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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
Horace Champney Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-166
Abstract
Horace Champney was a pacifist active in various causes from the late 1940s through the 1980s. He was a founder of The Peacemakers Movement in the 1950s and interested in civil rights, war tax refusal, and other social justice causes. Champney was a member A Quaker Action Group and a crew member of the ship the Phoenix, which sailed to North Vietnam with medical supplies, during the Vietnam war.
Dates:
1958-1990; Majority of material found within 1958-1979
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Committee for Nonviolent Action Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-017
Overview
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Goodwill Ambassadors: Hiroshima-Nagasaki World Peace Study Mission Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Good-Will Ambassadors-Hiroshima-Nagasaki World Peace Study Mission
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1963 - 1965
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Hiroshima Peace Pilgrimage Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Hiroshima Peace Pilgrimage
Dates:
1962
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Peace Action Center Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-093
Overview
The Peace Action Center began in 1961 as a continuation of the vigil at Fort Detrick, Md. Peace activists had sponsored a continuous vigil as early as 1959 seeking the abandonment of biological weapons and appealed for the conversion of the fort into a world health center. The Peace Action Center included cooperative living quarters for the staff of religious pacifists, mostly Quakers. PAC staff including Lawrence Scott, director, and Jack L. Bagley, Sarah Bishop, Florence Y. Carpenter,...
Dates:
1959-1965
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Phoenix Defense Fund Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-072
Overview
The Phoenix Defense Fund was established through the efforts of Norman Cousins and other supporters of Barbara and Earle Reynolds. The Reynolds sailed the yacht Phoenix into a nuclear test site, Eniwetok Proving Grounds, as a protest against nuclear war. They were arrested, tried, and acquitted (1958-1960). The organization was also known as Reynolds Defense Fund.
Dates:
1957-1961; Majority of material found within 1958-1959
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Barbara Reynolds Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Reynolds, Barbara
Dates:
1948-1970
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Lynne Shivers Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-263
Overview
Enid Lynne Shivers was a peace activist and prominent member of Movement for a New Society, for which she organized and wrote informational materials. This collection of her personal materials is primarily composed of journals dating from the 1960s until 2014 and materials from time she spent doing peace work in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1941-2015
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
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- Atomic bomb -- Testing -- History -- Sources 2
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
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- Antinuclear movement -- Nevada -- History -- Sources 1
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- Atomic bomb -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 1
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- Atomic bomb victims -- Japan 1
- Atomic bomb victims -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi 1
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- Civil disobedience 1
- Civil disobedience -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights demonstrations 1
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- Willoughby, George, pacifist 5
- Bigelow, Albert, 1906- 4
- Reynolds, Earle L. 4
- Golden Rule (Ketch) 3
- Phoenix (Yacht) 3
- Swann, Marjorie 3
- American Friends Service Committee 2
- Boardman, Elizabeth Jelinek, 1917- 2
- Flanagan, Ross, 1934- 2
- Huntington, William R. 2
- Lyttle, Bradford 2
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 2
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization) 2
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 2
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 2
- A Quaker Action Group 1
- Anderson, Ross W. 1
- Anh, Le Thi 1
- Ashley, Bruce 1
- Bagley, Jack L. 1
- Bigelow, Sylvia 1
- Bishop, Sarah 1
- British Withdrawal from Northern Ireland Campaign 1
- Bromley, Ernest 1
- Canadian Friends Service Committee 1
- Carpenter, Florence Y. 1
- Cassyd, Syd 1
- Champney, Beulah 1
- Champney, Horace 1
- Champney, Ken 1
- Charlton, Peter F. 1
- Clark, Joseph S. 1
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 1
- Corson, Helen H. 1
- Cousins, Norman 1
- Davidov, Marv 1
- DeVault, Don 1
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 1
- Deutsch, Babette, 1895-1982 1
- DiGia, Ralph 1
- Dye, Arthur M. 1
- Everyman (Ship) 1
- Faust, Bertha, 1909- 1
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 1
- Goodwill Ambassadors 1
- Gottwald, Norman K. (Norman Karol), 1926- 1
- Haworth, Neil D. 1
- Herrick, Scott 1
- Herter, Christian Archibald, 1895-1966 1
- Hester, Hugh B. (Hugh Bryan), 1895-1983 1
- Hiroshima Peace Pilgrimage 1
- Jackson, Charles T. 1
- Jones, Peter D. 1
- Keyes, Gene 1
- Langston, Beach, -1979 1
- Lasker, Gabriel Ward 1
- Lazar, Edward 1
- Lofton, John D., Jr., 1941-2014 1
- Martin, William R., 1938- 1
- McNeil, Gelston 1
- Morrison, Norman R., 1933-1965 1
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 1
- Nash, Vernon 1
- New England Committee for Nonviolent Action 1
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization). Nevada Project 1
- Olson, Theodore, 1932- 1
- Omaha Action (Project) 1
- Parkman, Patricia 1
- Peace Action Center (Washington, D.C.) 1
- Peacemaker Movement 1
- Peck, James 1
- Pfeiffer, Stephen D. 1
- Phoenix Defense Fund 1
- Polaris Action 1
- Québec-Washington-Guantánamo Walk for Peace 1
- Rannels, Marion 1
- Salstrom, F. Paul 1
- San Francisco to Moscow Walk for Peace 1
- Sherwood, Orion W. 1
- Shivers, Lynne 1
- Squire, DeCourcy 1
- Stern, Lee, 1915-1992 1
- Swann, Robert S. 1
- Tatum, Lyle 1
- U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases 1
- Uphaus, Willard E. (Willard Edwin), 1890-1983 1
- Walker, Charles C. 1
- Wayland-Smith, Robert 1
- Whitney, Norman J. (Norman Jehiel), 1891-1967 1
- Willoughby, Lillian, 1915-2009 1
- Wise, Christine, -1933 1
- World Peace Study Mission 1
- Yamada, George Kiyoshi 1
- Young, Wilmer J. 1
- Zietlow, Carl P. 1 ∧ less
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