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1960 Campaign for Disarmament Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Nineteen Sixty Campaign for Disarmament
Dates:
1960-1961
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
American Peace Test Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-197
Abstract
In 1985 six members of the National FREEZE Campaign founded American Peace Test as a direct, non violent action campaign to protest the testing of nuclear weapons at the Nevada Test Site, near Las Vegas, Nevada. The first large scale action took place in 1986, drawing large crowds of protesters. Protests throughout the 1980s continued to draw larger numbers of protesters and the support of some nationally known celebrities and politicians. In the early 1990s American Peace Test regrouped,...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1985-1994
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Another Mother for Peace Records
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
John Beer Collected Papers
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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
Kay Camp Papers
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Charlotte Citizens for Peace Records
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Children's Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-190
Abstract
This was a grass-roots group organized in Vermont by young people, dedicated to educating children throughout the United States and around the world about the nuclear threat and what they could do to end the nuclear arms race.
Dates:
1980-1983
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Citizens Against Nuclear War Records
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Civil Defense Protest Committee Collected Records
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 67
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 38
- Antinuclear movement -- United States 21
- Nuclear disarmament -- History -- Sources 14
- Peace movements -- United States 13
- Nuclear disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 11
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 11
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 9
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- Antinuclear movement 7
- Antinuclear movement -- History -- Sources 7
- Nuclear disarmament -- United States 7
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 7
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 6
- Nuclear arms control -- History -- Sources 6
- Nuclear arms control -- United States 6
- Nuclear nonproliferation -- United States 6
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 5
- Peace walks and marches -- History -- Sources 5
- Women and peace 5
- Women and peace -- History -- Sources 5
- Women and peace -- United States 5
- Women and peace -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
- Nuclear disarmament 4
- Nuclear facilities -- Environmental aspects -- United States 4
- Antinuclear movement -- Great Britain 3
- Arms control -- History -- Sources 3
- Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 3
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Nuclear disarmament -- Great Britain 3
- Nuclear weapons (International law) -- History -- Sources 3
- Nuclear weapons -- Great Britain 3
- Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- History -- Sources 3
- Peace -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 3
- Peace movements 3
- Peace movements -- History -- Sources 3
- Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States 3
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union 3
- War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Women and peace -- Great Britain 3
- Amnesty -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Antimissile missiles -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Antinuclear movement -- New York (State) -- History -- Sources 2
- Arms control -- Citizen participation -- History -- Sources 2
- Atomic bomb -- Testing -- History -- Sources 2
- Biological warfare -- History -- Sources 2
- Chemical warfare -- History -- Sources 2
- Civil rights workers -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Disarmament -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 2
- Disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Feminists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Lobbying -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- MX (Weapons system) -- History -- Sources 2
- Nuclear arms control -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Nuclear nonproliferation -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 2
- Political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Political prisoners -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Tax protests and appeals -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Trident (Weapons systems) 2
- United States 2
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- 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
- Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962 1
- Antinuclear movement -- Australia -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- Delaware -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- England -- Berkshire 1
- Antinuclear movement -- Florida -- Lee County -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- Florida -- Port Charlotte -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- Germany (West) -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- Illinois -- Chicago Region -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- Massachusetts -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- Merrimack River Valley (N.H. and Mass.) 1
- Antinuclear movement -- Nevada -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- Nevada -- Nevada Test Site -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- New Jersey -- Princeton -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- New Zealand -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- North Carolina -- Greenville -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- Pennsylvania -- Harrisburg -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- Pennsylvania -- Main Line -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- Rhode Island 1
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- Directories 1
- Antinuclear movement -- Vermont -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- West (U.S.) -- History -- Sources 1
- Arms control -- Economic aspects -- United States 1
- Arms control -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 1
- Arms control -- United States 1
- Arms control -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Arms race -- Economic aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- Arms race -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
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- German 1
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- Names
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 8
- American Friends Service Committee 7
- Golden Rule (Ketch) 6
- Jack, Homer A. (Homer Alexander), 1916-1993 5
- Lyttle, Bradford 5
- Omaha Action (Project) 5
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 5
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 4
- Cousins, Norman 4
- Reynolds, Earle L. 4
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 4
- Bigelow, Albert, 1906- 3
- Gottlieb, Sanford 3
- Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament (Organization) 3
- Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp 3
- Keys, Donald 3
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization) 3
- San Francisco to Moscow Walk for Peace 3
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 3
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 3
- Women Strike for Peace 3
- Affeldt, Allan 2
- Aldridge, Robert C. 2
- American Peace Test (Organization) 2
- Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) 2
- Berg, Lloyd A. 2
- Chavez, Daniel 2
- Chicago Area Faculty for a Freeze on the Nuclear Arms Race 2
- Civilian Public Service 2
- Clark, Joseph S. 2
- Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 1924-2006 2
- Cortright, David, 1946- 2
- Cottom, Carolyn 2
- Day, Dorothy, 1897-1980 2
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 2
- DiGia, Ralph 2
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 2
- Folsom, Franklin, 1907-1995 2
- Frank, Morton 2
- Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.) 2
- Fromm, Erich, 1900-1980 2
- Huntington, William R. 2
- Illinois Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign 2
- Melman, Seymour 2
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 2
- National Campaign to Stop the MX (U.S.) 2
- National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (U.S.) 2
- Nebraska Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign 2
- New England Committee for Nonviolent Action 2
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization). Nevada Project 2
- Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign 2
- Olson, Theodore, 1932-2020 2
- PRO-Peace (Organization) 2
- Paschkis, V. (Victor) 2
- Peace Action (Organization) 2
- Prayer and Conscience Vigil, Washington, D.C., 1957 2
- Québec-Washington-Guantánamo Walk for Peace 2
- Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) 2
- SANE/FREEZE (Organization) 2
- Snyder, Edward F. 2
- Spock, Benjamin, 1903-1998 2
- Swann, Marjorie 2
- Swann, Robert S. 2
- United Nations 2
- Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) 2
- Walk for Peace (Project) 2
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section 2
- A Quaker Action Group 1
- Abington Coalition for a Nuclear Arms Freeze (Pennsylvania) 1
- Abolition 2000 1
- Access (Organization : Washington, D.C.) 1
- Accra Assembly (Organization) 1
- Aftel, Jacob 1
- Aicher, Paul J. 1
- Alabama Freeze Coalition 1
- Alabama Nuclear Freeze Campaign 1
- Allen, Steve, 1921-2000 1
- Alternatives to Violence Project 1
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers 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
- Beer, John Joseph, 1927- 1
- Ben-Levi, Cass 1
- Benton, Marjorie Craig 1
- Bergen County Freeze Campaign (New Jersey) 1
- Berman, Aline 1
- Berrigan, Daniel 1
- Beyond Nuclear (Organization) 1
- Bigelow, Sylvia 1 + ∧ less
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