Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964
Person
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Devere Allen Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-053
Abstract
Author, editor, journalist and lecturer; advocate of internationalist pacifism; influential member of the Socialist Party in the 1930s; genealogist; recorder of Rhode Island history and lore; named Harold Devere Allen.
Dates:
1809-1978; Majority of material found within 1910-1955
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
American Civil Liberties Union: National Committee on Conscientious Objectors Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-022
Overview
The roots of the NCCO began shortly after conscription in WWII was instituted. Little is known about the New York Office of the NCCO. It was headquartered at 31 Union Square West in New York City (NY) where the ACLU had its offices, and was likely set up in 1940, under the chairmanship of Norman Angell, and stayed in existence through 1945. In Washington (DC), the Temporary Committee for Legal Aid to Conscientious Objectors was formed in 1940. R. Boland Brooks had gone to NSBRO (National...
Dates:
1940-1946
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Eichel Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-131
Overview
The Eichel Family papers provide a unique glimpse into the lives of conscientious objectors and peace activists from one family over two generations, from 1916 onward. Julius Eichel, David Eichel and Albert Eichel were all C.O.s during WWI. Julius Eichel and his wife Esther Eichel protested WWII. Their son Seymour Eichel also served time in prison for his refusal to serve in the military in the 1950s.
Dates:
1918 - 2008
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
National Council Against Conscription Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-052
Overview
The National Council Against Conscription had its first official meeting on December 13, 1945 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Nation Council Against Conscription worked to defeat various legislative measures which promoted universal military training and peacetime conscription, by lobbying Congress, public speaking, publishing detailed analyses of proposed legislation, corresponding with magazine and newspaper editors about their coverage of Universal Military Training, and producing...
Dates:
1944-1960
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
War Resisters League Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-040
Overview
The War Resisters League is a pacifist organization whose members are against all war. Witnessing the establishment of the War Resisters' International in Europe in 1921, and sensing a need for a similar organization in the United States, Dr. Jessie Wallace Hughan established the War Resisters League as an independent organization. The War Resisters League membership pledge, which has remained essentially unchanged since its inception, reads: "The War Resisters League affirms that war is a...
Dates:
1923-2013
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Subject: Conscientious objection X
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- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Selective conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 2
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Civil disobedience 1
- Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Connecticut -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950 -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection 1
- Conscientious objection -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objectors -- United States 1
- Draft resisters -- History -- Sources 1
- Journalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Lecturers -- United States -- Biography -- Sources 1
- Pacifism 1
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 1
- Peace movements -- History -- Sources 1
- Periodical editors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Socialist parties -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Socialists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- United States -- Armed Forces -- African Americans -- History -- Sources 1
- United States -- Race relations -- History -- Sources 1
- Women and the military -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons -- Sources 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- World tomorrow (Periodical) 1
- Young democracy (Periodical) 1
- Youth and peace -- History -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
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