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American Civil Liberties Union: National Committee on Conscientious Objectors Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-022
Overview
The roots of the NCCO began shortly after conscription in WWII was instituted. Little is known about the New York Office of the NCCO. It was headquartered at 31 Union Square West in New York City (NY) where the ACLU had its offices, and was likely set up in 1940, under the chairmanship of Norman Angell, and stayed in existence through 1945. In Washington (DC), the Temporary Committee for Legal Aid to Conscientious Objectors was formed in 1940. R. Boland Brooks had gone to NSBRO (National...
Dates:
1940-1946
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Women's Committee to Oppose Conscription Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-068
Overview
This group was originally named the Committee to Oppose the Conscription of Women [WCOC], and then the National Committee to Oppose the Conscription of Women. It was formed in 1942 to protest the Austin-Wadsworth legislative bills and similar measures, which proposed that American women be drated into a civilian workforce for the duration of World War II. When the immediate threat of drafting women had passed, the group changed its name again, this time to the Women's Committee to Oppose...
Dates:
1942-1948
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Filtered By
- Names: Harkness, Georgia Elma, 1891-1974 X
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- Conscientious objectors -- United States 1
- Draft -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Military nursing -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Selective conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Women and the military -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Women and war -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Sources 1 ∧ less
- Names
- American Civil Liberties Union 1
- Angell, Norman, 1874-1967 1
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 1
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 1
- Boss, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), 1888- 1
- Brooks, R. Boland 1
- Butcher, Agnes Young, 1921-2005 1
- Chalmers, Frances K. (Frances Kinghorn) 1
- Civilian Public Service 1
- Cleghorn, Sarah Norcliffe, 1876-1959 1
- Committee to Oppose the Conscription of Women 1
- Cornell, Julien D., 1910- 1
- DeSilver, Harrison 1
- Elfenbein, Elsie Wright 1
- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 1
- Garst, Eleanor 1
- Gregg, Richard Bartlett, 1885- 1
- Hill, Lewis K. 1
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 1
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 1
- Kaufman, Abraham 1
- La Force, Pearl A. 1
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 1
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 1
- National Committee on Conscientious Objectors (U.S.) 1
- Olmstead, Frank 1
- Phillips, Randolph Godfrey 1
- Pierce, Katharine C. (Katharine Curtis), 1882- 1
- Randall, Mercedes M. (Mercedes Moritz), 1895-1977 1
- Reeves, George B., 1905- 1
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 1
- Schomer, Elsie 1
- Scudder, Vida Dutton, 1861-1954 1
- Stewart, Annalee, 1900?- 1
- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 1
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 1
- Thomas, Norman 1
- Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987 1
- Witherspoon, Frances, 1886-1973 1
- Women's Committee to Oppose Conscription 1 ∧ less
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