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1967 Committee to End the Draft on or before June 30, 1967 Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Nineteen Sixty Seven Committee to End the Draft
Dates:
1965-1967
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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
Bent Andresen Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Andreson, Bent
Abstract
Bent Andresen registered as a conscientious objector (CO) during World War Two and was sent to a Civilian Public Service in 1944. Andresen participated in a guinea pig project in which he and several other COs lived in a refrigerated room for three months to test the impact of a high-protein diet on cold-weather conditions. He went AWOL in 1945 and was sentenced to two years in prison. Andreson was involved in various peace and justice groups throughout his lifetime.
Dates:
1928-1991
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Charles Bloomstein Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Bloomstein, Charles
Abstract
Charles Bloomstein (1913 - 2002) was involved in a number of organizations that promoted civil rights, as well as peace. He was a conscientious objector during World War II, and served in Civilian Public Service (CPS) for three years.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1938-2002
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Break with Conscription Committee Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Break with Conscription Committee
Dates:
1947
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Campaign to Stop Government Spying Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Campaign to Stop Government Spying
Dates:
1976-1978
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Horace Champney Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-166
Abstract
Horace Champney was a pacifist active in various causes from the late 1940s through the 1980s. He was a founder of The Peacemakers Movement in the 1950s and interested in civil rights, war tax refusal, and other social justice causes. Champney was a member A Quaker Action Group and a crew member of the ship the Phoenix, which sailed to North Vietnam with medical supplies, during the Vietnam war.
Dates:
1958-1990; Majority of material found within 1958-1979
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Committee for Non-violent Revolution Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Committee for Non-Violent Revolution
Dates:
1946
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Committee for Nonviolent Action Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-017
Overview
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
Courage to Resist Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Courage to Resist
Abstract
Printouts of emails from Courage to Resist to group lists.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 2007-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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