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Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-073
Abstract

CCCO developed a nationwide network of military and draft counselors and attorneys to assist conscientious objectors. Most active during the Korean and Vietnam Wars, the CCCO promoted such issues as amnesty, repatriation, and counter-recruitment.Operations were suspended in late October 2009. As of 2010, some of their counseling service has been taken over by the GI Rights Hotline.

Dates: 1948-2010

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

Dwight S. Large and Frances K. Large Collected Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Large, Dwight S. and Frances K. Large
Abstract

Papers of a Frances K. and Dwight S. Large, who worked for legal amnesty for Vietnam War resisters.

Dates: 1969-1976

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

Young Friends of North America Committee on Conscription Records

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Identifier: SCPC-DG-083
Abstract The Young Friends of North America, an open fellowship of Friends between the ages of 18 and 30, established a Committee on Conscription in the fall of 1968 to facilitate communication among Friends who were involved with draft resistance. The Committee, chaired by C.O. Peter Blood, collected information from members of the Religious Society of Friends who had refused to cooperate with conscription since the 1940s, as well as Friends who were currently imprisoned for draft resistance....
Dates: 1968-1971

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Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
Amnesty -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 3
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Conscientious objection -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 2
Counseling -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 2
World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 2
African American soldiers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Amnesty -- Congresses -- History -- Sources 1
Amnesty -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
Asylum, Right of -- History -- Sources 1
Conscientious objectors -- North America -- History -- Sources 1
Methodist Church -- Political activity -- History -- Sources 1
Quakers -- North America -- History -- Sources 1
Quakers -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
United States -- Armed Forces -- African Americans 1
United States -- Armed Forces -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc. 1
United States -- Armed Forces -- Women 1
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Sources 1
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Religious aspects -- Sources 1
War -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- Sources 1
War -- Religious aspects -- Church of the Brethren 1
War -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
War -- Religious aspects -- Mennonite Church 1
War -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
Women and the military -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Women soldiers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Sources 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Religious aspects -- Sources 1
Youth and peace -- History -- Sources 1
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Names
Civilian Public Service 2
Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 2
Tatum, Arlo D. 2
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation. Project on Amnesty 1
American Friends Service Committee 1
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Amnesty Information and Action Center 1
Barr, Allen H. 1
Benson, Purnell Handy, 1913- 1
Big Flats Defense Committee 1
Blood, Peter, -1946 1
Boss, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), 1888- 1
Brethren Service Committee 1
Brooks, R. Boland 1
CCCO/An Agency for Military and Draft Counseling 1
Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors 1
Colton, Kenneth R. 1
Cornell, Julien D., 1910- 1
DeSilver, Harrison 1
Farnsworth, Douglis 1
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Committee on the Conscientious Objector 1
Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 1
First, Curry 1
Frankel, Esther S. (Esther Strum) 1
French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 1
Goldwasser, Martin 1
Gottlieb, Edward P. 1
Gulick, Steve 1
Hartman, Grover L. 1
Hosman, Glenn B. 1
Jordan, John E. (John Edward), 1934- 1
Kaufman, Abraham 1
Landau, Jon 1
Large, Dwight S. 1
Large, Frances K. 1
Lazarus, Frieda Langer 1
Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 1
MacAdam, Ruth E. 1
Mennonite Central Committee 1
Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors 1
Milgram, Morris, 1916-1997 1
Musil, Robert K. 1
National Council for Universal and Unconditional Amnesty 1
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Emergency Ministeries Concerning the War 1
National Interreligious Service Board for Conscientious Objectors 1
National Service Board for Religious Objectors 1
Schwarzschild, Henry 1
Seeley, Robert A. 1
Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 1
United Methodist Church (U.S.) 1
United Pacifist Committee 1
United States. Selective Service System 1
Watts, Roland 1
Whitney, Norman J. (Norman Jehiel), 1891-1967 1
Will, Herman, 1915- 1
Willoughby, George, pacifist 1
Wren, Irene 1
Wright, Eric E. 1
Young Friends of North America. Committee on Conscription 1
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