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A Quaker Action Group Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-074
Scope and Contents
A Quaker Action Group (AQAG) records in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection include minutes, correspondence (1966-1971), memoranda, financial records, subject files (organizations), research files (topics), project files, newsletters, press releases, statements of Quaker yearly meetings in various cities, clippings, photographs and sound recordings. The files were first processed in 1974, and then again in 1980. In 2004, archival intern, Joe Clark, sorted the papers into the present...
Dates:
1965-1973
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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
Robin Harper Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Harper, Robin
Abstract
Robin Harper is active in the peace movement. During the 1950s and 1960s he protested nuclear weapons and missile defense systems. The papers in this collection reflect that involvement.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1957-1967
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 2
- War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Atomic bomb -- Testing -- History -- Sources 1
- Direct action -- History -- Sources 1
- Disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifists -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace walks and marches -- History -- Sources 1
- Poor People's Campaign 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Society of Friends -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Tax protests and appeals -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Civilian relief -- Sources 1
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- Names
- Lyttle, Bradford 2
- Omaha Action (Project) 2
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 2
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 2
- A Quaker Action Group 1
- Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) 1
- Beheiren 1
- Bigelow, Albert, 1906- 1
- Boardman, Elizabeth Jelinek, 1917- 1
- Braxton, John Worth 1
- Butterworth, Harrison 1
- Champney, Horace 1
- Coffin, Jerry D. 1
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 1
- Committee for a Quaker Peace Witness 1
- Cowley, Christopher 1
- Davidov, Marv 1
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 1
- DiGia, Ralph 1
- Drath, Phillip 1
- Eaton, Robert Whittington 1
- Ede, Roderick 1
- Everyman (Ship) 1
- Fifth Avenue Peace Parade Committee 1
- Flanagan, Ross, 1934- 1
- Geiger, Nicola 1
- Geiger, Walton 1
- Golden Rule (Ketch) 1
- Harper, Robin M., 1928- 1
- Haworth, Neil D. 1
- Herrick, Scott 1
- Horton, Robert, 1900-1991 1
- Kalish, Donald 1
- Keyes, Gene 1
- Lakey, George 1
- Lazar, Edward 1
- Lee, Kenneth, 1944- 1
- Legg, Samuel 1
- Levering, Robert, 1944- 1
- Massar, Ivan 1
- Mimms, William R. 1
- Moody, Roger 1
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 1
- Nelson, Beryl Herbert 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, 1932-2020 1
- Parkman, Patricia 1
- Phoenix (Yacht) 1
- Polaris Action 1
- Prayer and Conscience Vigil, Washington, D.C., 1957 1
- Québec-Washington-Guantánamo Walk for Peace 1
- Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) 1
- Rocket, Writer 1
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 1
- Salstrom, F. Paul 1
- San Francisco to Moscow Walk for Peace 1
- Shivers, Lynne 1
- Smiley, Glenn E. 1
- Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.) 1
- Swann, Marjorie 1
- Swann, Robert S. 1
- Tatum, Lyle 1
- Vietnam Moratorium Committee (U.S.) 1
- Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) 1
- Walk for Peace (Project) 1
- Walker, Charles C. 1
- Warren, Emlyn 1
- Wood, J. Duncan (John Duncan) 1
- Zietlow, Carl P. 1 + ∧ less
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