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Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Coalition for Peace Action
Abstract
Collection includes printouts from emails, and publicity materials.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 2005-
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-146
Abstract
Founded in Chicago in 1976, NOMOR's aim was "to call for a moratorium on the production of nuclear weapons as a unilateral American initiative...for a first step toward stopping and reversing the...international arms race." The founders and activists of NOMOR engaged in media campaigns, sponsored conferences, workshops, and benefits, and was involved with the "Symphony for Survival." News from NOMOR was published between 1978 and 1986. In spite of regional support, especially from the...
Dates:
1976-1986
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-Council for a Livable World
Abstract
Collection includes materials from the Council for a Livable World and the Council for a Livable World Education Fund. Includes primarily printed materials: letters, reports, brochures, and serial publications.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1961-
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
Abstract
Douwes was a member of the Philadelphia branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1985-2005
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-136
Abstract
Abraham Egnal was a former teacher of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was very active in the Philadelphia area peace movement. He received his B.S. and M.A. degrees in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. Egnal organized many peace rallies and marches. He was the chairman of the West Philadelphia-Main Line Committee of the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, the Greater Philadelphia Council, and the Philadelphia Mobilization Committee in 1967.
Dates:
1949-1968; Majority of material found within 1960-1968
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Ellsberg, Daniel
Abstract
The collection consists of one folder of printed material and pamphlets, including a research proprosal (1986): "U.S. First Use Threats and the Construction of Instability", and a transcript of a talk: "Daniel Ellsberg: The Construction of Instability" (1986).
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1972-
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Elmer, Jerry
Scope and Contents
This collection includes information about 1) the Tiger Cage Vigil and Fast protesting the Vietnam War, which was held in Washington D.C. in the summer of 1974, and 2) the Rhode Island Freeze Campaign encompassing the 1982 nuclear freeze referendum held in ten states and 38 cities and counties throughout the United States. The Vietnam War material includes correspondence, leaflets and packets of information, newsletters, legal information, lists of project participants, and press releases....
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1973-1975, 1982
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Fast for Peace Committee
Abstract
Includes correspondence, reports, printed materials, photographs, and a scrapbook.
Dates:
1950-1951