Record Source: Other PACSCL Partners / Subject: Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources / Year: <span class="from" data-blrl-begin="1980">1980</span> to <span class="to" data-blrl-end="1984">1984</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Homer A. Jack Papers, 1930-1995 (inclusive)

Extent:: 85 linear ft. (85 linear ft.)
Abstract:: Homer A. Jack (1916-1993) was a Unitarian Universalist clergyman and denominational official who sought to apply religious values to national and international affairs. Jack was executive secretary of the Chicago Council Against Racial and Religious Discrimination (1943-1948), executive director of SANE (1960-1964), and secretary general of the World Conference on Religion and Peace (1970-1983). He had been minister of churches in Lawrence, Kansas (1942-1943), Evanston, Illinois (1948-1959), and Winnetka, Illinois (1984-1987) and served as director of the Division of Social Responsibility of the Unitarian Universalist Association (1964-1970). Jack also chaired the NGO Committee on Disarmament (at UN Headquarters) from 1973-1984. Homer Jack "retired" to Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, in Januaryuary 1987. He published a history of the World Conference on Religion and Peace in 1993, and continued to be active in various peace and human rights organizations, speaking and traveling...(see more)

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Bradford Lyttle Papers, 1954- (inclusive)

Extent:: 49.75 linear ft. (49.75 linear ft.)
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 - Washington - Guantanamo Walk for Peace, during which he and twenty other marchers were jailed by police in Albany, Georgia. During the Vietnam war Lyttle coordinated many organizations and demonstrations against the war. In 1983 he founded the United States Pacifist Party and ran for president in the 1984 elections. Lyttle continues to work for peace around the world. He has been a war tax resister, worked with peace projects and refugees in Bosnia and Croatia, and has been arrested many...(see more)

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

SANE, Inc. Records, 1957-1987 (inclusive)

Extent:: 199 linear ft. (199 linear ft.)
Abstract:: Materials from national offices in New York, N.Y., and Washington, D.C., including minutes (1957-1987), correspondence (1957-1987), memoranda, reports, statements, literature, releases, newspaper advertisements, financial records, membership lists, clippings, photos, slides, motion pictures, and sound recordings; material on coalitions in which SANE was involved including Coalition for a New Foreign and Military Policy and National Campaign to Stop the MX (1981-1984) and Arms Control Computer Network (1981-1986); extensive reference files containing information about chemical and biological warfare, conversion, disarmament and disarmament conferences, the draft, military budget, MX missile, nuclear testing and nuclear test ban agreements, radiation and fallout, United Nations, and Vietnam war; SANE periodicals including SANE-U.S.A. (1958-1962), Sane World (1962-1987), and Conversion Planner (1978-1982); minutes, correspondence, and project files of New York Council of SANE...(see more)

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Unitarian Universalist Peace Network Records, 1983-1991 (inclusive)

Extent:: 3.8 linear ft. (3.8 linear ft.)
Abstract:: Established in 1984 to strengthen peace work among Unitarian Universalists and interfaith communities, the goup was especially concerned with the international arms race and nuclear proliferation. Directors included Stephen M. Shick, Carol Powers, Stephanie Nichols. The headquarters were in Philadelphia, Pa. and sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Association. Unitarian Universalist Peace Fellowship, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, Unitarian Universalist United Nations Office, Unitarian Universalist Women's Federation, and the International Association for Religious Freedom; published two periodicals, Peace Network News and Nuclear Free Zone News; organized a Rapid Action Alert network to communicate concerns to elected representatives; ceased operations on November 30, 1991.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Professionals' Coalition for Nuclear Arms Control Records, 1984-1989 (inclusive)

Extent:: 3.75 linear ft. (3.75 linear ft.)
Abstract:: Professionals' Coalition for Nuclear Arms Control was organized in 1984 as a coalition of organizations. It grew to include the Lawyers Alliance for Nuclear Arms Control, Physicians for Social Responsibility, the Union of Concerned Scientists, Architects, Designers, Planners for Social Responsibility, Psychologists for Social Responsibiity, High Technology Professionals for Peace, and Citizens Against Nuclear War, and Business Executives for Nuclear Age Concerns. It was formed as a lobbying and educational group to promote effective arms control legislation.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Physicians for Social Responsibility Records, 1970- (inclusive)

Extent:: 239 linear ft. (239 linear ft.)
Abstract:: Founded in 1961 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by a group of physicians. PSR is an organization, and association of doctors concerned with the challenge of the nuclear age: "man's scientific knowledge now provides an unprecedented opportunity for medical and social advance; yet thermonuclear war poses a supreme threat to the health and survival of mankind." Since prevention is the only effective remedy, and therapy, these physicians are attempting to explore a new area of preventive medicine: the prevention of nuclear war. Their aims are to "provide for the medical community the scientific data on which political decisions must in part be based; to alert physicians to the dangerous implication of the arms race; to involve physicians in serious exploration of peaceful alternatives..."

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Libby Frank and Morton Frank Papers, 1966-2012 (inclusive)

Extent:: 12.5 linear ft. (12.5 linear ft.)
Abstract:: The papers of a married couple, both of whom have worked for peace and justice organizations throughout the second half of the twentieth century and into the first decades of the twenty-first century. Libby Frank served as the executive director of the U.S. Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom from 1981-1986.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

James E. Muller Collected Papers, 1968-1981 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.42 linear ft. (5 linear in.)
Abstract:: Includes material from Muller's visits to the USSR from 1968-1981; includes news clippings, a manuscript regarding his trips, 1968-1970, and his diary of his trips March 1980-Oct. 1981. The diary documents the beginnings of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, and Mueller's connections with Bernard Lown and Helen Caldicott.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Andrew B. Reid Papers, 1981-1988 (bulk)

Extent:: 0.63 linear ft. (7.5 linear in.)
Abstract:: Includes correspondence (1981-1988); involvement with Rural Alliance for Military Accountability and its parent group the Rural Coalition; Western Solidarity; reference files include material about: MX missiles, 1981-1988 (primarily news clippings from western U.S. newspapers); the MX missile U.S. Airforce "Peacekeeper Rail Garrison" program, in which the missiles would be placed on railroad cars, to be moved in time of war; also includes files about organizations working against the MX missile in Colorado, North and South Dakota, Indiana, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming; and other organizations working against siting of missiles in their states; collection also includes audio and video cassettes and a bumpersticker.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Louis A. Friedman Papers, 1973-2003 (bulk)

Extent:: 35 linear ft. (35 linear feet.)
Abstract:: Louis A. Friedman has worked internationally with Promoting Enduring Peace, EarthKind, People's Action for Clean Energy (PACE), and other organizations on peace and environmental issues. Along with his wife, Judi Friedman, environmentalist and award-winning children's book author, he traveled as a citizen-diplomat and also brought several Soviet/Russian delegations to the United States to further communication on these issues. Friedman has organized peace river cruises and trips through Soviet cities for United States media, and participated in marches at the Nevada Test Site, the Pentagon, and the White House. Both Friedmans died July 26, 2016.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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