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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
A.J. Muste Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-050
Abstract
A.J. Muste (1885-1967), was ordained a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, but later (1917), he became a member of the Society of Friends. During World War I, Muste's refusal to abandon his pacifist position led to his forced resignation from the Central Congregational Church in Newtonville, Massachusetts. Muste's involvement as a labor organizer began in 1919 when he led strikes in the textile mills of Lawrence, Massachusetts. He became the director of the Brookwood Labor College in...
Dates:
1920-1967
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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- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 3
- American Friends Service Committee 2
- Bigelow, Albert, 1906- 2
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 2
- Golden Rule (Ketch) 2
- Jack, Homer A. (Homer Alexander), 1916-1993 2
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 2
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization) 2
- Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons (Organization). Nevada Project 2
- Olson, Theodore, 1932-2020 2
- Omaha Action (Project) 2
- Québec-Washington-Guantánamo Walk for Peace 2
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 2
- San Francisco to Moscow Walk for Peace 2
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 2
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 2
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 2
- Anthony, Robert L. 1
- Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) 1
- Apsey, Lawrence S. 1
- Aptheker, Herbert, 1915-2003 1
- Berg, Lloyd A. 1
- Carner, Lucy Perkins, 1886-1983 1
- Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors 1
- Clergy and Laity Concerned (U.S.) 1
- Congress of Racial Equality 1
- Cook, Cara 1
- Corson, Helen H. 1
- Cousins, Norman 1
- Davidov, Marv 1
- DiGia, Ralph 1
- Elkinton, J. Passmore (Joseph Passmore), 1887-1971 1
- Enzer, Erica 1
- Everyman (Ship) 1
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 1
- Frankel, Morton 1
- Friends Mississippi Project 1
- Fromm, Erich, 1900-1980 1
- Gloor, Michele 1
- Gregonis, Peter 1
- Hassler, Alfred, 1910-1991 1
- Haworth, Neil D. 1
- Heisler, Francis, 1895- 1
- Herrick, Scott 1
- Jamison, Jeannette 1
- Kennan, George F. (George Frost), 1904-2005 1
- Keyes, Gene 1
- Klein, Yvonne 1
- Lazar, Edward 1
- Lens, Sidney 1
- Lynd, Staughton 1
- Malz, Gertrude 1
- Miller, Lawrence McK. 1
- National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (U.S.) 1
- National Council for Prevention of War (U.S.) 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
- Paschkis, V. (Victor) 1
- Peace Action Center (Washington, D.C.) 1
- Pfeiffer, Stephen D. 1
- Phoenix (Yacht) 1
- Pickus, Robert 1
- Polaris (Missile) 1
- Polaris Action 1
- Raitt, Walton A. 1
- Rapoport, Anatol, 1911-2007 1
- Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) 1
- Reynolds, Earle L. 1
- Roszak, Theodore, 1933-2011 1
- Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970 1
- Salstrom, F. Paul 1
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 1
- Simon, Emily Parker 1
- Sobell, Morton 1
- Stephens, John, pacifist 1
- Sterner, Beverly 1
- Stewart, Annalee, 1900?- 1
- Swann, Marjorie 1
- Swann, Robert S. 1
- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 1
- Tatum, Lyle 1
- United States Pacifist Party 1
- Van Dusen, Henry P. (Henry Pitney), 1897-1975 1
- Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) 1
- Walker, Charles C. 1
- War Resisters League 1
- Young, Wilmer J. 1 + ∧ less
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