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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
Peacemaker Movement Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Peacemaker Movement
Overview
A group working on nonviolence from the late 1940s through the 1970s, particularly as it was expressed through tax refusal.
Dates:
1948-1980
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Atomic bomb -- Testing -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Bigelow, Albert, 1906- 1
- Bromley, Ernest 1
- Bromley, Marion, -1996 1
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 1
- Davidov, Marv 1
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 1
- DiGia, Ralph 1
- Everyman (Ship) 1
- Golden Rule (Ketch) 1
- Haworth, Neil D. 1
- Herrick, Scott 1
- Keyes, Gene 1
- Lazar, Edward 1
- Lyttle, Bradford 1
- Nelson, Juanita 1
- Nelson, Wallace F. 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
- Omaha Action (Project) 1
- Peacemaker Movement 1
- Phoenix (Yacht) 1
- Polaris Action 1
- Québec-Washington-Guantánamo Walk for Peace 1
- Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) 1
- Reynolds, Earle L. 1
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 1
- Salstrom, F. Paul 1
- San Francisco to Moscow Walk for Peace 1
- Swann, Robert S. 1
- Tatum, Lyle 1
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 1 ∧ less
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