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Center on Conscience and War Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-025
Overview
Organization still in existence that was formed to aid conscientious objectors in World War II.
Dates:
1940-2015
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Committee for Nonviolent Action Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-017
Overview
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
Peace Action Center Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-093
Overview
The Peace Action Center began in 1961 as a continuation of the vigil at Fort Detrick, Md. Peace activists had sponsored a continuous vigil as early as 1959 seeking the abandonment of biological weapons and appealed for the conversion of the fort into a world health center. The Peace Action Center included cooperative living quarters for the staff of religious pacifists, mostly Quakers. PAC staff including Lawrence Scott, director, and Jack L. Bagley, Sarah Bishop, Florence Y. Carpenter,...
Dates:
1959-1965
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Lawrence Scott Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-090
Overview
Lawrence Scott was a construction engineer, Baptist clergyman, and Quaker activist. He worked as an activist against the testing of nuclear weapons and biological weapons research. He was the supervisor for the Friends Mississippi Project, project director of the Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick in Maryland, executive secretary of the Peace Action Center and a founder of A Quaker Action Group.
Dates:
1955-1965
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- African American churches -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources 1
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- Sources 1
- African Americans -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- History -- Sources 1
- Atomic bomb -- Testing -- History -- Sources 1
- Biological warfare -- History -- Sources 1
- Chemical warfare -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- Brethren in Christ Church -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- Mennonites -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Eniwetok Proving Grounds (Marshall Islands) -- History -- Sources 1
- Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) -- History -- Sources 1
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- Sources 1
- Race relations -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources 1
- Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 1
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- Names
- Bigelow, Albert, 1906- 3
- Lyttle, Bradford 3
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 3
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 3
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 2
- Corson, Helen H. 2
- Golden Rule (Ketch) 2
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 2
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization) 2
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization). Nevada Project 2
- Olson, Theodore, 1932- 2
- Peace Action Center (Washington, D.C.) 2
- Pfeiffer, Stephen D. 2
- Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) 2
- Tatum, Lyle 2
- Walker, Charles C. 2
- Young, Wilmer J. 2
- Anderson, Ross W. 1
- Anthony, Robert L. 1
- Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) 1
- Apsey, Lawrence S. 1
- Bagley, Jack L. 1
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 1
- Barr, Allen H. 1
- Bishop, Sarah 1
- Boardman, Elizabeth Jelinek, 1917- 1
- Borkholder, Philip L. 1
- Boss, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), 1888- 1
- Carner, Lucy Perkins, 1886-1983 1
- Carpenter, Florence Y. 1
- Center on Conscience and War 1
- Civilian Public Service 1
- Curry, A. Stauffer (Abram Stauffer), 1913- 1
- Davidov, Marv 1
- DeVault, Don 1
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 1
- DiGia, Ralph 1
- Doty, C. LeRoy 1
- Everyman (Ship) 1
- Faust, Bertha, 1909- 1
- Flanagan, Ross, 1934- 1
- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 1
- Friends Mississippi Project 1
- Furnas, Paul J. 1
- Gottwald, Norman K. (Norman Karol), 1926- 1
- Hassler, Alfred, 1910-1991 1
- Haworth, Neil D. 1
- Heisler, Francis, 1895- 1
- Herrick, Scott 1
- Hershey, Lewis Blaine, 1893-1977 1
- Hester, Hugh B. (Hugh Bryan), 1895-1983 1
- Hoover, Warren W. 1
- Huston, Ora 1
- Jack, Homer A. (Homer Alexander), 1916-1993 1
- Jamison, Jeannette 1
- Kaufman, Abraham 1
- Keyes, Gene 1
- Lazar, Edward 1
- Malz, Gertrude 1
- Martin, William R., 1938- 1
- McNeil, Gelston 1
- Miller, Lawrence McK. 1
- Nash, Vernon 1
- National Interreligious Service Board for Conscientious Objectors 1
- National Service Board for Religious Objectors 1
- New England Committee for Nonviolent Action 1
- Newton, Ray 1
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization). European Project 1
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization). Pacific Project 1
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization). Washington Prayer Vigil 1
- Omaha Action (Project) 1
- Parkman, Patricia 1
- Paschkis, V. (Victor) 1
- Phoenix (Yacht) 1
- Pickus, Robert 1
- Polaris Action 1
- Québec-Washington-Guantánamo Walk for Peace 1
- Raitt, Walton A. 1
- Reynolds, Earle L. 1
- Salstrom, F. Paul 1
- San Francisco to Moscow Walk for Peace 1
- Sherk, J. Harold 1
- Simon, Emily Parker 1
- Stewart, Annalee, 1900?- 1
- Swann, Marjorie 1
- Swann, Robert S. 1
- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 1
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 1
- Toney, Raymond J. 1
- U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases 1
- Uphaus, Willard E. (Willard Edwin), 1890-1983 1
- Van Kirk, Walter W. (Walter William), 1891-1956 1
- Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) 1
- Wayland-Smith, Robert 1
- Whitney, Norman J. (Norman Jehiel), 1891-1967 1
- Will, Herman, 1915- 1
- Yolton, L. William 1 ∧ less
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