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American Civil Liberties Union: National Committee on Conscientious Objectors Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-022
Abstract
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
Abstract
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
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
Abstract
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:
1923-2013
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
- Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 2
- Amnesty -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil disobedience 1
- Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection 1
- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- Brethren in Christ Church -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- Mennonites -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objectors -- United States 1
- Counseling -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 1
- Pacifism 1
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 1
- Selective conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 1
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
- Names
- Barr, Allen H. 3
- Brooks, R. Boland 3
- Civilian Public Service 3
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 3
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 2
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 2
- Boss, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), 1888- 2
- Cornell, Julien D., 1910- 2
- DeSilver, Harrison 2
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 2
- Gottlieb, Edward P. 2
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 2
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 2
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 2
- Newton, Ray 2
- Olmstead, Frank 2
- Whitney, Norman J. (Norman Jehiel), 1891-1967 2
- Aberman, Sidney 1
- American Civil Liberties Union 1
- Angell, Norman, 1874-1967 1
- Anti-War Mobilization Mass Meeting (1940 : Washington, D.C.) 1
- Benson, Purnell Handy, 1913- 1
- Big Flats Defense Committee 1
- Borkholder, Philip L. 1
- Brown, H. Runham (Herbert Runham), 1879-1949 1
- Butcher, Agnes Young, 1921-2005 1
- Center on Conscience and War 1
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 1
- Consultative Peace Council (U.S.) 1
- Corfman, Rex 1
- Curry, A. Stauffer (Abram Stauffer), 1913- 1
- DiGia, Ralph 1
- Doty, C. LeRoy 1
- Dunbar, Olivia Howard, 1873-1953 1
- Eichel, Julius, 1896- 1
- Finch, Henry Le Roy 1
- Frankel, Esther S. (Esther Strum) 1
- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 1
- Furnas, Paul J. 1
- Goldwasser, Martin 1
- Gregg, Richard Bartlett, 1885- 1
- Harkness, Georgia Elma, 1891-1974 1
- Hartmann, George W. (George Wilfried), 1904-1955 1
- Hassler, Alfred, 1910- 1
- Hedemann, Ed 1
- Hedemann, Grace 1
- Hennacy, Ammon, 1893-1970 1
- Hershey, Lewis Blaine, 1893-1977 1
- Hill, Lewis K. 1
- Hoover, Warren W. 1
- Huston, Ora 1
- Joint Peace Board 1
- Kepler, Roy C. 1
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 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
- National Committee on Conscientious Objectors (U.S.) 1
- National Interreligious Service Board for Conscientious Objectors 1
- National Service Board for Religious Objectors 1
- Neutrality Bloc 1
- Pacifist Action Committee 1
- Peace Strategy Board 1
- Phillips, Randolph Godfrey 1
- Ransom, Frances Rose 1
- Reeves, George B., 1905- 1
- Richards, Edward C. M., 1886-1974 1
- Roodenko, Igal 1
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 1
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 1
- Schaum, Winifred W. 1
- Schwartz, Wendy (Editor) 1
- Sherk, J. Harold 1
- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 1
- Tatum, Arlo D. 1
- Tatum, Lyle 1
- Thomas, Norman 1
- Toney, Raymond J. 1
- United Pacifist Committee 1
- Van Kirk, Walter W. (Walter William), 1891-1956 1
- War Resisters League 1
- Watts, Roland 1
- Wentworth, Lydia G., 1858- 1
- Will, Herman, 1915- 1
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 1
- Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987 1
- Witherspoon, Frances, 1886-1973 1
- Yolton, L. William 1
- Zigler, M. R. 1 + ∧ less
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