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Charles Bloomstein Collected Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Bloomstein, Charles
Abstract

Charles Bloomstein (1913 - 2002) was involved in a number of organizations that promoted civil rights, as well as peace. He was a conscientious objector during World War II, and served in Civilian Public Service (CPS) for three years.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1938-2002

Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-073
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1948-2010

Civilian Public Service Union Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-008
Scope and Contents The records of the CPSU were deposited in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection in June of 1946 by Robert Beach of Philadelphia, a CPSU member. A small portion of the records came to the Peace Collection in 1976 from historian Charles Chatfield. These records originated in the larger collection of CPS records given to Chatfield by Gordon Streib (see Accession 76A-84). Records include a proposed constitution, scattered minutes, correspondence (1943-1945), CPSU Newsletter, statements,...
Dates: 1944-1946

Committee for Amnesty for All Objectors to War and Conscription Collected Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Committee for Amnesty...
Abstract On January 12, 1946, the Committee for Amnesty for All Objectors to War and Conscription was established to seek an amnesty for "all objectors to war and conscription," which included men under army court-martial for their stance against war. The Committee's most widely publicized work was the sponsorship of picketing demonstrations at the White House in May and December 1946 calling for amnesty, but the organization also promoted its objectives through lobbying of Congressional and other...
Dates: 1945-1948

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

Julien D. Cornell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-010
Abstract

Julien Cornell (1910-1994) practiced law in New York City, with a special interest in civil liberties. During World War II, he handled many cases for conscientious objectors, as well as advising many other COs about their various problems with the legal system. He was considered an expert on legal issues regarding conscientious objection and Civilian Public Service, and was consulted by many lawyers throughout the country for his opinions.

Dates: 1940-1947

Delaware Draft Counseling and Education Service, Inc. Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-229
Abstract The Delaware Draft Counseling and Educational Service (DDCES), was organized in early 1969 with offices in Wilmington and Newark, Delaware. It provided men who had been drafted by the Selective Service System with information about the draft and their options within that system. The DDCES also provided information on the draft, individual rights under Selective Service laws and how to file for deferments and alternatives to the draft. With the end of the draft and beginning of registration...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1966-1991

Michael S. Foley Collected Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Foley, Michael S.
Abstract

Michael S. Foley is an author, primarily about the anti-war movement during the Vietnam War.

Dates: 1965-2001

Charles E. Frantz Collected Papers

 Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Frantz, Charles E.
Abstract Collection includes biographical information; letters from Frantz to his parents while he was in Civilian Public Service, 1944-1946, and 1947-1950; information about his refusal to register for the peacetime draft (Selective Service Act of 1948), and subsequent federal court proceedings and his 1949 imprisonment; newspaper clippings about draft refusers at Earlham College, 1949; a copy of Frantz's FBI file and correspondence relating to it, 1978-1980; and Frantz's writings about the...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1944-1949, 1978-1980

Larry Gara Collected Papers

 Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Gara, Larry
Dates: Majority of material found within 1949-1972

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Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 29
Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 14
World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 10
Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 8
Amnesty -- United States -- History -- Sources 7
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Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 6
Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 6
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 4
War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 4
World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 4
Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
Conscientious objection -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 3
Political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Draft resisters -- United States -- Sources 3
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 3
Civil rights workers -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Counseling -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Sources 2
Lawyers -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Political prisoners -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
United States -- Armed Forces -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc -- History -- Sources 2
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 2
World War, 1939-1945 -- Draft resisters -- United States -- Sources 2
African American soldiers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Americans -- Canada -- History -- Sources 1
Amnesty -- Congresses -- History -- Sources 1
Amnesty -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Conscientious Objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Conscientious objection -- History -- Sources 1
Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1
Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- Judaism -- History -- Sources 1
Conscientious objectors -- Delaware -- History -- Sources 1
Conscientious objectors -- History -- Sources 1
Conscientious objectors -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Conscientious objectors -- Middle West -- History -- Sources 1
Conscientious objectors -- New York (State) -- History -- Sources 1
Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 1
Draft -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Draft registration -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Draft resisters -- Delaware -- History -- Sources 1
Draft resisters -- Middle West -- History -- Sources 1
Draft resisters -- New York (State) -- History -- Sources 1
Dukhobors -- History 1
Government, Resistance to -- United States -- Sources 1
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Protest movements -- United States -- 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
Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Nonviolence in America : a documentary history 1
Pacifism -- History -- Sources 1
Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 1
Peace -- Research -- History -- Sources 1
Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
Peace -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 1
Peace movements 1
Peace walks and marches 1
Persian Gulf War, 1991 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
Political activists -- United States -- Interviews 1
Prisoners -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Psychiatric hospital care -- History -- Sources 1
Quaker conscientious objectors -- Pennsylvania 1
Quakers -- Delaware -- History -- Sources 1
Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Feasterville -- History -- Sources 1
Quakers -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
Socialists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Society of Friends -- Sources. -- Peace testimony -- History 1
Soldiers -- Civil rights -- History -- Sources 1
Soldiers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
United States -- Armed Forces -- African Americans 1
United States -- Armed Forces -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc. 1
United States -- Armed Forces -- Women 1
United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009 -- Sources 1
United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Veterans -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Draft resisters -- Canada -- Sources 1
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Draft resisters -- Delaware -- History -- Sources 1
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Moral and ethical aspects -- 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 -- History -- Sources 1
War resistance movements -- New York (State) -- Albany -- History -- Sources 1
War resistance movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
War resistance movements -- United States -- 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 -- United States -- 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 -- Prisoners and prisons -- Sources 1
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Names
Civilian Public Service 7
Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors 4
Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 4
Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 4
French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 3
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Kaufman, Abraham 3
Lazarus, Frieda Langer 3
Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979 3
Tatum, Arlo D. 3
American Friends Service Committee 2
Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors 2
Civilian Public Service Union 2
Committee for Amnesty for All Objectors to War and Conscription 2
Cornell, Julien D., 1910- 2
DeSilver, Harrison 2
Ferber, Michael 2
Furnas, Paul J. 2
Gara, Larry 2
MacAdam, Ruth E. 2
Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 2
Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 2
United States. Selective Service System 2
Whitney, Norman J. (Norman Jehiel), 1891-1967 2
Albert, Alfred, 1908- 1
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation. Project on Amnesty 1
Amnesty Information and Action Center 1
Anderson, Jervis 1
Andresen, Bent, 1908-1991 1
Angell, Ernest, 1889-1973 1
Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 1
Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 1
Barr, Allen H. 1
Beard, Mary Ritter, 1876-1958 1
Bennett, Scott H. 1
Benson, Purnell Handy, 1913- 1
Berkel, Bob 1
Berkeley Resistance (Organization) 1
Big Flats Defense Committee 1
Bloomstein, Charles 1
Bohn, Lewis Christian 1
Boss, Jay 1
Boston-Pentagon Peace Walk (1967) 1
Break with Conscription Committee 1
Brooks, R. Boland 1
Butcher, Agnes Young, 1921-2005 1
CARE Inc. 1
CCCO/An Agency for Military and Draft Counseling 1
Cary, Stephen G. 1
Charlotte Citizens for Peace (Port Charlotte, Fla.) 1
Chomsky, Noam 1
Civilian Public Service. Camp (Merom, Ind.) 1
Clark, Ramsey, 1927- 1
Cleghorn, Sarah Norcliffe, 1876-1959 1
Coalition for Peace in the Middle East 1
Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 1924-2006 1
Colton, Kenneth R. 1
Committee Against Registration and the Draft 1
Committee for Nonviolent Action 1
Committee to End Slave Labor in America 1
Corfman, Rex 1
Covington, Hayden Cooper 1
Daniel Seeger Defense Fund of the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors 1
Delaware Draft Counseling & Education Service, Inc. 1
Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 1
Denison, Paul Bert 1
Dodge, Richard K. 1
Doherty, Will 1
Early, Frances H. 1
Eichel, Julius, 1896- 1
Emerson, Gloria 1
Fangmeier, Robert 1
Farnsworth, Douglis 1
Faulkner, Stanley 1
Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 1
Finch, Henry Le Roy 1
First, Curry 1
Flynn, Bina 1
Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley 1
Foley, Michael S. 1
Forster, Clifford 1
Frankel, Esther S. (Esther Strum) 1
Frantz, Charles 1
Freeman, Harrop A. (Harrop Arthur), 1907-1993 1
Gilmore, Robert Wallace, 1921-1988 1
Ginger, Ann Fagan 1
Goldwasser, Martin 1
Gottlieb, Edward P. 1
Greene, Felix 1
Gulick, Steve 1
Haessler, Carl, 1888-1972 1
Hanauer, Kenneth George, 1933- 1
Harrington, Michael, 1928-1989 1
Hartsough, David 1
Hasbrouck, Edward 1
Heisler, Francis, 1895- 1
Hill, Lewis K. 1
Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 1
Homer, Steven (Editor) 1
Hosman, Glenn B. 1
Houser, George M. 1
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