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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
Robin Harper Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Harper, Robin
Overview
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.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1957-1967
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Marjorie Swann and Robert Swann Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-264
Overview
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.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1949-1972
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace walks and marches -- History -- Sources 2
- War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Atomic bomb -- Testing -- History -- Sources 1
- Direct action -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifists -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Quaker women -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
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- Golden Rule (Ketch) 2
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 2
- New England Committee for Nonviolent Action 2
- Reynolds, Earle L. 2
- Swann, Marjorie 2
- Swann, Robert S. 2
- Annual Training Institute in Non-Violence, Grindstone Island (Portland, Ontario, Canada) 1
- Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) 1
- Bigelow, Albert, 1906- 1
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 1
- Committee for a Quaker Peace Witness 1
- Davidov, Marv 1
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 1
- DiGia, Ralph 1
- Everyman (Ship) 1
- Harper, Robin M., 1928- 1
- Haworth, Neil D. 1
- Herrick, Scott 1
- Keyes, Gene 1
- Lazar, Edward 1
- Lyttle, Bradford 1
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization) 1
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization). Nevada Project 1
- Olson, Theodore, 1932- 1
- Peacemaker Movement 1
- Phoenix (Yacht) 1
- Polaris Action 1
- Prayer and Conscience Vigil, Washington, D.C., 1957 1
- Québec-Washington-Guantánamo Walk for Peace 1
- Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) 1
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 1
- Salstrom, F. Paul 1
- San Francisco to Moscow Walk for Peace 1
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 1
- Tatum, Lyle 1
- Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) 1
- Walk for Peace (Project) 1
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 1 ∧ less
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