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Start Over Subject Peace Movements -- United States -- History -- Sources Subject Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources Year 1965 to 1969

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Vietnam Summer Records, 1967

Extent:
11 linear ft. (11 linear ft.)
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Vietnam Summer was a nationwide project designed to reach concerned citizens throughout the United States and to weld them into an organized and active constituency against the war in Vietnam. Martin Luther King, Jr., Benjamin Spock and others launched the project nationally on April 23, 1967. From headquarters in Cambridge, Mass. co-directors Richard R. Fernandez and Lee D. Webb coordinated the efforts of 500 paid staff members and over 26,000 volunteers in about 700 local projects. Vietnam Summer officially ended on September 20, 1967.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam Records, 1966-1969 (inclusive)

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4.16 linear ft. (10 boxes)
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The National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam was a conference of groups opposed to the United States' involvement in Vietnam. This groups in1966 and its first major undertaking at that time was to organize a mass rally on April 15, 1967, both in New York City and in San Francisco. The Mobe's chief aim was to mobilize public opinion against the Vietnamese War and against such other injustices of society as black inequality. It sought to weld a coalition of existing peace groups and to spark the formation of new action groups across the country.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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Clergy and Laity Concerned Records, 1965-1983 (inclusive)

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48 linear ft. (48 linear ft.)
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The collection includes minutes (1966-1973), correspondence (1965-1978), material on Clergy and Laity Concerned's programs and projects, Clergy and Laity Concerned (CALC) publications and posters, press releases, clippings, photographs, and files on local CALC groups, particularly the Metropolitan Chicago Chapter (1969-1981). Also included are files of the newspaper American Report (1970-1974) and material relating to Help Unsell the War, a mass media campaign in 1971-1972. Correspondents include Barbara Armentrout, John C. Bennett, Richard M. Boardman, Balfour Brickner, Dorothy Dunbar Bromley, John Pairman Brown, Robert McAfee Brown, William Sloane Coffin, Harvey G. Cox, Peter Davies, Richard R. Fernandez, Thomas Lee Hayes, Ron Henderson, Abraham Heschel, David L. Hurwood, Robert S. Lecky, Robert Jay Lifton, Robert A. Maslow, Richard John Neuhaus, Sidney M. Peck, Richard Van Voorhis, George W. Webber, Charles C. West, Herman Will, and Trudi Schutz Young.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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David Cortright Papers, 1968 - (inclusive)

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29 linear ft. (29 linear ft.)
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David Cortright is an anuthor and antimilitarist. He was a co-founder of GI's United Against the War in Vietnam. After the early 1970s Cortright led several peace organizations, including SANE, Inc. and SANE/FREEZE. Cortright current serves as president of the Fourth Freedom Forum [ca. 1996 - date].

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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Negotiation Now! Records, 1968-1972 (inclusive)

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13.75 linear ft. (33 boxes)
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Negotiation Now! was a national citizens' campaign for new initiatives to end the war in Vietnam by means of massive petitioning The group was later known as the National Committee for a Political Settlement in Vietnam. Its members called upon the United States government to unconditionally end the bombing of North Vietnam. It supported (then) U.N. Secretary General U Thant's call for negotiations among all parties to the conflict, leading to a political settlement of the war.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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Robert Wallace Gilmore Papers, 1960-1982 (bulk)

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11.25 linear ft. (11.25 linear ft.)
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Robert W. Gilmore was a Quaker pacifist who was involved in a number of peace groups, either as a staffperson or as a Board member. His papers reflect these involvements through correspondence and other materials.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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Benjamin Spock Collected Papers, 1964-1972 (bulk)

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0.83 linear ft. (10 linear inches.)
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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]

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C. Douglas Hostetter Papers, 1959- (bulk)

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12.7 linear ft. (12.7 linear feet.)
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C. Douglas Hostetter (1944 - ), has been an peace activist since the 1960s. He was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam war and performed alternative service for the Mennonite Central Committee in rural Vietnam.Following his work in Vietnam Hostetter worked for the United Methodist Church at the United Nations on international affairs. From the mid 1980s through the end of the decade Hostetter served as the executive secretary of the American Friends Service Committee in their New England regional office. He served as the Executive Secretary of the Fellowship of Reconcilation from 1987-1993. During the 1990s Hostetter was the international/interfaith secretary of the FOR and directed the Bosnian Student Project for the organization. In 2003 he was ordained as Peace Pastor at the Evanston, Illinois Mennonite Church. Since 2006 Hostetter has been the director of the Mennonite Central Committee at the United Nations. Throughout his life Hostetter has been heavily involved in...(see more)

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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Women Strike for Peace Records, 1961-1996 (inclusive)

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45 linear ft. (45 linear ft.)
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Women Strike for Peace came into existence on November 1, 1961, as a protest against atmospheric nuclear tests by the U.S. and the Soviet Union. By the late 1980s the national WSP office in Philadelphia closed, but the WSP legislative office and various WSP branches around the U.S. remained active through the 1990s.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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John Beer Collected Papers, 1954-1985 (bulk)

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2.08 linear ft. (25 linear in.)
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John Beer was a professor of the history of science and chemistry, as well as a Quaker peace and antinuclear activist.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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May 2nd Movement Collected Records, 1965 (bulk)

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0.08 linear ft. (1 folder.)
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Collection includes printed statements, correspondence, leaflets regarding the Movment's antiwar and anti-draft activities.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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Ann Morrissett Davidon and William C. Davidon Papers, 1949- (inclusive)

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9 linear ft. (9 linear ft.)
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Ann Morrissett Davidon (1925-2004), was a writer, editor, educator, pacifist and peace activist through her entire life. William Cooper Davidon(1927- 2013), was a professor of physics at Haverford College and (retired 1994), pacifist, peace activist. The two were married in 1963 and both continued to be very active in peace, pacifist, anti-Vietnam War, and social justice organizations. They advocated and practiced war-tax resistance. In 1971, William Davidon was named an "unindicted co-conspirator" in a plot to kidnap Henry Kissenger. Ann Davidon remained active in peace issues for her entire life.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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Bradford Lyttle Papers, 1954- (inclusive)

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49.75 linear ft. (49.75 linear ft.)
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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]

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Another Mother for Peace Records, 1964-1978 (inclusive) 1964-1978 (bulk)

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5.5 linear ft. (5.5 linear ft.)
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Another Mother for Peace was a women's peace group born from the antipathy to the war in Vietnam, based in Los Angeles, California. The stated purpose of this non-partison, non-profit organization was "to educate women to take an active role in eliminating war as a means of solving disputes between nations, people and ideologies." AMP closed its offices in January 1986.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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Student Peace Union Records, 1959-1967 (inclusive)

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5 linear ft. (5 linear feet.)
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The Student Peace Union was founded at the University of Chicago in 1959. It was an intercollegiate student group whose members believed that neither war nor the threat of war could any longer be successfully used to settle international disputes.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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