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Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Seeger, Daniel A.
Abstract
Seeger is best known for the 1965 Supreme Court court case regarding his conscientious objector claim without belief in a Supreme Being as grounds for C.O. status.
Dates:
1958-2008
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Smith, Kathleen Norma
Abstract
Collection consists of photocopies of materials relating to Smith's application for discharge from the U.S. Army based on conscientious objection to war.
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1974
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-882
Abstract
This collection contains the letters of Reed Smith during his time in Civilian Public Serice camps as a Conscientious Objector during World War II and during his relief work in France, Germany, and Poland after the war with the American Friends Service Committee.
Dates:
1940-1947
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Smith, Roland F.
Abstract
Papers of Roland F. Smith documenting his service in Civilian Public Service as a conscientious objector during WWII, as well as family papers.
Dates:
1939-1946, 1981,1987-1990
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-242
Abstract
Contains the papers of William Macy and Lois V. Stanton, compiled by Lois V. Stanton. The Stantons were active Quakers, and William Macy Stanton, Jr., was a conscientious objector in WWII. Both Stantons served in the American Friends Service Committee reconstruction efforts in Europe after the war as well as other Quaker activities and organizations. William Stanton worked for Swarthmore College for over twenty-five years, serving as director of physical plant. Of particular interest are the...
Dates:
1937-1995
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-170
Abstract
Lee Stern (1915-1992), was a Quaker pacifist, conscientious objector to war, involved in peace groups and organizations, and a teacher of nonviolence.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1936-1992
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-232
Abstract
In 1968 Steven Wayne Trimm was convicted for refusing induction into the armed services and served four years prison. Trimm fled to Canada in 1969 where he lived underground until 1974. Two years later he received clemency from the U.S. government under the Earned Re-entry Program and was pardoned. Steve Trimm is the author of Walking Wounded: Men's Lives During and Since the Vietnam War (1993) and other publications. Since the 1970s Steve Trimm has also been active with various peace and...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1963-2008
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Resistance
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Untide Press
Abstract
Collection includes ten monographs published by Untide Press; three issues of The Illiterati (printed by the Untide Press), publication notices, and two letters between William Everson and Will Ransom.
Dates:
1943-1955
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