National Interreligious Service Board for Conscientious Objectors
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Alliance for Conscientious Objectors Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-088
Abstract
The Alliance for Conscientious Objectors (AFCO), based in Seattle (Washington), was founded in 1970 by John Long and Paul Anderson, who served as its national coordinator. It changed its name in 1972 to represent a wider scope of purpose. During this time, conscientious objectors who performed two years of alternate service, the same period as those drafted into the military served, were not entitled to Veterans Administration benefits under the GI Bill of Rights. By 1974 AFCO had reached a...
Dates:
1970-1974
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Center on Conscience and War Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-025
Abstract
Organization still in existence that was formed to aid conscientious objectors in World War II.
Dates:
1940-2015
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Dwight S. Large and Frances K. Large Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Large, Dwight S. and Frances K. Large
Abstract
Papers of a Frances K. and Dwight S. Large, who worked for legal amnesty for Vietnam War resisters.
Dates:
1969-1976
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Amnesty -- Congresses -- History -- Sources 1
- Amnesty -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Amnesty -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- Brethren in Christ Church -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- Mennonites -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Religious aspects -- Sources 1
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- War -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
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