Frankel, Esther S. (Esther Strum)

Correspondence, administrative files, financial records, flyers, newspaper clippings, reference files. Correspondents include Esther S. Frankel and Abraham Kaufman.

The collection contains case files and occasional correspondence of Frankel relating to her work handling civil liberties and selective service litigation. It includes subject file material mostly relating to conscientious objection, and the men who resisted the draft either before being drafted or after.

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.