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Alliance for Conscientious Objectors Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-088
Abstract
The Alliance for Conscientious Objectors (AFCO), based in Seattle (Washington), was founded in 1970 by John Long and Paul Anderson, who served as its national coordinator. It changed its name in 1972 to represent a wider scope of purpose. During this time, conscientious objectors who performed two years of alternate service, the same period as those drafted into the military served, were not entitled to Veterans Administration benefits under the GI Bill of Rights. By 1974 AFCO had reached a...
Dates:
1970-1974
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
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Courage to Resist Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Courage to Resist
Abstract
Printouts of emails from Courage to Resist to group lists.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 2007-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Eichel Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-131
Overview
The Eichel Family papers provide a unique glimpse into the lives of conscientious objectors and peace activists from one family over two generations, from 1916 onward. Julius Eichel, David Eichel and Albert Eichel were all C.O.s during WWI. Julius Eichel and his wife Esther Eichel protested WWII. Their son Seymour Eichel also served time in prison for his refusal to serve in the military in the 1950s.
Dates:
1918 - 2008
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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 married couple who worked for legal amnesty for Vietnam War resisters.
Dates:
1969-1976
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Alice Niles Lynd and Staughton Lynd Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-099
Overview
Staughton Lynd and Alice Niles Lynd, Quakers, authors, and activists in the civil rights and peace movements, who worked individually and collaborated on many labor and pacifist projects.
Dates:
1965-1995
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Albon Man Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Man, Albon P.
Abstract
Albon Platt Man Jr.,was called up for the draft during World War II, but failed to register because of his conscientious objection to war, and was sentenced to three years in prison in March 1943. He was later involvemented with the Committee for Amnesty, the CCCO, the War Resisters League, and other peace groups.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1943-1965
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
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- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 3
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- Tatum, Arlo D. 3
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 3
- Whitney, Norman J. (Norman Jehiel), 1891-1967 3
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- Barr, Allen H. 2
- Boss, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), 1888- 2
- Eichel, Julius, 1896- 2
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- Tatum, Lyle 2
- Will, Herman, 1915- 2
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- American Civil Liberties Union Foundation. Project on Amnesty 1
- Amnesty Information and Action Center 1
- Anderson, Paul, active 1970-1974 1
- Baker, Lillian 1
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 1
- Benson, Purnell Handy, 1913- 1
- Big Flats Defense Committee 1
- Borkholder, Philip L. 1
- Brethren Service Committee 1
- Bromley, Ernest 1
- Bromley, Marion, -1996 1
- Brooks, R. Boland 1
- CCCO/An Agency for Military and Draft Counseling 1
- Cary, Stephen G. 1
- Center on Conscience and War 1
- Coalition for Peace in the Middle East 1
- Colton, Kenneth R. 1
- Committee for Amnesty for All Objectors to War and Conscription 1
- Committee for Equality for All Draftees (U.S.) 1
- Conscientious Objectors for Equal Treatment (U.S.) 1
- Conscientious Objectors for Service Benefits (U.S.) 1
- Cornell, Julien D., 1910- 1
- Courage to Resist (Organization) 1
- Curry, A. Stauffer (Abram Stauffer), 1913- 1
- Curtice, Laurence L. 1
- DeSilver, Harrison 1
- Dellinger, David T., 1915-2004 1
- Denison, Paul Bert 1
- Dodge, Richard K. 1
- Doty, C. LeRoy 1
- Eichel family 1
- Eichel, Esther 1
- Eichel, Seymour 1
- Farnsworth, Douglis 1
- Faulkner, Stanley 1
- Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Committee on the Conscientious Objector 1
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- Ferber, Michael 1
- First, Curry 1
- Frankel, Esther S. (Esther Strum) 1
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- French, Bruce Comly 1
- Friedman, Bruce 1
- Gara, Larry 1
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- Ginger, Ann Fagan 1
- Goldwasser, Martin 1
- Gottlieb, Edward P. 1
- Graves, Anna Melissa, 1875-1964 1
- Gulick, Steve 1
- Haessler, Carl, 1888-1972 1
- Halvonik, Paul N. 1
- Hanson, William L. 1
- Harter, Edward A. 1
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- Heisler, Francis, 1895- 1
- Hershey, Lewis Blaine, 1893-1977 1
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 1
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- Hosman, Glenn B. 1
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- Kantor, William Marx 1
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- Landau, Jon 1
- Large, Dwight S. 1
- Large, Frances K. 1
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- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 1
- Lifton, Robert Jay, 1926- 1
- Lunde, Erling H. 1
- Lynd, Staughton 1
- MacAdam, Ruth E. 1
- Mennonite Central Committee 1
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