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Golden Rule (Ketch)

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Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Committee for Nonviolent Action Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-017
Abstract 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

William Huntington papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1181
Abstract

The collection relates primarily to William Huntington, (1907-1990), a 20th century Quaker peace activist and the ship The Golden Rule which Huntington and others used to protest atomic testing in the South Pacific. Included are correspondence, photographs, conference papers, newspaper articles, memoranda, and minutes.

Dates: 1932-1984
Found in: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Phoenix Defense Fund Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-072
Abstract

The Phoenix Defense Fund was established through the efforts of Norman Cousins and other supporters of Barbara and Earle Reynolds. The Reynolds sailed the yacht Phoenix into a nuclear test site, Eniwetok Proving Grounds, as a protest against nuclear war. They were arrested, tried, and acquitted (1958-1960). The organization was also known as Reynolds Defense Fund.

Dates: 1957-1961; Majority of material found within 1958-1959
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Marjorie Swann and Robert Swann Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-264
Abstract

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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Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 2
Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962 1
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Antinuclear movement 1
Antinuclear movement -- History -- Sources 1
Atomic bomb -- Testing -- History -- Sources 1
Direct action -- History -- Sources 1
Direct action -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Eniwetok Proving Grounds (Marshall Islands) -- History -- Sources 1
Nonviolence 1
Nonviolence -- History 1
Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Nuclear disarmament 1
Nuclear disarmament -- History -- Sources 1
Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- History -- Sources 1
Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Peace walks and marches -- History -- Sources 1
Political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Proving grounds, American -- Marshall Islands -- History -- Sources 1
Quaker women -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 1
Trials 1
War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- United States 1
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