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National Council of Churches USA Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-National Council of Churches USA
Overview
The records of the FCC and NCC highlight the unifying issues for national church work, including labor rights, anti-racism, and conscientious objection.
Dates:
1908-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
New York Bureau of Legal Advice Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-Reel-142.1
Abstract
Holdings in Tamiment Library: about half the records of the New York Bureau of Legal Advice consist of case histories pertaining to selective service exemption, draft evasion, conscientious objector status, military imprisonment, military discharge, desertion, amnesty, civil liberties and deportations. One third of the collection consists of office files, administrative reports and correspondence, including extensive fundraising correspondence. The remainder of the collection is made up of...
Dates:
1917-1919
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
Murray Polner Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-113
Overview
Polner was an author and editor of books and periodicals on social history, public policy, and Jewish concerns. This collection chiefly relates to his research on Vietnam veterans for his book No Victory Parades and on the question of amnesty for When Can I Come Home? The collection also include audiotapes of oral histories of American Jews who were conscientious objectors or who resisted serving in the military during World War II or the Korean War. There is additional material from...
Dates:
1963-1988
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Channing B. Richardson Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Richardson, Channing B.
Abstract
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
Rosika Schwimmer Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Schwimmer, Rosika
Overview
Rosika Schwimmer was a suffragist and feminist leader from Hungary who worked internationally. She founded several Hungarian societies for the advancement of trade unionism, land reform, feminism, female suffrage and pacifism and worked to promote peace during World War I. She helped to form a number of U.S. and international peace groups, including the Emergency Peace Federation, the Henry Ford Peace Expedition, and the Woman's Peace Party. She received the World Peace Prize in 1937.
Dates:
1914-1948
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
SCI International Voluntary Service (U.S.) Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-148
Overview
This organization was stablished around 1956 by Robert Stowell and others as an American affiliate of Service Civil International with the goals of voluntary service, self-discipline, and international friendship. The group operated approximately 87 workcamps between 1954 and 1974. SCI provided placements and alternative service for conscientious objectors. SCI suspended operation in the mid-1970s, but was revived in the mid-1980s by a group of former SCI volunteers.
Dates:
1954-1976
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
John M. Swomley, Jr., Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-226
Overview
John M. Swomley, Jr.; minister in the Methodist Church; served as Director of the National Council Against Conscription, editor of Conscription News, and as National Secretary of the Fellowship of Reconciliation; active with the American Friends Service Committee and the American Civil Liberties Union; campaigned against universal military training; author of books on militarism and the Cold War.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1940-2002
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
United Pacifist Committee Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-United Pacifist Committee
Dates:
1938-1947
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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- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 28
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- Amnesty -- United States -- History -- Sources 7
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- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 4
- Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 3
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
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- Pacifism -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
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- Prisoners' writings, American 1
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- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Sources 1
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- English 30
- Undetermined 1
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- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 8
- Civilian Public Service 6
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 6
- Kaufman, Abraham 5
- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 4
- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 4
- Tatum, Arlo D. 4
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 3
- American Friends Service Committee 3
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 3
- Barr, Allen H. 3
- Boss, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), 1888- 3
- Brooks, R. Boland 3
- Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors 3
- Dellinger, David T., 1915-2004 3
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 3
- Eichel, Julius, 1896- 3
- Gottlieb, Edward P. 3
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 3
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 3
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 3
- McReynolds, David 3
- Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors 3
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 3
- National Interreligious Service Board for Conscientious Objectors 3
- Newton, Ray 3
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 3
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 3
- War Resisters League 3
- Whitney, Norman J. (Norman Jehiel), 1891-1967 3
- Will, Herman, 1915- 3
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 3
- Witherspoon, Frances, 1886-1973 3
- Allinson, Brent D. (Brent Dow) 2
- Boston Draft Resistance Group 2
- Brown, H. Runham (Herbert Runham), 1879-1949 2
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 2
- Cornell, Julien D., 1910- 2
- Curry, A. Stauffer (Abram Stauffer), 1913- 2
- DeSilver, Harrison 2
- Deats, Richard L., 1932- 2
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 2
- DiGia, Ralph 2
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 2
- Forest, Jim (James H.) 2
- Freeman, Harrop A. (Harrop Arthur), 1907-1993 2
- Furnas, Paul J. 2
- Gara, Larry 2
- Gregg, Richard Bartlett, 1885- 2
- Hassler, Alfred, 1910-1991 2
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 2
- Lynd, Alice 2
- Lyttle, Bradford 2
- Man, Albon 2
- National Service Board for Religious Objectors 2
- Nhất Hạnh, Thích 2
- Olmstead, Frank 2
- Pickus, Robert 2
- Roodenko, Igal 2
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 2
- Tatum, Lyle 2
- United Pacifist Committee 2
- Van Kirk, Walter W. (Walter William), 1891-1956 2
- Waskow, Arthur Ocean, 1933- 2
- Wentworth, Lydia G., 1858- 2
- Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987 2
- Aberman, Sidney 1
- Acts for Peace (Organization) 1
- Allen, Steve, 1921-2000 1
- Alliance for Conscientious Objectors (U.S.) 1
- Altbach, Philip G. 1
- American Civil Liberties Union 1
- American Civil Liberties Union Foundation. Project on Amnesty 1
- Amnesty Information and Action Center 1
- Anderson, Paul, active 1970-1974 1
- Angell, Norman, 1874-1967 1
- Anti-War Mobilization Mass Meeting (1940 : Washington, D.C.) 1
- Arvio, Raymond Paavo 1
- Babcock, Caroline L. (Caroline Lexow), 1882- 1
- Baker, Lillian 1
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 1
- Beard, Mary Ritter, 1876-1958 1
- Beaver, Gilbert A., -1952 1
- Becker, Jo 1
- Benson, Purnell Handy, 1913- 1
- Berrigan, Daniel 1
- Big Flats Defense Committee 1
- Boehmer, Peter J. 1
- Borkholder, Philip L. 1
- Brethren Service Committee 1
- Brick, Allan 1
- Bridges, Harry, 1901- 1
- Brite, Mary D., 1867-1952 1
- Brockway, Fenner, 1888-1988 1
- Bromley, Ernest 1
- Bromley, Marion, -1996 1
- Browning, Hilda 1
- Butcher, Agnes Young, 1921-2005 1
- Byrns, Elinor 1
- CCCO/An Agency for Military and Draft Counseling 1 ∧ less
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