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Peace Action Records
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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.
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Formed as a result of a merger between SANE and the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign in November 1987; called SANE/FREEZE until 1993, when name was changed to Peace Action; goals: to promote and clarify peace issues, elect pro-peace government officials, promote nuclear arms control, and lobby for a peace economy. Board of Directors members have included: Rev. William Sloane Coffin (President 1987-1990), Olivia Abelson, Dot Baker, Joan Bolte, Lois Booth, Gloria Bouis, Bob Brand, Kay Bridgeford, Steven Brion-Meisels, Beth Broadway, Acie Byrd, Elizabeth Ainsley Campbell, Rev. Kiuyl Chung, Norm Cohen, Elizabeth Campbell Elliott, Judy Feinstein, Al Fishman, Don Gardner, Mark Harrison, Gerald Horne, Mike Keller, Jerry Kendall, Michael Klare, Barbara Kopit, Judy Lerner, Jane Milliken, Jack O'Dell, Shirley Romaine, Angela Sanbrano, Jan Sanders, Robert Schwartz, Don Shaffer, Angelia Smith, Jessie Stratton, Sue Strong, Sylvia Temmer, William Towe, and Cora Weiss. Advisory council members have included: Rev. William Sloane Coffin (President in 1993), Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Ossie Davis, Peter Yarrow, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Toshi and Pete Seeger, Colleen Dewhurst, Harry Belafonte, Rabbi Balfour Brickner, Noam Chomsky, David Cortright, Hon. Ronald Dellums, David Kappel, Michael Klare, Hon. Hilda Howland Mason, Marcus Raskin, Marian Wright Edelman, Coretta Scott King, and David McReynolds.
Gift of Peace Action, 1988-1995.
People
Organization
- Peace Action (Organization)
- SANE/FREEZE: Campaign for Global Security
- SANE/FREEZE (Organization)
- Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign
Subject
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources
- Peace Movements -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Nuclear Disarmament -- History -- Sources
- Antinuclear movement
- Nuclear Disarmament
- Peace Movements
- Peace -- Societies, etc
Place
- Publisher
- Swarthmore College Peace Collection
- Access Restrictions
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The collection is open for research use.
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All or part of this collection is stored off-site. Contact Swarthmore College Peace Collection staff at peacecollection@swarthmore.edu at least two weeks in advance of visit to request boxes.
Collection Inventory
including material from preparatory meetings
includes report by Sylvia and Georges Temmer
includes report by Paul McNeil
includes report by June Gerrish
includes report by Sylvia and Georges Tummer
Moica Green was Director of Fieldwork (1989-May 1990), and Executive Director (1990-1995).