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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
Episcopal Peace Fellowship Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-118
Overview
The Episcopal Peace Fellowship (EPF), was founded November 1939 as an association of pacifist members of the Protestant Episcopal Church. The organization sought to discover and unite pacifists within the church and to influence its membership regarding Christianity and peace. The EPF has sponsored educational projects (publications, lectures, workshops, conferences), provided counseling and financial support for conscientious objectors, and contributed to pacifist projects in other...
Dates:
1936-2009; Majority of material found within 1936 - 2009
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Dwight S. Large and Frances K. Large Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Large, Dwight S. and Frances K. Large
Abstract
Papers of a Frances K. and Dwight S. Large, who worked for legal amnesty for Vietnam War resisters.
Dates:
1969-1976
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
A.J. Muste Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-050
Overview
A.J. Muste (1885-1967), was ordained a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, but later (1917), he became a member of the Society of Friends. During World War I, Muste's refusal to abandon his pacifist position led to his forced resignation from the Central Congregational Church in Newtonville, Massachusetts. Muste's involvement as a labor organizer began in 1919 when he led strikes in the textile mills of Lawrence, Massachusetts. He became the director of the Brookwood Labor College in...
Dates:
1920-1967
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Norman J. Whitney Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-061
Overview
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 6
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- Counseling -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 2
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- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 2
- War -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 2
- African American soldiers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Amnesty -- Congresses -- History -- Sources 1
- Amnesty -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Ballistic missiles -- United States 1
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- American Friends Service Committee 3
- Civilian Public Service 3
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 3
- Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors 2
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 2
- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 2
- Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors 2
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 2
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 2
- Tatum, Arlo D. 2
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 2
- Whitney, Norman J. (Norman Jehiel), 1891-1967 2
- American Civil Liberties Union Foundation. Project on Amnesty 1
- Ames, Winslow 1
- Amnesty Information and Action Center 1
- Anglican Pacifist Fellowship 1
- Aptheker, Herbert, 1915-2003 1
- Barr, Allen H. 1
- Benson, Purnell Handy, 1913- 1
- Berg, Lloyd A. 1
- Big Flats Defense Committee 1
- Blaxall, Arthur W. 1
- Boss, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), 1888- 1
- Brethren Service Committee 1
- Brooks, R. Boland 1
- Brown, John Pairman 1
- CCCO/An Agency for Military and Draft Counseling 1
- Cary, Stephen G. 1
- Clergy and Laity Concerned (U.S.) 1
- Colton, Kenneth R. 1
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 1
- Congress of Racial Equality 1
- Cook, Cara 1
- Cornell, Julien D., 1910- 1
- Cousins, Norman 1
- Cutler, Wolcott, 1891-1965 1
- DeSilver, Harrison 1
- Elkinton, J. Passmore (Joseph Passmore), 1887-1971 1
- Episcopal Church 1
- Episcopal Pacifist Fellowship 1
- Episcopal Peace Fellowship 1
- Farnsworth, Douglis 1
- Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Committee on the Conscientious Objector 1
- First, Curry 1
- Fisher, Charles R. (Charles Robert), 1920- 1
- Frankel, Esther S. (Esther Strum) 1
- Frankel, Morton 1
- Freeman, Harrop A. (Harrop Arthur), 1907-1993 1
- Fromm, Erich, 1900-1980 1
- Furnas, Paul J. 1
- Goldwasser, Martin 1
- Gottlieb, Edward P. 1
- Gulick, Steve 1
- Hartman, Grover L. 1
- Hayes, Thomas Lee, 1932- 1
- Hosman, Glenn B. 1
- Jack, Homer A. (Homer Alexander), 1916-1993 1
- Jacob, Philip E. 1
- Jordan, John E. (John Edward), 1934- 1
- Kaufman, Abraham 1
- Kennan, George F. (George Frost), 1904-2005 1
- Landau, Jon 1
- Large, Dwight S. 1
- Large, Frances K. 1
- Lawrence, W. Appleton (William Appleton), 1889-1968 1
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 1
- Lens, Sidney 1
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 1
- Lynd, Staughton 1
- MacAdam, Ruth E. 1
- McCain, Samuel N. 1
- Mennonite Central Committee 1
- Milgram, Morris, 1916-1997 1
- Molnar, Enrico S., 1913- 1
- Musil, Robert K. 1
- National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (U.S.) 1
- National Council for Prevention of War (U.S.) 1
- National Council for Universal and Unconditional Amnesty 1
- National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Emergency Ministeries Concerning the War 1
- National Interreligious Service Board for Conscientious Objectors 1
- National Service Board for Religious Objectors 1
- New York State Board for Civilian Public Service 1
- Pacifist Research Bureau 1
- Pierce, Katharine C. (Katharine Curtis), 1882- 1
- Rapoport, Anatol, 1911-2007 1
- Rohrer, Phyllis 1
- Roszak, Theodore, 1933-2011 1
- Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970 1
- Sayre, Kathleen Whitaker 1
- Schwarzschild, Henry 1
- Seasholes, Amy Lois 1
- Seeley, Robert A. 1
- Sobell, Morton 1
- Sterner, Beverly 1
- Sullivan, Paul Wilson 1
- Syracuse Peace Council 1
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 1
- United Methodist Church (U.S.) 1
- United Pacifist Committee 1
- United States. Selective Service System 1 ∧ less
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