Record Source: Other PACSCL Partners / Subject: Peace Movements -- United States -- History -- Sources / Year: <span class="from" data-blrl-begin="1950">1950</span> to <span class="to" data-blrl-end="1999">1999</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament Records, 1986 - date (inclusive) 1986 (bulk)

Extent:: 39 linear ft. (39 linear ft.)
Abstract:: In 1986 six hundred people marched across the United States to demonstrate their opposition to the world-wide nuclear arms race. The march took nine months from California to Washington, D.C. The marchers wrote: "we will create a non-violent focus for positive change; the imperative being that nuclear weapons are politically, socially, economically and morally unjustifiable, and that, in any number, they are unacceptable." The GPM was also a traveling intentional and communal society.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Edward F. Snyder Papers, 1950- (bulk)

Extent:: 3 linear ft. (3 linear feet.)
Abstract:: Edward Furnas Snyder is a Quaker lobbyist for peace, civil rights, and economic justice. He joined staff of Friends Committee on National Legislation in 1955 and retired in 1990 as Executive Secretary of the FCNL Snyder argued against legislation for a U.S. military draft and excessive military spending; worked for cultural and scientific exchanges between Soviet and U.S. citizens to lessen tensions of the Cold War. Edward and Dorothy Snyder have long been tax resisters arguing that the government was using taxpayers' money illegally to fund war in Vietnam, El Salvador, and Nicaragua.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Jack Bollens Collected Papers, 1958-1981 (bulk)

Extent:: 0.42 linear ft. (5 linear inches.)
Abstract:: Jack Bollens was a conscientious objector who worked in the peace movement in the 1960s and 1970s.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Benjamin Spock Collected Papers, 1964-1972 (bulk)

Extent:: 0.83 linear ft. (10 linear inches.)
Abstract:: Collection consists of photocopied material released under the Freedom of Information Act for the years 1964-1972, with the bulk of the material from 1968. Includes informants' reports, transcripts of personal conversations, writings by and about Spock, and transcripts of Spock's media appearances.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Nonviolent Action Community of Cascadia Records, 1981-2008 (bulk)

Extent:: 3.75 linear ft. (9 boxes)
Abstract:: This collection includes correspondence (1981-1985), administrative files, financial records, minutes of Board of Directors' meetings (1990-2008), and publicity materials. Much of the correspondence is to, or from, Ed Pearson, a founder and National Coordinator of CMTC. The collection includes information about international war tax resistance efforts, nonviolent direct action campaigns, and grants made from interest on the escrow account.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Citizens Against Nuclear War Records, 1982-2012 (inclusive)

Extent:: 3.1 linear ft. (3.1 linear feet.)
Abstract:: Citizens Against Nuclear War was a coalition of 61 national organizations formed in 1982 as an initiative of the National Education Association. It had the goal of educating citizens about efforts to prevent nuclear war. Organizations which belonged to CAN encouraged their individual members to become informed about issues related to nuclear war. Among the members were professional associations, religious communities, women's and minority organizations, and labor unions. Programs included information and commentary for members' publications, speakers, seminars and legislative bulletins.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Zena Posever Collected Papers, 1978-1993, 1998 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.42 linear ft. (5 linear in.)
Abstract:: Zena Goldin Posever founded Artists Speak for Peace in South Florida in 1979(?) and organized their exhibitions in Greater Miami. In the mid-1980s, she advocated for the U.S. postal stamp honoring Paul Robeson. Posever has been a life-long member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Civil Defense Protest Committee Collected Records, 1955-1962 (bulk)

Extent:: 0.42 linear ft. (5 linear in.)
Abstract:: Collection includes meeting minutes, correspondence, legal documents, pamphlets, publicity materials, and newspaper clippings; the bulk of the collection is from 1955.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Consultative Peace Council Collected Records, 1930-1969 (bulk)

Extent:: 0.83 linear ft. (10 linear in.)
Abstract:: Includes correspondence, reports, financial records, administrative files, minutes of meetings, publicity materials, brochures, newspaper clippings. Correspondents include: Devere Allen, Dorothy Detzer, Alfred Hassler, Jessie Wallace Hughan, Abe Kaufman, Frederick J. Libby, A.J. Muste, Ray Newton, Mildred Scott Olmsted, John Swomley, E. Raymond Wilson, and M.R. Zigler.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Freeze Campaigns Collected Records, 1980-1988 (bulk)

Extent:: 0.83 linear ft. (10 linear inches.)
Abstract:: Collection includes brochures and flyers, printed correspondence, and pamphlets about the nuclear freeze movement.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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