Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Committee to End Slave Labor in America Collected Records
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Committee to End Slave Labor in America
Abstract
Includes correspondence, flyers, reports.
Dates:
Majority of material found in 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
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- Subject: Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources X
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- Conscientious objection -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Selective conscientious objection -- 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, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
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