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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
War Resisters League Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-040
Overview
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:
1923-2006
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Amnesty -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil disobedience 1
- Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection 1
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Counseling -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft -- 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 -- United States -- 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 ∧ less
- Names
- Aberman, Sidney 1
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 1
- Benson, Purnell Handy, 1913- 1
- Big Flats Defense Committee 1
- Brown, H. Runham (Herbert Runham), 1879-1949 1
- Civilian Public Service 1
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 1
- Corfman, Rex 1
- Cornell, Julien D., 1910- 1
- DeSilver, Harrison 1
- DiGia, Ralph 1
- Dunbar, Olivia Howard, 1873-1953 1
- Eichel, Julius, 1896- 1
- Finch, Henry Le Roy 1
- Frankel, Esther S. (Esther Strum) 1
- Goldwasser, Martin 1
- Hartmann, George W. (George Wilfried), 1904-1955 1
- Hedemann, Ed 1
- Hedemann, Grace 1
- Hennacy, Ammon, 1893-1970 1
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 1
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 1
- Kepler, Roy C. 1
- MacAdam, Ruth E. 1
- McReynolds, David 1
- Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors 1
- Milgram, Morris, 1916-1997 1
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 1
- Olmstead, Frank 1
- Ransom, Frances Rose 1
- Richards, Edward C. M., 1886-1974 1
- Roodenko, Igal 1
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 1
- Schaum, Winifred W. 1
- Schwartz, Wendy (Editor) 1
- Tatum, Arlo D. 1
- United Pacifist Committee 1
- War Resisters League 1
- Watts, Roland 1
- Wentworth, Lydia G., 1858- 1
- Whitney, Norman J. (Norman Jehiel), 1891-1967 1
- Witherspoon, Frances, 1886-1973 1 ∧ less
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