Barr, Allen H.
Person
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
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
Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-060
Abstract
The Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors was a non-sectarian, free advisory service for conscientious objectors to war and military service. The MBCO was set up to provide counseling and legal aid in metropolitan New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut and established by the United Pacifist Committee in 1940. The group disbanded in 1980.
Dates:
1940-1980
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Northern California Service Board for Conscientious Objectors Collected Records
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Northern California Service Board-Conscientious Objectors
Abstract
Includes printed correspondence, minutes of meetings, memoranda, brochures; correspondents include Allen H. Barr and Robert F. Leavens.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1940-1954
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
War Resisters League Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-040
Abstract
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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- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Amnesty -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil disobedience 1
- Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection 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 objectors -- California, Northern -- History -- Sources 1
- Counseling -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 1
- Pacifism 1
- Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifists -- California, Northern -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 1
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
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