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Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 67 Collections and/or Records:

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

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

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

Coalition for Peace Action Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Coalition for Peace Action
Scope and Contents

Collection includes printouts from emails, and publicity materials.

Dates: Majority of material found within 2004 - 2005
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
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Bryn Mawr College Special Collections
Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections