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Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-048
Abstract
The Federal Council of Churches organized its Committee on the Conscientious Objector under its Department of International Justice and Goodwill in 1941. The Committee was interested in all aspects of conscientious objection, especially religious life in Civilian Public Service camps. Among the Committee's projects was the organizing of a program of visitation to CPS camps.
Dates:
1941-1946
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- American Friends Service Committee 1
- American Legion 1
- Barton, Bruce, 1886-1967 1
- Brethren Service Committee 1
- Bromfield, Louis, 1896-1956 1
- Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 1
- Civilian Public Service 1
- Conkling, Roscoe S. (Roscoe Seely), 1884-1956 1
- Dewey, John, 1859-1952 1
- Einstein, Albert 1
- Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Committee on the Conscientious Objector 1
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 1
- Fosdick, Harry Emerson 1
- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 1
- Hartman, Grover L. 1
- Holdridge, Herbert C. (Herbert Charles), 1892-1974 1
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 1
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 1
- Mennonite Central Committee 1
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 1
- National Council Against Conscription (U.S.) 1
- National Council Against Peacetime Conscription Now (U.S.) 1
- National Service Board for Religious Objectors 1
- Newton, Ray 1
- Reuter, Richard W. (Richard Ward), 1918- 1
- Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 1
- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 1
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