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Swomley, John M., 1915-2010

 Person

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Friends Committee on National Legislation Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-047
Abstract

A Quaker lobbying group established in 1943 to bring conscience and spiritual values to the political process in Washington; it grew out of the work of the Friends War Problems Committee in 1940.

Dates: 1943-

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

John M. Swomley, Jr., Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-226
Overview

John M. Swomley, Jr.; minister in the Methodist Church; served as Director of the National Council Against Conscription, editor of Conscription News, and as National Secretary of the Fellowship of Reconciliation; active with the American Friends Service Committee and the American Civil Liberties Union; campaigned against universal military training; author of books on militarism and the Cold War.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1940-2002

Women's Committee to Oppose Conscription Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-068
Overview This group was originally named the Committee to Oppose the Conscription of Women [WCOC], and then the National Committee to Oppose the Conscription of Women. It was formed in 1942 to protest the Austin-Wadsworth legislative bills and similar measures, which proposed that American women be drated into a civilian workforce for the duration of World War II. When the immediate threat of drafting women had passed, the group changed its name again, this time to the Women's Committee to Oppose...
Dates: 1942-1948

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Conscientious objection -- United States 1
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Conscientious objectors -- United States 1
Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Disarmament 1
Draft -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
Draft -- United States 1
Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Food supply 1
Illinois -- Politics and government 1
Indians of North America -- Civil rights 1
Lobbying -- California 1
Lobbying -- Illinois 1
Lobbying -- United States 1
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Methodist Church -- Clergy -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Militarism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Military nursing -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
National service -- United States 1
Nonviolence -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- Sources 1
Nonviolence -- United States 1
Pacifism -- United States 1
Peace -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- Sources 1
Peace -- Societies, etc. 1
Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
Peace movements -- United States 1
Quakers -- Political activity 1
Society of Friends -- Political activity 1
Society of Friends -- Societies, etc. 1
United States -- Armed Forces -- African Americans -- History -- Sources 1
United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century 1
United States -- Race relations -- History -- Sources 1
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Religious aspects 1
War -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
War -- Religious aspects 1
Wisconsin -- Politics and government 1
Women -- Societies and clubs 1
Women and war -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors 1
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