From the Bottom Up: The Ramifications of the History of the New Jersey Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy.

Local SANE activists, like the rest of the peace movement of the late fifties and early sixties, were more left and more female than heretofore understood. By contrast, national SANE’s largely male, social–democratic leadership was more isolated and more autocratic than earlier portraits have acknowledged. The divisions of May 1960 arose with the group’s founding and lasted into the new decade. However, one cannot understand the divisions, and thus understand the actual history of SANE, without studying the local level. New Jersey SANE, which was always SANE’s most vibrant chapter, provides the lens through which this paper contributes to that fuller understanding. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]