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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

New York Bureau of Legal Advice Records

 Collection — othertype: Reel 142.1
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

Murray Polner Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-113
Abstract 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

Norman J. Whitney Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-061
Abstract Norman Jehiel Whitney (1891-1967) was a Quaker teacher, writer and devoted peace worker. From 1919-1957 he helped establish, and directed for many years, the Syracuse Peace Council. He left Syracuse in 1957 to work for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in peace education. Whitney's major peace work was in the area of counseling conscientious objectors to war (COs), particularly those in Civilian Public Service (CPS) camps. In 1941 he helped establish the New York State Board for...
Dates: 1938 - 1967

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Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 11
Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 11
Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 8
Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 8
Amnesty -- United States -- History -- Sources 6
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 6
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 5
War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 5
Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 3
Selective conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Conscientious objection -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 2
Counseling -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Socialists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons -- Sources 2
African American soldiers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Amnesty -- Congresses -- History -- Sources 1
Amnesty -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
Civil rights workers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Conscientious Objectors -- 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
Dissenters -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Draft resisters -- New York (State) -- History -- Sources 1
Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Sources 1
Jews -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Draft resisters -- Sources 1
Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Jews -- Sources 1
Legal aid -- New York (State) -- History -- Sources 1
Methodist Church -- Political activity -- History -- Sources 1
Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Nonviolence in America : a documentary history 1
Pacifism -- History -- Sources 1
Peace -- Research -- History -- Sources 1
Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
Peace -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 1
Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Political prisoners -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Quakers -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Soldiers -- Civil rights -- History -- Sources 1
Soldiers -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Soldiers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
United States -- Armed Forces -- African Americans 1
United States -- Armed Forces -- Political activity -- History -- Sources 1
United States -- Armed Forces -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc. 1
United States -- Armed Forces -- Women 1
Veterans -- United States -- History -- Sources 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
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Sources 1
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Veterans -- 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
World War, 1914-1918 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons -- Sources 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- Sources 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Draft resisters -- Sources 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Sources 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Sources 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Religious aspects -- Sources 1
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Names
Civilian Public Service 5
French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 4
Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 4
Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 4
Boss, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), 1888- 3
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Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors 3
Kaufman, Abraham 3
National Interreligious Service Board for Conscientious Objectors 3
Tatum, Arlo D. 3
Whitney, Norman J. (Norman Jehiel), 1891-1967 3
American Friends Service Committee 2
Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 2
Barr, Allen H. 2
Brooks, R. Boland 2
Cornell, Julien D., 1910- 2
DeSilver, Harrison 2
Eichel, Julius, 1896- 2
Furnas, Paul J. 2
Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 2
Lynd, Alice 2
Man, Albon 2
Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors 2
National Service Board for Religious Objectors 2
Tatum, Lyle 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
Amnesty Information and Action Center 1
Anderson, Paul, active 1970-1974 1
Angell, Norman, 1874-1967 1
Baker, Lillian 1
Beard, Mary Ritter, 1876-1958 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
Butcher, Agnes Young, 1921-2005 1
CCCO/An Agency for Military and Draft Counseling 1
Cary, Stephen G. 1
Center on Conscience and War 1
Cleghorn, Sarah Norcliffe, 1876-1959 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
Courage to Resist (Organization) 1
Curry, A. Stauffer (Abram Stauffer), 1913- 1
Curtice, Laurence L. 1
Dellinger, David T., 1915-2004 1
Denison, Paul Bert 1
Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 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
Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 1
Ferber, Michael 1
First, Curry 1
Flynn, Bina 1
Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley 1
Frankel, Esther S. (Esther Strum) 1
Freeman, Harrop A. (Harrop Arthur), 1907-1993 1
French, Bruce Comly 1
Friedman, Bruce 1
Gara, Larry 1
Gerber, William, 1908- 1
Ginger, Ann Fagan 1
Goldwasser, Martin 1
Gottlieb, Edward P. 1
Graves, Anna Melissa, 1875-1964 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
Hoover, Warren W. 1
Hosman, Glenn B. 1
Huston, Ora 1
Jacob, Philip E. 1
Jordan, John E. (John Edward), 1934- 1
Kantor, William Marx 1
Koch, Ed, 1924- 1
Landau, Jon 1
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