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Alliance for Conscientious Objectors Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-088
Abstract
The Alliance for Conscientious Objectors (AFCO), based in Seattle (Washington), was founded in 1970 by John Long and Paul Anderson, who served as its national coordinator. It changed its name in 1972 to represent a wider scope of purpose. During this time, conscientious objectors who performed two years of alternate service, the same period as those drafted into the military served, were not entitled to Veterans Administration benefits under the GI Bill of Rights. By 1974 AFCO had reached a...
Dates:
1970-1974
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Alice Niles Lynd and Staughton Lynd Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-099
Abstract
Staughton Lynd and Alice Niles Lynd, Quakers, authors, and activists in the civil rights and peace movements, who worked individually and collaborated on many labor and pacifist projects.
Dates:
1965-1995
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Pacific Counseling Service Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Pacific Counseling Service
Dates:
1969-1972
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
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- Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 3
- Counseling -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Veterans -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Veterans -- Sources 2
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 2
- African American soldiers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights workers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- Societies, etc. -- 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
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Nonviolence in America : a documentary history 1
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 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
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- 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, 1939-1945 -- Draft resisters -- Sources 1
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- Tatum, Arlo D. 3
- Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors 2
- Alliance for Conscientious Objectors (U.S.) 1
- Anderson, Paul, active 1970-1974 1
- Baker, Lillian 1
- Barr, Allen H. 1
- Benson, Purnell Handy, 1913- 1
- Big Flats Defense Committee 1
- Brooks, R. Boland 1
- CCCO/An Agency for Military and Draft Counseling 1
- Civilian Public Service 1
- Coalition for Peace in the Middle East 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
- Cornell, Julien D., 1910- 1
- Curtice, Laurence L. 1
- DeSilver, Harrison 1
- Denison, Paul Bert 1
- Dodge, Richard K. 1
- Eichel, Julius, 1896- 1
- Farnsworth, Douglis 1
- Faulkner, Stanley 1
- Ferber, Michael 1
- First, Curry 1
- Frankel, Esther S. (Esther Strum) 1
- French, Bruce Comly 1
- Friedman, Bruce 1
- Gerber, William, 1908- 1
- Ginger, Ann Fagan 1
- Goldwasser, Martin 1
- Gottlieb, Edward P. 1
- Gulick, Steve 1
- Haessler, Carl, 1888-1972 1
- Halvonik, Paul N. 1
- Hanson, William L. 1
- Harter, Edward A. 1
- Hartsough, David 1
- Heisler, Francis, 1895- 1
- Kaufman, Abraham 1
- Koch, Ed, 1924- 1
- Landau, Jon 1
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 1
- Lifton, Robert Jay, 1926- 1
- Lynd, Alice 1
- Lynd, Staughton 1
- MacAdam, Ruth E. 1
- Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors 1
- Milgram, Morris, 1916-1997 1
- Musil, Robert K. 1
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 1
- National Interreligious Service Board for Conscientious Objectors 1
- National Lawyers Guild 1
- Ness, Robert L. 1
- Pacific Counseling Service 1
- Polner, Murray 1
- Reston, James, 1941- 1
- Rodd, Thomas 1
- Salstrom, F. Paul 1
- Seeley, Robert A. 1
- Sherman, Edward F., 1937- 1
- Shero, Jeffrey 1
- Sly, Peter 1
- Spatz, Barry Charles 1
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 1
- Thomas, Gill J. 1
- United Pacifist Committee 1
- United States. Selective Service System 1
- United States. Veterans Administration 1
- Vonasch, James L. 1
- Watts, Roland 1
- Whitney, Norman J. (Norman Jehiel), 1891-1967 1
- Wichelman, Allan F. 1
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 1
- Wren, Irene 1
- Wright, Eric E. 1
- Wright, Raymond Orson 1 + ∧ less
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