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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 62 Collections and/or Records:

Coalition to Stop Funding the War Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Coalition to Stop Funding the War
Dates: 1973-1976
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

David Cortright Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-101
Abstract

David Cortright is an anuthor and antimilitarist. He was a co-founder of GI's United Against the War in Vietnam. After the early 1970s Cortright led several peace organizations, including SANE, Inc. and SANE/FREEZE. Cortright current serves as president of the Fourth Freedom Forum [ca. 1996 - date].

Dates: 1968 -
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Ann Morrissett Davidon and William C. Davidon Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-144
Abstract Ann Morrissett Davidon (1925-2004), was a writer, editor, educator, pacifist and peace activist through her entire life. William Cooper Davidon(1927- 2013), was a professor of physics at Haverford College and (retired 1994), pacifist, peace activist. The two were married in 1963 and both continued to be very active in peace, pacifist, anti-Vietnam War, and social justice organizations. They advocated and practiced war-tax resistance. In 1971, William Davidon was named an "unindicted...
Dates: 1949-
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Defense Committee Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Defense Committee
Dates: 1969-
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Delaware County Peace Action Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Delaware County Peace Action
Dates: 1967-1975
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Roberta Dickinson Collected Papers

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Dickinson, Roberta
Abstract

Collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, documents relating to Dickinson's arrests, information about resistance to the Vietnam War and the Harrisburg Eight, war tax resistance, Dickinson's letters to congress and to editors, specifications for her "My Lai" sculpture; collection also includes photographs.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1969-1974
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Abraham Egnal Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-136
Dates: 1949-1968; Majority of material found within 1960-1968
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Jerry Elmer Collected Papers

 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: 1973-1975, 1982
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Fair Lawn Committee for Peace in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia Collected Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Fair Lawn Committee for Peace-Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia
Abstract

The Fair Lawn community in New Jersey founded the Committee for Peace in Vietnam on March 1, 1967. The organization began building local support for alternative solutions to the conflict in Vietnam. The organization's membership grew to 200+ families in the six years that followed. On October 26, 1973, the group announced its plans to disband.

Dates: 1967-1973
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-013
Abstract

The Fellowship of Reconciliation in the U.S. was founded in 1915 by Christian pacifists. The organization, whose members are now drawn from many religious groups, seeks to apply principles of peace and social justice and non-violent social change to issues such as disarmament, conscription, race relations, economic justice, and civil liberties.

Dates: 1915-
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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Bryn Mawr College Special Collections
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