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Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:

1967 Committee to End the Draft on or before June 30, 1967 Collected Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Nineteen Sixty Seven Committee to End the Draft
Dates: 1965-1967
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

A Quaker Action Group Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-074
Scope and Contents A Quaker Action Group (AQAG) records in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection include minutes, correspondence (1966-1971), memoranda, financial records, subject files (organizations), research files (topics), project files, newsletters, press releases, statements of Quaker yearly meetings in various cities, clippings, photographs and sound recordings. The files were first processed in 1974, and then again in 1980. In 2004, archival intern, Joe Clark, sorted the papers into the present...
Dates: 1965-1973
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Bent Andresen Collected Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Andreson, Bent
Abstract

Bent Andresen registered as a conscientious objector (CO) during World War Two and was sent to a Civilian Public Service in 1944. Andresen participated in a guinea pig project in which he and several other COs lived in a refrigerated room for three months to test the impact of a high-protein diet on cold-weather conditions. He went AWOL in 1945 and was sentenced to two years in prison. Andreson was involved in various peace and justice groups throughout his lifetime.

Dates: 1928-1991
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Charles Bloomstein Collected Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Bloomstein, Charles
Abstract

Charles Bloomstein (1913 - 2002) was involved in a number of organizations that promoted civil rights, as well as peace. He was a conscientious objector during World War II, and served in Civilian Public Service (CPS) for three years.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1938-2002
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Break with Conscription Committee Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Break with Conscription Committee
Dates: 1947
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Campaign to Stop Government Spying Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Campaign to Stop Government Spying
Dates: 1976-1978
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 Non-violent Revolution Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Committee for Non-Violent Revolution
Dates: 1946
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Committee for Nonviolent Action Records

 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
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Courage to Resist Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Courage to Resist
Scope and Contents

Printouts of emails from Courage to Resist to group lists.

Dates: Majority of material found within 2007-
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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Bryn Mawr College Special Collections
Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections