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Alliance for Conscientious Objectors Records
American Civil Liberties Union: National Committee on Conscientious Objectors Records
Center on Conscience and War Records
Organization still in existence that was formed to aid conscientious objectors in World War II.
Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors Records
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.
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America Records
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.
Dwight S. Large and Frances K. Large Collected Papers
Papers of a Frances K. and Dwight S. Large, who worked for legal amnesty for Vietnam War resisters.
Alice Niles Lynd and Staughton Lynd Papers
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.
Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors Records
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.
Channing B. Richardson Collected Papers
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.
John M. Swomley, Jr., Papers
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.