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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
Bradford Lyttle Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-079
Overview
Bradford Lyttle is a long time leading peace activist involved in the promotion of nonviolence for social change and the elimination of war and nuclear weapons. Lyttle was the organizer of the San Francisco to Moscow walk in the 1960-1961, to highlight the message of disarmament and nonviolent resistance and bringing together U.S. and Soviet citizens together during the height of the Cold War. He went on to organize and participate in other marches and protests, including the Quebec - ...
Dates:
1954-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 2
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Atomic bomb -- Testing -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Direct action -- History -- Sources 1
- Disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifists -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace walks and marches -- History -- Sources 1
- Prisoners' writings, American 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- War tax resistance -- United States 1 ∧ less
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- Committee for Nonviolent Action 2
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 2
- Lyttle, Bradford 2
- Québec-Washington-Guantánamo Walk for Peace 2
- Reynolds, Earle L. 2
- San Francisco to Moscow Walk for Peace 2
- American Friends Service Committee 1
- Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) 1
- Bigelow, Albert, 1906- 1
- Committee for a Quaker Peace Witness 1
- Davidov, Marv 1
- DiGia, Ralph 1
- Enzer, Erica 1
- Everyman (Ship) 1
- Gloor, Michele 1
- Golden Rule (Ketch) 1
- Gregonis, Peter 1
- Harper, Robin M., 1928- 1
- Haworth, Neil D. 1
- Herrick, Scott 1
- Keyes, Gene 1
- Klein, Yvonne 1
- Lazar, Edward 1
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 1
- New England Committee for Nonviolent Action 1
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization) 1
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization). Nevada Project 1
- Olson, Theodore, 1932- 1
- Phoenix (Yacht) 1
- Polaris (Missile) 1
- Polaris Action 1
- Prayer and Conscience Vigil, Washington, D.C., 1957 1
- Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) 1
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 1
- Salstrom, F. Paul 1
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 1
- Stephens, John, pacifist 1
- Swann, Marjorie 1
- Swann, Robert S. 1
- Tatum, Lyle 1
- United States Pacifist Party 1
- Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) 1
- Walk for Peace (Project) 1
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 1 ∧ less
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