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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
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
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
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
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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- Amnesty -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
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- Arms control -- History -- Sources 1
- Asylum, Right of -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious Objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
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- Conscientious objectors -- North America -- History -- Sources 1
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- Civilian Public Service 2
- Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors 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
- American Friends Service Committee 1
- Amnesty Information and Action Center 1
- Another Mother for Peace (Association) 1
- Avedon, Barbara 1
- Barr, Allen H. 1
- Benson, Purnell Handy, 1913- 1
- Big Flats Defense Committee 1
- Blass, Dorothy 1
- Blood, Peter, -1946 1
- Brooks, R. Boland 1
- Brown, George Edward, 1920-1999 1
- CCCO/An Agency for Military and Draft Counseling 1
- Cary, Stephen G. 1
- Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors 1
- Colton, Kenneth R. 1
- Cornell, Julien D., 1910- 1
- Cranston, Alan, 1914-2000 1
- DeSilver, Harrison 1
- Farnsworth, Douglis 1
- First, Curry 1
- Frankel, Esther S. (Esther Strum) 1
- Freeman, Harrop A. (Harrop Arthur), 1907-1993 1
- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 1
- Fulbright, J. William (James William), 1905-1995 1
- Furnas, Paul J. 1
- Goldwasser, Martin 1
- Gottlieb, Edward P. 1
- Gulick, Steve 1
- Halpern, Seymour, 1913-1997 1
- Hartke, Vance 1
- Hosman, Glenn B. 1
- Jacob, Philip E. 1
- Jones, Dorothy B. 1
- Jordan, John E. (John Edward), 1934- 1
- Kaufman, Abraham 1
- Koch, Ed, 1924- 1
- Kreig, Florence Ain 1
- Landau, Jon 1
- Large, Dwight S. 1
- Large, Frances K. 1
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 1
- MacAdam, Ruth E. 1
- McGovern, George S. (George Stanley), 1922- 1
- Milgram, Morris, 1916-1997 1
- Morse, Wayne L. (Wayne Lyman), 1900-1974 1
- Musil, Robert K. 1
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 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
- New York State Board for Civilian Public Service 1
- Pacifist Research Bureau 1
- Proxmire, William 1
- Reed, Donna, 1921-1986 1
- Rees, Thomas M., 1925- 1
- Schwarzschild, Henry 1
- Seeley, Robert A. 1
- Sobel, Roslyn 1
- Syracuse Peace Council 1
- United Methodist Church (U.S.) 1
- United Pacifist Committee 1
- United States. Selective Service System 1
- Vogel, Robert S. 1
- Watts, Roland 1
- Whitney, Mildred C. 1
- Will, Herman, 1915- 1
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 1
- Winchester, Harold P. 1
- Wren, Irene 1
- Wright, Eric E. 1
- Young Friends of North America. Committee on Conscription 1 ∧ less
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