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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
Pennsylvania Committee for Total Disarmament Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-030
Overview
The Pennsylvania Committee for Total Disarmament was active from 1930 to 1936, chiefly in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Through public opinion and personal contacts, PCTD supporters pressured Congress to support total disarmament, including passage of the Frazier Amendment outlawing war. Other objectives of the Committee included a Congressional investigation of the munitions industry, opposition to all preparations and training for war (including ROTC), and support for...
Dates:
1930-1938
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:
1923-1994
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 2
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- Amnesty -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
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- Counseling -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
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- Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 1
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- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 1
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- Names
- Barr, Allen H. 2
- Brooks, R. Boland 2
- Brown, H. Runham (Herbert Runham), 1879-1949 2
- Gottlieb, Edward P. 2
- Kaufman, Abraham 2
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 2
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 2
- Wentworth, Lydia G., 1858- 2
- Aberman, Sidney 1
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 1
- Allinson, Brent D. (Brent Dow) 1
- Babcock, Caroline L. (Caroline Lexow), 1882- 1
- Benson, Purnell Handy, 1913- 1
- Big Flats Defense Committee 1
- Brockway, Fenner, 1888-1988 1
- Byrns, Elinor 1
- Civilian Public Service 1
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 1
- Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments (1932-1934) (Geneva, Switzerland) 1
- Cope, Eliza M. 1
- Corfman, Rex 1
- Cornell, Julien D., 1910- 1
- Cox, Lucy A. 1
- DeSilver, Harrison 1
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 1
- DiGia, Ralph 1
- Drexel, Constance 1
- Dulles, Sophia H. 1
- Dunbar, Olivia Howard, 1873-1953 1
- Eichel, Julius, 1896- 1
- Eves, William 1
- Finch, Henry Le Roy 1
- Frankel, Esther S. (Esther Strum) 1
- Frazier, Lynn J. (Lynn Joseph), 1874-1947 1
- Goldwasser, Martin 1
- Gordon, Lindley V. 1
- Hartmann, George W. (George Wilfried), 1904-1955 1
- Harvey, William Brinton, 1862- 1
- Hedemann, Ed 1
- Hedemann, Grace 1
- Hennacy, Ammon, 1893-1970 1
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 1
- Hoopes, Darlington, b. 1896 1
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 1
- Hull, William I. (William Isaac), 1868-1939 1
- Kepler, Roy C. 1
- Lee, Jennie, 1904- 1
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 1
- Lief, Alfred, 1901- 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
- Newton, Ray 1
- Nicholson, Vincent D. (Vincent De Witt), 1890-1945 1
- Olmstead, Frank 1
- Pennsylvania Committee for Total Disarmament 1
- Ransom, Frances Rose 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
- Smith, Tucker P. 1
- Tatum, Arlo D. 1
- United Pacifist Committee 1
- Van Kirk, Walter W. (Walter William), 1891-1956 1
- Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949 1
- War Resisters League 1
- Watts, Roland 1
- Whitney, Norman J. (Norman Jehiel), 1891-1967 1
- Williams, H. Justice 1
- Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987 1
- Winsor, Mary, 1869-1956 1
- Witherspoon, Frances, 1886-1973 1
- Wright, Edward Needles, 1897- 1 ∧ less
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