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American Civil Liberties Union: National Committee on Conscientious Objectors Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-022
Overview
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
Allen S. Olmsted II Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-095
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the Allen S. Olmsted papers is correspondence (1898-1977). Most of these are carbon copies of letters dictated by Olmsted and filed in subject transfer files at his law offices in Philadelphia and Media (Pennsylvania) [note: there are also many letters from Allen Olmsted in the papers of his wife, Mildred Scott Olmsted (DG 082)]. Correspondents include Brent Dow Allinson, Gertrude Baer, Emily Greene Balch, Roger Nash Baldwin, Witter Brynner, Joseph S. Clark, Sophia H. Dulles,...
Dates:
1898-1986
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- Sources 1
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- Names
- Allinson, Brent D. (Brent Dow) 1
- American Friends Service Committee. Committee on Rights of Conscience 1
- American Legion 1
- Angell, Norman, 1874-1967 1
- Baer, Gertrude 1
- Boss, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), 1888- 1
- Brooks, R. Boland 1
- Butcher, Agnes Young, 1921-2005 1
- Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors 1
- Civilian Public Service 1
- Cornell, Julien D., 1910- 1
- DeSilver, Harrison 1
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 1
- Evans, Edward W. (Edward Wyatt), 1882-1976 1
- Gregg, Richard Bartlett, 1885- 1
- Harkness, Georgia Elma, 1891-1974 1
- Heisler, Francis, 1895- 1
- Hill, Lewis K. 1
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 1
- Hutchinson, Dorothy H. (Dorothy Hewitt), 1905-1984 1
- Joint Peace Committee of Providence and Chester Monthly Meetings (Society of Friends : Media, Pa.) 1
- Kaufman, Abraham 1
- Lape, Esther Everett, 1881-1981 1
- Longstreth, Walter C. 1
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 1
- National Committee on Conscientious Objectors (U.S.) 1
- Olmstead, Frank 1
- Olmsted, Allen S. (Allen Seymour), 1888-1977 1
- Philadelphia Peace Council (1925-approximately 1932) 1
- Philadelphia Peace Council (1937-ca. 1943) 1
- Phillips, Randolph Godfrey 1
- Reeves, George B., 1905- 1
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 1
- Tatum, Arlo D. 1
- Tatum, Lyle 1
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 1
- Thomas, Norman 1
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 1
- Yarrow, C. H. Mike 1 ∧ less
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