Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources
Found in 80 Collections and/or Records:
Charles Bloomstein Collected Papers
Charles Bloomstein (1913 - 2002) was involved in a number of organizations that promoted civil rights, as well as peace. He was a conscientious objector during World War II, and served in Civilian Public Service (CPS) for three years.
Wilmer Brandt Collected Papers
Brandt was a conscientious objector to war, a Quaker, and interested in peace throughout his life.
Center on Conscience and War Records
Organization still in existence that was formed to aid conscientious objectors in World War II.
Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors Records
CCCO developed a nationwide network of military and draft counselors and attorneys to assist conscientious objectors. Most active during the Korean and Vietnam Wars, the CCCO promoted such issues as amnesty, repatriation, and counter-recruitment.Operations were suspended in late October 2009. As of 2010, some of their counseling service has been taken over by the GI Rights Hotline.
Central Conference of American Rabbis Collected Records
Charles C. Walker Papers
Minutes, reports, writings, notes, photographs, and printed material from Walker's work as an activist and nonviolent resistance trainer. Materials have been place in series based on how the subjects were identified in their original boxes.
Civilian Public Service Personal Papers and Collected Materials
Chiefly the personal papers of conscientious objectors assigned to Civilian Public Service (CPS) camps during World War II, such as correspondence, writings, memoirs, and reference material about CPS. Also included are records of or about various CPS camps and projects.
Civilian Public Service Union Records
Committee for Amnesty for All Objectors to War and Conscription Collected Records
Committee to End Slave Labor in America Collected Records
Includes correspondence, flyers, reports.
