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Robin Harper Collected Papers
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Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore 19081-1399
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Swarthmore College Peace Collection. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
Overview and metadata sections
Robin Harper is active in the peace movement. During the 1950s and 1960s he protested nuclear weapons and missile defense systems.
Gift of Robin Harper, 1991.
Processed by Anne Yoder, September 2007. Finding aid revised by Andrew Ciampa, July 2010.
People
Organization
- Walk for Peace (Project)
- Omaha Action (Project)
- Committee for a Quaker Peace Witness
- Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.)
- Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.)
- Prayer and Conscience Vigil, Washington, D.C., 1957
Subject
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Pacifists -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources
- War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Peace Movements -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Peace walks and marches -- History -- Sources
- Publisher
- Swarthmore College Peace Collection
- Access Restrictions
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Access: open for research without restrictions.
- Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
- Use Restrictions
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None.
Collection Inventory
Archival Resource Key. Miscellaneous involvements.
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Archival Resource Key. War tax resistance (by Harper).
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Archival Resource Key. Prayer and Conscience Vigil, Washington, D.C., 1957 (November 1 - December 1).
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Archival Resource Key. Protests at Cheyenne Missile Base, Wyoming, 1958.
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Archival Resource Key. Walk for Peace, 1958.
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Scope and Contents
[photographs removed to Photograph Collection]
Archival Resource Key. Omaha Action Against Nuclear Missile Policy, 1959.
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Archival Resource Key. Vigil at Fort Detrick Committee, 1959.
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Archival Resource Key. Vigil at Fort Detrick: Correspondence, etc., 1959-1960.
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Archival Resource Key. Vigil at Fort Detrick Committee, 1960 - 1961, undated.
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Archival Resource Key. Quaker Peace Witness, Washington, D.C., 1960 (November 12 - 14).
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Archival Resource Key. Philadelphia Area Committee to Welcome the San Francisco to Moscow Walk for Peace, 1961.
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Archival Resource Key. Witness for Peace Committee: Planning, etc., (Easter 1961).
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Scope and Contents
includes March to McGuire Air Force Base
Archival Resource Key. Appeal for No Testing: United Nations to White House Walk, 1962 (April - June).
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Archival Resource Key. Demonstration in support of Everyman crew, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1962 (May 31).
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Archival Resource Key. Earl Reynolds meeting: Planning, etc., 1962 (November 18).
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Archival Resource Key. Pentagon confrontation, 1967 (October 21).
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