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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
Bradford Lyttle Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-079
Abstract
Bradford [Brad] 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
David McReynolds Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-134
Abstract
David McReynolds (1929-2018), was an activist with the War Resisters League, the Socialist Party USA and the Democratic Socialists of America. He was an editor of Liberation magazine in the 1950s and a leader of the WRL from the 1950s until his retirement in 1999. McReynolds ran for Congress twice and for President of the U.S. twice, including a run in 2000. McReynolds has attempted to integrate anti-war and pacifist philosophy with Socialist economics. David McReynolds was openly gay and...
Dates:
1943-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Tracy D. Mygatt and Frances Witherspoon Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-089
Abstract
Tracy Dickinson Mygatt (1885-1973) and Frances May Witherspoon (1886-1973) were prolific writers and absolute pacifists who worked together in movements for women's rights, world peace, civil liberties, and civil rights. Both women authored plays, articles, poems, sermons, and stories, individually and in collaboration. They were founders of the War Resisters League and later served as honorary chairs. Frances Witherspoon was a co-founder and Executive Secretary of the New York Bureau of...
Dates:
1835-1973; Majority of material found within 1911-1974
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Steve Trimm Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-232
Abstract
In 1968 Steven Wayne Trimm was convicted for refusing induction into the armed services and served four years prison. Trimm fled to Canada in 1969 where he lived underground until 1974. Two years later he received clemency from the U.S. government under the Earned Re-entry Program and was pardoned. Steve Trimm is the author of Walking Wounded: Men's Lives During and Since the Vietnam War (1993) and other publications. Since the 1970s Steve Trimm has also been active with various peace and...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1963-2008
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- DiGia, Ralph 2
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 2
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 2
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- Campaign for World Government (Organization) 1
- Carner, Lucy Perkins, 1886-1983 1
- Casanova, Margaret 1
- Chomsky, Noam 1
- Davidov, Marv 1
- Deats, Richard L., 1932- 1
- Duff, Peggy 1
- Emerson, Gloria 1
- Enzer, Erica 1
- Everyman (Ship) 1
- Forest, Jim (James H.) 1
- Gilmore, Robert, 1941- 1
- Gloor, Michele 1
- Golden Rule (Ketch) 1
- Goodman, Paul, 1911-1972 1
- Gottlieb, Edward P. 1
- Gottlieb, Sanford 1
- Gregonis, Peter 1
- Harrington, Michael, 1928-1989 1
- Hassler, Alfred, 1910-1991 1
- Haworth, Neil D. 1
- Hentoff, Nat 1
- Herrick, Scott 1
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 1
- Holtzman, Elizabeth, correspondent 1
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 1
- Keyes, Gene 1
- Keys, Donald 1
- Klein, Yvonne 1
- Kuenzli, Alfred E. (Alfred Eugene), 1923- 1
- Layer, Frances Evans 1
- Lazar, Edward 1
- Lloyd, Georgia, 1913- 1
- McReynolds, David 1
- Meacham, Stewart 1
- Muslim Solidarity Committee 1
- New England Committee for Nonviolent Action 1
- New York Bureau of Legal Advice 1
- Nhất Hạnh, Thích 1
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization) 1
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization). Nevada Project 1
- Olson, Theodore, 1932-2020 1
- Peck, James 1
- Phoenix (Yacht) 1
- Pickus, Robert 1
- Polaris (Missile) 1
- Polaris Action 1
- Prasad, Devi 1
- Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) 1
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- Roodenko, Igal 1
- Rukuyser, Muriel 1
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 1
- Salstrom, F. Paul 1
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 1
- Socialist Party (U.S.) 1
- Solomonow, Allan 1
- Stephens, John, pacifist 1
- Swann, Marjorie 1
- Swann, Robert S. 1
- Swiers, George 1
- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 1
- Tatum, Arlo D. 1
- Tatum, Lyle 1
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 1
- Trimm, Steve 1
- United States Pacifist Party 1
- Waskow, Arthur Ocean, 1933- 1
- Women's Peace Union 1
- Woodward, Beverly 1
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