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Conscription, 1917-

 Collection

Scope and Contents

This collection is part of Subject File #1. This collection includes general material up to 1979, 1980-1999, 2000- , and undated, and materials on "Crisis in Military Manpower: The Draft vs. All-Volunteer Army" manuscript, circa 1976; article "A Look at Conscription; Then and Now" by James J. Martin, 2003; debate on Compulsory Peacetime Conscription/Military Service, 1917-1947; conscription/recruitment of African-Americans and women; draft counseling; notes on "Selective Service Law Reporter" and "Military Law Reporter;" "The Student's Guide to Military Service" by Michael Harwood, 1968-1969 edition; "Military Counseling Manual" by the National Lawyers' Guild, 1969; "Counseling Draft Resistance: The Case for a Good Faith Belief Defense" by Alexander Capron and David Rosen, 1969; "Draft Counseling and Educational Centers: A Manual for Organizers" by Interfaith Committee on Draft Information, circa 1969-1970; "The New Draft Law: A Manual for Lawyers and Counselors" by the National Lawyers' Guild, circa 1969-1970; "Tools for Counselors, Attorneys, Librarie,; Vol. 1" by the CCCO, 1972 (cataloged); "Your Rights and the Draft" by Kenneth Lasson, 1980 (cataloged); "What Are You Being Drafted For? Thirty Years of Selective Service Racism" by Ken Lawrence, 1981 (catalogued); military discharges; government documents: legislation on Selective Service; "Selective Service Regulations" (and appendix), 1917; "American Selective Service: A Brief Account of Its Historical Background and Probable Future," 1939; "Selective Service Regulations and The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940; As Amended," 1942; miscellaneous, 1943- ; legislation on compulsory military service; Selective Service forms.

Dates

  • Creation: 1917-

Related Materials

  1. Military Training (Subject File #1)
  2. Draft Resistance/Evasion (Subject File #1)

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