979
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-
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
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-
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
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
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-241
Abstract
Edward Furnas Snyder is a Quaker lobbyist for peace, civil rights, and economic justice. He joined staff of Friends Committee on National Legislation in 1955 and retired in 1990 as Executive Secretary of the FCNL Snyder argued against legislation for a U.S. military draft and excessive military spending; worked for cultural and scientific exchanges between Soviet and U.S. citizens to lessen tensions of the Cold War. Edward and Dorothy Snyder have long been tax resisters arguing that the...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1950-