Peace movements -- New York (State) -- History -- Sources
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Bella Abzug Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Abzug, Bella
Abstract
Includes biographical information; correspondence, 1966-1972; testimony/statements/resolutions, 1970-1980; involvement with New York's 17th Congressional District peace action committee, 1966-1969; notes for speeches including anti-military draft material; miscellaneous peace-related material; reference file about a proposed film"Time of Trial" (1969).
Dates:
Majority of material found within ca. 1966-ca. 1980
Genesee Valley Citizens for Peace Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-255
Overview
Genesee Valley Citizens for Peace, located near Rochester, New York, was formed in May, 1972. GVPC is a nonviolent activist group consists of concerned individuals from western upstate New York. Since that time the organization has worked against the Vietnam war, and for amnesty for war resisters, for nuclear disarmament (with particular emphasis on Seneca Army Depot in Romulus, New York), and for a change in national priorities to stress human needs rather than military spending. It remains...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1972-
New York Conference Against War Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-New York Conference Against War
Dates:
1934
New York Peace Society Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-026
Overview
The New York Peace Society was the first peace society in the United States beginning in 1815, and lasting in various incarnations until 1940.
Dates:
1818-1940; Majority of material found within 1906-1940
Rockland County Peace Association Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-121
Overview
The Rockland County Peace Association was a small local peace group begun in 1930 to stimulate popular education and public opinion with a view to the prevention of war. It carried on relief work during World War II through the American Friends Service Committee.
Dates:
1930-1950
