Peace walks and marches -- History -- Sources
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Thalia Yaffey Stern Broudy Collected Papers
Papers of a woman who has been active in the peace movement from the 1950s to the present day.
Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice Records
The Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice was initated in 1974 to "call for disarmament, a simultaneous shift of economic priorities away from militarism and toward meeting domestic and global human needs, and removal of the causes of war." When the Walk ended on October 18, 1976 at the Pentagon in Washington D.C., walkers had covered 8,000 miles through 34 states.
Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament Records
In 1986 six hundred people marched across the United States to demonstrate their opposition to the world-wide nuclear arms race. The march took nine months from California to Washington, D.C. The marchers wrote: "we will create a non-violent focus for positive change; the imperative being that nuclear weapons are politically, socially, economically and morally unjustifiable, and that, in any number, they are unacceptable." The GPM was also a traveling intentional and communal society.
Robin Harper Collected Papers
Robin Harper is active in the peace movement. During the 1950s and 1960s he protested nuclear weapons and missile defense systems. The papers in this collection reflect that involvement.
Intentional Low Income Group Collected Records
Collection includes bulletins and statements of the Intentional Low Income Group.
International Peace Walk Records
Kevin J. Shay Collected Papers
Kevin J. Shay is a journalist, author, photographer, activist, and marcher for peace and justice.
Marjorie Swann and Robert Swann Papers
The Swanns were Quaker peace activitists who were particularly well known for their part in nonviolent direct action against nuclear weapons testing and deployment in the 1950s-1960s.
