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Civil Defense Protest Committee Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Civil Defense Protest Committee
Abstract
Collection includes meeting minutes, correspondence, legal documents, pamphlets, publicity materials, and newspaper clippings; the bulk of the collection is from 1955.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1955-1962
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
John D'Emilio Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-D'Emilio, John
Abstract
Audiocassettes and typed transcripts of interviews with Bayard Rustin, his friends and co-workers for D'Emilio's book Lost Prophet: the Life and Times of Bayard Rustin. Rustin was an African-American conscientious objector, civil rights worker, pacifist, Quaker. Interviews were between 1992 and 2002. Interviewees include: Bayard Rustin, Charles Bloomstein, Ernest Bromley, Marion Bromley, Stephen Carey, Ralph DiGia, Roy Finch, Caleb Foote, Larry Gara, Norman Hill, Rachelle Horowitz, George...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1992-2002
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
War Resisters League Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-040
Overview
The War Resisters League is a pacifist organization whose members are against all war. Witnessing the establishment of the War Resisters' International in Europe in 1921, and sensing a need for a similar organization in the United States, Dr. Jessie Wallace Hughan established the War Resisters League as an independent organization. The War Resisters League membership pledge, which has remained essentially unchanged since its inception, reads: "The War Resisters League affirms that war is a...
Dates:
1923-1994
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
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- Finch, Henry Le Roy 3
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 3
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 2
- Hennacy, Ammon, 1893-1970 2
- McReynolds, David 2
- Roodenko, Igal 2
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 2
- Aberman, Sidney 1
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 1
- Barr, Allen H. 1
- Bigelow, Albert, 1906- 1
- Bloomstein, Charles 1
- Bromley, Ernest 1
- Bromley, Marion, -1996 1
- Brooks, R. Boland 1
- Brown, H. Runham (Herbert Runham), 1879-1949 1
- Carey, Stephen 1
- Civil Defense Protest Committee (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Corfman, Rex 1
- D'Emilio, John 1
- Davidov, Marv 1
- Day, Dorothy, 1897-1980 1
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 1
- Dunbar, Olivia Howard, 1873-1953 1
- Eichel, Julius, 1896- 1
- Everyman (Ship) 1
- Foote, Caleb, 1917-2006 1
- Gara, Larry 1
- Golden Rule (Ketch) 1
- Gottlieb, Edward P. 1
- Hartmann, George W. (George Wilfried), 1904-1955 1
- Haworth, Neil D. 1
- Hedemann, Ed 1
- Hedemann, Grace 1
- Herrick, Scott 1
- Hill, Norman, 1933- 1
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 1
- Horowitz, Rachelle 1
- Houser, George M. 1
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 1
- Jack, Homer A. (Homer Alexander), 1916-1993 1
- Kaufman, Abraham 1
- Kepler, Roy C. 1
- Keyes, Gene 1
- Lazar, Edward 1
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 1
- Lyttle, Bradford 1
- Malina, Judith, 1926- 1
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 1
- Naegle, Walter 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
- Olmstead, Frank 1
- Olson, Theodore, 1932- 1
- Omaha Action (Project) 1
- Peck, James 1
- Pell, Orlie, 1900- 1
- Phoenix (Yacht) 1
- Platt, Davis 1
- Polaris Action 1
- Provisional Defense Committee (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Québec-Washington-Guantánamo Walk for Peace 1
- Ransom, Frances Rose 1
- Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) 1
- Reynolds, Earle L. 1
- Richards, Edward C. M., 1886-1974 1
- Salstrom, F. Paul 1
- San Francisco to Moscow Walk for Peace 1
- Schaum, Winifred W. 1
- Schwartz, Wendy (Editor) 1
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 1
- Smiley, Glenn E. 1
- Swann, Marjorie 1
- Swann, Robert S. 1
- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 1
- Swomley, Margie Carpenter 1
- Tatum, Lyle 1
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 1
- War Resisters League 1
- Wentworth, Lydia G., 1858- 1
- Witherspoon, Frances, 1886-1973 1 ∧ less
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