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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
Overview
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
Overview
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
Young Friends of North America Committee on Conscription Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-083
Abstract
The Young Friends of North America, an open fellowship of Friends between the ages of 18 and 30, established a Committee on Conscription in the fall of 1968 to facilitate communication among Friends who were involved with draft resistance. The Committee, chaired by C.O. Peter Blood, collected information from members of the Religious Society of Friends who had refused to cooperate with conscription since the 1940s, as well as Friends who were currently imprisoned for draft resistance....
Dates:
1968-1971
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 6
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
- Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
- Amnesty -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 3
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 3
- Conscientious objection -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 2
- Counseling -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Veterans -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Veterans -- Sources 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 2
- African American soldiers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Asylum, Right of -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights workers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objectors -- North America -- 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
- Quakers -- North America -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Societies, etc. -- 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 -- Religious aspects -- Church of the Brethren 1
- War -- Religious aspects -- Mennonite Church 1
- War -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 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
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Sources 1
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- Names
- 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
- Blood, Peter, -1946 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
- Young Friends of North America. Committee on Conscription 1 ∧ less
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