 | The exhibit's photographs include this image of protesters flashing the peace symbol at a Vietnam Moratorium held Oct. 15, 1969 on the New Haven Green. |
The history of the peace movement from World War I to the present is explored in a new exhibition at the Sterling Memorial Library.
Titled "Give Peace a Chance: Selected Documents from the Antiwar and Disarmament Movement," the exhibit in the library's Memorabilia Room highlights materials related to the history of grassroots organizing for peace in the United States. Drawn from Yale archives, collections of personal papers and organizational records, the exhibit features publications, posters, fliers, correspondence, photographs, speeches and other materials that document the organizing work of groups and individuals who opposed armed conflict and nuclear weapons throughout the 20th century.
The documents provide a view of the peace movement from pacifist, religious, international, economic, anti-militarist, human rights and social justice perspectives. The materials also display numerous tactics employed by peace activists, such as demonstrations, publications, lobbying, civil disobedience, political organizing and direct actions.
The many anti-war groups, protests and demonstrations of the Vietnam era play the most prominent role in the display. Selections from the papers of William Sloane Coffin Jr., a leader in the civil rights and peace movements during the 1960s and 1970s while he was Yale's chaplain, furnish extensive documentation of multiple mobilizations, draft resisters, conscientious objectors and the work of such groups as Clergy and Laity Concerned about Vietnam, Vietnam Summer, Resist and Americans for Re-appraisal of Far Eastern Policy. Local and nationwide campus unrest of this period can be seen in items from the Yale archives, the H. Stuart Hughes Papers, the Movement (Protest) Collection and the Kent State Collection.
Other movements represented in the exhibit include the Coalition to Stop Trident, a Connecticut-based organization active in the 1970s and 1980s that opposed the deployment and production of Trident-class nuclear submarines and missiles in the state and in New England. Selected fliers, posters, photographs, news clippings and other materials provide a historical perspective to the work of this group. The peace movement during the inter-war years is represented by publications, printed matter and ephemera from the collections of peace activists Florence Kitchelt, Elizabeth Page Harris and Chase Kimball.
The exhibit is open to the public weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Visitors can access the Memorabilia Room from the library's entrance at 128 Wall St. or from the main entrance at 120 High St.
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