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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
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
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
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 Frances K. and Dwight S. Large, 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
Abstract
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
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
Channing B. Richardson Collected Papers
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Richardson, Channing B.
Scope and Contents
Correspondence includes letters responding to requests for support of conscientious objector status applications written by former students and/or Quaker acquaintances. He wrote letters on their behalf to various draft boards.
Dates:
1968 - 1972
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
John M. Swomley, Jr., Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-226
Scope and Contents
These files were separated out from the records of the Fellowship of Reconciliation in 2007. His voluminous reference files were sorted through and duplicates and material already available at the SCPC were discarded. Much of what is in the Swomley papers references in efforts over many years to stop mandatory universal military training (UMT), especially in the United States.
See also newsletter Facts on File.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1940-2002
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 9
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 7
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 4
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 4
- Amnesty -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 3
- Conscientious objection -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 2
- Counseling -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 2
- African American soldiers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Amnesty -- Congresses -- History -- Sources 1
- Amnesty -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights workers -- United States -- History -- Sources 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
- Methodist Church -- Clergy -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Methodist Church -- Political activity -- History -- Sources 1
- Militarism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence in America : a documentary history 1
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- Sources 1
- Political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Selective conscientious objection -- United States -- 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 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Religious aspects -- Sources 1
- War -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- Sources 1
- War -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Women and the military -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Women political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Women soldiers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
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- Civilian Public Service 4
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 4
- Boss, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), 1888- 3
- Kaufman, Abraham 3
- National Interreligious Service Board for Conscientious Objectors 3
- Tatum, Arlo D. 3
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 2
- Barr, Allen H. 2
- Brooks, R. Boland 2
- Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors 2
- Cornell, Julien D., 1910- 2
- DeSilver, Harrison 2
- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 2
- National Service Board for Religious Objectors 2
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 2
- Whitney, Norman J. (Norman Jehiel), 1891-1967 2
- Will, Herman, 1915- 2
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 2
- Alliance for Conscientious Objectors (U.S.) 1
- American Civil Liberties Union 1
- American Civil Liberties Union Foundation. Project on Amnesty 1
- American Friends Service Committee 1
- Amnesty Information and Action Center 1
- Anderson, Paul, active 1970-1974 1
- Angell, Norman, 1874-1967 1
- Baker, Lillian 1
- Benson, Purnell Handy, 1913- 1
- Big Flats Defense Committee 1
- Borkholder, Philip L. 1
- Brethren Service Committee 1
- Butcher, Agnes Young, 1921-2005 1
- CCCO/An Agency for Military and Draft Counseling 1
- Center on Conscience and War 1
- Coalition for Peace in the Middle East 1
- Colton, Kenneth R. 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
- Curry, A. Stauffer (Abram Stauffer), 1913- 1
- Curtice, Laurence L. 1
- Denison, Paul Bert 1
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 1
- Dodge, Richard K. 1
- Doty, C. LeRoy 1
- Eichel, Julius, 1896- 1
- Farnsworth, Douglis 1
- Faulkner, Stanley 1
- Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Committee on the Conscientious Objector 1
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 1
- Ferber, Michael 1
- First, Curry 1
- Frankel, Esther S. (Esther Strum) 1
- French, Bruce Comly 1
- Friedman, Bruce 1
- Furnas, Paul J. 1
- Gerber, William, 1908- 1
- Ginger, Ann Fagan 1
- Goldwasser, Martin 1
- Gottlieb, Edward P. 1
- Gregg, Richard Bartlett, 1885- 1
- Gulick, Steve 1
- Haessler, Carl, 1888-1972 1
- Halvonik, Paul N. 1
- Hanson, William L. 1
- Harkness, Georgia Elma, 1891-1974 1
- Harter, Edward A. 1
- Hartman, Grover L. 1
- Hartsough, David 1
- Heisler, Francis, 1895- 1
- Hershey, Lewis Blaine, 1893-1977 1
- Hill, Lewis K. 1
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 1
- Hoover, Warren W. 1
- Hosman, Glenn B. 1
- Huston, Ora 1
- Jordan, John E. (John Edward), 1934- 1
- Landau, Jon 1
- Large, Dwight S. 1
- Large, Frances K. 1
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 1
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 1
- Lynd, Alice 1
- Lynd, Staughton 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 Committee on Conscientious Objectors (U.S.) 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
- Ness, Robert L. 1
- Newton, Ray 1
- Olmstead, Frank 1
- Phillips, Randolph Godfrey 1
- Reeves, George B., 1905- 1
- Richardson, Channing B. (Channing Bulfinch), 1917- 1
- Rodd, Thomas 1
- Salstrom, F. Paul 1
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 1 + ∧ less
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