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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

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

Committee to End Slave Labor in America Collected Records

 Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Committee to End Slave Labor in America
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, flyers, reports.

Dates: Majority of material found in 1946

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

Henry LeRoy Finch Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-195
Abstract

Henry Leroy (Roy) Finch Jr. was a pacifist, conscientious objector to World War II, philosopher and writer.

Dates: 1933-1995

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

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  • Subject: Conscientious objectors -- United States X
  • Names: Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 X
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Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 4
Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
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Names
Boss, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), 1888- 3
Kaufman, Abraham 3
Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 3
Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 2
Barr, Allen H. 2
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Brooks, R. Boland 2
Cornell, Julien D., 1910- 2
DeSilver, Harrison 2
Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 2
French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 2
Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 2
National Service Board for Religious Objectors 2
Whitney, Norman J. (Norman Jehiel), 1891-1967 2
American Civil Liberties Union 1
American Forum for Socialist Education 1
American Friends Service Committee 1
Angell, Norman, 1874-1967 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
Center on Conscience and War 1
Committee to End Slave Labor in America 1
Curry, A. Stauffer (Abram Stauffer), 1913- 1
Dellinger, David T., 1915-2004 1
Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 1
Doty, C. LeRoy 1
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Committee on the Conscientious Objector 1
Finch, Henry Le Roy 1
Frankel, Esther S. (Esther Strum) 1
Furnas, Paul J. 1
Goldwasser, Martin 1
Gottlieb, Edward P. 1
Gregg, Richard Bartlett, 1885- 1
Harkness, Georgia Elma, 1891-1974 1
Hartman, Grover L. 1
Hershey, Lewis Blaine, 1893-1977 1
Hill, Lewis K. 1
Hoover, Warren W. 1
Hunter, Allan A. (Allan Armstrong), 1893- 1
Huston, Ora 1
Lazarus, Frieda Langer 1
Lens, Sidney 1
Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 1
MacAdam, Ruth E. 1
Mayer, Milton, 1908-1986 1
Mennonite Central Committee 1
Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors 1
Milgram, Morris, 1916-1997 1
National Committee on Conscientious Objectors (U.S.) 1
National Interreligious Service Board for Conscientious Objectors 1
Newton, Ray 1
Olmstead, Frank 1
Phillips, Randolph Godfrey 1
Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979 1
Reeves, George B., 1905- 1
Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 1
Sherk, J. Harold 1
Tatum, Arlo D. 1
Tatum, Lyle 1
Thomas, Norman 1
Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 1
Thurman, Howard, 1900-1981 1
Toney, Raymond J. 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
Will, Herman, 1915- 1
Willoughby, George, pacifist 1
Yolton, L. William 1
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