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1967 Committee to End the Draft on or before June 30, 1967 Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Nineteen Sixty Seven Committee to End the Draft
Dates:
1965-1967
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
A Quaker Action Group Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-074
Scope and Contents
A Quaker Action Group (AQAG) records in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection include minutes, correspondence (1966-1971), memoranda, financial records, subject files (organizations), research files (topics), project files, newsletters, press releases, statements of Quaker yearly meetings in various cities, clippings, photographs and sound recordings. The files were first processed in 1974, and then again in 1980. In 2004, archival intern, Joe Clark, sorted the papers into the present...
Dates:
1965-1973
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
American Veterans Committee Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American Veterans Committee
Dates:
1947-1980
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Another Mother for Peace Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-102
Abstract
Another Mother for Peace was a women's peace group born from the antipathy to the war in Vietnam, based in Los Angeles, California. The stated purpose of this non-partison, non-profit organization was "to educate women to take an active role in eliminating war as a means of solving disputes between nations, people and ideologies." AMP closed its offices in January 1986.
Dates:
1964-1978; Majority of material found within 1964-1978
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Boston Draft Resistance Group Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Boston Draft Resistance Group
Abstract
The Boston Draft Resistance Group offered draft counseling and organized opposition to the Vietnam War in the Boston (Massachusetts) area.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1967-1969
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Break with Conscription Committee Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Break with Conscription Committee
Dates:
1947
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
Civilian Public Service Union Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-008
Abstract
The Civilian Public Service Union was organized at the beginning of 1944 in the CPS camp at Big Flats, New York. Men at other camps and units quickly joined the group. CPSU, a union for "drafted workers conscientiously opposed to war," was formed to provide an organized means of communication and group action among men in all sections of CPS and to combat the waste and injustice of the CPS system itself. Ralph C. Rudd served as chairman from late 1944 until CPSU was dissolved in early...
Dates:
1944-1946
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Committee for Amnesty for All Objectors to War and Conscription Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Committee for Amnesty...
Overview
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Amnesty -- United States -- History -- Sources 10
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 10
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 10
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 10
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 9
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 8
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- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 6
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- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 5
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Draft resisters -- United States -- Sources 4
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 4
- Conscientious objection -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
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- Dukhobors -- History 1
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- Nonviolence in America : a documentary history 1
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- English 54
- Undetermined 1
- Names
- Civilian Public Service 7
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 5
- Lyttle, Bradford 4
- Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors 4
- Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979 4
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 4
- American Friends Service Committee 3
- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 3
- Kaufman, Abraham 3
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 3
- Levering, Robert, 1944- 3
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 3
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 3
- Tatum, Arlo D. 3
- A Quaker Action Group 2
- Boston Draft Resistance Group 2
- Break with Conscription 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
- Frankel, Esther S. (Esther Strum) 2
- Furnas, Paul J. 2
- Gara, Larry 2
- Koch, Ed, 1924- 2
- Lynd, Staughton 2
- MacAdam, Ruth E. 2
- People's Coalition for Peace and Justice 2
- Spock, Benjamin, 1903-1998 2
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 2
- United States. Selective Service System 2
- Whitney, Norman J. (Norman Jehiel), 1891-1967 2
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 2
- Young, Ronald J., 1942- 2
- Accra Assembly (Organization) 1
- Albert, Alfred, 1908- 1
- Alperovitz, Gar 1
- American Civil Liberties Union Foundation. Project on Amnesty 1
- American Veterans Committee 1
- Amnesty Information and Action Center 1
- Anderson, Jervis 1
- Andresen, Bent, 1908-1991 1
- Angell, Ernest, 1889-1973 1
- Another Mother for Peace (Association) 1
- Avedon, Barbara 1
- Axelrod, Beverly 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
- Beheiren 1
- Bennett, Scott H. 1
- Benson, Purnell Handy, 1913- 1
- Berkel, Bob 1
- Berkeley Resistance (Organization) 1
- Berman, Aline 1
- Big Flats Defense Committee 1
- Blass, Dorothy 1
- Blood, Peter, -1946 1
- Bloomstein, Charles 1
- Boardman, Elizabeth Jelinek, 1917- 1
- Bohn, Lewis Christian 1
- Boss, Jay 1
- Boston-Pentagon Peace Walk (1967) 1
- Braxton, John Worth 1
- Bromley, Ernest 1
- Bromley, Marion, -1996 1
- Brooks, R. Boland 1
- Brown, George Edward, 1920-1999 1
- Butcher, Agnes Young, 1921-2005 1
- Butterworth, Harrison 1
- CARE Inc. 1
- CCCO/An Agency for Military and Draft Counseling 1
- Cary, Stephen G. 1
- Champney, Horace 1
- Charlotte Citizens for Peace (Port Charlotte, Fla.) 1
- Chomsky, Noam 1
- Civilian Public Service. Camp (Merom, Ind.) 1
- Clark, Ramsey, 1927- 1
- Clarke, Mary S., 1916- 1
- Cleghorn, Sarah Norcliffe, 1876-1959 1
- Coalition for Peace in the Middle East 1
- Coffin, Jerry D. 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 on Drafting Youth 1
- Committee to End Slave Labor in America 1
- Committee to End the Draft on or Before June 30, 1967 1
- Congress of Racial Equality 1
- Corfman, Rex 1
- Covington, Hayden Cooper 1
- Cowley, Christopher 1
- Cranston, Alan, 1914-2000 1
- Daniel Seeger Defense Fund of the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors 1
- Davidov, Marv 1
- Delaware Draft Counseling & Education Service, Inc. 1 ∧ less
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