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Devere Allen Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-053
Abstract
Author, editor, journalist and lecturer; advocate of internationalist pacifism; influential member of the Socialist Party in the 1930s; genealogist; recorder of Rhode Island history and lore; named Harold Devere Allen.
Dates:
1809-1978; Majority of material found within 1910-1955
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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
Center on Conscience and War Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-025
Overview
Organization still in existence that was formed to aid conscientious objectors in World War II.
Dates:
1940-2015
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Consultative Peace Council Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Consultative Peace Council
Abstract
Includes correspondence, reports, financial records, administrative files, minutes of meetings, publicity materials, brochures, newspaper clippings. Correspondents include: Devere Allen, Dorothy Detzer, Alfred Hassler, Jessie Wallace Hughan, Abe Kaufman, Frederick J. Libby, A.J. Muste, Ray Newton, Mildred Scott Olmsted, John Swomley, E. Raymond Wilson, and M.R. Zigler.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1930-1969
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Julien D. Cornell Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-010
Abstract
Julien Cornell (1910-1994) practiced law in New York City, with a special interest in civil liberties. During World War II, he handled many cases for conscientious objectors, as well as advising many other COs about their various problems with the legal system. He was considered an expert on legal issues regarding conscientious objection and Civilian Public Service, and was consulted by many lawyers throughout the country for his opinions.
Dates:
1940-1947
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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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- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 4
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 4
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 3
- Barr, Allen H. 3
- Brooks, R. Boland 3
- Civilian Public Service 3
- Cornell, Julien D., 1910- 3
- DeSilver, Harrison 3
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 3
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 3
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 3
- Newton, Ray 3
- Boss, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), 1888- 2
- Butcher, Agnes Young, 1921-2005 2
- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 2
- Gottlieb, Edward P. 2
- Gregg, Richard Bartlett, 1885- 2
- Hassler, Alfred, 1910- 2
- Hill, Lewis K. 2
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 2
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 2
- MacAdam, Ruth E. 2
- Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors 2
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 2
- National Committee on Conscientious Objectors (U.S.) 2
- Olmstead, Frank 2
- Pacifist Action Committee 2
- Phillips, Randolph Godfrey 2
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 2
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 2
- Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 2
- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 2
- War Resisters League 2
- Whitney, Norman J. (Norman Jehiel), 1891-1967 2
- Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987 2
- Aberman, Sidney 1
- Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971 1
- Adler, Friedrich 1
- Albert, Alfred, 1908- 1
- Allen, Horatio, 1802-1889 1
- American Civil Liberties Union 1
- American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky 1
- American Friends Service Committee 1
- American League against War and Fascism 1
- Angell, Ernest, 1889-1973 1
- Angell, Norman, 1874-1967 1
- Anti-War Mobilization Mass Meeting (1940 : Washington, D.C.) 1
- Baer, Gertrude 1
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 1
- Beard, Charles A. (Charles Austin), 1874-1948 1
- Benson, Purnell Handy, 1913- 1
- Berg, Russel O. 1
- Big Flats Defense Committee 1
- Bolling, Landrum Rymer 1
- Borkholder, Philip L. 1
- Brainerd, Heloise, 1881-1969 1
- Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 1
- Brittain, Vera, 1893-1970 1
- Brockway, Fenner, 1888-1988 1
- Broun, Heywood, 1888-1939 1
- Brown, H. Runham (Herbert Runham), 1879-1949 1
- Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 1
- Burritt, Elihu, 1810-1879 1
- Catchpool, Corder, 1883-1952 1
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 1
- Center on Conscience and War 1
- Ceresole, Pierre, 1879-1945 1
- Chase, E. Dixwell 1
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 1
- Consultative Peace Council (U.S.) 1
- Coolidge, A. Sprague 1
- Corfman, Rex 1
- Cranston, Maurice, 1920-1993 1
- Curry, A. Stauffer (Abram Stauffer), 1913- 1
- Curti, Merle (Merle Eugene), 1897-1996 1
- Dewey, John, 1859-1952 1
- DiGia, Ralph 1
- Doty, C. LeRoy 1
- Drevet, Camille 1
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 1
- Dulles, John Foster 1
- Dunbar, Olivia Howard, 1873-1953 1
- Eichel, Julius, 1896- 1
- Einstein, Albert 1
- Emergency Peace Campaign (U.S.) 1
- Engelbrecht, H. C. (Helmuth Carol), 1895-1939 1
- Fangmeier, Robert 1
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 1
- Fey, Harold E. (Harold Edward), 1898-1990 1
- Finch, Henry Le Roy 1
- Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 1
- Florence, Lella Secor, 1887-1966 1
- Forster, Clifford 1
- Frankel, Esther S. (Esther Strum) 1
- Fry, A. Ruth (Anna Ruth), 1878-1962 1
- Furnas, Paul J. 1
- Garvey, Marcus, 1887-1940 1
- Goldwasser, Martin 1 ∧ less
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