Fast for Peace Committee (U.S.). Collection, 1950-1951

Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987

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Bayard Rustin (b. March 17, 1912, West Chester, Pennsylvania–d. August 24, 1987, Manhattan, New York) was an African-American Quaker who was concerned with nonviolence, socialism, civil rights, race relations, and international relations. He was connected with the Fellowship of Reconciliation, American Friends Service Committee, War Resisters League, Congress of Racial Equality, and Committee for Nonviolent Civil Disobedience against Military Segregation. He was imprisoned during World War II fo...

Swarthmore College. Peace Collection.

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Dellinger, David T., 1915-2004

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Muste, A. J. (Abraham John), 1885-1967

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Clergyman, pacifist. From the description of Reminiscences of Abraham John Muste : oral history, 1954. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309741542 From the description of Reminiscences of Abraham John Muste : oral history, 1965. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122681124 A.J. Muste (1885-1967). Muste's involvement as a labor organizer began in 1919. When he led strikes in the textile mills of Lawrenc...

Day, Dorothy, 1897-1980

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Dorothy Day (1897-1980), American pacifist, social activist, convert to Roman Catholicism, author, and advocate for the poor; founded the Catholic Worker Movement with Peter Maurin. From the description of Dorothy Day collected papers, 1915- (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 721330723 Editor and publisher of The Catholic Worker. From the description of Correspondence, with Agnes Inglis, 1943-1948. (University of Michigan). WorldCat recor...

Fast for Peace Committee (U.S.)

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Fifty-four activists from throughout the U.S. who fasted in Washington D.C., Apr. 2-9, 1950 to protest the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb by the U.S.; similar fasts were held in other states and countries in support of the Committee. Members included individuals from the New York Fellowship of Reconciliation, Peacemakers, the Catholic Worker, and the War Resisters League; participants included Bayard Rustin, Dorothy Day, David Dellinger, A.J. Muste, and Wallace F. Nelson. From the ...

Nelson, Wallace F.

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Wallace Floyd (Wally) Nelson, b. 1909, was an African American conscientious objector and World War II absolute pacifist who illegally walked out of the Civilian Public Service Camp, No. 23 near Coshocton, Ohio. He was imprisoned for his walkout in a segregated federal prison in Danbury, Conn. He had a long history of activism, participating in 1934 in the student strike on the campus of the University of Chicago. In 1946 he participated in the Journey of Reconciliation--the first freedom ride b...