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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
Lawrence Scott Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-090
Abstract
Lawrence Scott was a construction engineer, Baptist clergyman, and Quaker activist. He worked as an activist against the testing of nuclear weapons and biological weapons research. He was the supervisor for the Friends Mississippi Project, project director of the Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick in Maryland, executive secretary of the Peace Action Center and a founder of A Quaker Action Group.
Dates:
1955-1965
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Anthony, Robert L. 1
- Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) 1
- Apsey, Lawrence S. 1
- Carner, Lucy Perkins, 1886-1983 1
- Corson, Helen H. 1
- Davidov, Marv 1
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 1
- DiGia, Ralph 1
- Everyman (Ship) 1
- Friends Mississippi Project 1
- Hassler, Alfred, 1910-1991 1
- Haworth, Neil D. 1
- Heisler, Francis, 1895- 1
- Herrick, Scott 1
- Jack, Homer A. (Homer Alexander), 1916-1993 1
- Jamison, Jeannette 1
- Keyes, Gene 1
- Lazar, Edward 1
- Malz, Gertrude 1
- Miller, Lawrence McK. 1
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 1
- New England Committee for Nonviolent Action 1
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization). European Project 1
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization). Pacific Project 1
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization). Washington Prayer Vigil 1
- Omaha Action (Project) 1
- Paschkis, V. (Victor) 1
- Peace Action Center (Washington, D.C.) 1
- Pfeiffer, Stephen D. 1
- Phoenix (Yacht) 1
- Pickus, Robert 1
- Polaris Action 1
- Québec-Washington-Guantánamo Walk for Peace 1
- Raitt, Walton A. 1
- Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) 1
- Reynolds, Earle L. 1
- Salstrom, F. Paul 1
- San Francisco to Moscow Walk for Peace 1
- Simon, Emily Parker 1
- Stewart, Annalee, 1900?- 1
- Swann, Marjorie 1
- Swann, Robert S. 1
- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 1
- Tatum, Lyle 1
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 1
- Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) 1
- Walker, Charles C. 1
- Young, Wilmer J. 1 + ∧ less
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