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American Civil Liberties Union: National Committee on Conscientious Objectors Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-022
Abstract
The roots of the NCCO began shortly after conscription in WWII was instituted. Little is known about the New York Office of the NCCO. It was headquartered at 31 Union Square West in New York City (NY) where the ACLU had its offices, and was likely set up in 1940, under the chairmanship of Norman Angell, and stayed in existence through 1945. In Washington (DC), the Temporary Committee for Legal Aid to Conscientious Objectors was formed in 1940. R. Boland Brooks had gone to NSBRO (National...
Dates:
1940-1946
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
American Coalition Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American Coalition
Dates:
1939-1946
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
American Committee for Non-Participation in Japanese Aggression Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American Committee for Non-Participation...
Scope and Contents
Contains materials on the committee's efforts toward a war-materials embargo on Japan as well as materials from the Washington, DC branch.
Dates:
1938-1941
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American Committee for Protection...
Dates:
1933-1972; Majority of material found within 1933-1951
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
American Conference for Democracy and Terms of Peace Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American Conference for Democracy
Abstract
The People's Council of America for Democracy and Peace grew out of the First American Conference for Democracy and Terms of Peace, held in New York, May 1917. It was organized to work for an early and liberal peace at the end of the World War. It favored world organizations and disapproved of conscription.
Dates:
1917-1919
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
American Embargo Conference Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American Embargo Conference
Dates:
1915
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
American Faculty Council for the Gradualist Way to Peace Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American Faculty Council for the Gradualist Way...
Dates:
1962-1965
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
American Friends' letters
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-851
Abstract
The collection is composed chiefly of letters of members of the Society of Friends in the United States from the 17th to the 20th centuries; there are also documents, clippings, published articles, and miscellaneous manuscripts.
Dates:
1682-1986
American Friends of the Middle East Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American Friends of the Middle East
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, annual reports, brochures, program literature, and newsletters.
Dates:
1952-1975
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
American Friends Service Committee: Civilian Public Service / Prison Service Committee Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-002
Abstract
Organized to provide alternative service for conscientious objectors, who were assigned "work of national importance under civilian direction; the historic peace churches (Church of the Brethren, Religious Society of Friends and the Mennonite Church) band ed together to form the National Service Board for Religious Objectors (NISBRO) which coordinated the civilian public service (CPS) program; the American Friends Service Committee administered seventeen CPS camps and over thirty special...
Dates:
1940-1947
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Swarthmore College Peace Collection 630
- Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections 223
- Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College 200
- Bryn Mawr College 27
- Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College 5
- Subject
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 144
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 114
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 80
- Quakers -- History 76
- diaries 70
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 67
- Quakers 62
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 62
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 58
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 54
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 54
- Quakers -- Diaries 54
- Quakers -- Social life and customs 54
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 49
- Quaker women -- United States 42
- Women and peace -- History -- Sources 42
- correspondence 33
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 32
- Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 31
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 30
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 28
- Quakers -- United States 28
- Neutrality -- United States -- History -- Sources 27
- Peace movements -- United States 26
- World War, 1914-1918 -- United States -- Sources 25
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 25
- Antislavery movements -- United States 24
- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 24
- Peace movements -- History -- Sources 24
- manuscripts (documents) 23
- Lay ministry -- Society of Friends 22
- Quaker women 22
- Antinuclear movement -- United States 21
- Pacifists -- United States 21
- World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Sources 21
- Student movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 20
- letters (correspondence) 20
- Slavery and the church -- Society of Friends 19
- War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 18
- Women and peace -- United States -- History -- Sources 18
- Amnesty -- United States -- History -- Sources 17
- Education -- United States 17
- Slavery -- United States 17
- Disarmament -- History -- Sources 16
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 16
- Nuclear disarmament -- History -- Sources 16
- Quakers -- Family relationships 16
- Quakers -- New York (State) 16
- Society of Friends -- Hicksite separation 16
- Conscientious objectors -- United States 15
- Quakers -- Education 15
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 14
- Society of Friends -- Education 14
- Society of Friends -- United States 14
- United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 14
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 14
- Youth and peace -- History -- Sources 14
- Church controversies -- Society of Friends 13
- Nuclear disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 13
- Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 13
- Quaker women -- United States -- History -- Sources 13
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 13
- Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 13
- United States 13
- Quakers -- Virginia 12
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Draft resisters -- United States -- Sources 12
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 12
- genealogies (histories) 12
- Abolitionists 11
- Abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century 11
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- Sources 11
- College theater -- United States 11
- Education 11
- Haverford (Pa.) 11
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 11
- Quakers -- New York (State) -- New York 11
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania 11
- Suffragists -- United States -- History -- Sources 11
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union 11
- Women and peace 11
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- United States 11
- Militarism -- United States -- History -- Sources 10
- Motherhood -- United States -- History 10
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 10
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 10
- Peace -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 10
- Peace walks and marches -- History -- Sources 10
- Political prisoners -- United States -- History -- Sources 10
- Quaker abolitionists 10
- Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States 10
- Women -- Education 10
- Women and religion 10
- Women clergy -- United States -- Diaries 10
- account books 10
- financial records 10
- Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 9
- Quakers -- Genealogy 9
- Socialists -- United States -- History -- Sources 9
- Women in education 9
- World War, 1939-1945 9 + ∧ less
- Language
- English 1082
- German 8
- Spanish; Castilian 8
- French 3
- Latin 2
- Names
- American Friends Service Committee 48
- Civilian Public Service 36
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 32
- Haverford College 27
- Swarthmore College 27
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 25
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 22
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 20
- War Resisters League 20
- Bryn Mawr College 18
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 15
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 15
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 15
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 14
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 14
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 14
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 14
- Lyttle, Bradford 13
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 13
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section 13
- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 12
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 12
- Mead, Lucia True Ames, 1856-1936 12
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 12
- Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 12
- Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987 12
- Kaufman, Abraham 11
- Newton, Ray 10
- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 10
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 10
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 9
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 9
- Dellinger, David T., 1915-2004 9
- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 9
- McReynolds, David 9
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 9
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 9
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. International Office 9
- Jack, Homer A. (Homer Alexander), 1916-1993 8
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library 8
- Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949 8
- Finch, Henry Le Roy 7
- Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.) 7
- Gara, Larry 7
- Gilmore, Robert Wallace, 1921-1988 7
- Hutchinson, Dorothy H. (Dorothy Hewitt), 1905-1984 7
- Page, Kirby, 1890-1957 7
- Sharpless family 7
- Whitney, Norman J. (Norman Jehiel), 1891-1967 7
- Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892 7
- Witherspoon, Frances, 1886-1973 7
- A Quaker Action Group 6
- Baer, Gertrude 6
- Boss, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), 1888- 6
- Bromley, Ernest 6
- Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors 6
- Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 1924-2006 6
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 6
- DiGia, Ralph 6
- Forbes, Rose Dabney, 1864-1947 6
- Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879 6
- Golden Rule (Ketch) 6
- Hopper, Isaac T. (Isaac Tatem), 1771-1852 6
- Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 6
- Lochner, Louis Paul, 1887-1975 6
- Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880 6
- Pickus, Robert 6
- Rankin, Jeannette, 1880-1973 6
- Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) 6
- Reynolds, Earle L. 6
- Roodenko, Igal 6
- Tatum, Arlo D. 6
- Walker, Charles C. 6
- Westtown Boarding School 6
- Allinson, Brent D. (Brent Dow) 5
- American Civil Liberties Union 5
- American Peace Society 5
- Andrews, Fannie Fern, 1867-1950 5
- Berrigan, Daniel 5
- Blake, Katherine Devereux, 1858-1950 5
- Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 5
- Bromley, Marion, -1996 5
- Burritt, Elihu, 1810-1879 5
- Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 5
- Carner, Lucy Perkins, 1886-1983 5
- Cary, Stephen G. 5
- Day, Dorothy, 1897-1980 5
- Dewey, John, 1859-1952 5
- Drinker, Henry, 1734-1809 5
- Emergency Peace Campaign (U.S.) 5
- Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 5
- Freeman, Harrop A. (Harrop Arthur), 1907-1993 5
- Furnas, Paul J. 5
- Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 5
- Gulick, Sidney Lewis, 1860-1945 5
- Henry Ford Peace Expedition (1915-1916) 5
- Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 5
- Houser, George M. 5
- Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 5
- Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 5 + ∧ less
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