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Government, Resistance to -- History -- Sources

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

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

Brandywine Peace Community Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-158
Abstract

The Brandywine Peace Community was founded in April, 1972 by Delaware County (Pennsylvana.) and Chester County (Pennsylvania) citizens who advocated nonviolent direct action. The group was especially active against nuclear weapons manufactured by the General Electric Company, and later Lockheed Martin Marietta.. The Brandywine Peace Community was headquartered in Media, Pennsylvania. until 1983, then moved to Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

Dates: 1976-

Charles C. Walker Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-296
Abstract

Minutes, reports, writings, notes, photographs, and printed material from Walker's work as an activist and nonviolent resistance trainer. Materials have been place in series based on how the subjects were identified in their original boxes.

Dates: 1940-2000

Flower City Conspiracy Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Flower City Conspiracy
Abstract

Collection comprised primarily of the edited trial transcript.

Dates: 1970

Alice Herz and Helga Herz Collected Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Herz, Alice and Helga Herz
Abstract

Papers of a German mother and daughter who emigrated to the United States and were peace activists in the Detroit area; mother was the first American to immolate herself in protest of the Vietnam War.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1941-2002

Norman R. Morrison Collected Papers

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Morrison, Norman R.

National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee
Dates: 1958-; Majority of material found within 1958-1970

Philadelphia Youth Council to Oppose Conscription Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Philadelphia Youth Council to Oppose Conscription

Resist Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Resist